Tim Tadlock, Texas Tech (TTU photo)

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Coach Of The Year: Texas Tech’s Tim Tadlock

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Only the best coaches can take over a program and become a true visionary, leading that program to heights they’ve never experienced before.

Texas Tech’s Tim Tadlock is one of those transformative coaches.

Tadlock, 49, and the 2018 D1Baseball National Coach of the Year, played for Texas Tech. He was on the first 40-win team in school history. He also starred as a junior college coach in Texas at prestigious Grayson (Texas) CC before moving on to Oklahoma and eventually landing with the Red Raiders. During those years away from Lubbock, he sat back and watched from afar as the Red Raiders consistently hadquality clubs under long-time head coach Larry Hays.

Those teams were successful, but something was missing. The Red Raiders needed to get over the hump as a program. They needed to get to Omaha.

That drive and that message has fueled the Texas Tech skipper through the most successful period in program history. Before his arrival, the Red Raiders had never reached the hallowed grounds of Omaha and the College World Series.

Six years later? Tadlock and his coaching staff have guided the program to three CWS appearances, while also changing expectations on the South Plains. No longer are Tech fans happy with making the NCAA postseason. More is expected for a reason, and that credit goes to Tadlock and his staff.

Tadlock has done some terrific coaching jobs in his six