Florida has suspended baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan for the primary three video games of the 2026 common season following his profanity-laced language directed at web site directors throughout an NCAA regional in Conway, South Carolina.
“The suspension introduced in the present day reinforces Florida Athletics’ dedication to our requirements, with Coach O’Sullivan accepting full accountability for his conduct,” athletic director Scott Stricklin mentioned in an announcement Friday. “Sully has vowed to be taught from the expertise and function a greater chief shifting ahead.”
The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee additionally issued a public reprimand to O’Sullivan for his aggressive conduct.
The committee mentioned O’Sullivan’s actions on June 1 violated an NCAA bylaw that claims misconduct in a championship occasion is “any act of dishonesty, unsportsmanlike conduct, unprofessional conduct or breach of regulation, occurring from the time the championship discipline is introduced by means of the tip of the championship, that discredits the occasion or intercollegiate athletics.”
O’Sullivan was upset as a result of the beginning time of his workforce’s elimination sport towards East Carolina — an 11-4 loss — was pushed again an hour. East Carolina’s earlier sport had ended at midnight.
The Florida coach publicly apologized the day after his outburst, however movies of the tirade had been circulated extensively on social media. Kevin Schnall, coach of host Coastal Carolina, ripped O’Sullivan for the outburst throughout a information convention later that day.
“This can be a nationwide champion coach who thinks he can are available right here and attempt to bully folks round,” Schnall mentioned on the time. “Upset. Upset someone that plenty of coaches look as much as, for him to behave that means.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.