Whats it like to be back with the Cal State Fullerton baseball program?
It’s almost like we moved out of the house and leased it out to someone else and now we’re moving back in. It takes a little bit of time to find out what each closet had in it, what each drawer had in it, where the kitchen utensils go. It is good to be home. The transition, even though it was difficult, was a lot easier than it would have been if I hadn’t been at this place and known a lot of the people who are still in place here, from the administration to the support staff. There also are still a couple of holdovers of kids that I didn’t coach but whom I recruited into this program. This university was a huge part of my life. When I was first dating my wife she was working here in the development office. My family have all been a part of it, and my dad was always a Titan while I was here as an assistant. My mom watched her last baseball game here in 2001 – the regionals – and that was the last baseball game she saw before she passed away the next spring. So my ties to Fullerton as a