University of Missouri Athletics

After six years as top assistant coach to Head Baseball Coach Gene McArtor, Tim Jamieson succeeded his boss in 1995, and for the next 22 years developed some of the nation’s best pitchers, most notably future Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Max Scherzer. His career record of 698-565-2 is second only to McArtor’s 733-430-3 mark in school history. TJ took the Tigers to a Big Eight Conference championship in 1996, completing a worst-to-first turnaround – the first in Big Eight history – and in 2012 the Tigers won the Big 12 Conference Tournament title. He took nine teams to the NCAA Tournament, including seven straight appearances from 2003-09 and a Super Regional trip in 2006. His teams won 35-or-more games nine times. Jamieson, whose father Dick was a MU assistant football coach in the 1970s, was a two-time Big 12 coach of the year. He had 58 players selected in the MLB draft. Four of his pitchers – Scherzer, Aaron Crow, Kyle Gibson and Tanner Houck were first-round selections. Scherzer, Crow and Gibson each appeared in the MLB All-Star Game, and Scherzer has won three Cy Young Awards, a World Series ring and accumulated more than 3,000 career strikeouts. Another Jamieson product, second baseman Ian Kinsler, was a four-time MLB all-star and a member of the 2018 World Champion Boston Red Sox. Ten Tigers earned all-America honors under Jamieson and 30 were all-conference, including Aaron Senne as the 2010 Big 12 Player of the Year and Scherzer (2005) and Crow (2008) as the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year. His coaching tree spawned the careers of current Tennessee Coach Tony Vitello, who played and coached for Jamieson for 11 seasons, Auburn Athletics Director John Cohen (head baseball coach at Northwestern State, Kentucky and Mississippi State and AD at MSU), who was a Jamieson assistant in 1995-97, and Memphis Coach Kerrick Jackson, a MU assistant form 2011-15. Jamieson has since been the pitching coach at SIU-Carbondale and now fills that role for Jackson at Memphis.