The Longhorn baseball team is another successful UT squad that has somehow fallen in the shadow of Longhorn football in the pigskin-obsessed state of Texas.
Hopefully most UT fans realize that the Longhorn baseball team is the winningest program in NCAA history. Football is ranked a shameful 2nd. And 2nd seems to be something that just isn’t good enough for the ‘Horns. That was after all the fate of the 2008-09 baseball team in a “disappointing” campaign. But that is all cured for the time being, as the UT baseball team enters the season ranked #1 in every major (or minor for that matter) poll in the country.
The team is coached by Augie Garrido, who has won 5 national championships – 2 with the Longhorns, and one against them in the 1979 final. In the past 9 seasons, Garrido has gone to the finals of the College World Series 5 times. He is also the winningest coach of all time with a record of 1,668-777-8.
The Longhorns were recently named the team of the decade by Baseball America, and two of their players (Kyle Russel, Huston Street) were named to the All-Decade team.
If that history, on top of successes in recent vintage, isn’t enough to inspire you, consider that the Longhorns had 3 players named to the preseason All-American team this year and return all but 3 starters. And also that Augie called this his “best staff ever.” So…we got that going for us.
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