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Texas Softball Finds An Assistant Coach | Wednesday 7:05 PM

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As first reported by Softball America, Texas is expected to hire Southeastern Louisiana Head Coach Rick Fremin to fill one of their assistant coaching vacancies. 

Fremin arrives at Texas with a proven track record of building winners.

He spent 11 seasons as the head coach at Southeastern Louisiana, compiling a 348-197 record there and more than 700 career wins overall. His teams became nationally known for aggressive baserunning, leading Division I in stolen bases or stolen bases per game nine times during his tenure. He also developed numerous award-winning players, including multiple all-region and all-conference selections.

Former Texas assistants Kristen Zaleski and Ehren Earleywine departed the program over the last two weeks. 

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Yall know I love aggressive baseball/softball. I love this hire. You get a guy with HC experience who’s known for his offense.

THAT is what the doctor ordered, folks. 

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5 minutes ago, Nikolas24 said:

Your updates are what the doctor ordered. Love the info Blake. 

More comin…. Might be in the morning but more coming on baseball and softball. 

Also trying to set a video up for you guys that I think yall will love. 

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18 minutes ago, Blake Munroe said:

 

Former Texas assistants Kristen Zaleski and Ehren Earleywine departed the program over the last two weeks. 

Where did the assistants end up?

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27 minutes ago, Blake Munroe said:

More comin…. Might be in the morning but more coming on baseball and softball. 

Also trying to set a video up for you guys that I think yall will love. 

Can’t wait! Thanks for the info 

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He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

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Read where his wife coached there as well. Not saying we get a 2 for 1 lol. But she is she gets a role somewhere. Nothing but good reviews so far.

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4 minutes ago, Springhorn said:

He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

Probably more $$$ and more exposure to bigger job. The ASU head coach was assistant for White and Steve Singleton now HC at Cal Berkeley.

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3 minutes ago, Springhorn said:

He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

Adding "assistant coach of a 3-peat Texas softball team" to his resume is a heckuva sales pitch to make.  Could be a springboard to him getting a HC gig at a power conference program.

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14 minutes ago, TTown said:

Read where his wife coached there as well. Not saying we get a 2 for 1 lol. But she is she gets a role somewhere. Nothing but good reviews so far.

Meant see if she gets a role somewhere as well. Sorry about that.

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20 minutes ago, Springhorn said:

He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

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Blake, does SE Louisiana have any really good players in the portal or a current team member (that Texas could be interested in) that might enter the portal to follow their former HC to Texas??

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25 minutes ago, Springhorn said:

He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

Southeastern has had arguably two of their best teams in their program history, and didn't get out of the regional. At some point when you can go to a big time program like Texas lead an offense to go for only the third program in college softball history to be a 3-time champion, plus get what is likely a MAJOR pay bump, then you have to answer that call. 

He is regarded as an incredible offensive mind. Those smaller Louisiana schools (McNeese, Southeastern, Lafayette) are known to have some big time offensive softball. Fremin is one of those better offensive minds. I think you are going to see a MUCH more controlled aggressive ball club at the plate. I think Stewart goes for 30+ homers this year, and we see 2-3 more get into the 20+ homeruns. This is yet again an incredible hire. 

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12 minutes ago, Ronald Dato said:

Blake, does SE Louisiana have any really good players in the portal or a current team member (that Texas could be interested in) that might enter the portal to follow their former HC to Texas??

Not Blake, but I will chime in quickly. Fremin has lived by the "do more with less" mantra for quite some time. It would be depth/competition pieces IF they did bring in any. I would say that is highly unlikely given the talent at Texas. 

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34 minutes ago, Springhorn said:

He’s an accomplished head coach and it’s a great get for Mike White so why would he give up that position now to come be an assistant here?  Seems like he’d be looking for a bigger opportunity to lead a program instead.  
 

 

30 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Probably more $$$ and more exposure to bigger job. The ASU head coach was assistant for White and Steve Singleton now HC at Cal Berkeley.

Nailed it. 

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50 minutes ago, CoachBobbyFinstock said:

Love the baseball  and softball coverage

 

47 minutes ago, Califashorn75 said:

I love the coverage of women's sports! 

 

42 minutes ago, Nikolas24 said:

Can’t wait! Thanks for the info 

 

55 minutes ago, Dawson Yarbrough said:

I mentioned it in Jeff’s baseball thread, but thanks for the excellent coverage of baseball and softball this year. Great stuff. Thanks. 

Thank y’all. Glad everyone loves it and happy to do it. I hope that we are the industry standard when it comes to both. 

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