Why Jim Schlossnagle isn’t leaving Texas A&M baseball for the Texas Longhorns
In the aftermath of Texas A&M baseball’s heartbreaking loss to the Tennessee Volunteers last night, Aggie fans were rudely treated to another round of the rumor mill about Jim Schlossnagle potentially leaving College Station for Austin. Those rumors have continued to swirl today, bolstered by moderators on Texas websites becoming confident that Schloss is their guy.
Of course, these are the same people that were convinced that Nick Saban was assuredly coming to Austin after Mack Brown completed his tenure with a whimper, complete with a regal procession of five-star prospects. In other words, we’d best take what these “insiders” have to say with a grain of salt, and use some common sense.
I know that’s a rare commodity when we’re talking about the Longhorns, but it is a necessary exercise. There may be some among us credulous enough to believe—simply because they WANT to—that a coach coming off of a national championship berth signed a contract for a different job on the team plane back from Omaha, but I’d hope most of my readership wouldn’t be so easily hoodwinked.
All that said—and I know my predictions haven’t exactly been on point as of late—but here are three solid reasons that there’s no way Jim Schlossnagle takes the job in Austin.
Why Jim Schlossnagle isn’t leaving Texas A&M baseball: Upgrade incoming
Did we all forget so soon about the huge renovations planned for the baseball complex? Schloss has been banging the drum for these upgrades all season, and he is finally getting to see them come to fruition here pretty presently.
Texas A&M baseball is about to boast the best baseball facilities in the SEC, and maybe the country. The money is there, and it’s bound to happen in short order. There’s no way that Schloss spent all season building up to this, just to peace out once the goal is almost achieved.
This is especially true when the program trying to poach him uses a turf field and has stadiums literally filled with trash. Not the same!