The search for a new head coach for the Terrapin baseball team is starting to narrow but could still be weeks from concluding, according to Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance/Baseball Supervisor Dan Trump who I spoke to via the telephone this afternoon.
Trump was vague when I tried to pry the details, as is the custom with anyone in charge of a coaching search for any sport. Nevertheless, I was able to narrow the parameters of the search a little bit. Here is what Trump had to say.
“We are definitely closer than we were since the last time you and I spoke,” Trump said. We spoke on the phone exactly a week ago when I wanted to confirm that Dutch coach Rod Delmonico and current assistant head coach Jim Farr were candidates for the job. “We have started conducting interviews and narrowing the candidates down to a short list,” Trump continued. “I am really excited about the guys we have left, I think our choices are great.”
Trump wouldn’t say exactly how many candidates were left, but he did mention that the remaining candidates were a mix of current head coaches, past head coaches, and current assistant coaches at “some really great programs.”
It has been 19 days since Terry Rupp resigned from the program after nine years in the dugout, and Trump said he wanted the coaching search to come to end as fast as anyone else did.
“I want a guy in place sooner rather than later so that he can start hitting the recruiting trail,” Trump said. “I think there is a buzz surrounding the program right now and this could start to turn things around.”
Trump did confirm that Farr was still a “person they were looking at”, and there is no word from the Delmonico camp on whether he has interviewed for the position.
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