The Texas Longhorns baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Texas in the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. [1] The team has seen 14 individuals hold the head coach position since it started playing organized baseball in the 1895 season. Two of these coaches had non-consecutive tenures. Since 1911, only six people have held the position. [2] The current coach is David Pierce, who led his first season in 2017.
Having served for 29 seasons, Cliff Gustafson holds the record for wins at 1,466 and winning percentage at .795. Gustafson, Bibb Falk, and Augie Garrido each won 2 College World Series titles while in Austin.
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# | Name | Term | GC | OW | OL | OT | O% | CW | CL | CT | C% | PA | PW | PL | WA | WW | WL | CCs | CTs | NCs | Awards [lower-alpha 7] |
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1 | H. B. Beck | 1896 | Incomplete records | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | F. Weikart | 1897 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | .545 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | 0 | — |
3 | A. C. Ellis | 1898–1899, 1901–1903, 1909 | 94 | 61 | 31 | 2 | .660 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 0 | — |
4 | Maurice Gordon Clarke | 1900 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | .853 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | 0 | — |
5 | Ralph Hutchinson | 1904–1906 | 73 | 45 | 27 | 1 | .623 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 0 | — |
6 | H. R. Schenker | 1907 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0 | .667 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 0 | — |
7 | Brooks Gordon | 1908 | 16 | 12 | 1 | .569 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 0 | — | |
8 | Charles A. Keith | 1910 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | .425 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | — | 0 | — |
9 | Billy Disch † | 1911–1939 | 705 | 513 | 180 | 12 | .736 | 284 | 70 | 4 | .799 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | — | 0 | — |
10 | Bibb Falk † | 1940–1942, 1946–1967 | 664 | 478 | 176 | 10 | .727 | 276 | 84 | 7 | .762 | 15 | 35 | 26 | 10 | 20 | 17 | 20 | — | 2 | — |
11 | Blair Cherry | 1943–1945 | 53 | 30 | 23 | 0 | .566 | 22 | 4 | 0 | .846 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | 0 | — |
12 | Cliff Gustafson † | 1968–1996 | 1,845 | 1,466 | 377 | 2 | .795 | 472 | 151 | 1 | .757 | 27 | 132 | 52 | 17 | 54 | 27 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 1982, 1983 National Coach of the Year |
13 | Augie Garrido † | 1997–2016 | 1254 | 824 | 428 | 2 | .658 | 321 | 210 | 1 | .604 | 15 | 64 | 35 | 8 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2002, 2005 National Coach of the Year |
14 | David Pierce | 2017–present | 406 | 267 | 139 | 0 | .658 | 81 | 61 | 0 | .570 | 4 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | (2018, 2021) National Coach of the Year (2018,2021) Big 12 Coach of the year |
Clifford L. Gustafson was an American high school and college baseball coach who was, for twenty-nine seasons, the head coach of the Texas Longhorns, representing the University of Texas at Austin.
The Texas Longhorns baseball team represents The University of Texas at Austin in NCAA Division I intercollegiate men's baseball competition. The Longhorns currently compete in the Big 12 Conference.