Six hundred victories later, Jim Schlossnagle remembers the day he said yes to TCU.
He was 32 years old and it didn’t take very much convincing. Or very much cash, either, for that matter.
“No, it didn’t,” the TCU baseball coach recalled Sunday. “I didn’t really have good negotiating tactics, not with my mother-in-law, who’s from Dallas, and my wife from Dallas.
“My mother-in-law was sitting in the lobby of the hotel, and the athletic director walks in with my kids running around everywhere. He pretty much knew I was taking the job.
“So I didn’t have a whole lot of leverage on the salary.