Rick Jones (baseball coach)
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Rick Jones
| image = Coach Jones (3629690256) (cropped).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Jones in 2008
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Bennett, North Carolina, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1972–1973
| player_team1 = Sandhills CC
| player_years2 = 1974–1975
| player_team2 = UNC Wilmington
| player_positions = Pitcher
| coach_years1 = 1982–1984
| coach_team1 = Ferrum College
| coach_years2 = 1985–1989
| coach_team2 = Elon
| coach_years3 = 1990–1993
| coach_team3 = Georgia Tech (Asst.)
| coach_years4 = 1994–2014
| coach_team4 = Tulane
| overall_record = 1,094–538–3
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record = C-USA: 39–23
NCAA: 28–26
| championships = Carolina Conference Regular season
(1985, 1987, 1989)
Conference USA Regular season
(1997, 1998, 2001, 2005)
Conference USA Tournament
(1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005)
| awards = Carolina Conference Coach of the Year
(1985, 1987, 1989)
Conference USA Coach of the Year
(1997, 2001, 2005)
Baseball America National Coach of the Year
(2005)
| coaching_records =
}}
Rick Jones is an American college baseball coach who most recently served as the head coach of the Tulane Green Wave baseball team. He held that position for 21 seasons – from 1994 to 2014.
Early in his coaching career, Jones coached at Ferrum College, while it was an NJCAA member and at Elon College, while it was an NAIA member.
Jones led the Green Wave to 12 NCAA tournament appearances. In 2001 his team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in school history. In 2005, he again led his team to the CWS, this time as the overall #1 seed in the tournament. Jones' Green Wave teams won four Conference USA regular-season championships (1997, 1998, 2001, 2005) and five Conference USA tournament championships (1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005).
His 814 career wins were the most tallied by any Tulane coach in any sport. Jones has been inducted into Tulane’s athletics Hall of Fame, the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. In 2023, Tulane baseball retired his uniform number.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Guerry |title=Former Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones has his jersey number retired |url=https://www.nola.com/sports/tulane/former-tulane-baseball-coach-rick-jones-has-jersey-retired/article_7af65bd2-db22-11ed-b0a0-23e0c276ee97.html |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=NOLA.com |date=April 14, 2023 |language=en}}
Head coaching records
{{CBB yearly record start | type = coach }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tulane Green Wave
| conference= Metro Conference
| startyear = 1994
| endyear = 1995
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1994
| name = Tulane
| overall = 41–24
| conference = 10–8
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 1995
| name = Tulane
| overall = 32–26
| conference = 8–10
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Tulane Green Wave
| conference= Conference USA
| startyear = 1996
| endyear = 2014
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 1996
| name = Tulane
| overall = 43–20
| conference = 18–6
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1997
| name = Tulane
| overall = 40–21
| conference = 19–7
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 1998
| name = Tulane
| overall = 48–15
| conference = 22–5
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = conference tournament
| season = 1999
| name = Tulane
| overall = 48–17
| conference = 19–8
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2000
| name = Tulane
| overall = 38–22–1
| conference = 20–6–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2001
| name = Tulane
| overall = 56–13
| conference = 21–6
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2002
| name = Tulane
| overall = 36–27
| conference = 17–13
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2003
| name = Tulane
| overall = 44–19
| conference = 20–10
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2004
| name = Tulane
| overall = 41–21
| conference = 21–9
| confstanding = t-2nd
| postseason = NCAA Super Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2005
| name = Tulane
| overall = 56–12
| conference = 24–6
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = College World Series
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2006
| name = Tulane
| overall = 43–21
| conference = 15–9
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2007
| name = Tulane
| overall = 34–26
| conference = 9–15
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2008
| name = Tulane
| overall = 39–22–1
| conference = 13–9–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| postseason = NCAA Regional
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2009
| name = Tulane
| overall = 34–24
| conference = 13–11
| confstanding = t-3rd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2010
| name = Tulane
| overall = 32–24
| conference = 10–14
| confstanding = t-8th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2011
| name = Tulane
| overall = 31–26
| conference = 10–14
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2012
| name = Tulane
| overall = 38–20
| conference = 14–10
| confstanding = t-3rd
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2013
| name = Tulane
| overall = 30–28
| conference = 11–13
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| championship =
| season = 2014
| name = Tulane
| overall = 23–29
| conference = 10–18
| confstanding = 10th
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal
| name = Tulane
| overall = 827–457–2
| confrecord = 324–207–2
}}
{{CBB yearly record end
| overall = 1,094–538–3
}}
{{cite web|title=Annual Conference Standings|url=http://www.boydsworld.com/data/|work=BoydsWorld.com|accessdate=February 10, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220044845/http://www.boydsworld.com/data/|url-status=live|archivedate=February 20, 2013}}{{cite web|title=2013 Conference USA Baseball Media Guide|url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/c-usa/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/CUSA13Baseball.pdf|accessdate=February 9, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110221826/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/c-usa/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/CUSA13Baseball.pdf|url-status=dead|archivedate=January 10, 2014}}{{cite web| url=http://www.tulanegreenwave.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052314aaa.html| title=Tulane Baseball Head Coach Rick Jones Retires after 21 Years with the Green Wave| publisher=Tulane Athletics| date=May 23, 2014| accessdate=June 9, 2014}}
References
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