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Fergus's coaching philosophy is very player-centric, focusing on player empowerment and setting foundations for growth in order to reach that final goal of getting drafted into Major League Baseball. His experience stretches more than two decades, with success following every stop he has been at. Fergus has made stops at three Division I programs prior to leading the Lions. From 2010-2012, Fergus was the hitting coach at Seattle University where he increased the RedHawks hitting proficiency significantly from year to year. His next DI opportunity came at the University of Washington. During his tenure with the Huskies, the team made three NCAA Tournament appearances and a trip to Omaha, Neb. for the 2018 College World Series. He finally landed in Santa Barbara as an assistant on the Gauchos staff where in 2019, he helped them capture their first Big West Championship since 1958. The 2019 Gauchos also produced the second most MLB draft picks in the country. After a brief hiatus from coaching at the college level, Fergus returned to the Gauchos staff in 2022 to help them to another Big West Championship. His three years in Santa Barbara led to two conference titles, two NCAA Regional trips, two broken school records for homers in a season, and a multitude of offensive improvements.

The 2024 season is Scott Brown’s 12th as the pitching coach and eighth as associate head coach at Vanderbilt. Brown has helped the Commodores go 472-203-1 (.701). During Brown’s tenure, 39 Commodore pitchers have been selected in the MLB Draft, including 12 in the first three rounds. Brown has helped the Dores to two national championships, four College World Series finals appearances, nine NCAA Tournaments and six NCAA Super Regional appearances. Since 2013, 13 different Vandy pitchers have been named All-America.

Coach Schaeffer is the co-founder of the six-time national champion All-American Prospects summer program. During his time with the Prospects, Coach Schaeffer served as the program’s pitching and recruiting coordinator, helping more than 150 players sign college scholarships while another 50-plus were selected in the MLB Draft.

Goldberg was a pitching development coach for the ACL Guardians in 2022 and pitching coach of the Akron RubberDucks in 2023. In 2024, he was named bullpen coach for the major league Cleveland Guardians.

Monte Lee was named the associate head coach/recruiting coordinator for the South Carolina baseball team on Aug. 18, 2022. Lee, who has had 20 winning seasons in his 21 years as a full-time NCAA coach, most recently was the head coach at Clemson University for seven seasons (2016-22), garnering a 242-136 overall record and leading the Tigers to four NCAA Tournament berths. Lee coached nine All-Americans, including at least one All-American in six of his seven seasons, and had 34 players drafted a total of 38 times at Clemson.

Pete Hughes was named the 21st head baseball coach in K-State history on June 8, 2018. Hughes, who enters his sixth season at the helm of the Wildcats baseball program, has a proven track record of setting new standards of excellence, has compiled a career record of 785-608-3 (.562) in 26 seasons as a head coach.

Pepicelli was named the Ted Thoren Head Coach of Baseball on Aug. 10, 2015, and is currently in his eighth season at the helm of the Cornell baseball program.Entering the 2023 season, Pepicelli has 75 win as the Big Red's head coach, which is already the fifth-most in program history. With 13 wins in 2023, Pepicelli would assume sole possession of the fourth-most wins with the Cornell baseball program. He also begins the season four wins away from reaching 300 head coaching victories. Under Pepicelli's tutelage, Cornell has produced 19 All-Ivy League selections — including five First Team and six Second Team selections. Four Big Red players have also been selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

Logan founded the Dallas Patriots in 2000, focusing on the platform of baseball to make a difference in kids' lives, open every door of possibility both on and off the field for each player, and grow future world leaders.

Connor Griffin broke many Mississippi hearts in December of 2022 when he committed to play college baseball at LSU. That may never happen. Chances are, he’ll never play an inning at Alex Box Stadium. He is rated the No. 1 high school player available in this summer’s MLB Draft. Griffin pitches and plays shortstop for Jackson Prep, but he could play anywhere on the diamond. Indeed, most Major League scouts seem to believe he will play center field at the highest level.

Owner and founder of Impact Baseball, Inc. (est. 2001) and Dirtbags Baseball, LLC (est. 2002). Partin pioneered the Dirtbags baseball program to becoming one of the top and most recognizable in the country. In 2001, Partin started Impact Baseball, Inc. and brought to life his idea of promoting high school baseball players through an online presence and on-field showcase events to help them reach the collegiate and professional levels of baseball. Since 2001, this innovator has become a trendsetter for other organizations to follow; setting trends like the Dirtbags renowned style and camoflauge uniforms worn for the first time in 2006.

A native of Glen Burnie, Maryland with more than 15 years as a college baseball coach, Jimmy Jackson, has been hired by new head coach Matt Swope. Jackson will serve as an Assistant Coach/Pitching Coaching with the Terrapins after most recently serving as Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach at James Madison. Jackson has spent the last eight years at James Madison with the first four as an assistant coach (2016-19) before being elevated to associate head coach from 2020-23. In their first season in the Sun Belt Conference, this past season, the Dukes won 15 conference games, their most in league play since 2011. During Jackson's time in Harrisonburg, James Madison had nine MLB Draft picks including six pitchers with both Kevin Kelly (Tampa Bay Rays) and Nick Robertson (Los Angeles Dodgers) currently pitching in the majors.

