title: Rob Smith (baseball)
text: # Rob Smith (baseball)
  
  Rob Smith in an American baseball coach and former outfielder. He played college baseball at Vincennes for two seasons, then completed his eligibility at Indiana–Southeast before completing his degree at Indiana University Bloomington in 1998. He then spent a year as an assistant coach at Purdue in 1999, and returned to the Boilermakers from 2001 through 2006. Smith was hired as associate head coach at Creighton. He was hired as head coach at Ohio in June 2012, retiring in January 2021.
  
  ## Head coaching record
  
  Statistics overview :
  
  | Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Ohio Bobcats (Mid-American Conference) (2013–2020) ||||||
  | 2013 | Ohio | 14–39 | 9–18 | 6th (East) | |
  | 2014 | Ohio | 11–40 | 7–20 | 6th (East) | |
  | 2015 | Ohio | 36–21 | 17–10 | 2nd (East) | NCAA Regionals |
  | 2016 | Ohio | 23–29 | 8–16 | 3rd (East) | |
  | 2017 | Ohio | 31–28 | 13–11 | 2nd (East) | NCAA Regionals |
  | 2018 | Ohio | 21–32 | 9–18 | 8th | |
  | 2019 | Ohio | 20–34 | 12–14 | 6th | |
  | 2020 | Ohio | 3–7 | 0–0 | | Season canceled due to COVID-19 |
  | Ohio: | Ohio: | 159–230 | 75–107 | | |
  | Total: | Total: | 159–230 | | | |
  | National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||
  