2024 College Baseball Coaching Changes Tracker
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As we do every year, Baseball America is tracking the latest news and movement in the college baseball coaching market.
This story will update every time there are coaching changes this year.
Alcorn State
Former coach: Reggie Williams
Incoming coach: Open
What to know: Alcorn State fired Williams after three seasons. He went 16-122, including a 6-43 mark in 2024. Alcorn is one of the toughest jobs in the SWAC.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Former coach: Carlos James
Incoming coach: Logan Stout
What to know: James is out as head coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff after 14 seasons. He went 212-414-2 during his 14 years, including a 133-165 mark in SWAC play. Pine Bluff is one of the toughest jobs in the SWAC but made an intriguing hire in Stout. He founded the Dallas Patriots, a prominent travel ball organization, and worked as a speaker in leadership and professional development training.
Arkansas State
Former coach: Tommy Raffo
Incoming coach: Mike Silva
What to know: Arkansas State on May 29 announced it had fired Raffo after 16 seasons as head coach. Raffo is the winningest coach in school history, but he never led the Red Wolves to the NCAA Tournament. Arkansas State this year went 21-32-1 and finished last in the Sun Belt. Silva on June 11 was hired away from Nicholls State, where he spent three seasons as head coach. He led the Colonels to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two years, ending the program’s regionals drought, which dated to 1998. Previously, Silva worked as an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech, Arkansas-Little Rock and Texas State.
Cal State Bakersfield
Former coach: Jeremy Beard
Incoming coach: Jordon Banfield
What to know: Cal State Bakersfield on May 28 announced it had fired Beard after eight years as head coach. Beard went 153-233 with the Roadrunners, including a 15-38 mark in 2024. Banfield was hired away from Oakland, where he was head coach for four seasons. He led the Golden Grizzlies to a 109-114 record in his tenure, including 31-win seasons in 2022 and 2024 and back-to-back Horizon League Tournament championship game appearances. He now will head west to take over at Bakersfield.
Campbell
Former coach: Justin Haire
Incoming coach: Chris Marx
What to know: Haire on June 21 was hired away by Ohio State after 10 seasons as head coach and 17 seasons on staff at Campbell. He helped built the Camels into a mid-major power and led them to five straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 2018-23. Campbell last year moved from the Big South into the Coastal Athletic Association and that step up in conference affiliation adds to the intrigue of this job. Campbell moved quickly to secure Haire’s replacement and on June 28 hired Marx, who was the pitching coach at Purdue for the last five years. At Purdue, he worked under Greg Goff, Haire’s predecessor at Campbell. Marx also spent five seasons on staff at Campbell, meaning he spent the last decade working for Goff and Haire, the two coaches who built the Camels into the mid-major power they are today. Marx also previously worked at Arkansas-Little Rock and Southern Indiana.
Charleston Southern
Former coach: Marc MacMillan
Incoming coach: Karl Kuhn
What to know: Charleston Southern on June 3 announced MacMillan was out as head coach after four seasons. MacMillan went 86-116 with the Buccaneers, including a 22-32 mark this spring and a fourth-place finish in the Big South. Charleston Southern has not had a winning season since 2014. Kuhn on June 11 was promoted to head coach after serving one year on MacMillan’s staff as pitching coach. He previously was head coach at Radford from 2020-22, going 47-64. Prior to that, he was pitching coach at Virginia for 16 seasons, helping the Cavaliers win the 2015 national championship.
The Citadel
Former coach: Tony Skole
Incoming coach: Russell Triplett
What to know: The Citadel on May 24 announced Skole was out as head coach after seven seasons. He went 123-316 at his alma mater, including a 21-32 mark in 2024. The Bulldogs finished in last place in the Southern Conference. Triplett on June 19 was hired as the Bulldogs new head coach. He spent the last 14 seasons at Newberry (S.C.), where he went 418-278-1. He previously was an assistant coach at S.C.-Upstate and Clemson.
