"Nick Mingione has been preparing for this opportunity for the last 13 years and I absolutely know that he will make the most of it," - Former UK head coach John Cohen.
The Kentucky Wildcats have announced the hiring of Nick Mingione as the school's next head baseball coach.
Mingione, who spent the last eight seasons as an assistant to former UK coach John Cohen at Mississippi State, spent two seasons at UK as an assistant under Cohen from 2006-07. During that time, the Wildcats won 33 SEC games across two seasons, including in 2006 when UK claimed its first regular-season SEC Championship.