Friday's game against Louisville will be the Longhorns' first with Jim Schlossnagle in the dugout. He was hired away from Texas A&M in June.

The winning tradition of the University of Texas will not be entrusted to the weak nor the timid.” There was certainly no timidity amidst the monumental temerity of Texas Longhorns athletics director Chris Del Conte hiding by the Snook cemetery outside of College Station last June in the wake of the Texas A&M Aggies losing the College World Series final to the Tennessee Volunteers,

Although the Longhorns have yet to play their first game of the 2025 season, Schlossnagle is already looking ahead to the next.