All’s fair in love and college baseball coaches.

Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte got his man and the Texas A&M Aggies are left to stew. Their simmering, century-long hatred for the Texas Longhorns was at 212 degrees last I checked.

We've reached lava level.

The SEC will play the backdrop to this blood feud and the next time Jim Schlossnagle steps foot onto the well-manicured lawns of Blue Bell Park in College Station, he'll be public enemy No. 1. Surely the folks at the post office on Houston St. there have been instructed to place a full color glossy photo of the Aggies' former coach on the wall just inside the front door.

Minutes after the Aggies blew an opportunity to party like it’s 1939  — the last year A&M won a major team championship in men’s sports — Schloss took umbrage to a reporter Monday night who dared address the burnt-orange elephant in the room.

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When asked about the UT opening following the Aggies' 6-5 loss to Tennessee in the College World Series title game, he called Texags reporter Richard Zane selfish.

"I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job, and I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job,” Schlossnagle said, presumably referring to his divorce from ex-wife Kami after 23 years. “I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. So write that.”

He then got up and walked out, At that moment, I believed that Texas went from a ‘maybe’ to a ‘possibly’.

Now it’s a ‘definitely.’

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Schlossnagle had the opportunity to shut down any speculation with all those cameras rolling at that moment. He didn’t and that was telling. He then pulled a Roy Williams in the span of less than 20 hours. Remember when the famed Kansas basketball coach was asked about the coveted head coach opening at North Carolina minutes after losing 81-78 to Carmelo Anthony and Syracuse in the 2003 championship game?

“I could give a (spit) about North Carolina right now,” Williams told reporters. “I’ve got 13 kids in that locker room that I love.”

Seven days later, he was introduced in Chapel Hill.

Schlossnagle will be introduced at Texas on Wednesday.

Hey, loyalty takes a backseat to whatever the heart (and the wallet) wants. The man is a great coach who did tremendous things at Texas A&M, but a better gig came along. He’s a huge upgrade from a solid coach in David Pierce.

Texas has the baseball leader it wanted and Del Conte is a true savage in the most complimentary sense of the word. Don’t let those nice suits and the "aw shucks" personality fool you. He’s the most powerful AD on the planet and if poaching arguably the best baseball coach in the country isn't enough proof, then you just aren’t paying attention.

The Aggies surely are.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: With Jim Schlossnagle hire, Texas lands first SEC blow against Aggies