The Maryland Terrapins baseball team has emerged as a respectable program after three straight trips to the NCAA Regionals. Unfortunately, Maryland may have suffered a staggering blow as head coach Rob Vaughn shockingly set to leave to become the head coach at Alabama, according to John Talty of Bama247 Sports.
Vaughn joined Maryland’s staff as an assistant in 2013 but was promoted to head coach in 2018 after John Szefc left for Virginia Tech. In six seasons, Vaughn compiled a 182-115 record, including back-to-back Big Ten regular season titles and winning this year’s Big Ten tournament, the school’s first conference title tournament.
Maryland was bounced out of the Winston-Salem Regional by George Mason.
Despite the historic run over the last three seasons, Vaughn was painfully honest recently about not breaking through with a run in the College World Series.
“We weren’t able to knock the door down the last three years,” Vaughn said, per Taylor Lyons of The Diamondback. “I’ll always wonder what I could’ve done differently to help get us through. The reality is we’ll go our separate ways next week. This exact group of guys may never be in the same place at the same time again.”
Vaughn will replace Brad Bohannon, who got fired in May after being part of a sports gambling scandal within the Crimson Tide program. Under interim coach, Jason Jackson, Alabama advanced to the Winston-Salem Super Regional before being knocked out by the No. 1 overall seed Wake Forest.
Vaughn jumps up in competition with Alabama in the historically strong Southeastern Conference. He expects to get a pay raise.
Last season, he made $300,000 in base salary at Maryland, with $150,0000 supplemental income, according to Talty. Vauhgn’s contract with Marland ran through the 2027 season. Bohannon made $500,000 with Alabama last season. Bohannon was the lowest-paid baseball coach in the SEC.
If Maryland continues its surgence, it must do so without the direction of Rob Vaughn.
