That Schlossnagle called a TCU team meeting at 9 am. Also, he started following Gautreau on Twitter.
Could be nothing but keep your eyes open.
Could be nothing but keep your eyes open.
Rumor has it
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If this happens, could we have made a better hire? Would this be like hiring Dabo before his natty?
TCU insider just tweeted this. Can’t read the article but the title is that he’s leaving
https://twitter.com/calexmendez/status/1001117606152163328?s=21
https://twitter.com/calexmendez/status/1001117606152163328?s=21
As the Frogs-Bears title game was being played out on the field at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, the college baseball social media flames were being fanned by talk of coach Jim Schlossnagle possibly leaving TCU for Mississippi State.
Schlossnagle confirmed the possibility after Sunday’s game.
“They’ve definitely shown interest in me,” he said. “I don’t know where it stands right now. I’m sure there will be a conversation at some point this week.”
To put this into proper perspective, Schlossnagle, 47, is the winningest coach in TCU baseball history and has taken his team to the College World Series five times.
It’s not that there is anything wrong at TCU, Schlossnagle was quick to point out.
“I’ve been here 15 years,” he explained. “I’ve shown my loyalty to TCU for 15 years. I’ve had a lot of opportunities, including another one in the state of Texas.
“Like Coach Patterson always says, ‘Never say never on anything.’ I love Fort Worth. I love TCU. But if they call me, we’ll see what they have to say.”
Sources in the Southeastern Conference say that that phone call could come as early as today. Mississippi State, under interim coach Gary Henderson, will likely receive an NCAA tournament bid. TCU almost certainly will not.
Mississippi State athletic director John Cohen is expected to wait until all teams involved have concluded their seasons before making any announcement. The Bulldogs have been without a permanent head coach since Andy Cannizaro was forced to resign three games into the season.
Cohen had previously told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, “(The next coach) is going to have serious baseball experience as a head coach. This person is going to have made trips to Omaha, Neb. This person is going to have expertise in all facets of the game. And this person is going to make our fan base very happy.”
Other names were mentioned by the newspaper, including Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin and Dan McDonnell of Louisville, but Schlossnagle is said to be Cohen’s leading choice.
And he’s about to make Mississippi State fans very, very happy.
That isn’t official. Consider it, though, an educated hunch from someone who has known and written about Jim Schlossnagle since he arrived in Fort Worth from Nevada-Las Vegas 15 years ago.
It isn’t about the money. It’s the job.
Schlossnagle chose not to even interview at Texas when the Longhorns approached him about succeeding Augie Garrido. His feelings for TCU clearly run deep.
“I have shown my loyalty to TCU,” he said. “I’ll continue to show my loyalty to TCU until something else happens. Chancellor Boschini has been amazing, every athletic director I’ve had has been phenomenal, and there’s no reason to think anything is going to change.
“But I’m going to miss them if they call me.”
Over the years Schlossnagle has never been shy about giving his take on other college coaching jobs. He probably would have taken the Texas job, if it wouldn’t have meant being the first coach to follow Garrido. He would have taken the LSU job, a premier one, if athletic director Joe Alleva hadn’t stupidly given Paul Mainieri a contract extension through the 2024 season.
But Schlossnagle, despite five trips to Omaha, is also keenly aware of the limitations of coaching at a high-tuition private school like TCU.
How do you tell a highly regarded high school recruit to turn down a professional contract, and then ask his family to make up $20,000 or more in tuition to play baseball at TCU?
For the same reason, Schlossnagle would never consider coaching at, say, Vanderbilt. But a state-school with a rich baseball history, yearning for an Omaha winner so badly that it’s just committed $55 million to renovate its stadium? The fit is definitely there.
Yes, it’s Starkville, Miss. – cowbell-ringing Stark Vegas. I hear they even have a Walmart these days.
But it’s not as if Schlossnagle and wife Kami need a steak dinner at a Del Frisco’s every week. He’s a baseball guy.
When it’s completely finished for next season, the new Dudy Noble Stadium is going to be spectacular – 400 more club seats that will sell for $1,100 a year, 116 loge seats at $1,500 per year and 20 suites that will bring in $30-45,000 each year.
Stark Vegas, indeed.
Without question, TCU and its supporters have been good to Schlossnagle’s program. In a way, baseball did take a back seat to expansions for the football stadium and basketball arena.
