OMAHA, Neb. — Not long after Coastal Carolina won a national championship in 2016, in its first trip to the College World Series, Matt Hogue was standing in line at Disneyland to take a photo of his two daughters with Ariel the mermaid when his phone rang.
It was Kevin Schnall, then the Chanticleers’ assistant head coach, whom Hogue, the Coastal athletic director at the time, and coach Gary Gilmore had lured back to his alma mater a year earlier. An understanding existed that Schnall, a former second-team All-America catcher and 12-year Coastal assistant before he spent three seasons on the bench at UCF, would take control of the program when Gilmore retired.
But the unexpected national championship had accelerated timelines.
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