What Coastal Carolina head coach Kevin Schnall said about ejection against LSU in CWS
LSU baseball bested Coastal Carolina in the College World Series finals to win the 2025 national championship in Omaha.
It didn't take long for controversy to stir as Chanticleers' head coach Kevin Schnall and first base coach Matt Schilling were ejected in the bottom of the first inning. According to Schnall, he barely heard a warning from home plate umpire Angel Campos and wasn't pleased with how the situation played out.
"There's 25,000 people there, and I vaguely hear a warning issued," Schnall said. "As the head coach, I was an assistant for 24 years, and as an assistant, you're almost treated like a second-grade, second-level citizen, and you can't say a word. Now, as a head coach, I think it is your right to get an explanation of why we got warned."
After the initial warning, Schnall continued to communicate from the dugout before emerging to talk with Campos. At the time, there were two outs, and Coastal had a runner on base.
"I'm 48 years old," Schnall said. "I shouldn't get shooed by another grown man, right? So when I come out to ask what the warning is, a grown man shooed me. So at that point, I can now hear him say it was a warning issued for arguing balls and strikes. And at that point, I said, because you missed three. At that point, ejected."
Schnall continued to plead his case after the umpires signaled his ejection, earning him an extra game of suspension. From his perspective, one of the umpires tripping and falling to the ground was the cause of the extra punishment.
"If you guys watch the video, there was a guy that came in extremely aggressively, tripped over Campos' foot, embarrassed in front of 25,000," Schnall said. "[Campos] immediately goes 'two game suspension' and said, 'bumping the umpire.' [He] immediately does that. There was no bump. He was embarrassed. I shouldn't be held accountable for a grown man's athleticism."
Schnall and Schilling will both miss the 2026 season opener. Had Coastal Carolina forced a game three, neither would've been in the dugout. The Chanticleers kept the game close, taking a 1-0 lead on a solo homer and cutting their deficit to two late.
"It is what it is," Schnall. "But if that warranted an ejection, man, there'd be a lot of ejections. As an umpire, I feel like it's your job to manage the game."
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