July 1, 2024 • 12 mins
New Texas head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle spoke with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about his decision to leave College Station. Cam and Zimmel break down the article along with staff moves made by Schloss.
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(00:03):
He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhearts, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way, Cameron Parker, andAndrew Zimmel. As we close out Monday's
(00:33):
show, and wanted to get toa few Texas recruiting notes, and that
does include the transfer portal. We'llstart on the baseball diamond, where Jim
Slashnegel has wasted no time adding tohis roster. Of course, Slash named
the head coach last week, bringingover a handful the members of his staff.
(00:56):
Added Troy to Lewiskey as the hatingcoach, but picked up a few
baseball all commitments. Out of thetransfer portal, added Louisiana Monroe outfielder Easton
Winfield and then LSU pitcher Aiden Moffatt. And Texas fans may remember Moffatt he
pitched against Texas earlier this season atmin made the six foot three ridy out
(01:19):
of Mount Olive, Mississippi. Owenwon this past year, appear in sixteen
games a five point six e seventeento two thirds, but has a high
velocity that we'll see if Slashnakel andhis staff can work on Max Wing or
two. Of course, fantastic pitchingcoach did a fantastic job at A and
(01:41):
M this past season. Mentioned earlierabout Schlashnakele's decision to leave A and M.
In the interview he did with thefour worst Star Telegram, he told
the Star Telegram he thought that Aand M would be his last job,
and of course A M fans havepointed out his remarks where he said he
took the job to retire and nownot changed with Slashnigle taking over the job,
(02:07):
but he said that things changed overthe financial direction with the A and
M administration. In his relationship withA and M Ad Trev Alberts, Schloshnegle
said that under previous A and Mathletic director Ros Bjork, who now is
at Ohio State, I keep sayingLSU he's at Ohio State. He hired
(02:27):
Slashnegel, but left for Role Statein January. The plan was that he
was going to begin an eighty milliondollar renovation up Bluebelt Park in June of
this year. That changed under Alberts, who made some cuts in the athletic
department, which included firing A andm's baseball administrator. Him and Slash had
a great relationship, but Trev.This is a quote from Slashnegle to the
(02:52):
Star Telegram. Quote Trev Alberts cameto me the day before the regional to
have a conversation. He asked meif I was frustrated, and I told
him I had some frustration with howslow the ballpark process was going and that
it was tough to operate without asport administrator, but I was committed to
working through it. He then madea comment to me, kind of comparing
(03:13):
his situation of leaving his alma matter, Nebraska. He said to me,
you know, Jim, if youever don't feel like this is the place
for you, that's okay, andit's okay to move on. I was
taken a little back by that,and that was the moment that I began
to think that maybe this wasn't goingto work out. No one ever contacted
(03:36):
me or my agent, but anew contract for our staff, so I
decided to focus on getting our teamto Omaha and to win. End quote.
Of course, fans weren't happy withthat. Cam That's an awful quote
on Trev Alberts that is one ofthe most Like, I've never heard of
anything as pointed without being pointed becauseclearly it's a little political. You can't
(03:59):
say exactly, but imagine if ourboss came to you and said, hey,
Cam, I understand you're a littlefrustrated, but you know what deal
with it? Like you would say, well, okay, if another place
calls me, I'm gonna this isinsane. I cannot believe. If I'm
an A and M fan after thisstory comes out, if I'm an A
and M booster of the story comesout, we're having some serious conversations.
