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Augie Garrido
Former head coach in NCAA Division I college baseball

Augie Garrido

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Former head coach in NCAA Division I college baseball
A.K.A.
August Edmun Garrido Jr.
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Place of birth
Vallejo
Age
85 years
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Biography

August Edmun Garrido, Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is a former head coach in NCAA Division I college baseball and is current special assistant to the athletic director at the University of Texas. At the end of the 2016 season, Garrido compiled a collegiate record of 1975-919-9. He has taken his programs to 15 College World Series.

Coaching career

Garrido is a former head coach of the Texas Longhorns, where he had coached since 1997 and currently has a record of 824–427–2.

Garrido's teams have won five national titles (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005). He is one of only two coaches, along with Andy Lopez, to lead teams from more than one school (CSUF Titans and Texas Longhorns) to national titles, and is among the winningest college coaches in history. He is the first coach to guide teams to national championships in four different decades.

Additionally, Garrido has earned 15 trips to the College World Series, including eight at Texas, while garnering National Coach of the Year honors five times (1975, 1979, 1984, 1985, 2002), regional coach of the year accolades following six different seasons (1975, 1979, 1984, 1985, 2002, 2004) and conference coach of the year distinctions on three occasions (1987, 1995, 2002). Garrido's teams have won league championships in 20 different seasons.

Garrido's Fullerton team defeated Texas in the 1984 College World Series Championship game. Twenty years later, Garrido's Texas team lost to Fullerton in the 2004 College World Series Championship Series. Garrido had to apologize for not sending his team out of the locker room to receive a second-place trophy after it lost to Fullerton in the Series. Garrido and the Longhorns were criticized as poor sports after the 3–2 defeat in Omaha.

Garrido led Texas to the College World Series four straight years from 2002 to 2005 (winning it twice). In 2006, despite being ranked No. 3 in the nation at the end of the regular season, Texas was defeated at home in a NCAA regional by Stanford.

On April 29, 2011, Garrido became the first NCAA Division I coach to reach 1,800 victories as the seventh-ranked Longhorns defeated No. 14 Oklahoma 5–0 in front of 7,339 fans at UFCU Disch–Falk Field.

As of the 2014 season, Garrido has compiled a record of 1,917 wins, 890 losses, and 9 ties over 44 seasons of collegiate coaching (.681). He has more wins than any other coach in NCAA baseball history, across all levels.

In 2016, Texas had its first losing season since 1998, and the team did not qualify for postseason play for the third time in five years. On May 30, 2016, the University of Texas announced that Garrido had resigned and will accept a position as a special assistant to the athletic director, Mike Perrin.

Personal

Garrido played college baseball for Fresno State, where his number is retired.

He is a friend of actor Kevin Costner from Garrido's days at CSUF (where Costner attended and was cut from the baseball team by Garrido). Costner, who maintains a home in Austin, is occasionally seen at Garrido's practices and games. Garrido played the New York Yankees manager in Costner's movie "For Love of the Game."

Garrido is a friend of director Richard Linklater, a Longhorn fan. Linklater is often seen taking batting practice with the team while in Austin. In 2008, ESPN2 aired a 2-hour documentary directed by Linklater, titled "Inning By Inning: Portrait of A Coach", which focused on the life of Garrido, from his childhood to his current job at The University of Texas.

American storyteller and adventurer Woodrow Landfair was a player of Garrido's at the University of Texas from 2003 to 2005, serving as the team's bullpen catcher and winning back-to-back Teammate of the Year awards in 2004 and 2005. In a 2007 article in the Austin American-Statesman, Landfair is quoted praising Garrido as both a baseball and a life coach. Landfair claims that Garrido inspired him to pursue a writing career when, after Landfair accepted the team's 2005 National Championship trophy, Garrido told him, "Let this be only your first great accomplishment."Austin American-Statesman.

