'A very dear friend': Jim Schlossnagle honors late Texas Longhorns super-fan Scott Wilson

After Texas baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle led his team to Sunday night's 6-5 win over Oregon to earn a berth in the College World Series, he thought of two people.

One was former Longhorns coach Augie Garrido, who died in 2018 at the age of 79. The other was longtime Longhorns super fan Scott Wilson, who died last October at 74. Wilson was hospitalized in October in Jacksonville, Fla., after suffering a medical emergency while traveling to see the Texas football play Oct. 4 at Florida.

"Great Texas fan that meant a lot to everybody in this program over decades, and was a very dear friend to me," Schlossnagle said.

Wilson regularly attended all kinds of Texas sporting events. He went to 594 straight football games, a streak that began in 1977, and would attend rowing, softball and volleyball matches as well. But the fan had the greatest affinity for Texas baseball, having gone to 1,564 straight Longhorns games played either at home, on the road or at neutral sites.

The final baseball game Wilson attended was the Longhorns' 7-4 loss to UTSA at UFCU Disch-Falk Field in last year's Austin Regional. Texas most recently made the College World Series in 2022. Schlossnagle said the team has a picture of Wilson in its locker room that they look at every day, and he regretted that Wilson wasn't able to see his team's return to Omaha, Neb.

"I don't think we'll even have another Longhorn fan like Wilson," former Texas player Kyle Russell said, following his death.

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This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM.