It certainly wasn’t the way he probably wanted it to happen, but Brian Anderson is in charge of a college baseball program in only his second year of coaching.
The former Arizona and MLB outfielder has been named interim coach at Northwestern, which fired Jim Foster on Thursday in the wake of reports he’d created a hostile work environment in his lone season in charge of the Wildcats.
Anderson, 41, joined Northwestern in late March after coaching at Pima Community College. He was an undergraduate assistant with the UA during the 2022 season, his first coaching gig, working with the team’s outfielders and serving as the Wildcats’ first base coach during games.