On January 17, 2009, Garrido was arrested by Austin police for driving while intoxicated. Police reported that Garrido was driving a Porsche Cayenne west on 6th Street at about 1:00 a.m., when a DWI enforcement officer pulled the coach over since he did not have his headlights on. After taking a sobriety test, Garrido admitted to the officer that he consumed five glasses of wine and was intoxicated. The school suspended him with pay from the first four games of the Longhorns' 2009 season. Garrido publicly apologized, calling his misdemeanor a "serious mistake". He pleaded guilty to the charge on February 2, 2009, and was sentenced on April 30, 2009.

Garrido is a friend of former President George W. Bush from the time Bush was a part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.

Head coaching record

College

The following is a table of Garrido's win-loss records as an NCAA head baseball coach.

SeasonTeamOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
San Francisco State Gators (Far West Conference) (1969)
1969San Francisco State25–14
San Francisco State:25–14
Cal Poly Mustangs (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (1970–1972)
1970Cal Poly
1971Cal Poly
1972Cal Poly
Cal Poly:86–62–1
Cal State Fullerton Titans (California Collegiate Athletic Association) (1973–1974)
1973Cal State Fullerton
1974Cal State FullertonNCAA Regional
Cal State Fullerton Titans (Pacific Coast Athletic Association) (1975–1977)
1975Cal State Fullerton36–14–114–71stCollege World Series
1976Cal State Fullerton48–1517–41stNCAA Regional
Cal State Fullerton Titans (Southern California Baseball Association) (1977–1984)
1977Cal State Fullerton44–1417–7T–1stNCAA Regional
1978Cal State Fullerton44–1424–41stNCAA Regional
1979Cal State Fullerton60–1423–41stCollege World Series Champions
1980Cal State Fullerton49–1820–81stNCAA Regional
1981Cal State Fullerton48–1722–61stNCAA Regional
1982Cal State Fullerton51–2323–51stCollege World Series
1983Cal State Fullerton50–2122–6T–1stNCAA Regional
1984Cal State Fullerton66–2022–61stCollege World Series Champions
Cal State Fullerton Titans (Pacific Coast Athletic Association) (1985–1987)
1985Cal State Fullerton36–22–121–91st
1986Cal State Fullerton36–2112–9T–3rd
1987Cal State Fullerton44–1718–31stNCAA Regional
Cal State Fullerton:665–292–6255–78
Illinois Fighting Illini (Big Ten Conference) (1988–1990)
1988Illinois26–2012–167th
1989Illinois42–1617–11T–2ndNCAA Regional
1990Illinois43–2119–9T–2ndNCAA Regional
Illinois:111–5748–36
Cal State Fullerton Titans (Big West Conference) (1991–1996)
1991Cal State Fullerton34–2215–6T–1st
1992Cal State Fullerton46–1717–72ndCollege World Series
1993Cal State Fullerton35–1916–52ndNCAA Regional
1994Cal State Fullerton47–1615–53rdCollege World Series
1995Cal State Fullerton57–918–31stCollege World Series Champions
1996Cal State Fullerton45–1613–84thNCAA Regional
Cal State Fullerton:264–9994–34
Texas Longhorns (Big 12 Conference) (1997–present)
1997Texas29–2212–157th
1998Texas23–32–111–188th
1999Texas36–2617–136thNCAA Regional
2000Texas46–2119–104thCollege World Series
2001Texas36–2619–113rdNCAA Regional
2002Texas57–1519–81stCollege World Series Champions
2003Texas50–2019–8T–2ndCollege World Series
2004Texas58–1519–71stCollege World Series Runner–up
2005Texas56–1616–103rdCollege World Series Champions
2006Texas41–2119–71stNCAA Regional
2007Texas46–1721–61stNCAA Regional
2008Texas39–2215–125thNCAA Regional
2009Texas50–16–117–9–11stCollege World Series Runner–up
2010Texas50–1324–31stNCAA Super Regional
2011Texas49–1919–8T–1stCollege World Series
2012Texas30–2214–103rd
2013Texas27–247–179th
2014Texas43–1913–115thCollege World Series
2015Texas30–2711–135thNCAA Regional
2016Texas25–3210–14T-6th
Texas:824–427–2321–210–1
Total:1975–951–9

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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