Texas A&M just poached away Jim Schlossnagle’s top assistant at Texas in Nolan Cain, winning the Longhorns’ best recruiter back to College Station after his departure two years ago. Cain was a fan favorite among the Aggie faithful when he was here beforehand, and so many are quite happy to see him come home after the way things went a couple of years ago.
This is not only big for the program— and disastrous for Texas— but it proves something about where both athletic programs actually are, compared to where the Longhorns would have you believe. Following Schlossnagle’s departure for Austin, Texas fans were crowing several narratives that would prove to be false in the coming years.
The first is that they had all but completely destroyed the Texas A&M baseball program. Well, even before the move to bring Cain over to College Station, we knew that wasn’t true— though year one under Earley was rough, year two saw Texas A&M destroy Texas in College Station in a series where they held the Longhorns winless.
Texas A&M just put Texas’s misguided narratives in the grave with Nolan Cain hire
The second narrative that the Longhorns attempted to throw out there was that the Aggie job was simply a stepping stone to other, better jobs. With the commitment that Texas A&M has shown to baseball institutionally, one of the best fanbases in the entire sport, and the winning ways they’ve put on display, this is something that only a Texas fan could believe in the first place.
But even they will have a hard time struggling with this one now that Cain has made the jump back over to College Station for the same job title. Schlossnagle’s move was meant to entirely cripple the Aggie program, and he clearly didn’t want any of his assistant coaches going back to College Station— well, now his top two have both done so.
If the Texas job is so superior, then why did Cain leave as soon as his buyout was no longer an issue? He got out of dodge as soon as he could, heading back to Texas A&M the moment that he could feasibly do so.
The final thing that this proves is that Jim Schossnagle is in no way a premier coach in the sport. We’re talking about a guy who is absolutely hemorrhaging assistants and whose teams have consistently frozen up when they get on the big stage. They couldn’t perform last season in College Station, when they really could have taken a lead in this rivalry, and they couldn’t perform in Omaha, either.
Schloss is an incredible coach but must be just an insufferable human being to be around
— John Patterson (@johnpaulp) June 19, 2026
The financial commitment that the Aggies have made to this program, and to Cain in particular, per Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball, have helped make this happen. Texas A&M baseball isn’t going anywhere— and they are going to be competing for national championships again sooner rather than later. Schloss’s secret sauce is all but out the window, and we could see these two programs moving in very different directions here presently.
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