Larry Cochell

Larry Cochell

• School Arizona State University

Biographical Information

Larry Cochell was a longtime baseball coach at the University of Oklahoma (1991-2005). He led the team to the 1994 College World Series title but resigned in May 2005 after making racially insensitive comments in an off-camera interview with ESPN. Cochell was also the head coach at Kansas State Teachers College (1967-1969), Creighton University (1970-1971), California State University, Los Angeles (1972-1976), Oral Roberts University (1977-1986), Northwestern University (1987), and California State University, Fullerton (1988-1990).

Cochell was the first coach to take three teams to the College World Series (ORU in 1978, Fullerton in 1988 & 1990, Oklahoma in 1992).

Year-by-Year Coaching Record

Year	School	Overall Record	Conference Record	Notes
1967	Kansas State Teachers College	17-17
1968	Kansas State Teachers College	25-14		NAIA District Tournaments
1969	Kansas State Teachers College	29-13		NAIA District Tournaments / NAIA Area Tournaments / NAIA CWS
1970	Creighton University	25-7
1971	Creighton University	24-21
1972	CSU, Los Angeles	23-27	12-6
1973	CSU, Los Angeles	31-20	13-5	CWS District Tournaments
1974	CSU, Los Angeles	35-18	18-5	CWS District Tournaments
1975	CSU, Los Angeles	12-30
1976	CSU, Los Angeles	16-33	4-14
1977	Oral Roberts University	35-17
1978	Oral Roberts University	45-12		CWS Regionals / CWS
1979	Oral Roberts University	34-24
1980	Oral Roberts University	38-16		CWS Regionals
1981	Oral Roberts University	45-10-1	8-0	CWS Regionals
1982	Oral Roberts University	49-13	7-1	CWS Regionals
1983	Oral Roberts University	51-17	9-1	CWS Regionals
1984	Oral Roberts University	38-23-1	7-4
1985	Oral Roberts University	50-19	10-2	CWS Regionals
1986	Oral Roberts University	43-20	6-0	CWS Regionals
1987	Northwestern University	23-20-1	5-11
1988	CSU, Fullerton	43-18	12-3	CWS Regionals / CWS
1989	CSU, Fullerton	30-27	10-11
1990	CSU, Fullerton	36-23	13-5	CWS Regionals / CWS
1991	University of Oklahoma	40-23	13-11	CWS Regionals
1992	University of Oklahoma	43-24	17-7	CWS Regionals / CWS
1993	University of Oklahoma	31-24	13-14
1994	University of Oklahoma	50-17	21-9	CWS Regionals / CWS
1995	University of Oklahoma	42-16	21-7	CWS Regionals / CWS
1996	University of Oklahoma	32-25	14-12
1997	University of Oklahoma	39-20	18-11	CWS Regionals
1998	University of Oklahoma	42-20	17-11	CWS Regionals
1999	University of Oklahoma	30-29	12-18
2000	University of Oklahoma	41-23	20-10	CWS Regionals
2001	University of Oklahoma	25-33-1	13-16-1
2002	University of Oklahoma	35-27	15-12	CWS Regionals
2003	University of Oklahoma	23-31	10-17
2004	University of Oklahoma	38-24	19-8	CWS Regionals
2005	University of Oklahoma			replaced by Sunny Golloway on May 1