The University of Texas is showing some interest in filling their head baseball coaching vacancy with UCLA’s John Savage and Virginia’s Brian O’Connor.
It’s the curse of having a successful coach. Whenever a college head coach enjoys a degree of success, it’s always possible that the coach could be swayed to either another program or the pros.
We’ve seen it year after year with what proved to be unfounded speculation with UCLA Football Head Coach Jim Mora. We saw USC try to lure Bruin baseball head coach John Savage after UCLA won its first College World Series in 2013.