Alabama Hires Louisiana Tech’s Goff As Coach
Greg Goff led Louisiana Tech to an amazing turnaround in two seasons—and that led him right to Tuscaloosa.
Goff, who in two seasons at Louisiana Tech turned a 15-win team into a 42-win that made the regionals, has been named coach at Alabama. He replaces Mitch Gaspard, who resigned May 30 after seven years on the job after his on-the-bubble Tide did not make the Field of 64.
Goff, a Delta State grad, was formerly the head coach at Division II Montevallo, which is about an hour east of Tuscaloosa. He led Montevallo to the Division II College World Series in 2006.
“I am thankful to athletics director Bill Battle and The University of Alabama for the opportunity to be the head coach of the Crimson Tide,” Goff said in a news release. “This is a great University and a great baseball program in the nation’s top baseball conference, and I am truly blessed to be here today. I have continued to work hard my entire career so that I could one day coach at one of the nation’s elite programs, and I could not be happier than to be a part of such a storied program. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I look forward to the challenge and am once again thankful for this opportunity. Roll Tide!”
Louisiana Tech was not Goff’s first turnaround job. He was the head coach at Campbell, which had had just two winning seasons in the 19 years before Goff arrived in 2008. In his final three seasons, 2012-14, Campbell won more than 40 games each year, including a school-record 49 in 2014 when the North Carolina school made regionals.
Goff began his coaching career at his alma mater, Delta State, and was pitching coach at Southeast Missouri State in 1998-99 before moving to Kentucky as pitching coach from 1999-2003.
| 2016 COACHING CHANGES | ||
| School | Departures | Arrivals |
| Alabama | Mitch Gaspard | Greg Goff |
| Appalachian State | Billy Jones | |
| Army | Matt Reid | |
| Butler | Steve Farley | |
| Florida International | Turtle Thomas | |
| Furman | Ron Smith | |
| Jacksonville | Tim Montez | |
| Kentucky | Gary Henderson | Nick Mingione |
| Lamar | Jim Gilligan (ret.) | Will Davis |
| Missouri | Tim Jamieson | |
| Purdue | Doug Schreiber | |
| San Jose State | Dave Nakama | |
| SIU-Edwardsville | Tony Stoecklin | |
| Texas | Augie Garrido | |
| Villanova | Joe Godri | |
| Youngstown State | Steve Gillispie | |
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