When Steve Bieser lost his pitching coach last summer, he promised his Missouri players that they would be happy with the replacement he’d hire. Pitchers had loved working with Patrick Hallmark — who left MU to become coach at Incarnate Word — and Bieser needed another coach who could jell with the Tigers.
So Bieser, now in his second season as Missouri's coach, picked a man whom he used to see in an opposing dugout and think, “I don’t like that guy.”
That was back when Bieser was the coach at Southeast Missouri State and his team was facing off against Memphis, where Fred Corral spent three seasons.