 This year's ESPYs will air live Thursday, July 11th at 7 p.m. Nichols introduced new head baseball coach Brent Herring yesterday. Herring spent the 2024 season as the director of baseball operations for LSU and has spent more than 22 years in baseball. Ten of those seasons were as an assistant coach at BYU. Herring says Nichols has stood out to him since a 2014 visit the Cougars made to Thibodeau.