Coastal Carolina
Outgoing coach: Gary Gilmore (retired)
Incoming coach: Kevin Schnall
What to know: Gilmore last year announced he would retire following the 2024 season, his 29th at the helm of his alma mater. He’s won more than 1,300 games and entered the season with the fourth most wins of any active Division I baseball coach. Schnall has been an assistant coach under Gilmore for 21 seasons, including in 2016, when the Chanticleers won the national championship. He starred at Coastal, winning Big South player of the year honors in 1999, and has since become a top assistant coach. He was twice voted by sitting head coaches as one of the 10 assistant coaches most ready to become a head coach.
Dayton
Former coach: Jayson King
Incoming coach: Scott Loiseau
What to know: King stepped down as Daytons’s head coach after seven seasons to join the Vanderbilt coaching staff as an assistant coach. He went 165-165-1 during his tenure, including a 33-22 mark in 2024. Dayton’s 33 wins this season were its most since 2009. Dayton on June 24 hired Loiseau, who last year was the associate head coach at Penn State. He spent the previous 14 seasons as the head coach of Southern New Hampshire. While at SNHU, he led the Penmen to the Division II College World Series five times and went 480-209-2.
Delaware State
Former coach: JP Blandin (retired)
Incoming coach: Open
What to know: Blandin on March 29 announced he would retire following the 2024 season, his 23rd as head coach. He led the Hornets to more than 500 wins. This season, Delaware State went 22-27 overall and finished fifth in the Northeast Conference.
Eastern Kentucky
Former coach: Chris Prothro
New coach: Walt Jones
What to know: Prothro went on a medical leave of absence March 25. Jones was named acting head coach in his absence. On May 15, EKU announced Prothro would not return from his leave and Jones would be promoted to head coach on a permanent basis. Jones is in his fourth season with the Colonels. He previously was associate head coach at Nicholls State, his alma mater.
Houston Christian
Former coach: Lance Berkman
Incoming coach: Clay VanderLaan
What to know: Berkman on May 24 announced his resignation after three years as head coach. He went 47-105 as head coach and the Huskies finished last in the Southland Conference in each of the last two seasons. VanderLaan on June 11 was promoted to head coach after three seasons on staff under Berkman. He previously was head coach for three years at St. Thomas (Texas), a Division III school in Houston.
Indiana State
Former coach: Mitch Hannahs
Incoming coach: Tracy Archuleta
What to know: Hannahs on June 8 left Indiana State to take over at South Florida. He spent 11 years as the head coach of his alma mater and guided the program to new heights. The Sycamores hosted regionals in 2023 and advanced to super regionals. They won back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference titles and reached the NCAA Tournament five times. This is a very intriguing job and the last three coaches – Lindsay Meggs (Washington), Rick Heller (Iowa) and now Hannahs – have pushed the program forward before leaving for bigger schools. Indiana State on June 21 hired Archuleta away from Southern Indiana, where he spent the last 18 years as head coach. Archuleta guided the Screaming Eagles to two Division II national championships (2010 and 2014) and three other appearances in the Division II College World Series. He also guided Southern Indiana through the transition to Division I and this spring, the program’s second in DI, it finished fourth in the Ohio Valley Conference. Indiana State has had success with this kind of profile before, as Meggs (Division II) and Hannahs (junior college) both were hired away from schools outside Division I.
Liberty
Former coach: Scott Jackson
Incoming coach: Bradley LeCroy
What to know: Jackson on June 11 stepped down after eight seasons at Liberty. He went 246-181 with the Flames and led them to three NCAA Tournament appearances, as well as guiding them through a few rounds of conference realignment, from the Big South to the ASUN to Conference USA. While Liberty won at least 30 games in Jackson’s first five full seasons, they had a losing record in each of the last two. LeCroy was hired July 15, coming to Liberty after two seasons as the head coach of VCU. He this spring led the Rams to a 38-23 record and the Atlantic-10 Tournament title. In the NCAA Tournament, VCU upset Wake Forest. Before taking over at VCU, LeCroy spent 12 years as the recruiting coordinator at Clemson, his alma mater.
