Talk:Joe Brockhoff

Coach Joe Brockhoff

Since Coach Brockhoff was a 15-year-old working with a New Orleans youth baseball team, he has known coaching would be part of his life.

“From an earlier age, I’ve understood baseball and wanted to pass that knowledge along. It’s a game of extreme fundamentals. Talent is important, but I still believe hard work will overcome most odds.”

Before this Metairie, La. native became a nationally known coach; he learned the game as a player on every level. His senior year at East Jefferson High School, he was named All-Prep as a catcher.

After graduation, Brockhoff made his way to Perkinston Junior College where they won the state title in 1957. Brockhoff finished the 1958 season hitting .340 and was named the team’s Most Outstanding Player.

He was drafted by the New York Yankees and spent two years in the team’s farm system. After earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, Brockhoff made the transition to coaching.

He returned to his high school alma mater in 1968 as head baseball coach. It took only a few seasons for Brockhoff’s philosophy of fundamentals and hard work to pay off. His teams won back-to-back state championships in 1971 and 1972 and four district titles.

His career record was 76-16 with the Warriors.

Brockhoff was named Louisiana's Class 4A Coach of the Year in 1970 and 1972 and New Orleans' Coach of the Year in 1974.

After being named New Orleans’ High School Coach of the Year, the University of Tulane offered Brockhoff its first full-time position as head baseball coach. Over the next 19 seasons he laid the foundation for a nationally recognized program. He led the Green Wave to the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament seven times and 3 conference titles.

In his first season, the Green Wave finished with a 24-11 record, the most wins in a single season by a Tulane team.

1979 was a year that Tulane baseball made history. On May 13, against Florida State, Kenny Francingues pitched a complete game to defeat the Seminoles 5-2, to win its first Metro Conference Championship. The win was also the firt Metro Championship for the school in any sport.

Tulane's win automatically qualified them for the NCAA tournament, the first time that the Green Wave appeared in post-season competition. The Green Wave, however, lost its first two games to Murray State and Mississippi State.

It took just five years for Brockhoff to become Tulane's winningest coach. On March 29, 1979, the Green Wave defeated Stetson 12-2 giving Brockhoff his 124th win at Tulane.

From 1982-87, the Green Wave won no fewer than 38 games, hit the 40-win plateau five out of six years and compiled a record of 259-104.

During that period, Coach Brockhoff's crew made three trips to the NCAA Regionals ('83, '86 and '87), and in 1986, Tulane was one game away from advancing to the College World Series as the Green Wave lost to LSU 7-6 in the championship game of the South I Regional in Baton Rouge.

In 1992, Tulane was back in the limelight. The Green Wave finished with a 39-24 record and a bid back to the NCAA Regional. After a 33-22 finish in regular season play, and a 9-9 record in Metro Conference play, Tulane was seeded fourth in the Metro Tournament. For the first time, the Green Wave played host to the tournament, and it paid off.

On May 16, ten years after its last title, the Green Wave won the Metro Conference Tournament title, winning five straight games to gain the automatic berth to the NCAA Regionals.

Coach Brockhoff retired from Tulane University after the 1993 season.

Brockhoff had compiled a 641-358-2 career record at Tulane University, as well as being inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame (1999) and the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame (2008).

During his era, Joe's teams scored more than 7,000 runs, had more than 9,000 hits, 900 home runs, and 45 Tulane players went on to play Professional baseball.

Since retiring from Tulane, Coach Brockhoff has traveled the nation teaching players the fundamentals of baseball and developed his Super 8 Hitting System. Most notably among his recent accomplishments, he has published his book, The Super8 Hitting System, and poster, and patented his SpeedBat ®, the hitting tool he developed while coaching at Tulane. He and his wife JoAnne operate under the corporate name of Gulf National Enterprises.

Joe has developed several publications and videos on baseball fundamentals: The Super 8 Hitting System™ (1998), Baseball Coach's Administrative Handbook (1998),"The Complete Hitting Program" Video (1995) ,"The SpeedBat™" video, the Brockbuster, a hitting training aid (1996), The Pro-Style Pitching Program (2001), and an assortment of instructional aids, of which a favorite, that he developed while coaching at Tulane, is his SpeedBat™, a tool for developing the correct hitting technique, and the Reader Board, (2008), a visual tool for learning to read pitches and applying the proper stroke.

Coach Joe Brockhoff’s - Baseball History

Player: Metairie High School, East Jefferson High School (All-Prep, Catcher), Gulf Coast Community College at Perkinston (1958 Most Outstanding Player, Gulf Coast Community College Athletic Hall of Fame, 2004), Professional: New York Yankees Organization 1958-59 (catcher)

Education: Masters of Education, University of Southern Mississippi

Coaching: East Jefferson High School Head Baseball Coach (1968-1973): 4 district titles and 2 state championships.

Tulane University Head Baseball Coach (1974-1993): 7 NCAA tournaments, 3 Metro-Conference Championships, 641 wins, Athletic Hall of Fame (1999)

Joe Brockhoff at Tulane University Head Baseball Coach 1979-93

Joe Brockoff held the title of The Winningest Coach in Tulane history until the 2009 season when Coach Rick Jones surpassed Coach Brockhoff’s wins.

Joe Brockoff is the latest member of the Green Wave baseball family to have his number retired. Sporting a .647 winning percentage and 641 wins over 19 seasons, Brockhoff twice earned Metro Conference Coach of the Year honors and led the Green Wave to a pair of Metro Conference titles. Inheriting a program that had never advanced to the postseason, Brockhoff led the Green Wave to six NCAA Regional appearances, including the 1986 NCAA South I Regional in Baton Rouge, La., where Tulane advanced to the championship game and set a Regional record with 51 total bases in a 16-6 victory over Eastern Kentucky. Brockhoff guided the club to five 40-win seasons during his career, including a then-school record 49 wins in 1986.

Year...W - L - T Pct.

1975 24 - 11 - 1 .681

1976 24 - 14 - 1 .628

1977 32 - 10 - 0 .762

1978 25 - 18 - 0 .581

1979 35 - 13 - 0 .729

1980 29 - 12 - 0 .707

1981 37 - 26 - 0 .587

1982 41 - 16 - 0 .719

1983 45 - 17 - 0 .726

1984 42 - 16 - 0 .724

1985 38 - 22 - 0 .633

1986 49 - 15 - 0 .766

1987 44 - 16 - 0 .733

1988 32 - 18 - 0 .640

1989 27 - 26 - 0 .509

1990 19 - 35 - 0 .352

1991 36 - 18 - 0 .667

1992 39 - 24 - 0 .619

1993 23 - 31 - 0 .426

Career 641-358- 2 .647