(04:24):
Ah, I'm so serious, becauselook, here's the thing. As an
ad your job is to protect theshield. Your job is to make sure
that all of the sports are ascompetitive before the regional. You're coming up
to talk to me about how thingsare going. No, man, No,
I'm focused on trying to get usto Omaha. That is the number
one priority right now after the season. Sure, but this is just this
(04:44):
is a terrible look, an awfullook for A and M. And I
don't know if Albert's just misplayed orjust didn't really understand the relationship that Slatsneagel
in Crys del Conte had because Ithink if you're thinking, okay, what's
the worst case scenario, it's okaylosing our coach to Texas like Albert's probably
(05:05):
had an idea that things weren't goinggreat for Texas Baseball had an idea this
was a huge year for David Pearce, and if they did not reach Omaha,
there was a good chance that DavidPierce would not be retained as the
head coach. He probably should haveknown that from the beginning, especially when
Texas started off very poor in Houstonand when A and M beat the brakes
(05:26):
off of Texas earlier this season.Should have known that, should have known
that there was a chance that Textswas probably going to go after Slashnegel as
their number one option. His jobas an eighty is to make sure what
can I do for you to keepyou as our head baseball coach? If
someone comes to Steve Saracusian and wantsto hire him, chryst do Kant is
(05:46):
going to do everything in his powerto make sure CDC or excuse me,
to make sure that Sark is happyto do the same thing for Fix Schaeffer,
for Rodney Terry, for any othercoach in this Affleic department, and
for Alberts to not do that withSlashnekle when you're nine outs away from a
College World Series championship, what areyou doing? Dude? If USC called
after the season says Lincoln Roley isnot working out, we want to go
(06:10):
get starked. Do you know who'sgoing to have a put a stop to
that is Crystal Conte. I cantell you that right. CDC is not
letting that happen. I don't carewhat the amount of money, I don't
care what it is. He's notletting that happen. But man, this
is the difference between having a goodad and a great ad. To me,
because Trev Alberts at Nebraska was afine ad outside of football. They
were doing what they needed to do. Women's sports wise, they were doing
(06:30):
what they needed to do. Butagain, if I'm an A and M
fan and this story comes out numberone thing I'm doing when it comes to
the baseball booster club or everything elselike that, we're having a serious behind
the door conversation about like, Okay, this can never, ever, point
blake ever happen again to any ofour other sports across the board because now
(06:51):
I look at it this way.Cam. I don't know about you,
but if I am another school whowants an A and M coach, whether
it be an assistant coach, yourhead coach, whatever, I could go
get him. You know. IfI think that that's the best coach available,
it's open season on everybody. Tome. If I was a Texas
Tech ad or if I was thead at TCU and I wont an player
or coach, yeah, I cango get him now. Because Texas proved
(07:14):
that it can be done. Andnow A and M has officially hired Michael
Early as their next head coach.So there's good and bad from this.
The good side, I think froma Texas fan perspective, is that A
and M. They went after Fotellofrom Tennessee, Tennessee able to keep him,
(07:34):
and there was other conversation about themreaching out, I think, to
other coaches, and they ended upnot being able to land any of those.
So they end up with Michael Early, who's been He's done a great
job on Slash's staff at Texas.A and M the hitting coach. So
now with that is all the playersin the A and M portal that thought
(07:56):
maybe could come back to Texas withSchloshnegel. It looks like that Early is
going to do a good job ofkind of stopping the water from getting outside
the dam and limiting the damage becausehe does have a great relationship with those
players. So it seems like Aand M has stopped a little bit of
bleeding with the hiring of Michael Earlyin terms of players leaving the program and
players committed to the program. Butwith that, Early is going to be
(08:20):
a very young head coach and we'llsee how that goes during his time at
A and M. It's a bighire by trev Alberts to go ahead and
make this move. Some other movesmentioned Early leaving the Texas staff to go
back to A and M. Thatmeans that Troy to Lewitski will be brought
back to Slash's staff and has beenofficially hired on Sunday yesterday as the next
(08:43):
hitting coach for Texas. Tulo Course, a five star or a five time
LB All Star, was an assistantunder David Pierce's staff for two years,
then came back this last year aftercoaching I believe he was coaching boys bas
summer baseball and dripping Rings, whichwhich is awesome how much he loves baseball.
He's coaching out in Drip comes backas a director of player development in
(09:07):
twenty and twenty four. This lastyear, and after Early was announced to
coming over with Slash, with NolanKane and Max Winer, it didn't seem
like Slosh had a room on hisstaff for Tulo. But then Early goes
back to A and M. Sonow Tulowitzki will join Slash's staff as the
hitting coach, and that's great newsI think for all. Tula's on a
(09:28):
great job working with the Texas offense. I mean, last year the problem
was not the bats for Texas atall, and we saw what Tula was
able to do with the developments sofar of Will Gasparino, Jared Thomas and
many others, Peyton Powell, MaxBelou all those guys just having a fantastic
season, including Kimball Schuschler as well. So a big win for Texas.