Long Beach State
Former coach: Bryan Peters (interim)
Incoming coach: TJ Bruce
What to know: Peters was named head coach for the 2024 season on an interim basis in June 2023, after Eric Valenzuela left Long Beach to become head coach at Saint Mary’s. Peters served as the Dirtbags associate head coach for four seasons under Valenzuela. LBSU has undergone significant turnover in the last year, including the arrival of athletic director Bobby Smitheran in August. Smitheran is a former college baseball player and opted to run a new coaching search. That led him to hire Bruce on June 13. Bruce played for the Dirtbags and was an assistant coach at his alma mater from 2007-11. Most recently, he was associate head coach at TCU for two seasons. He also was head coach at Nevada for seven seasons, leading the Wolfpack to a 171-168 record, two Mountain West titles and the 2021 NCAA Tournament. He also spent four seasons as an assistant coach at UCLA, helping the Bruins to the 2013 national championship.
Longwood
Former coach: Chad Oxendine
Incoming coach: Ray Noe
What to know: Oxendine left Longwood on June 11 to return to Coastal Carolina as associate head coach. Oxendine played at Coastal and spent four years on staff there before taking over at Longwood following the 2021 season. In three years as the Lancers head coach, he went 66-93, including a 23-29 mark in 2024. Noe was hired from VMI, where he spent five seasons as an assistant coach. He helped build an impressive offense, serving as hitting coach and recruiting coordinator.
Manhattan
Former coach: Dave Miller
New coach: Steven Rosen (interim)
What to know: Miller stepped down after two seasons at Manhattan and Rosen was promoted to interim head coach. Miller went 44-64 with the Jaspers, including a 22-30 mark in 2024. Rosen, 29, spent two seasons on staff under Miller. He previously was the director of player development at Alabama.
Minnesota
Former coach: John Anderson (retired)
New coach: Ty McDevitt
What to know: Anderson announced before the season that this would be his last as head coach. He is an institution in Minnesota, spending 41 years as head coach and winning more than 1,300 games at his alma mater. He is the winningest baseball coach in Big Ten history. McDevitt was promoted to replace Anderson on May 22. He pitched at Minnesota and spent eight years on staff under Anderson, including the last six as pitching coach. The Gophers have produced some high-end pitching prospects under his tutelage, including Max Meyer, a first round pick in 2020. McDevitt is just 31, making him the youngest head coach in a Power Four conference.
Missouri State
Former coach: Keith Guttin (retired)
New coach: Joey Hawkins
What to know: Guttin announced in November that he would retire at the end of the season, his 42nd at the helm of his alma mater. He has won more than 1,300 games and led the Bears to the 2003 College World Series. Hawkins was a standout player for the Bears, twice serving as a captain and in 2015 he was named Missouri Valley Conference defensive player of the year. He returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach in June 2021 and spent the last two seasons as associate head coach. He was promoted to head coach following at the end of the season.
Niagara
Outgoing coach: Rob McCoy
New coach: Matt Spatafora
What to know: McCoy on June 20 was hired away to take over at William & Mary. He spent the last 16 seasons at Niagara and is the winningest coach in program history with 299 victories. Niagara is coming off the best season in program history, as it won 38 games and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever. To build on that success, Niagara promoted Spatafora, who spent the last 12 seasons on McCoy’s staff as hitting coach and recruiting coordinator. He played a key role in building the Purple Eagles’ banner 2024 team.
Nicholls State
Outgoing coach: Mike Silva
New coach: Brent Haring
What to know: Silva on June 11 was hired away by Arkansas State after three seasons as head coach. He led Nicholls to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two years, the program’s first regionals appearance since 1998, and went 94-71. The Southland Conference is one of the most competitive mid-major leagues in the country and while Nicholls is not an easy job, Silva also showed what is possible there. Nicholls on June 26 tabbed Haring as his successor. Haring spent the last season on staff at LSU as director of operations. Previously, he spent 10 years on staff at BYU, including serving as associate head coach in his final season.
Oakland
Outgoing coach: Jordon Banfield
New coach: Open
What to know: Banfield was hired away after four seasons at Oakland to take over Cal State Bakersfield. He went 109-114 with the Golden Grizzlies and won 31 games in 2022 and 2024. Oakland has never made the NCAA Tournament as a Division I program, but it is now coming off its best stretch in program history.
