Texas A&M baseball insider gives revealing look at how Schloss move went down

Texas A&M baseball insider Ryan Brauninger of Texags gives inside look at behind-the-scenes machinations of Jim Schlossnagle move

Even after Jim Schlossnagle's departure from Texas A&M baseball became official, questions still swirled around the entire process. This is somewhat obvious, given the rarity with which coaches coming off of a national championship appearance depart their current school less than 24 hours removed from the score going final.

We're starting to get some insights here about just how everything went down. The rumors have been around for quite some time, but they were just that for a while—rumors. With the frequency that rumors emerge from Austin that are entirely baseless, they were all too easy to dismiss. I sure did my own fair share of dismissal, and maybe had a little too much fun with it in the process!

In any case, though, Ryan Brauninger of Texags, a baseball insider for the Aggie program and around the state (he coaches an influential youth team in the Houston area), had this to say about Schlossnagle's departure.

So, on the first of June, confidence emerged from the Texas NIL side that they would be hiring Schlossnagle. As I said, and as Ryan mentions here, guarantees from those people are usually not actual guarantees, though it's also not nothing.

He also mentions that A&M brass was "aware," but that "[e]verything said privately [since A&M played Georgia] was a flat out lie" when it came to Schlossnagle's communication. I think we can surmise that, in private, the former Aggie coach was rebuffing the rumors.

It's conceivable that the A&M higher-ups thought this to be a leverage play in order to get more resources for the program—resources which they were ready to offer. However, it apparently wasn't enough—or wasn't the source of whatever made Schlossnagle decide to move on.

If it's true that this has been in the works for more than three weeks, then it's pretty shocking. It also gives the answer that Schlossnagle gave in Monday night's presser—especially the dressing down he gave the reporter, Richard Zane—a whole new character.