Texas A&M baseball fans deriding Schlossnagle's outrageous claim about Aggie players

Jim Schlossnagle apparently cannot stop embarrassing himself as Texas A&M baseball fans are dumbfounded at recent interview

The college baseball season has finally begun in earnest, with Texas A&M baseball earning a win over Elon last night. This was the first game of the Michael Earley era, and it was a heck of a start.

Up in Arlington, the Aggies' former skipper, Jim Schlossnagle, lost to Louisville in extra innings despite leading by 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th. Fans on both sides of this rivalry never miss a chance to laugh at the other's misfortune, but with the special animus that Aggie fans have for the man who abandoned their program, this was extra sweet.

It was not, however, the thing that had the A&M faithful laughing the most at Schloss even from that week. No, that would be this attempt at a image rehabilitation interview that aired a few days ago, in which Schlossnagle apparently claims that he will still be good friends with Jace LaViolette a long time from now, and that multiple Aggie players visited him in Austin for a football game.

It's pretty telling that, if you watch to the end of the clip, he says that he's rooting for Jace LaViolette— the guy who he claims he has a "life relationship" (I guess he means "lifelong bond" or "real, outside-of-baseball relationship"?) with— but can't even say with conviction that Jace is doing the same for him.

If you have such a deep and abiding bond with a guy, one in which you're secure in the mutual appreciation you have for one another, you wouldn't think it would be so hard to say that you feel supported by him. Instead, he has to lamely tack on "I'm pretty sure, deep down" that's how he really feels, which sounds like something a heavy-handed scriptwriter would throw in a Disney Channel original movie to indicate that someone actually does not feel that way.

Gretchen Montgomery, mother of Braden Montgomery, one of A&M's best players last year— and someone who has no love for Schloss after what he pulled— took a not-so-veiled shot at the new Longhorn coach after this interview aired.

This is an embarrassing PR campaign at this point. Beforehand, when things were murky and facts were hard to come by, there were things that Schloss and Texas could try to pass off. Now, they've been reduced to vaguely saying that a guy he stabbed in the back is someone who might be friends with him in the future, and smugly touting conveniently unnamed players who came to visit him in Austin. It all just sort of has this energy:

I guess he is a marketing genius, though.