You mean after that one season where the schedule was super easy? Which came after the “tank it season”? Nah.
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Baseball had “super easy” schedules with less than mediocre results, so yeah.
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Man, those days were a BLAST! We had the very best of times at Cougar Baseball games back then. We had ALL DAY and into the night tailgate parties every home Saturday. We fed the LSU players lunch one day of that series. The stands used to be packed most every home weekend! We had JUSTIFIED confidence we could beat ANYBODY we played! Some of my favorite UH Sports memories are of Baseball back then. Being present for every game of a sweep of LSU at Alex Box in Baton Rouge. The Regional where we were sent to Arizona as a #1 Seed and prevailed. Being at a Tournament at Cal State Fullerton where the Coogs swept a field of perennial top notch teams. Winning the Regional at Texas A&M when we had to beat the Aggies twice on Sunday to win that series. Those were the days!
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Knocked off a Dustin Pedroia/Andre Either led Sun Devil team twice.
Fullerton, USC and Miami I believe.
I’d love to go to an away series vs a decent opponent if we were worth a s***.
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We were gonna be tough and sit behind the Cougar dugout for the Series with the Sun Devils. “It’s a dry heat”…it was still 105 and we found shade! … lol. My memory is not the best but I think we beat New Mexico State then Arizona State twice? And yeah, that Showcase at Fullerton was a blast! The Coogs blindsided the competition. Weather/Scenery was awesome too…had a rental convertible to get around in!
That Arizona State team also had Ian Kinsler (14 years in the bigs), a big first baseman, Jeff Larish who hit 116 home runs in the minors, Tuffy Gosewisch who played parts of 5 season in the big leagues. They also had a guy name Jeremy West who had 13 HR’s and 71 RBI’s for ASU that year who played 5 seasons in the minors. We were loaded too though.
That was part of the golden era for Cougar baseball. We had 11 players drafted in 2000, 4 in 2002, and 6 in both 2003 and 2004.
I remember that last game at ASU when we all took cover from the sun under the overhang at the top of the stands. There was a local judge who got all the Cougar fans to come down behind the dugout for the last inning. His name escapes me, but I remember he used to run shirtless at Memorial Park regardless of how cold it was.
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It was the golden era of Coog sports, period.
Final fours in hoops, ranked as high as third in football and multiple national titles in golf and baseball making it to the College WS!
Not hardly.
Well, Dana literally tanked an entire season and caused the best player to transfer. So, I wouldn’t necessarily call that a competitive season either.
And he didn’t get extended right after that season either, so that’s kind of irrelevant.
Why are you trying so hard to polish the turd that inhabits our baseball facility? Weird.
My original post “Pez did the same thing with Dana” was more to show that Pez seems to want to give these extensions out and nothing to do with wanting Whitting to stay as coach. To which you said that football was competitive. I don’t have anything against Dana personally but nothing about the Dana era seemed competitive on the football field to me.
I said it was “more competitive” than baseball. Big difference.
Football was 12-2, undefeated in conference games, shared 1st place, won a bowl game, and finished ranked for the first time in 6 years in the season that resulted in the extension. It was a fun season to watch. I didn’t think the new contract was necessary, but it’s pretty hard to see that season as not being “competitive”.
Baseball may have had an even weaker schedule after years of being lame, and they didn’t win at any kind of rate that indicated an upward trajectory. It was not fun to watch and continued a years-long trend of being lame.
So yeah, football in 2021 under Holgorsen was more competitive than baseball in 2023, and it wasn’t really that close.
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Dang, this post belies what a lot of posters have been saying…
https://x.com/uhcougarbb/status/1794084230957265166?s=61&t=bREFZn93Z8FAy7iN4q858w
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Good find. I’m confident that UH WBB could say the same thing. In fact, WBB likely saw a much larger jump in average attendance than baseball.
I thought a chunk of attendance would be attributable to UT but they averaged just over 2000 per game for their series. Meanwhile, UCF had an average of 2026 in paid attendance for its two games. The UT series had dramatically higher prices but maybe a lot of people used their any game tickets for that series. It seemed to have a much higher actual attendance.
Maybe people bought season tickets in anticipation of the first Big 12 season. Only way I can explain why UCF had 700 more fans per game for the Fri/Sat games in 2024 vs. 2022.
Yeah, we can agree to disagree on this one. That was a fluke season with a bunch of weak teams. And so Pez decided that warranted an extension. Ok.
They won all their conference games - the only way to be more “competitive” is to have won every single game. 
The baseball team also played an exceedingly weak schedule in 2023 - they just did it more weakly than football.
I really don’t know how you can call 12-2 and being tied for 1st place non-competitive - that’s just silly. I’d love for the baseball team to have a “fluke” season where they won the conference and made the postseason.
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Again, I’m not comparing baseball with football. Dana’s teams weren’t real competitors me. They were fake competitive, aided by a weak AAC schedule.
Northwood and the Cape are the two best leagues by a mile.
Not a fan of the Texas league……too much screwing around and guys not taking anything seriously……
Surprised Ace could not get a spot on the Cape or NW’s.
My kid played in both……Comp. Was a little tougher on the Cape but he had the time of his life in the Northwoods one year….Incredible host family that went to every game and took him all over Michigan and Minnesota……they even had a massive houseboat they would float on the lake….
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