But this is not about what TCU hasn’t done. If Schlossnagle leaves, it will be because Mississippi State is an intriguing new challenge in the best baseball league in the country — a school where the athletic director used to be the head baseball coach. Baseball is deathly important in Starkville, Miss.
Sure, this season beat Schlossnagle down with its injuries and its one step forward, two steps back frustrations. But this isn’t a knee-jerk decision he is about to make.
The way the game, all but over, was frittered away Sunday was every bit the stomach punch that Landestoy described.
Right fielder Balta, who hit two home runs and threw out a potential tying run at home in the 11th inning, mirrored his team’s dejection.
When asked, however, about the fly ball he misplayed in the sun, Balta answered, “I don’t think that’s ever going to leave my mind. I’ll probably think about that every day for the rest of my life.”
Gut wrenching.
And yet, worse news seems to still be ahead.
here you go.
Schlossnagle confirmed the possibility after Sunday’s game.
“They’ve definitely shown interest in me,” he said. “I don’t know where it stands right now. I’m sure there will be a conversation at some point this week.”
To put this into proper perspective, Schlossnagle, 47, is the winningest coach in TCU baseball history and has taken his team to the College World Series five times.
It’s not that there is anything wrong at TCU, Schlossnagle was quick to point out.
“I’ve been here 15 years,” he explained. “I’ve shown my loyalty to TCU for 15 years. I’ve had a lot of opportunities, including another one in the state of Texas.
“Like Coach Patterson always says, ‘Never say never on anything.’ I love Fort Worth. I love TCU. But if they call me, we’ll see what they have to say.”
Sources in the Southeastern Conference say that that phone call could come as early as today. Mississippi State, under interim coach Gary Henderson, will likely receive an NCAA tournament bid. TCU almost certainly will not.
Mississippi State athletic director John Cohen is expected to wait until all teams involved have concluded their seasons before making any announcement. The Bulldogs have been without a permanent head coach since Andy Cannizaro was forced to resign three games into the season.
Cohen had previously told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, “(The next coach) is going to have serious baseball experience as a head coach. This person is going to have made trips to Omaha, Neb. This person is going to have expertise in all facets of the game. And this person is going to make our fan base very happy.”
Other names were mentioned by the newspaper, including Vanderbilt’s Tim Corbin and Dan McDonnell of Louisville, but Schlossnagle is said to be Cohen’s leading choice.
And he’s about to make Mississippi State fans very, very happy.
That isn’t official. Consider it, though, an educated hunch from someone who has known and written about Jim Schlossnagle since he arrived in Fort Worth from Nevada-Las Vegas 15 years ago.
It isn’t about the money. It’s the job.
Schlossnagle chose not to even interview at Texas when the Longhorns approached him about succeeding Augie Garrido. His feelings for TCU clearly run deep.
“I have shown my loyalty to TCU,” he said. “I’ll continue to show my loyalty to TCU until something else happens. Chancellor Boschini has been amazing, every athletic director I’ve had has been phenomenal, and there’s no reason to think anything is going to change.
“But I’m going to miss them if they call me.”
Over the years Schlossnagle has never been shy about giving his take on other college coaching jobs. He probably would have taken the Texas job, if it wouldn’t have meant being the first coach to follow Garrido. He would have taken the LSU job, a premier one, if athletic director Joe Alleva hadn’t stupidly given Paul Mainieri a contract extension through the 2024 season.
But Schlossnagle, despite five trips to Omaha, is also keenly aware of the limitations of coaching at a high-tuition private school like TCU.
How do you tell a highly regarded high school recruit to turn down a professional contract, and then ask his family to make up $20,000 or more in tuition to play baseball at TCU?
For the same reason, Schlossnagle would never consider coaching at, say, Vanderbilt. But a state-school with a rich baseball history, yearning for an Omaha winner so badly that it’s just committed $55 million to renovate its stadium? The fit is definitely there.
Yes, it’s Starkville, Miss. – cowbell-ringing Stark Vegas. I hear they even have a Walmart these days.
But it’s not as if Schlossnagle and wife Kami need a steak dinner at a Del Frisco’s every week. He’s a baseball guy.
