Texas baseball team parts ways with longtime assistant Sean Allen

Someday after its baseball season ended, Texas shook up its teaching workers.

D1Baseball reported on Monday evening that Texas has parted methods with longtime assistant coach Sean Allen. A Texas supply later confirmed that report back to the American-Statesman.

For the previous three seasons, Allen has been UT’s pitching coach. He additionally served as this system’s recruiting coordinator.

Texas head coach David Pierce didn’t instantly reply to a message from the American-Statesman.

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Allen has been at Texas for the reason that 2017 season. He beforehand labored with Pierce at Sam Houston and Tulane. In complete, Allen and fellow assistant coach Philip Miller have been on Pierce’s teaching workers for the previous 11 seasons. Allen had lengthy been the coach to take over for Pierce after ejections.

When Allen arrived at Texas, he was the Longhorns’ hitting coach. Following the 2019 season and former MLB all-star Troy Tulowitzki’s acceptance of a volunteer teaching gig, Allen shifted his focus to mentoring the Texas pitchers.

In the course of the 2021 season, Allen was named D1Baseball’s Assistant Coach of the 12 months and he oversaw a pitching workers that ranked nationally with its 2.93 ERA. Allen additionally had pitchers chosen with a first-round decide in 2021 (Ty Madden) and a fifth-round decide in 2020 (Bryce Elder).

Nonetheless, Texas couldn’t replicate that success on the mound this previous season. Hampered by an harm to Tanner Witt and the regression of different arms, Texas posted solely a 4.22 ERA in 2022. That ERA nonetheless led the Large 12 but it surely ranked twenty sixth nationally.

With Allen on its teaching workers, Texas reached the Faculty World Sequence 3 times. The Longhorns misplaced each of their video games in Omaha this yr, and UT’s season ended with a 10-2 loss to Texas A&M on Sunday afternoon.