{"id":343780,"date":"2026-06-20T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:47:12","slug":"nolan-cain-leaves-texas-baseball-program-for-texas-am-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343780\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Cain leaves Texas baseball program for Texas A&M coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"

After losing twice to Texas A&M<\/a> in April, the Texas baseball<\/a> team was dealt another loss by the Aggies during the offseason.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a source confirmed to the American-Statesman<\/a> that Texas associate head coach Nolan Cain was leaving for a job at Texas A&M. Cain has spent the past two seasons on Jim Schlossnagle’s coaching staff in Austin.<\/p>\n

This news was broken by D1Baseball, which also reported that the\u00a0Aggies will make Cain one of the highest-paid assistant coaches in college baseball. When Cain arrived at Texas, he signed a two-year contact that paid him $400,000 annually.<\/p>\n

Cain, 40, worked with current Texas A&M head coach Michael Earley on Schlossnagle’s staff in College Station from 2022-24. A national champion as a player at\u00a0LSU, Cain also has a lengthy\u00a0stint with the Tigers on his coaching r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Last month, he was linked to a head-coaching vacancy at Houston that was eventually filled by Lamar’s Will Davis.<\/p>\n

With Cain in the dugout, Texas went 90-29 over the past two seasons. The Longhorns won a conference championship in 2025 and then reached the 2026 College World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing twice to Texas A&M in April, the Texas baseball team was dealt another loss by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2845,122627,27,14539,29,537,20340,28],"class_list":["post-343780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-baseball","tag-nolan-cain","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}