Is AD Trev Alberts to blame for Jim Schlossnagle leaving Texas A&M baseball?

Why Trev Alberts is not to blame for Jim Schlossnagle leaving Texas A&M baseball

With the shocking news that Jim Schlossnagle is outbound from Texas A&M baseball and heading to rival Texas, fans are searching for a reason to explain the move. It’s unprecedented in several ways, so it makes sense that fans are looking for something to explain it.

In those efforts, there are some who have turned the lens upon new Aggie AD Trev Alberts. Recent cost-cutting measures undertaken by the Aggie Athletic Department—some that were, by all accounts, common-sense and future-focused—are the source of the strife in this particular instance.

The thought from these Aggie fans goes like this: Alberts comes in and cuts costs with ruthless disregard for the coaches on campus. This makes Schlossnagle in particular quite upset, and he at that very moment resolves to leave in the most painful way possible for the Aggie fan base.

While that may be the preferred narrative of some, I don’t find it very plausible. The reporting all along has been that Alberts and the athletic department have given Schloss everything he asked for. In fact, some have mentioned that in this instance Alberts didn’t even get a chance to try and change Schloss’s mind once some of the reporting came out.

I just don’t see this falling on the shoulders of Alberts and the AD. This seems much more like the isolated will of one man whose mind was made up far before the fact, not even giving the Aggie brass a chance. The story was that he had a meeting tonight with the A&M higher-ups—given the timing of the official announcement, it doesn’t look like that meeting ever happened. That by itself should be telling enough in this regard.