{"id":48997,"date":"2025-05-23T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/48997\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:46:11","slug":"what-jim-schlossnagle-said-about-the-vols-on-a-thursday-in-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/48997\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jim Schlossnagle said about the Vols on a Thursday in Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle<\/a> met with members of the media following Thursday\u2019s quarterfinal, extra inning 7-5 loss to Tennessee<\/a> in the Southeastern Conference Tournament from the Hoover Met. Below is a written transcript and video from Schlossnagle and what he had to say about the Vols in postgame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Congratulations to Tennessee. Good ballgame. I thought that Ethan was just outstanding today. That\u2019s a good sign for us moving forward.<\/p>\n

Offensively we did a great job against Doyle. He\u2019s such a good pitcher. I thought we battled him. Ethan got a big hit, and then Arvidson was outstanding. He was really the difference in the game. Stretched through 85 pitches, punched out nine, walked one. Brandon was on our team at A&M a couple years ago, so I know he\u2019s a good pitcher. But I\u2019m proud of our team. Stinks to lose, stinks to go home. This is a fun place to be this time of year.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve got to go home and get ready for next weekend.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0Jim, what went into the process of going with Ethan today and how does that performance set you up for next week?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Well, it certainly gives us somebody, depending on matchup and how deep we play into the regionals, he\u2019s got experience starting a game. So since Spencer is down, we really don\u2019t have a defined third starter, so we\u2019ve had a lot of guys who have started games throughout the course of the season, which we have done that by design.<\/p>\n

But Ethan is a strike thrower and keeps the ball on the ground most of the time, and now he\u2019s got experience of not just starting a game, but getting up and down and throwing four plus innings, so that\u2019s good for us for next weekend.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0Jim, you referenced having Brandon at A&M back in \u201923. How is he different than the kid you had then, and what impressed you so much about what he did today?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Well, he was pretty banged up. If I remember right, he had a bad back. He had a lot of health issues and could never really get going. He always could really spin the ball, and loose arm. So you could see it coming. He went to San Jac and got some good innings in and over there with Coach Anderson, obviously with a great pitching coach.<\/p>\n

He was just throwing the two breaking balls and running his fastball up to 95, 96, and then he had the two different breaking balls that we just didn\u2019t see \u2014 we were swinging at them, and they\u2019re not even in the strike zone, so that tells you how good he was.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0You always preach that opening day mentality. Just curious, in your experience, what value does momentum play this time of year and does a loss like this thwart some of the momentum you built coming off of OU?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: No, I don\u2019t think so. It\u2019ll be whatever we make it. 2015 was at TCU and we went two and out in the conference tournament, and Coach Garrido, first text message I had, was this is the best thing to ever happen to your team, and that team was the second of four straight College World Series teams. It\u2019ll be whatever we make it. We\u2019ve got to get home. We\u2019ve got work to do. We\u2019ve got to make sure we\u2019re prepared for next weekend.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0Big moment for Ethan Walker. Could you detail his journey, how he got here today?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Yeah, pretty awesome. For the University of Texas, first ever SEC game, we have a somewhat recruited \u2014 not really a walk-on. We recruited him, but in the summer, we were just looking for bodies. We needed lefties and we needed strike throwers, and Coach Wiener had had his eye on Ethan just as a strike thrower, and a guy that could be deceptive, and here he is starting University of Texas\u2019s first ever SEC game against his home state school. That\u2019s crazy. But credit to \u2014 Ethan did an awesome job, and we\u2019re super fired up he\u2019s on the team.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know if he made the first seven or eight road trips in the SEC. It\u2019s just been the last three weeks that he\u2019s really kind of come on for us.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0You\u2019ve played in the most, if not one of the most, one-run ballgames in the country of any team, especially in the SEC. How does that throughout the season build the character of this team, especially doing so in the SEC tournament here against a team with the talent that Tennessee does and the stage that it\u2019s on going extra innings? How does that identify this team\u2019s MO going into the postseason?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Well, certainly, like all the coaches I\u2019m sure have said, when you get through this league and you play through this league, there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s going to surprise you. We\u2019re going to play good teams next week and moving forward if we earn the right to play after next weekend. But there\u2019s not going to be any teams that are going to be better. There\u2019s not going to be better pitchers. There\u2019s no other lefty that I know of that\u2019s better than Liam Doyle. So you can work off that. We\u2019ve played a lot of close games because we do pitch well. We do play solid. Not the most offensive team, but kind of an opportunistic offensive team.<\/p>\n

We have to play clean baseball to win because we\u2019re not super explosive. We can be with the right guys healthy, if we get Jonah back. Belyeu obviously changes the makeup of our team. But this is a tough team. They win anyway. In Austin, they call it Texas fight and this bunch has that. We\u2019ve still got to go earn the wins, but it\u2019s an honor to be in the dugout with our team.<\/p>\n

Q.\u00a0I know Dylan Volantis has been really good against lefties this year, but was there any thought of walking Kilen right there in the 12th to load the bases?<\/p>\n

JIM SCHLOSSNAGLE: Yeah, thought of it, thought about it. Got a lot of respect for Fisher. Hindsight, Kilen, great bat-to-ball skills, and of course Fisher strikes out, so made me look worse. No, just take our shot there, but Volantis is our guy, and we\u2019ve seen him get out the really good lefties before. But give it to Gavin; he had the two big swings of the day for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle met with members of the media following Thursday\u2019s quarterfinal, extra inning 7-5 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,2409,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-48997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-regwall","10":"tag-tennessee-baseball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114557929930071185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}