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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Butch Thompson - Auburn baseball head coach on coaching, love and trusting in the savior

Sports Spectrum Podcast

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5661 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Butch Thompson is the head baseball coach at Auburn University. He began his coaching career at Birmingham Southern and after stints at Georgia, Auburn and Mississippi State, he returned to Auburn and was. named their head coach in October 2015. 

In 2019 and 2022, Thompson led Auburn to the College World Series and has 256 career wins in his eight seasons with the Tigers. 

Today on the podcast, we talk to Butch Thompson about role models, giving his life to Christ, his "identity statement" and how much he loves coaching at Auburn.


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0:00.0

Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, a great conversation with Butch Thompson.

0:05.3

He is the men's baseball coach at Auburn University. That is War Eagle Territory.

0:11.6

We got to go down there in person and sit down and have a great conversation with

0:16.0

Butch about his faith, about baseball, about becoming a believer, about who his heroes were when he was a kid.

0:23.0

And they aligned perfectly, I'll just say, with who my heroes were as a kid.

0:30.6

You'll hear that coming up.

0:31.6

Plus, we talk about winning versus success.

0:35.6

What's the difference?

0:36.8

Can you separate winning from success? We also talk about

0:41.3

discipleship and staying close to God as a coach at the big time level of SEC baseball. It's

0:49.3

Butch Thompson. He's been a longtime assistant coach in 2019 and 22. He took Auburn to the College World Series,

0:56.1

and he's been the Auburn's men's baseball coach since October of 2015.

1:02.4

Butch Thompson coming up in just a minute here on Sports Spectrum.

1:05.9

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1:08.8

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1:11.8

wonderful work on college campuses, professional locker rooms, countries all across the globe

1:17.9

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1:24.2

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1:29.0

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1:35.6

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1:43.1

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1:44.9

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