He then served as the head baseball coach of the Menlo Oaks (1983–1986), the De Anza Dons (1987–1994), the Cal Poly Mustangs (1995–2002) and the Kansas Jayhawks (2003–2022).
[1] Price took over as head coach at Cal Poly for the 1995 season, which was to be the Mustangs first at the Division I level.
[4] The table below shows Ritch Price's record as a head coach at the Division I level.
His eldest, Ritchie Price, was head coach at South Dakota State from 2008 to 2011, before returning to Kansas to again work on his father's staff.
[9] Baseball America believes that the Prices were the first father–son duo to serve as head coach of two Division I programs at the same time.