Oklahoma State University Athletics
2004-05 Cowboy Baseball Coaching Staff Complete
October 05, 2004 | Cowboy Baseball
Jones will be in charge of the hitters and replaces Robbie Wine who was named the head coach at Penn State in August, while Harriss will work with the catchers. He replaces Jason Bell who joined Wine at PSU as the pitching coach.
“I think both Billy and Robin will fit in extremely well here and I am excited to have them here,” said head coach Frank Anderson.
Billy Jones
Jones spent three seasons at North Carolina State and helped lead the Wolfpack to two NCAA appearances, including a a super regional appearance in 2003. He was promoted to assistant head coach last season and was the team's recruiting coordinator while in Raleigh.
He also worked with the team's defense and base running and significantly improved the team's fielding percentage during his three-year stay. NC State had a .952 fielding percentage the year before he arrived in 2001, and under his guidance the team had a .958 percentage in 2002, a .966 mark in 2003 and a .976 mark in 2004 that was fourth best in the nation.
In the fall of 2003, Jones was one of five finalists for Baseball America's National Assistant Coach of the Year Award.
Prior to his stay in North Carolina, Jones was an assistant at Arizona State in 2001 and for two seasons at Oregon State where he earned his bachelor's of science degree. He was head coach at Green River Community College in Washington in 1997 and 1998 and began his coaching career as an AAU coach from 1992-97.
Robin Harriss
Harriss, who was a catcher at Texas Tech from 1993-94, joins the OSU staff after one season as the head coach at Bacone College. He led them to regional play and finished ranked 17th in the country with a 46-15 record. This past summer he was the head coach off the Grandbury Generals of the newly formed Texas Collegiate League.
Prior to his head coaching stint at Bacone, Harriss was an assistant coach in charge of hitting at the school before leaving to become the volunteer coach at Texas A&M in the fall of 2003.
During the 2001 season, Harriss was the Field Manager for the Greenville Bluesmen Professional Baseball Club in Greenville, Miss., and was a marketing associate for the San Angelo Colts Professional Baseball Club the prior season.
Harriss spent six years as a catcher in the Cleveland Indians organization before entering the coaching ranks.
Harriss was a two-year letter winner at Texas Tech and was named to the All-Southwest Conference team in 1994. He has a bachelor of science degree in exercise and sports science from Texas Tech and a master's degree in college teaching from Northeastern State in Tahlequah, Okla.
