The Arkansas assistant will take on his mom, Patty Gasso, and brother, JT Gasso, this weekend in SEC play.
Ryan Chapman |
This weekend’s series between No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 12 Arkansas will be a family affair.
Patty Gasso and her son, associate head coach and hitting coach JT Gasso will lead the Sooners on their first SEC road trip against a Razorbacks offense shaped by DJ Gasso.
This weekend’s series between No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 12 Arkansas will be a family affair.
DJ, JT’s younger brother, has faced off against his mom and brother previously at Utah — a 2-1 OU win at the 2022 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic and a 10-3 win by the Sooners at the 2023 Mary Nutter.
The series, as with every SEC battle, will be massive, but DJ said he’s looking forward to the rare mid-season Gasso family reunion.
“This weekend will be fun. I know that it’ll be nice just to see the family,” he said on Tuesday. “You don’t really get to see them a ton during the season. It’s usually at holidays or maybe the World Series or recruiting in the summer, so it will be really cool to have everyone be able to see each other in March.”
Arkansas’ offense fired on all cylinders last year in DJ Gasso’s first season in Fayetteville.
He excelled at Utah, and was able to carry his skills to the SEC.
His work ethic was engrained in him at a young age by watching his mom attack everything in life with all she had — whether that meant coaching the Sooners or knocking out chores around the house.
“She’s always been an extremely hard worker, a hustler,” Gasso said. “Just finding ways to be better. When she would do the garden herself, she was grinding. And I know that because I would have to pick up all the trash and I’m just like — it was so much stuff. And that’s just a little example. It’s something you do around the house and she just loves that hard work. And so whether you’re at the field, the recruiting trail, she’s going to work hard.
