| Augie Garrido | |
|---|---|
| Sport(s) | College Baseball |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | University of Texas |
| Record | 666–301–2 |
| Annual salary | $900,000 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | February 6, 1939 |
| Place of birth | Vallejo, California |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1966-1969 1969 1970-1972 1973-1987 1988-1990 1991-1996 1997-present |
Sierra High School San Francisco State Cal Poly Cal State Fullerton University of Illinois Cal State Fullerton University of Texas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 1,817–825–8 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1979 College World Series 1984 College World Series 1995 College World Series 2002 College World Series 2005 College World Series |
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August Edmun Garrido, Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is a coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. As of June 12, 2011, Garrido has compiled a record of 1,817 wins, 825 losses, and 8 ties(.677). He is currently in his 43rd season of collegiate coaching. He has more wins than any other coach in NCAA Division I baseball history.[1]
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Garrido is currently the coach of the Longhorns of The University of Texas at Austin, where he has coached since 1997 and amassed a record of 666-301-1 (.688) prior to the 2012 campaign.
Garrido's teams have won five national titles (1979, 1984, 1995, 2002, 2005). He is the first coach to lead teams from two different schools (California State University, Fullerton and Texas) to national titles, and is the first coach to guide teams to national championships in four different decades.
Additionally, Garrido has earned 12 trips to the College World Series after making 25 NCAA Regional Championship appearances, including seven 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 #3 in the nation at the end of the regular season, Texas was defeated at home in the regionals by Stanford. Again it failed to advance in 2007 past the first round of the NCAA tournament.
In November 2008 The University of Texas Board of Regents approved a salary package that raises Garrido's guaranteed income from $640,000 to $800,000. The contract includes automatic raises, increasing his annual salary to over $1 million by 2012.[1]
As of the end of the 2011 season, Garrido compiled a record of 1,817 wins 825 losses and 8 ties over 41 seasons of collegiate coaching (.677). He has more wins than any other coach in NCAA Division I baseball history.[1]
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.[2]
Garrido played his college baseball and had his number retired at Fresno State.
He is a friend of actor Kevin Costner from Garrido's days at Cal State-Fullerton (which Costner attended). 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.[3]
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.[4]
On January 17, 2009, Garrido was arrested by Austin police for driving while intoxicated.[5] 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 from coaching the first four games of the Longhorns' 2009 season, although he will still be paid during his suspension. Garrido publicly apologized, calling his misdemeanor a "serious mistake". He pled guilty to the charge on February 2, 2009.[6] He was to be sentenced on April 30, 2009.[7][8]
Garrido is a friend of former President George W. Bush from the time Bush was a former part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
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