(09:54):
It hurts a little bit to loseMichael Early, but great job in retaining
Tulowitski. But also so a bigwin for Texas is keeping Max Wiener,
a fantastic pitching coach and Nolan Kane, who's done a great job of developing
players at Texas. A and mthe two guys they added out of the
portal. By the way, Imentioned Aidon Moffatt, the six foot three
(10:16):
ridy who still has two years ofeligibility left, usually hits about one hundred
on the radar, so we'll seehow Max Wiener will work with him.
A good addition there, and thenalso mentioned Easton Winfield, the outfielder from
Louisiana Monroe who is a native Texan, He's actually from Alvin, Texas.
(10:39):
Batted three thirty two this past seasonfor the Warhawks ten home runs forty runs
batted in was looked at as oneof the up and coming prospects in the
transfer portal. We'll have three seasonsleft to play and Texas also earned a
commitment from Penn transfer and right handedpitcher Eli Trupp, who one season left
(11:01):
of eligibility, made forty eight appearancesat Penn eighty two strikeouts in about fifty
six innings a seven to two recordin a three point zero seven eor the
second Penn transfer the last two years, after they added Seth Wertchum, the
former Bouie Bulldog who had one yearat Texas this past year. Also two
commitments from high school Slawsnekle flipped thesix foot seven, two hundred and forty
(11:24):
pound right handed pitchers Sam Cozart fromHigh Park high Point, North Carolina,
Craig Way know ifere that's that,I know without that too, he'll be
joining Texas is next year. Andalso six foot three, two hundred pound
right handed power pitcher in first baseman, Jack Parris out of Houston Kincaid.
So a few moves that Jim Slaschnekelehas made in without a doubt, many
(11:46):
more to come with the transfer portalwindow underway. Our number three here,
the final hour of today's broadcast isunderway. We're going to continue with more
sound from Steve Sarkis as get closerand closer that first day of kickoff with
Texas officially joining the SCC. You'relistening here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhearts, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way, Cameron Parker, andAndrew Zimmel. As we close out Monday's
(00:33):
show, and wanted to get toa few Texas recruiting notes, and that
does include the transfer portal. We'llstart on the baseball diamond, where Jim
Slashnegel has wasted no time adding tohis roster. Of course, Slash named
the head coach last week, bringingover a handful the members of his staff.
(00:56):
Added Troy to Lewiskey as the hatingcoach, but picked up a few
baseball all commitments. Out of thetransfer portal, added Louisiana Monroe outfielder Easton
Winfield and then LSU pitcher Aiden Moffatt. And Texas fans may remember Moffatt he
pitched against Texas earlier this season atmin made the six foot three ridy out
(01:19):
of Mount Olive, Mississippi. Owenwon this past year, appear in sixteen
games a five point six e seventeento two thirds, but has a high
velocity that we'll see if Slashnakel andhis staff can work on Max Wing or
two. Of course, fantastic pitchingcoach did a fantastic job at A and
(01:41):
M this past season. Mentioned earlierabout Schlashnakele's decision to leave A and M.
In the interview he did with thefour worst Star Telegram, he told
the Star Telegram he thought that Aand M would be his last job,
and of course A M fans havepointed out his remarks where he said he
took the job to retire and nownot changed with Slashnigle taking over the job,
(02:07):
but he said that things changed overthe financial direction with the A and
M administration. In his relationship withA and M Ad Trev Alberts, Schloshnegle
said that under previous A and Mathletic director Ros Bjork, who now is
at Ohio State, I keep sayingLSU he's at Ohio State. He hired
(02:27):
Slashnegel, but left for Role Statein January. The plan was that he
was going to begin an eighty milliondollar renovation up Bluebelt Park in June of
this year. That changed under Alberts, who made some cuts in the athletic
department, which included firing A andm's baseball administrator. Him and Slash had
a great relationship, but Trev.This is a quote from Slashnegle to the
(02:52):
Star Telegram. Quote Trev Alberts cameto me the day before the regional to
have a conversation. He asked meif I was frustrated, and I told
him I had some frustration with howslow the ballpark process was going and that
it was tough to operate without asport administrator, but I was committed to
working through it. He then madea comment to me, kind of comparing
(03:13):
his situation of leaving his alma matter, Nebraska. He said to me,
you know, Jim, if youever don't feel like this is the place
for you, that's okay, andit's okay to move on. I was
taken a little back by that,and that was the moment that I began
to think that maybe this wasn't goingto work out. No one ever contacted
(03:36):
me or my agent, but anew contract for our staff, so I
decided to focus on getting our teamto Omaha and to win. End quote.
