Matt Hobbs serves as Assistant Coach for University of Arkansas's Baseball program in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hobbs, the 2024 D1Baseball Assistant Coach of the Year, enters his eighth season as an assistant coach for the Arkansas baseball program in 2026. Hobbs, the Razorbacks’ pitching coach, has helped develop 10 All-Americans, 10 All-SEC honorees, including two conference pitchers of the year, and 30 MLB draft selections since joining Arkansas as an assistant coach ahead of the 2019 campaign.
Under Hobbs’ tutelage, Kevin Kopps emerged as the best player in the country in 2021, winning both the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy, and Hagen Smith developed into the unanimous national pitcher of the year and became the highest-drafted pitcher in program history in 2024. Since Hobbs joined the Razorback coaching staff, Arkansas has made three trips to the College World Series (2019, 2022 & 2025), clinched a pair of overall SEC championships (2021, 2023) and captured four SEC Western Division titles (2019, 2021, 2023, 2024). Additionally, the Hogs won Collegiate Baseball’s national recruiting championship for the first time in program history in 2023 as Arkansas’ star-studded recruiting class was named the nation’s best by the publication. With Hobbs’ leadership, Arkansas has had 30 pitchers selected in the MLB draft, including 22 pitchers taken in the first 10 rounds, since 2019.
