4 possible candidates for Texas to replace David Pierce

Rumors have been swirling for the last couple of weeks since the 2024 season ended for Texas baseball that head coach David Pierce could be let go this offseason. Texas's program trajectory is heading in the wrong direction, entering its inaugural season in the SEC for 2025.

Potential coaching candidate shortlist if Texas baseball replaces David Pierce this offseason

The only way that it looks like the Longhorns can build momentum entering the SEC for next year is to make a coaching change.

The problems that plagued Pierce through the last few years included lacking postseason success, inconsistent player development results, and poor staff management.

Texas is one of the more attractive jobs in college baseball. Not only do the Longhorns have the most College World Series appearances, program wins, and postseason wins of any program in college baseball history, but it also has the history, tradition, and resources to recruit at a level not many other schools can match in this day and age of NIL and the transfer portal.

If Texas athletic director Chris del Conte does make a change at head coach for the baseball program, it would likely come in the next week or so as the College World Series winds down in Omaha.

Here are four possible coaching candidates for Texas to replace Pierce this offseason.

Scott Forbes, UNC head coach

Fourth-year North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Scott Forbes has emerged as one of the best skippers in college baseball in the last year. Forbes, the 2024 ACC Coach of the Year, is on the cusp of potentially leading the Tar Heels to its first national championship in program history.

UNC is having its best season under Forbes, sitting just two wins away from the College World Series final. The Tar Heels won the ACC regular season title for 2024 and have made the NCAA Tournament all four years since Forbes was hired as the head coach.

Could Forbes cash in on the best season he's had in Chapel HIll entering this offseason? The biggest question with him regarding his hypothetical coaching candidacy at Texas to replace Pierce would be whether he wants to leave UNC, since he's a North Carolina native and has coached in Chapel Hill for over two decades now.