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Texas adds Jim Schlossnagle’s assistants to Longhorns baseball staff

Three assistants follow Schloss to Texas.

In a quick move for the Texas Longhorns baseball program, the university announced three hires to Jim Schlossnagle’s staff.

After one season under Schloss with the Texas A&M Aggies, Texas adds Max Weiner as the pitching coach. Weiner served as the pitching coordinator for the Seattle Mariners from Dec. 2018 until he left for Texas A&M ahead of the 2024 season. He worked with top pitching prospects Logan Gilbert, Georgia Kirby, Bryan Woo, and Bryce Miller.

New hitting coach Michael Earley joined the Aggies staff when Schlossnagle took the job at Texas A&M. Earley was drafted by the Chicago White Sox and joined the coaching ranks in 2017.

Nolan Cain will take over as the recruiting coordinator for Texas. The former LSU Tigers pitcher played in the Detroit Tigers farm system. He returned to the Bayou as Coordinator of Baseball Ops and assistant coach from 2014 until 2021. He joined the Aggies in 2022 as an assistant coach and was promoted to Associate Head Coach this past year.

Quite a start to the Jim Schlossnagle era on the Forty Acres.

Where does the Red River Showdown rank among college football best games in 2021?

As the 2021 college football season has hit the halfway point, was the Red River Showdown the best game of the season thus far?

The game was more than a week ago, but the Red River Showdown still sits top of mind for the incredible game it was. While the team has moved on with a 52-31 win over TCU, we have the luxury of reveling in the greatness this year’s iteration of OU-Texas brought us.

It was a game that included just about everything. Big plays on both sides of the ball, special teams showed up, a quarterback change, and a furious comeback with the Oklahoma Sooners taking their final lead with just seconds on the clock.

How good was that game? Well, in the opinions of some, this writer included, to this point, it’s the game of the year.

The folks over at USA TODAY Sports handed out some midseason awards and the Oklahoma Sooners matchup with the Texas Longhorns was Paul Myerburg’s choice for game of the year through the midway point of the season.

The Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma set a record for most combined points in series history and had the subplot of Williams stepping in for an underachieving Spencer Rattler. If not an upset in the vein of Alabama losing to Texas A&M, the result did keep OU in the playoff mix and might be seen in the future as the moment when Williams announced his arrival on the college stage. – Myerburg

Caleb Williams certainly announced his arrival in this one. A game in which he combined for three touchdowns and was a key factor in Oklahoma’s comeback. He followed that up with an even more impressive against TCU when he combined for five total touchdowns, setting a true freshman record at Oklahoma and earning Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week.

The Red River Showdown are where legends are made. Roy Williams and Teddy Lehman were fantastic players for the Sooners, but the play they’re most remembered for is the “Superman play.”

Fitting that the guy who’s nickname is Superman announced his arrival to college football in arguably the best game of 2021.

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4 defensive players to watch as Oklahoma takes on TCU

Oklahoma is in need of a bounce back defensive performance and to get it, these four Sooners are vital against TCU.

While the offense continues to find itself and find its quarterback, the Oklahoma Sooners defense will have to continue to show up. After a very poor performance in the first half of the Sooners win against the Texas Longhorns, Speed D found its footing and was absolutely lights out in the second half to hold up their end of the bargain in the team’s improbable comeback effort.

Timely stops, better coverage, and better tackling all led to better results in the second half of the Sooners’ win.

Defensive coordinator Alex Grinch will be hoping they can carry that second-half finish with them as they return home.

They now turn their attention to TCU, who’s offense has been pretty good in 2021.

They are led by Max Duggan and lining up in the backfield with him is former five-star running back Zach Evans and another solid running back in Kendre Miller. Out wide Quentin Johnston, Derius Davis, and Taye Barber are their main threats.

Who are the key Oklahoma defenders in this match-up? Here are four Sooners that are vital to Oklahoma’s chances of slowing down the Horned Frogs offense on Saturday night.

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