When it’s completely finished for next season, the new Dudy Noble Stadium is going to be spectacular – 400 more club seats that will sell for $1,100 a year, 116 loge seats at $1,500 per year and 20 suites that will bring in $30-45,000 each year.
Stark Vegas, indeed.
Without question, TCU and its supporters have been good to Schlossnagle’s program. In a way, baseball did take a back seat to expansions for the football stadium and basketball arena.
But this is not about what TCU hasn’t done. If Schlossnagle leaves, it will be because Mississippi State is an intriguing new challenge in the best baseball league in the country — a school where the athletic director used to be the head baseball coach. Baseball is deathly important in Starkville, Miss.
Sure, this season beat Schlossnagle down with its injuries and its one step forward, two steps back frustrations. But this isn’t a knee-jerk decision he is about to make.
The way the game, all but over, was frittered away Sunday was every bit the stomach punch that Landestoy described.
Right fielder Balta, who hit two home runs and threw out a potential tying run at home in the 11th inning, mirrored his team’s dejection.
When asked, however, about the fly ball he misplayed in the sun, Balta answered, “I don’t think that’s ever going to leave my mind. I’ll probably think about that every day for the rest of my life.”
Gut wrenching.
And yet, worse news seems to still be ahead.
here you go.
I’d be very surprised if we announce anything official before we are done
goes for the same with the new coach, whoever it may be, wouldn’t do anything to go on record he was leaving until our team is done for year.
goes for the same with the new coach, whoever it may be, wouldn’t do anything to go on record he was leaving until our team is done for year.
Starkville had a 17ing Wal-Mart when I arrived on campus in 1984. Ft Worth ain't quiet a cultural mecca itself.
Is it necessary for every person who ever writes about Starkville from out of state to act like the town is lucky to have electricity. 17ing lazy writing and just unnecessary
That doesn’t automatically make Starkville a ******** like the writer implies.
Exactly. I’m sure Fort Worth is great, never been there myself. But some people like Starkville a helluva lot. And to put dumb *** phrases in an article like the wal mart one is just 17ing stupid. Guess he’s got his panties in a wad since they losing their coach. Glad I spelled all of that right since I’m from po ole m’ssippi
The first Wal-Mart I ever saw was in Starkville, MS. My hometown of Augusta didn't even have one yet.
Side mark: Pretty sure my grandfather was a greeter for every iteration of the Starkville one to date.
Wal Mart started off in small towns, and moved to larger cities later on. That's why Augusta didn't have one before Starkville. K-Mart was still big-time then. If I recall correctly, Huntsville was the first "large" city where one was built, and they built 4 at the same time.
WTF? So Starkville actually having a Walmart is a talking point? You’re a 17ing moron.
The latest census estimate has it moving past Indianapolis to become 15th.
Not sure what it takes to be a cultural mecca, but Fort Worth ain't bad. I suppose more hoity toity stuff can be found in Dallas, just a few miles away. All in all, the "Metroplex" is a really nice area but it costs a bit to live there. BTW ... Fort Worth was the fastest growing city in Texas from 2016 to 2017, and that's saying something.
Not sure what it takes to be a cultural mecca, but Fort Worth ain't bad. I suppose more hoity toity stuff can be found in Dallas, just a few miles away. All in all, the "Metroplex" is a really nice area but it costs a bit to live there. BTW ... Fort Worth was the fastest growing city in Texas from 2016 to 2017, and that's saying something.
Well, almost anybody, but specifically I meant Schlossnagle. He admits that he might be leaving TCU; Mullen denied up until he'd already left.
When did that happen?? **
I didn't take it as being derogatory, but really there's no comparison. It just depends on whether a person likes a large city or a small town.
Yeah, pretty obvious the writer knew the landscape of things, unlike some of our particularly simple fans
Uh, Mullen pretty much never publicly slammed the door on any job change speculation in 9 years of coaching at MSU. He always left the door open for departure, so much to the point that dozens upon dozens of message board posters were begging him to say he was staying even if it was a lie, just so it wouldn’t hurt recruiting. That was one of the many gripes people had against him when he was here. Funny how people feel different when the shoe is on the other foot.
My biggest question is why do some people think we will wait till after we are out to make an official announcement, when we hired CJM before the Gator Bowl? I would assume as soon as Cohen is ready to move and the new coach’s season is done it will be made Facebook official. Am I wrong?
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