Of course, fans weren't happy withthat. Cam That's an awful quote
on Trev Alberts that is one ofthe most Like, I've never heard of
anything as pointed without being pointed becauseclearly it's a little political. You can't
(03:59):
say exactly, but imagine if ourboss came to you and said, hey,
Cam, I understand you're a littlefrustrated, but you know what deal
with it? Like you would say, well, okay, if another place
calls me, I'm gonna this isinsane. I cannot believe. If I'm
an A and M fan after thisstory comes out, if I'm an A
and M booster of the story comesout, we're having some serious conversations.
(04:24):
Ah, I'm so serious, becauselook, here's the thing. As an
ad your job is to protect theshield. Your job is to make sure
that all of the sports are ascompetitive before the regional. You're coming up
to talk to me about how thingsare going. No, man, No,
I'm focused on trying to get usto Omaha. That is the number
one priority right now after the season. Sure, but this is just this
(04:44):
is a terrible look, an awfullook for A and M. And I
don't know if Albert's just misplayed orjust didn't really understand the relationship that Slatsneagel
in Crys del Conte had because Ithink if you're thinking, okay, what's
the worst case scenario, it's okaylosing our coach to Texas like Albert's probably
(05:05):
had an idea that things weren't goinggreat for Texas Baseball had an idea this
was a huge year for David Pearce, and if they did not reach Omaha,
there was a good chance that DavidPierce would not be retained as the
head coach. He probably should haveknown that from the beginning, especially when
Texas started off very poor in Houstonand when A and M beat the brakes
(05:26):
off of Texas earlier this season.Should have known that, should have known
that there was a chance that Textswas probably going to go after Slashnegel as
their number one option. His jobas an eighty is to make sure what
can I do for you to keepyou as our head baseball coach? If
someone comes to Steve Saracusian and wantsto hire him, chryst do Kant is
(05:46):
going to do everything in his powerto make sure CDC or excuse me,
to make sure that Sark is happyto do the same thing for Fix Schaeffer,
for Rodney Terry, for any othercoach in this Affleic department, and
for Alberts to not do that withSlashnekle when you're nine outs away from a
College World Series championship, what areyou doing? Dude? If USC called
after the season says Lincoln Roley isnot working out, we want to go
(06:10):
get starked. Do you know who'sgoing to have a put a stop to
that is Crystal Conte. I cantell you that right. CDC is not
letting that happen. I don't carewhat the amount of money, I don't
care what it is. He's notletting that happen. But man, this
is the difference between having a goodad and a great ad. To me,
because Trev Alberts at Nebraska was afine ad outside of football. They
were doing what they needed to do. Women's sports wise, they were doing
(06:30):
what they needed to do. Butagain, if I'm an A and M
fan and this story comes out numberone thing I'm doing when it comes to
the baseball booster club or everything elselike that, we're having a serious behind
the door conversation about like, Okay, this can never, ever, point
blake ever happen again to any ofour other sports across the board because now
(06:51):
I look at it this way.Cam. I don't know about you,
but if I am another school whowants an A and M coach, whether
it be an assistant coach, yourhead coach, whatever, I could go
get him. You know. IfI think that that's the best coach available,
it's open season on everybody. Tome. If I was a Texas
Tech ad or if I was thead at TCU and I wont an player
or coach, yeah, I cango get him now. Because Texas proved
(07:14):
that it can be done. Andnow A and M has officially hired Michael
Early as their next head coach.So there's good and bad from this.
