Jim Morris (baseball coach)

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Jim Morris
Title	Head coach
College	Miami (FL)
Sport	Baseball
Team record	642-245-3
Born	February 20, 1950 (1950-02-20) (age 58)
Place of birth	Lexington, North Carolina
Career highlights
Overall	1,146-489-4
Championships
1999 College World Series 2001 College World Series
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975 1976-1979 1980-1981 1982-1993 1994-present	Appalachian State (AC) DeKalb Community College Florida State (AC) Georgia Tech Miami (FL)

Jim Morris (born February 20, 1950 in Lexington, North Carolina) is head baseball coach at the University of Miami. In his 14-season tenure at Miami, no other program has qualified for the College World Series as much as Morris and his Hurricanes. Miami, which has qualified for the NCAA Tournament a record 35 consecutive years, has made it to Omaha in 10 of Morris' 14 seasons in Coral Gables. Morris set an NCAA record for guiding a program to the College World Series in each of his first six years at Miami. In addition, Morris won a record 13 consecutive NCAA Regionals, dating back to his first year in 1994. His teams have qualified for NCAA Regionals for the last 22 years, 13 at Miami and nine at Georgia Tech.^[1] Morris won national championships in 1999 and 2001, and earned National Coach of the Year honors in both seasons.

Morris began his coaching career as an assistant at Appalachian State in 1975. In 1976, he then accepted the challenge of building, from scratch, a baseball program at Atlanta's DeKalb Community College.

At DeKalb, Morris started with no players and no field. After settling those "minor" issues, he quickly made a name for himself. His Eagles were nationally ranked three times in four years and advanced to the 1977 Junior College World Series. DeKalb finished second in just his second season. Morris added two more winning years at DeKalb before moving on to become an assistant coach at Florida State.

After a 2 year stint with the Seminoles, Morris would accept a huge challenge in accepting the head coaching job at Georgia Tech. It was a reclamation project as the Yellow Jackets were on the backside of four straight losing seasons and were 4-23 in their first two seasons in the Atlantic Coast Conference. At Georgia Tech, Morris was the all-time leader in coaching victories, in any of the school's varsity sports, as he had 12 straight winning seasons, nine straight NCAA regional berths, four straight Atlantic Coast Conference titles (1985-88) and a school-record 51 wins in 1987.

[edit] Head Coaching Record

		Overall				Conference
Year	School	W	L	T	Pct	W	L	T	Pct	Notes
1982	Georgia Tech	29	20	0	.592	6	8	0	.429
1983	Georgia Tech	38	15	0	.717	6	8	0	.429
1984	Georgia Tech	36	19	0	.655	5	7	0	.417
1985	Georgia Tech	42	19	1	.680	6	7	1	.464	ACC Champions, NCAA Regional
1986	Georgia Tech	45	23	0	.662	10	4	0	.714	ACC Champions, NCAA Regional
1987	Georgia Tech	51	14	0	.785	17	4	0	.810	ACC Champions, NCAA Regional
1988	Georgia Tech	45	24	0	.652	12	8	0	.600	ACC Champions, NCAA Regional
1989	Georgia Tech	38	26	0	.594	13	6	0	.684	NCAA Regional
1990	Georgia Tech	46	25	0	.648	9	9	0	.500	NCAA Regional
1991	Georgia Tech	42	26	0	.618	12	8	0	.600	NCAA Regional
1992	Georgia Tech	45	19	0	.703	14	9	0	.609	NCAA Regional
1993	Georgia Tech	47	14	0	.770	16	6	0	.727	NCAA Regional
1994	Miami (FL)	49	14	0	.778					College World Series
1995	Miami (FL)	48	17	0	.738					College World Series
1996	Miami (FL)	50	14	0	.781					College World Series
1997	Miami (FL)	51	18	0	.739					College World Series
1998	Miami (FL)	51	12	0	.810					College World Series
1999	Miami (FL)	50	13	0	.794					College World Series Champions
2000	Miami (FL)	41	19	1	.680					NCAA Super Regional
2001	Miami (FL)	53	12	0	.815					College World Series Champions
2002	Miami (FL)	34	29	0	.540					NCAA Super Regional
2003	Miami (FL)	45	17	1	.722					College World Series
2004	Miami (FL)	50	13	0	.794					College World Series
2005	Miami (FL)	41	19	1	.680	19	10	1	.650	NCAA Super Regional
2006	Miami (FL)	42	24	0	.636	17	13	0	.567	College World Series
2007	Miami (FL)	37	24	0	.607	17	13	0	.567	NCAA Regional
Georgia Tech Totals		504	244	1	.674	126	84	1	.600	4 ACC Championships, 9 NCAA Regionals,
Miami (FL) Totals		642	245	3	.723	53	36	1	.594	14 NCAA Regionals, 10 College World Series
Overall Totals		1146	489	4	.700	179	120	2	.598	4 ACC Championships, 23 NCAA Regionals, 10 College World Series

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