List of Texas Longhorns head baseball coaches

The Texas Longhorns baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Texas in the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.[1] The team has seen 14 individuals hold the head coach position since it started playing organized baseball in the 1895 season. Two of these coaches had non-consecutive tenures. Since 1911, only six people have held the position.[2] The current coach is David Pierce, who led his first season in 2017.

Having served for 29 seasons, Cliff Gustafson holds the record for wins at 1,466 and winning percentage at .795. Gustafson, Bibb Falk, and Augie Garrido each won 2 College World Series titles while in Austin.

Key

Coaches
List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards *Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season
# Name Term GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PA PW PL WA WW WL CCs CTs NCs Awards[lower-alpha 7]
1 H. B. Beck 1896 Incomplete records
2 F. Weikart 1897 11 6 5 0 .545 — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 0 —
3 A. C. Ellis 1898–1899, 1901–1903, 1909 94 61 31 2 .660 — — — — — — — — — — 1 — 0 —
4 Maurice Gordon Clarke 1900 17 14 2 1 .853 — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 0 —
5 Ralph Hutchinson 1904–1906 73 45 27 1 .623 — — — — — — — — — — 1 — 0 —
6 H. R. Schenker 1907 24 16 8 0 .667 — — — — — — — — — — 1 — 0 —
7 Brooks Gordon 1908 16 12 1 .569 — — — — — — — — — — 1 — 0 —
8 Charles A. Keith 1910 20 8 11 1 .425 — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 0 —
9 Billy Disch 1911–1939 705 513 180 12 .736 284 70 4 .799 — — — — — — 22 — 0 —
10 Bibb Falk 1940–1942, 1946–1967 664 478 176 10 .727 276 84 7 .762 15 35 26 10 20 17 20 — 2 —
11 Blair Cherry 1943–1945 53 30 23 0 .566 22 4 0 .846 — — — — — — 2 — 0 —
12 Cliff Gustafson† 1968–1996 1,845 1,466 377 2 .795 472 151 1 .757 27 132 52 17 54 27 22 11 2 1982, 1983 National Coach of the Year
13 Augie Garrido 1997–2016 1254 824 428 2 .658 321 210 1 .604 15 64 35 8 20 12 7 5 2 2002, 2005 National Coach of the Year
14 David Pierce 2017–present 182 108 74 0 .593 75 75 0 .500 2 7 5 1 0 2 1 0 0 2018 National Coach of the Year

Notes
  1. A running total of the number of head coaches.
  2. The Longhorns played as part of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from their first years until joining the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1907. Texas led the creation of the Southwest Conference in 1915, which became the Big 12 Conference after a merger in 1997.
  3. Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
  4. Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  5. College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  6. Includes Conference Tournaments, which began in 1976.
  7. National, regional and conference coach of the year awards.

References
  1. "University of Texas". National Collegiate Athletic Association. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  2. 2019 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Texas Longhorns. p. 52. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
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