Coach Rock is gone, reportedly.
The Commercial Appeal reports:
Mississippi State assistant baseball coach Daron Schoenrock, who interviewed for the vacant University of Memphis coaching job Friday, returned to the campus Monday with his family and indications are he’ll be named coach today.
According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Schoenrock, 42, will replace Dave Anderson, who resigned earlier this month to pursue a return to professional baseball. Anderson, a U of M alum and a former manager in the Detroit Tigers organization, left after four years at the helm.
Schoenrock (pronounced SHONE-rock) has spent the past five years as an assistant to Ron Polk, first at the University of Georgia (2000 and ‘01) and the past three seasons at Mississippi State.
Schoenrock was one of three finalists for the job. Also interviewing over the weekend were Dan McDonnell, an Ole Miss assistant, and Butch Thompson, an assistant at Georgia.
[UPDATE: Coach Rock is now the head coach of the Memphis Tigers. Good luck, Coach.]