Ohio State
Former coach: Bill Mosiello
New coach: Justin Haire
What to know: Mosiello on June 14 stepped down as Ohio State’s coach after two seasons. He went 60-51 with the Buckeyes, including a 29-26 mark in 2024. Mosiello is returning to TCU as an assistant coach, a role he worked in for nine years before moving to Ohio State. His move opens a significant Big Ten job, one which is especially intriguing because Ross Bjork has only just taken over as Ohio State athletic director. He comes from an SEC background at Texas A&M and Mississippi, and brings a strong baseball background to Columbus. Haire on June 21 was hired away from Campbell, where he spent the last 10 years as head coach and 17 years on staff. Haire, an Ohio native, brings impressive program-building credentials to Columbus, as he helped turn Campbell into a mid-major power. He led the Camels to five straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 2018-23 and Campbell produced some star power with the likes of Zach Neto and Cade Kuehler. The challenge for Haire now will be to bring that same success to one of the biggest brands in college athletics.
Pacific
Outgoing coach: Chris Rodriguez
New coach: Reed Peters
What to know: Pacific on May 20 announced Rodriguez was out as head coach after five years. He went 66-164. The Tigers this year went 11-44 and finished eighth in the West Coast Conference. On June 28, Pacific hired Peters as its next head coach. He spent the last 17 seasons as coach of San Joaquin Delta (Calif.) JC and posted a 386-167 record.
Pepperdine
Former coach: Rick Hirtensteiner
Incoming coach: Tyler LaTorre
What to know: Pepperdine on May 29 announced Hirtensteiner was out as head coach after nine years. He went 194-226 as head coach and hadn’t had a winning season in a full season since 2018, when the Waves won the West Coast Conference. They went 15-38 in 2024 and finished sixth in the WCC standings. Pepperdine has had some incredible highs as a program, including winning the 1992 national championship. The Waves went to the NCAA Tournament three times in four years under Steve Rodriguez from 2012-15, before he left for Baylor, but they haven’t been back to that level since. Can they recapture their former form under a new coach? That goal now is charged to LaTorre, who was hired Jun 14 after two seasons as the head coach of Westmont (Calif.). He led the Warriors to the 2023 NAIA national championship and this spring helped guide them into Division II. He previously was an assistant coach at Sacramento State, San Jose State and San Francisco State.
South Carolina
Former coach: Mark Kingston
New coach: Paul Mainieri
What to know: South Carolina on June 3 fired Kingston after seven seasons as head coach. He twice led the Gamecocks to super regionals (2018 and 2023) and went 217-155 in his tenure. But he wasn’t able to lead South Carolina back to the College World Series, where it still has not reached since 2012. The Gamecocks this year went 37-25 and 13-17 in SEC play, the second time in three seasons they finished 13-17 in conference play. South Carolina is a significant job in college baseball and could be the biggest job to open in this cycle. That presents Ray Tanner a huge opportunity. This will be the third baseball coach he has hired as athletic director and there’s a lot of pressure on him to nail this hire. Tanner made a splashy hire in picking Mainieri, who ranks eighth on the all-time wins list in college baseball with 1,505. He’s been out of baseball since he retired from LSU in 2021, but was involved in the coaching searches at Notre Dame and Miami in the last two years. Now, he’ll take over at South Carolina and aim to take it back to the level of prominence it reached under Tanner.
S.C.-Upstate
Former coach: Mike McGuire
New coach: Kane Sweeney
What to know: McGuire was hired away by Winthrop after five seasons at S.C.-Upstate. He led the Spartans to a 152-89-1 record, including a 36-24 mark this spring. The Spartans last year won a program record 38 games. Upstate acted quickly to promote Sweeney as his successor. He was an assistant coach for five seasons under McGuire, including the last year as associate head coach. Sweeney previously served as an assistant coach at Morehead State and Illinois-Springfield.
