UCI Coach Talking to Oregon About Coaching Job

The newly resurrected Oregon baseball program is talking with Baseball America's Coach of the Year and College World Series veteran Dave Serrano.  Serrano led the otherwise unknown UC Irvine baseball team to an unprecedented fourth place finish at this year's College World Series.

As reported by the Daily Pilot, Serrano is in talks with Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny about taking over as head coach for the team that has sat dormant for 26 years but will return for the 2008 season.

Oregon has a bigger budget to woo Serrano but it will have a difficult time convincing him to leave a successful team to come to a brand new team with only four full scholarships to give out.  Serrano has not made a decision yet, but says he owes it to his family to look at the Oregon job seriously...whatever that means.