- HC of UIW - University of the Incarnate Word
In 2022 he led UIW to the furthest Southland Conference Tournament appearance in Division I program history.First year in 2019 was cut short due to COVIDPrior to UIW he was AC at Houston and TCU- helped those programs to seven 40+ win seasons.
13 conference championshipseight regular-season championships five conference tournament championshipsnine trips to NCAA Regionalsthree appearances at NCAA Super Regionalsone trip to the College World SeriesCoached over 60 players who have been drafted- eight of those appearing on active Major League Baseball rosters
5 current MLBIf your early your orgranizedNo blame, complain, or defendCARDS - bottom of every practice planPlayers are now speaking the languageWorking with you not for youThe best teams are player led, not coaches fedWhen you get out front you get vulnerableYou can’t talk about win the pitch and then be losing your mindThe beginning you are talking to yourselfMeet after practiceMental game - what does it mean to you?Getting them to recognize they are doing something with them knowing itHelping you get to the next pitch and realize you are going too fastBreathe and get to the next pitchYou can gripe and complain about it or you can adapt and changeIts a 40 year decision, not a 4 year decisionIn order to set the goals, you had to work towards the goalsBack map from doing something the program has never done beforeDeconstruct winning a conference Track positive at batsDo your job - doesn’t matter how, execute quality pitches with convictionEach team needs to create their own identityPlay as hard as you for as long as you canProcess > outcome60% positive at bats- Percentage of QAB determined what we need to do
60% or better we win50% and we need to play good defense and pitch it well40% then we better of pitched great and caught itWHO got the RBI - talking RBI not hitsEducate kids on the situation. - If the kids don’t know the situation that’s