The good side, I think froma Texas fan perspective, is that A
and M. They went after Fotellofrom Tennessee, Tennessee able to keep him,
(07:34):
and there was other conversation about themreaching out, I think, to
other coaches, and they ended upnot being able to land any of those.
So they end up with Michael Early, who's been He's done a great
job on Slash's staff at Texas.A and M the hitting coach. So
now with that is all the playersin the A and M portal that thought
(07:56):
maybe could come back to Texas withSchloshnegel. It looks like that Early is
going to do a good job ofkind of stopping the water from getting outside
the dam and limiting the damage becausehe does have a great relationship with those
players. So it seems like Aand M has stopped a little bit of
bleeding with the hiring of Michael Earlyin terms of players leaving the program and
players committed to the program. Butwith that, Early is going to be
(08:20):
a very young head coach and we'llsee how that goes during his time at
A and M. It's a bighire by trev Alberts to go ahead and
make this move. Some other movesmentioned Early leaving the Texas staff to go
back to A and M. Thatmeans that Troy to Lewitski will be brought
back to Slash's staff and has beenofficially hired on Sunday yesterday as the next
(08:43):
hitting coach for Texas. Tulo Course, a five star or a five time
LB All Star, was an assistantunder David Pierce's staff for two years,
then came back this last year aftercoaching I believe he was coaching boys bas
summer baseball and dripping Rings, whichwhich is awesome how much he loves baseball.
He's coaching out in Drip comes backas a director of player development in
(09:07):
twenty and twenty four. This lastyear, and after Early was announced to
coming over with Slash, with NolanKane and Max Winer, it didn't seem
like Slosh had a room on hisstaff for Tulo. But then Early goes
back to A and M. Sonow Tulowitzki will join Slash's staff as the
hitting coach, and that's great newsI think for all. Tula's on a
(09:28):
great job working with the Texas offense. I mean, last year the problem
was not the bats for Texas atall, and we saw what Tula was
able to do with the developments sofar of Will Gasparino, Jared Thomas and
many others, Peyton Powell, MaxBelou all those guys just having a fantastic
season, including Kimball Schuschler as well. So a big win for Texas.
(09:54):
It hurts a little bit to loseMichael Early, but great job in retaining
Tulowitski. But also so a bigwin for Texas is keeping Max Wiener,
a fantastic pitching coach and Nolan Kane, who's done a great job of developing
players at Texas. A and mthe two guys they added out of the
portal. By the way, Imentioned Aidon Moffatt, the six foot three
(10:16):
ridy who still has two years ofeligibility left, usually hits about one hundred
on the radar, so we'll seehow Max Wiener will work with him.
A good addition there, and thenalso mentioned Easton Winfield, the outfielder from
Louisiana Monroe who is a native Texan, He's actually from Alvin, Texas.
(10:39):
Batted three thirty two this past seasonfor the Warhawks ten home runs forty runs
batted in was looked at as oneof the up and coming prospects in the
transfer portal. We'll have three seasonsleft to play and Texas also earned a
commitment from Penn transfer and right handedpitcher Eli Trupp, who one season left
(11:01):
of eligibility, made forty eight appearancesat Penn eighty two strikeouts in about fifty
six innings a seven to two recordin a three point zero seven eor the
second Penn transfer the last two years, after they added Seth Wertchum, the
former Bouie Bulldog who had one yearat Texas this past year. Also two
commitments from high school Slawsnekle flipped thesix foot seven, two hundred and forty
(11:24):
pound right handed pitchers Sam Cozart fromHigh Park high Point, North Carolina,
Craig Way know ifere that's that,I know without that too, he'll be
joining Texas is next year. Andalso six foot three, two hundred pound
right handed power pitcher in first baseman, Jack Parris out of Houston Kincaid.
So a few moves that Jim Slaschnekelehas made in without a doubt, many
(11:46):
more to come with the transfer portalwindow underway. Our number three here,
the final hour of today's broadcast isunderway. We're going to continue with more
sound from Steve Sarkis as get closerand closer that first day of kickoff with
Texas officially joining the SCC. You'relistening here on Sports Radio AM thirteen hundred The Zone
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