Oklahoma assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Todd Butler is joining the Florida baseball progam in the same capacity, according to AYS Sports.
Butler is coming off a national championship with the Sooners. Over the past three seasons, he’s helped assemble the team that managed to win it all, and he’s recruited in the SEC for 17 of his 28 years coaching college baseball.
Oklahoma hit 47 home runs in its final 19 games, including 12 of the final 13 games of the season — all in playoff games. The Sooners scored 118 runs on 156 hits in their 13 NCAA Tournament games.
Butler played college ball at McNeese State and Oklahoma, and still holds the OU record with 46 stolen bases (1988).
His first head coaching job came at McNeese State from 2001-03, following five years as a recruiter with Alabama. He started his coaching career as an assistant at Blinn College, winning the Texas State Junior College championship and finishing third at the NJCAA World Series. Butler spent two years as an assistant with McNeese before his first stint with Alabama and returned to the Crimson Tide in 2004.
He jumped to Arkansas for a seven-year run before landing the head coaching position at Wichita State from 2014-19. With the Shockers, Butler oversaw 28 MLB draftees and 11 All-Americans. He had the No. 2 national recruiting class in 2014.
Butler spent one year coaching and recruiting at Missouri in 2020 and spent three years back at McNeese as the Senior Associate Athletics Director before landing with Oklahoma.
In other words, Butler has coached at every level of college baseball and has seen success each step of the way.
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