Augie Garrido
Title	Head coach
College	University of Texas
Sport	College Baseball
Team record	478-231-1
Born	February 6, 1939 (1939-02-06) (age 70)
Place of birth	Vallejo, California
Career highlights
Overall	1,629-755-8
Championships
1979 College World Series 1984 College World Series 1995 College World Series 2002 College World Series 2005 College World Series
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

August Edmun Garrido, Jr. (born February 6, 1939) is a coach in NCAA Division I college baseball. As of the end of the 2007 season, Garrido has compiled a record of 1,629 wins, 755 losses, and 8 ties over 37 seasons of collegiate coaching (.681). He has more wins than any other coach in NCAA Division I baseball history.^[1]

[edit] Coaching career

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 391-193-1 (.669) prior to the 2007 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 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.

As of the end of the 2007 season, Garrido compiled a record of 1,629 wins, 755 losses, and 8 ties over 37 seasons of collegiate coaching (.681). He has more wins than any other coach in NCAA baseball history.^[1]

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]

On January 17, 2009, Garrido was arrested by Austin police for driving while intoxicated.^[2] 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 will be sentenced on April 30, 2009.^[3][4] He pled guilty to the charge on February 2, 2009.^[5]

[edit] Personal

Garrido played his college baseball and had has 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.^[6]

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.^[7]

[edit] References

Preceded by Cliff Gustafson

Texas Baseball Head Coach 1997–

Succeeded by incumbent

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