A baseball coach with a good reputation in Owasso, Okla., is off to a great start at Wichita State.
Shocker coach Todd Butler needed a new assistant coach and a conversation with a parent of an Owasso star pushed him toward Sammy Esposito.
“It’s interesting how that one phone call really changed the hiring,” Butler said.
Esposito worked from 2012-2017 as assistant coach at South Carolina and helped that program to three 40-win seasons and NCAA super regionals in 2013 and 2016. The Gamecocks, however, missed NCAA play in 2015 and 2017 and coach Chad Holbrook resigned under pressure in early June, leaving Esposito looking for a job.