Texas baseball assistant Troy Tulowitzki could leave for USC
The 2022 season just came to a disappointing end for head coach David Pierce and No. 9 Texas baseball following a once-promising run in the postseason. Texas fell short in their second game in the College World Series in Omaha, NE, last weekend to the No. 5 Texas A&M Aggies in an elimination to get knocked out of the postseason.
Pierce and the Longhorns came up short in the postseason with two losses in their first two games in the College World Series at the hands of Texas A&M and the unseeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish. These convincing losses in Omaha were sure to bring some level of change for the Longhorns this offseason.
And that change to the coaching staff looks to already be starting this week. Texas already parted ways with the now-former pitching coach Sean Allen early this week. And now it looks like Texas could also be losing another key part of the staff from the season that was in volunteer assistant coach Troy Tulowitzki.
Texas volunteer assistant Troy Tulowitzki, who's been a tremendous strength for the Longhorns, is a candidate to be the next head coach at USC. "I will be talking to them," he told me. "I have not made any decision. I loved my time at Texas and living in Austin." #HookEm
— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) June 21, 2022
Texas baseball could see volunteer assistant Troy Tulowitzki leave for the USC job
A report from Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman on Twitter on June 21 indicates that there is mutual interest between Tulowitzki and the USC Trojans to fill their head coaching job opening early this offseason. Tulowitzki reportedly stated that he “will be talking to them” but doesn’t have a decision made as of yet.
That could change rapidly, though, given the fast nature in which this USC coaching search seems to be taking place. It looks like Tulo is already one of the favorites to land this coaching job. Tulo even reportedly was set to interview with USC for this head coaching job as soon as June 21. That means the interview might’ve already taken place between Tulo and the Trojans.
Hearing that UC Santa Barbara coach Andrew Checketts won’t be taking the USC job, while Troy Tulowitzki is interviewing on campus as soon as today https://t.co/ykAIKPVaSh
— Ryan Kartje (@Ryan_Kartje) June 21, 2022
Moreover, Tulo has done some good work in the last few seasons on this Texas staff. He just wrapped up his third season as a volunteer assistant on the Texas staff, after getting joining the mix before the shortened 2020 campaign.
Prior to joining this Longhorns staff, Tulo played in the MLB for 13 seasons, earning five All-Star nods in the process. Tulo also racked up two Gold Glove Awards and two Silver Sluggers during his accomplished MLB career that spanned more than a dozen years.
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Losing Tulo to the Trojans would obviously be a detriment to the Longhorns staff as he was a big part of the success this team found in the last couple of seasons. But Tulo wasn’t going to be around forever as a volunteer assistant and he’s now getting noticed for the great work he did in the last few years in the early stages of his coaching career.