OKLAHOMA CITY — What was he supposed to do?
No, really, Texas Tech head coach Gerry Glasco wants to know. Because when he took over the fledgling softball program in 2024, he inherited a roster of three. A coach can’t play a game, let alone build a program back, with that.
Was he not supposed to use the tool waiting at his disposal, the one he could combine with one of his best coaching assets? Should he have sat back content with a runner-up finish after bulldozing 22 program records? Doesn’t everyone say they want to be a national power?
They do. And when they themselves can’t be it, they find ways to hate the ones who can achieve it.
“If softball needs me to be the villain, I’m all about it. Let’s go,” Glasco said on Wednesday at Women’s College World Series media day. “I embrace that role, it’s fun.”