Source - Jim Schlossnagle leaves Texas A&M for Texas baseball job - ESPN

Jim Schlossnagle, who just led Texas A&M to its first College World Series championship series, is leaving to become the next baseball coach at rival Texas, a source told ESPN on Tuesday, confirming multiple reports.

Schlossnagle agreed to a deal with the Longhorns just one day after a 6-5 loss to Tennessee in Game 3 ended the Aggies' season just one win shy of a first national championship. The loss will be compounded by Schlossnagle's defection to the Aggies' bitter rival as they reunite as conference foes this year in the SEC.

Schlossnagle went 135-62 in his three seasons with Texas A&M, including two CWS visits and a 53-15 record this season, which tied for the second-most wins in program history.

In Austin, he will reunite with Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte, who was his boss at TCU when Schlossnagle coached the Horned Frogs from 2004 to 2021.

On Monday, hours before the Aggies and Volunteers threw the first pitch in the penultimate CWS game, Texas announced that Del Conte and David Pierce had made a mutual decision to part ways. Pierce was 297-162 in eight seasons at Texas, including a 36-24 record this season.

Texas had long been rumored to have interest in Schlossnagle due to his record at TCU and A&M, and the relationship he had with Del Conte.

Schlossnagle told ESPN last month that he knew what was coming with the heat around the rivalry.

«That's like nuclear stuff,» Schlossnagle said. «But there isn't a moment in my day where I think about what Texas is doing. I think if you go look at general society today with social media, everybody does the comparison game. And A&M and Texas have been doing the comparison game for a couple hundred years.»

In 23 seasons as coach at UNLV, TCU and Texas A&M,