South Florida
Former coach: Billy Mohl
New coach: Mitch Hannahs
What to know: South Florida on May 20 fired Mohl after seven seasons as head coach and 10 seasons on staff. He led the Bulls to super regionals in 2021 and regionals in 2018, but they struggled to find consistency in the American Athletic Conference. He went 174-181-1 as head coach. The job should be an attractive one, due to its advantageous location in Tampa and the American, which has been down recently but has the makings of a solid baseball conference. USF on June 8 hired Mitch Hannahs, who comes to Tampa after 11 seasons at the helm of his alma mater. Hannahs won big with the Sycamores, leading them to the NCAA Tournament five times, back-to-back Missouri Valley Conference titles and a banner 2023 that saw them host regionals and reach super regionals. His whole career to this point, however, had been in Indiana and Illinois. His challenge now will be to carry his previous success into a new area of the country.
Southern Indiana
Former coach: Tracy Archuleta
New coach: Chris Ramirez
What to know: Archuleta on June 21 was hired away by Indiana State after 18 seasons as head coach at USI. He is the winningest coach in program history and led the Screaming Eagles to two Division II national championships (2010 and 2014). He also led USI into Division I and this spring, in their second season at the new level, the Screaming Eagles finished fourth in the Ohio Valley Conference. USI is still a new program to Division I, but its strong baseball tradition makes it an interesting opening. The Screaming Eagles tabbed Ramirez, who spent the last 11 years as a head coach in Division II. He led Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.) for the last five years and was the head coach of Illinois-Springfield for six seasons. He is 351-202-1 and has led his teams to the NCAA Tournament in three of the last six years.
Stephen F. Austin
Former coach: Johnny Cardenas (retired)
New coach: Matt Vanderburg
What to know: Cardenas on May 23 announced his retirement after 16 seasons as head coach at SFA. He went 293-483. SFA on June 19 hired Vanderburg, who spent the last 16 years at West Texas A&M, a Division II school. He led the Buffs to a 515-293 record and nine appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
Texas
Former coach: David Pierce
New coach: Jim Schlossnagle
What to know: On June 24, Texas announced Pierce was out as head coach after eight seasons. He led the Longhorns to the College World Series three times and in 2021 finished No. 3 in the Top 25 after falling to Mississippi State in the bracket final. Pierce won three Big 12 titles, went 297-162 and made the NCAA Tournament in six of the seven full seasons during his tenure. Texas is one of the very biggest jobs in the sport and it is hiring a coach as it moves from the Big 12 to the SEC. Athletic director Chris Del Conte moved at lightning pace and hired Schlossnagle away from archrival Texas A&M the day after the Aggies lost to Tennessee in the College World Series championship series. Schlossnagle, the 2016 Baseball America Coach of the Year, is 946-455 in 23 seasons coaching A&M, TCU and UNLV. He has led his teams to Omaha seven times, including two of the last three seasons at A&M. He this spring coached the Aggies to a 53-15 record and a runner-up finish at the CWS, the best in program history. Now, he will aim to take the Longhorns back to the top of the sport and win his first national championship.
Texas A&M
Former coach: Jim Schlossnagle
New coach: Michael Earley
What to know: Schlossnagle on June 25 left A&M for archrival Texas, less than 24 hours after the Aggies lost to Tennessee in the College World Series championship series. While the move had been heavily rumored for weeks, that made it no less shocking. Schlossnagle became the first SEC baseball coach to leave for another job since 2008 and he crossed rivalry lines in the immediate aftermath of A&M’s best season in program history, as the Aggies went 53-15 and reached the CWS finals for the first time ever. Schlossnagle took his whole coaching staff with him to Austin and they were introduced at his first press conference. But in another wild twist of the saga, Earley, who spent the last three seasons as A&M’s hitting coach, was brought back to College Station as head coach. It’s a bold move for A&M, as Earley is 36 and has limited experience as a recruiter and no head coaching experience. But he is regarded as one of the best hitting coaches in the country and fostered a strong connection with the roster, giving A&M some needed continuity as it tries to hold together its roster. Prior to A&M, he served as hitting coach at Arizona State, working under Tracy Smith.
Utah Valley
Former coach: Eddie Smith
New coach: Nate Rasmussen
What to know: Smith left UVU after three seasons to take over at Washington. He led the Wolverines to an impressive turnaround in his tenure. In 2023, they won 34 games and reached the WAC Tournament championship game. Prior to that season, they had not won more than 18 games in a season since 2016. While they didn’t match that record in 2024, they did finish third in the WAC and produced an All-American in second baseman Daniel Dickinson. Now, UVU will turn to Rasmussen, who was promoted from associate head coach. He coached under Smith for three years, helping to rebuild UVU.
