By Bill Ballew
Interviews with the top coaches and players in college baseball
Jason Gill is in his ninth season as head coach of the Loyola Marymount Lions. In his first eight seasons he has coached 43 All-West Coast Conference selections, four freshman All-Americans, and has had 24 players drafted into professional baseball. Gill’s college...
John Savage is in his 13th season at the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. Since the 2005 season, he has posted a 419-301-1 (.581) record upon entering the 2017 campaign. He was named the 2015 Pac-12 Coach of the...
Jim Callis is a senior writer for mlb.com and mlbpipeline.com. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he began his career at Baseball America magazine in 1988 and quickly became recognized as one of the premier writers and evaluators of...
Rusty Stroupe has worked his way up the coaching ranks since his playing days at Appalachian State University. A native of Cherryville, North Carolina, Stroupe’s first job came as a middle school teacher when he was told his responsibilities also...
Wake Forest head coach Tom Walter is the only active head coach and one of seven all-time to have led the Division I teams to the NCAA Tournament. In 2016 Walter guided the Demon Deacons to the College Station Regional...
Mike Fox was a former walk-on who became a three -year letterwinner at the University of North Carolina as a second baseman from 1976-78 and helped lead the Tar Heels to the 1978 College World Series. He graduated from UNC...
Jake Boss Jr. became the 16th head coach in Michigan State baseball annals in 2008, and since that time he has emerged as one of the most successful coaches in the program’s 130-year history. Over the past eight seasons Boss has guided the...
When he was hired to guide the Samford Bulldogs’ baseball program in 2004, Casey Dunn became the youngest head coach at the Division I level. In just his second season at Samford, he took the baseball team from not qualifying for...
Paul Mainieri has had unprecedented success at every stop in his coaching career. He began his career with a six-year stint at St. Thomas where he emerged as the school’s all-time winningest coach before becoming the first civilian head coach...
Texas Christian University made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 1956; thirty-eight years later, in 1994, the Horned Frogs reached the annual baseball event for a second time. That scenario has changed over the past decade and a...
If you are looking for a podcast about passion for the game of baseball, you’ve come to right place because this episode’s guest is Gregg Ritchie, head coach of the George Washington Colonials. The upcoming season will mark Coach Ritchie’s...
Head coach Bill Brown of the George Mason Patriots has been involved with the GMU program for four decades, including the last 35 as head coach. The native of Northern Virginia transferred to a junior college after his freshman season at...
Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor is in his 14th season as the skipper of the Cavaliers. Just prior to O’Connor’s arrival to Charlottesville, University of Virginia officials were considering moving baseball and several other non-revenue sports to an intramural level....
Progress on the diamond has been achieved via baby steps for Presbyterian College since the Blue Hose joined the Division I ranks as a member of the Big South Conference in 2008. Head coach Elton Pollock, who is guiding the...
Kennesaw State head coach Mike Sansing has guided the Owls for the past 25 years. After serving as head coach at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, for three years, Sansing took over the Owl program in the fall of 1991...
Belmont head coach Dave Jarvis is in his 20th season as the leader of the Bruins. He is the program’s only head coach since the Bruins moved from the NAIA ranks to Division I in 1998 and has guided the program to more than...
Scott Stricklin became a household name in the world of college baseball when he guided his alma mater, the Kent State Golden Flashes, to the 2012 College World Series. After nine seasons at Kent State, Stricklin was named head coach...
Georgia Tech head coach Danny Hall moved to Atlanta in late 1993 when he arrived from Kent State University and replaced the Miami-bound Jim Morris. A former president of the American Baseball Coaches Association, Hall proceeded to guide a star-studded team...
South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook is the leader of one of the most passionate fan bases in college baseball. Chad played for head coach Mike Roberts at the University of North Carolina and later served as an assistant coach for...
Jim McGuire enters his fifth season as head coach of the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders and is looking to help his team bounce back from a 20-35 record in 2016. The long-time assistant coach at MT will have a...
In his first season as head coach at Clemson, Monte Lee guided the Tigers to the 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship. The Spartanburg, South Carolina, native rejuvenated the perennial national power with the help of several veterans as well...
College Baseball Now is a podcast and corresponding website designed to promote college baseball and give the people associated with this great game more of the attention it deserves. Hosted by Bill Ballew, who has been involved with professional and...