Texas officially announces hire of former Texas A&M coach Jim Schlossnagle

Texas has landed a huge blow to its rival Texas A&M, officially announcing the hire of baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle on Twitter on Tuesday night.

Schlossnagle arrives on the 40 Acres after three years with the rival Aggies, a successful three years that included two trips to the College World Series in Omaha.

The last trip to Omaha, just days ago, resulted in a championship game appearance against Tennessee. Texas A&M would fall in the third and decisive game, finishing as the national runner-up.

Despite the loss, the quality of Schlossnagle’s coaching was evident. He’s one of the best in the game. And now he’s all Texas.

Schlossnagle will benefit from not being the guy to follow the legend, like former Texas coach David Pierce had to do following the retirement of legend Augie Garrido. Pierce was fired after eight seasons, despite three appearances in the College World Series and three Big 12 regular season championships.

Those are the kind of expectations Schlossnagle will face. Of course, he’s no stranger to high-level success or expectation.

Prior to his three-year stint at Texas, Schlossnagle spent 18 years at TCU, where he turned the Horned Frogs into an annual contender.

Schlossnagle reached the College World Series five times, including four straight times between 2014-17. He also won three Big 12 regular season titles while with the Horned Frogs, as well as seven Mountain West conference titles.

The Horned Frogs also captured three Big 12 tournament titles and five Mountain West tournament titles.

Schlossnagle compiled a 734-343 (.682) overall record at TCU, while also putting together a 128-32 (.800) Mountain West record and a 116-74 (.611) Big 12 record.

In total as a head coach Schlossnagle is 945-451 (.677).

Prior to TCU, Schlossnagle spent time as the UNLV head coach (2002-03), the Tulane associate head coach (1994-01), a Clemson assistant (1993) and an Elon assistant (1990-92).