By: James Gravley | WV Sports Chat
Steve Sabins has been with the West Virginia baseball team since 2016 but was named the team’s head coach ahead of the 2025 season.
And he may be on his way to South Carolina. According to reports from D1Baseball and The State (a Gamecock Newspaper) Sabins and Coastal Carolina’s head coach Kevin Schnall are the top two candidates to become the new head coach of the Gamecocks.
In the article from Kendall Rogers, he wrote; “It will be interesting to see how fast things move if Coastal Carolina or West Virginia don’t make it out of their respective Regionals this weekend.”
This news for both Coastal and WVU fans can’t come at a worse time as both teams are playing in a regionals. Coastal is tabbed in the Tallahassee Regional while the Mountaineers are hosting their own regional in Morgantown, W.VA.
South Carolina Athletic Director Jeremiah Donati told The State that they have already began the process of interviewing candidates for the job, but that timeline is limited as both Schnall and Sabins are coaching in the postseason.
In Sabins first year as the Mountaineers’ head coach he took the program to Super Regionals which then in return West Virginia and Athletic Director Wren Baker gave Sabins a contract extension that went through 2031.
That contract extensions pays Sabins an additional $1.3 million and makes him the highest paid baseball coach in the schools history, per several reports.
Sabins holds an overall collegiate head coaching record of 83-30 (.735) and is 34-21 (.618) at the helm of the Mountaineers baseball program.
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