Drew LaComb enters the role of hitting coach and offensive coordinator for the Falcons, as he joins Air Force having previously served as the head coach of Regis University for four seasons. The Rangers were an impressive 87-77-1 during his tenure as skipper.Regis continued its steady progression under LaComb in 2023 as the team reached the RMAC Tournament championship game for the first time since 2012, falling to nationally No. 1 ranked Colorado Mesa. The Rangers, who tied the school record for the longest winning streak (13) during the spring, finished the 2023 season with a 31-24 overall record and in third place in the RMAC regular season standings. The 2023 squad set the program record for runs scored (517) and saw first baseman Matt Marlow become the program's first All-American selection since 2018.The year prior, LaComb was named the RMAC Coach of the Year in 2022 after leading the Rangers to the program's best regular season

A veteran coach among the college ranks, Lawn has 37 years of coaching experience dating back to his first job as the pitching coach at Contra Costa College in 1986. He spent two seasons with the Comets before moving on to be the graduate assistant at Nevada in 1988. After two seasons with the Wolf Pak and before heading to Cal, Lawn coached the Cape Cod League’s Brewster Whitecaps to its first-ever championship in the summer of 2000. Lawn went on to spend 10 seasons at Cal (1991-00), seven at USC (2001-07) and two more at Nevada (1989-90, 2014-15). Additionally, Lawn spent part of the 2013 season as Director of Player Development at Cal State Fullerton. He made his way to Tucson and the Wildcats in 2015. From 2007-11, Lawn was the head coach at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif.

Johnny McGarvey begins his third season as an assistant coach for the Keystone College baseball team. In addition to being an assistant baseball coach, McGarvey works as an admissions counselor on the campus of Keystone. McGarvey joins the program after previously serving as an assistant baseball coach at Immaculata University. With the Mighty Macs, Immaculata qualified for the Atlantic East Conference Tournament in 2019 and 2021. In his final season with the team, Immaculata reached the Atlantic East Conference Championship. McGarvey began his collegiate playing career at Penn State Brandywine and later transferred to Penn State Berks. He earned NEAC First Team honors in 2016.

Anthony Deleo joined the NJIT baseball coaching staff in September 2018 as an assistant under interim head coach Robbie McClellan.A 2015 graduate of Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, Deleo graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management and minor in Economics.Prior to Deleo’s arrival at NJIT, he served as the Assistant Baseball Coach at Merrimack College, an NCAA Division II program, in the Northeast 10 Conference and hitting coach at Plymouth Pilgrims of the New Collegiate Baseball League.In 2017, Deleo served as a Video Assistant for the Toronto Blue Jays, in 2016 was the Baseball Operations Video Associate for the Los Angeles Dodgers and in 2015 as Assistant GM of the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Kline comes to the Crimson Hawks with 11 years of experience as a Major League pitcher and 15 years as a pitching coach and in player development at a variety of levels of professional baseball. Kline has spent his entire professional coaching career in the San Francisco Giants organization, coaching more than 100 players who would go on to appear in the Major Leagues. He’s won three World Series rings as an organizational coach and has been part of two minor league championship teams. Kline and the Hawks had a big turnaround during his first season at the helm of the program in 2022. IUP recorded an improvement of 25 victories, going 27-22 following a two-win season in 2021.

Two-time National Coach of the Year Jim Schlossnagle enters his third season as the Texas A&M skipper as the Aggies embark on the 2024 campaign. Schlossnagle has enjoyed tremendous success during his 22-year career as a head coach at Texas A&M, TCU and UNLV, amassing an 893-440 (.669) mark. In addition to leading the Aggies, Schlossnagle officially is currently serving as the president of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and began his presidency and leading the ABCA Executive Committee at the association's annual convention in January. He has been an ABCA member for 32 years and has consistently been involved in advancing the profession. Elected to the ABCA board in 2017, he is integral in shaping the association's legislative efforts and crafting the agenda for each year's convention. He served as the ABCA's Division I chairman in 2018, and in 2019 Schlossnagle began a string of four one-year stints as vice president, capped off by serving as the 1st Vice President in 2022.

Division II veteran Rick O’Dette, who has amassed over 500 wins and led his teams to NCAA Regional play four times during his career, was named Saint Leo's new head baseball coach on June 15, 2017, ushering in a new era for Saint Leo baseball. O’Dette made an immediate impact on the Saint Leo baseball program taking a team that had achieved just 23 wins in 2017 and amassing 38 victories in his first season at the helm. The Lions finished the year with an impressive 38-11 mark including taking two of three from Florida Southern on the road who was ranked No. 1 in the NCAA at the time. Under O’Dette’s guidance, junior utility player Peyton Isaacson led the NCAA in saves with 14 in just 21 appearances on the mound. The junior tied the Saint Leo program record for saves in a season while also filling the role of starting catcher and first baseman throughout the season.

In Part 2 Walter and Coach Tyner talk about the state of college baseball and advise for players and parents. Download the Baseball Bluebook app today for every coach's contact information. Free download Follow us on Social Media for all of our podcasts X Instagram

We welcome Head Coach Matt Tyner to the podcast. In Part 1, we discuss the Towson University baseball program and recruiting.