A former Alabama baseball staffer is headed east after an SEC baseball shakeup.
The South Carolina Gamecocks made waves Monday with news that it will be none other than 2009 national champion Paul Mainieri replacing Mark Kingston at the helm of the baseball program. Mainieri, who has won six SEC Tournament titles, retired from LSU after the 2021 season. He'll be bringing on former Alabama associate head coach Terry Rooney as his pitching coach in Columbia.
Rooney, 50, spent just one season on the Crimson Tide's staff after previously being the head coach at UCF. That 2017 campaign ended in disaster and the eventual firing of former head coach Greg Goff after his first year. Rooney was subsequently named interim head coach but did not stay with the program after Goff's successor was hired. As such, he never officially took charge of the program for any games. The associate head coach title is presently held at Alabama by Jason Jackson.
After a short time as an assistant at LSU, Rooney will now make the jump to Columbia as part of a move that substantially shakes up the SEC baseball picture. With four teams from the conference advancing to the College World Series this season alone, there is now an additional national title-winning head coach amongst those leading programs in the stacked league.
Former football coach David Cutcliffe, speaking at the Alabama Sports Writers Association annual convention over the weekend, on what he learned as as student at Alabama:On This Day in Crimson Tide History:: Alabama athletics came off NCAA probation following violations of the textbook disbursement policy. Specifically, the NCAA had placed Alabama’s football program and 15 other of the school’s athletic teams on three years' probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks.
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