LSU has hired [autotag]Terry Rooney[/autotag] as its Director of Recruiting and Program Development, according to multiple reports. The news was first reported by D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers.
Rooney, who spent the last two seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Purdue, is a familiar face in Baton Rouge. He previously served as LSU’s pitching coach from 2007-08.
He left to become the head coach at UCF, where he spent eight seasons and amassed a 261-210 record with two NCAA regional appearances. Since leaving the Knights, he was associate head coach — and briefly interim head coach — at Alabama in 2017.
Rooney was the pitching coach at Houston from 2018-21 before joining the Boilermakers.
SCOOP: @LSUbaseball is hiring Terry Rooney as its new Director of Recruiting and Program Development, @d1baseball has learned. Rooney spent the last two seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for @PurdueBaseball. #GeauxTigers https://t.co/bFKxdBQ0D3
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) July 10, 2023
It’s the second assistant coach LSU has hired this offseason. Coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] also brought in [autotag]Nate Yeskie[/autotag] as pitching coach from Texas A&M. Yeskie will replace [autotag]Wes Johnson[/autotag], who left to take the head coaching job at Georgia.
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