LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska is going back to the glory days with its new pitching coach hire.

According to D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers, Husker baseball coach Will Bolt is hiring Rob Childress to replace Jeff Christy as the team’s pitching coach.

Rogers also reported that Wichita State assistant coach Mike Sirianni will be joining the staff as the team’s third assistant coach.

Since 2021, Childress has been working as the team’s director of player development, having previously served as the pitching coach under Dave Van Horn from 1998 to 2002. He was the associate head coach under Mike Anderson for three seasons after that.

Childress was integral in bringing Nebraska to the forefront of college baseball during his first stint on the Husker coaching staff. During his eight seasons on staff, Husker pitchers produced four of the top five single-season strikeout totals in school history, including a school-record 538 strikeouts in 2005, while issuing fewer than three walks per game in his final five seasons in Lincoln. The team went to the NCAA Tournament six times in a seven-year span, including three appearances at the College World Series. The Huskers won three regular-season Big 12 titles (2001-03-05) and four Big 12 Tournaments (1999-2000-01-05).

He then spent 16 seasons as the head coach at Texas A&M University. He led the Aggies to the NCAA Tournament a school-record 13 consecutive times (2007-19), including six regional titles and a pair of trips to the College World Series in 2011 and 2017.