VCU
Former coach: Bradley LeCroy
New coach: Open
What to know: LeCroy was hired away by Liberty after two seasons as head coach at VCU. After a tough first year at the program’s helm, LeCroy in 2024 led the Rams to a 38-23 record, the Atlantic-10 Tournament championship and an upset of Wake Forest in the NCAA Tournament. VCU has now made the NCAA Tournament in three of the last four years and won more than 30 games in nine of the last 10 full seasons. It has been one of the best programs in the A-10 since it joined the conference after the 2012 season and the two coaches that have led it in that era, LeCroy and Shawn Stiffler, were able to move up to bigger jobs (Stiffler went to Notre Dame after the 2022 season). That makes the job intriguing, but the A-10’s position in the changing landscape of college sports makes it tricky.
Washington
Former coach: Jason Kelly
New coach: Eddie Smith
What to know: Kelly left Washington after two seasons to become pitching coach and associate head coach at Texas A&M. He spent two seasons on staff at Arizona State with Earley (2020-21) before moving on to LSU for one season. At UW, he went 54-51-1 and led the Huskies to the NCAA Tournament in 2023. The 2024 season didn’t go quite as well for the Huskies, as they went 19-31-1 and ended the season on an eight-game losing streak. UW tabbed Smith to replace Kelly. Smith, 40, is just three years into his Division I head coaching career but made significant progress at Utah Valley. He in 2023 led the Wolverines to 34 wins and an appearance in the WAC Tournament championship game after they had not won more than 18 games in the previous six seasons. While he has coached across the country, he has ties to the state, as he is a native of Olympia, Wash., was the head coach at Lower Columbia (Wash.) JC for four years and played at Centralia (Wash.) JC. Now, he will take over UW as it enters the Big Ten, an uncertain new era for both the program and conference.
West Virginia
Outgoing coach: Randy Mazey (retired)
Incoming coach: Steve Sabins
What to know: West Virginia announced last summer that Mazey would retire following the 2024 season and Sabins would be promoted to head coach. Mazey is in his 12th season at the program’s helm and has built the Mountaineers into a consistent contender. Sabins is in his ninth season as an assistant under Mazey and his third as associate head coach. He previously spent four years on staff at Oklahoma State.
William & Mary
Former coach: Mike McRae
Incoming coach: Rob McCoy
What to know: William & Mary on May 25 announced it would not renew McRae’s contract, ending his three-year tenure as head coach. McRae had back-to-back 30-win seasons with the Tribe and went 90-74 in three seasons. He previously was head coach at Niagara and Canisius, and has won 590 games in his career. William & Mary on June 20 announced McCoy as its next coach. McCoy spent the last 16 seasons as the head coach of Niagara and is the winningest coach in program history, with 299 victories. He this spring led the Purple Eagles to the best season in program history, as they went 38-17, won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time ever.
Winthrop
Former coach: Tom Riginos
New coach: Mike McGuire
What to know: Winthrop on May 20 announced it would not renew Riginos’ contract, bringing an end to his 14-year tenure as head coach. He went 329-348, making him the fourth-winningest coach in Big South history. While Winthrop hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2006, it is seen as a one of the better jobs in the Big South due to its proximity to Charlotte and facilities. McGuire, who spent the last five seasons at Big South rival S.C.-Upstate, was hired June 14. He led the Spartans to three straight second-place finishes in the conference from 2021-23 and a program record 38 wins in 2023.
Youngstown State
Former coach: Dan Bertolini
New coach: Trevor Charpie
What to know: Bertolini is out as head coach after eight seasons as head coach. He went 141-266 with the Penguins, including a 16-44 mark in 2024. While YSU finished last in the Horizon League standings, it did reach the conference tournament championship game before losing to Northern Kentucky. Charpie, 30, was promoted to head coach after one season on staff, during which he was elevated to pitching coach in the middle of the season. He is one of the youngest coaches in the country.
