And as a UH fan I would have gladly left women’s basketball alone another year as well as softball if it meant baseball got the coach they deserve.
I’m all for women’s sports being better but not at the expense of baseball….he//, the new women’s basketball coach got a salary TWICE the amount it would have taken to hire a new baseball coach.
Whitting must have some skeletons in the closet. I don’t remember seeing promos trying to sell tickets to womens basketball or softball on UHCougars.com. I do remember we had the usual 2 tickets, 2 drinks, 2 hot dogs kind of promo for baseball (I believe the Utah series) this year.
There’s always a hundred ways to rationalize failure.
How many ADs are you going back? 
Our baseball issue is on the last two. We shouldn’t have been in this position, and yet we’re choosing to stay in it.
Exactly!!! To say they made poor decisions is the understatement of the year.
BTW, the Kendall Rogers article says that UH is going to put more resources into the program, not make some moves within the support staff.
And with this former baseball season holder, it’ll yet be another year where I won’t attend one single game. Smfh
Other than the covid season, I had attended games every year since the last season or two of Rolan Walton’s tenure. Most seasons during the Rayner Noble years, I attended every single game played in Houston; at Cougar Field, Rice, and at the College Classic. Near the end of the 2023 season, I said I had attended my last Todd Whitting coached UHBB game. I survived not going to a single game during the 2021, 2024, and 2025 seasons and I’ll survive not seeing any games next year. This isn’t a slight against the players, I’m sure they are doing their best. The blame goes to Rhoades, Pezman, Nunez, the donors and so-called supporters who stand in the way of an easy fix that should have happened after the horrible 233 final RPI rank of 2021.
Without Frank Anderson’s help, Whitting has been a total failure as a head coach. He’s finished in the top 50 only five times, three while Anderson was here and two the following years when many of Anderson’s pitchers were still at UH. Throw out Anderson’s influence, and Whitting’s teams have never finished in the top 50. His high mark was 58 his first season when he had 20 returning players from Noble’s 2010 team. Noble had four seasons when his teams did not finish in the top 50. Noble’s worst and only sub-100 finish was 105 in 2009. Whitting has had four sub-100 finishes of 153, 233, 102, and 112. Noble’s teams played in eight regionals, advancing to three supers, and never went more than two years without playing in a regional. Whitting; four regionals and one super-regional, with a three year gap to go along with the current six year dry spell (seven if you count the covid year). Missing two regionals with a 105 finish followed by an 83 finish were enough to get Noble fired. Having to tolerate yet another year of Whitting makes no sense at all. If he had been replaced after the 2021 season, we could realistically be gearing up for a run at Omaha right now.
That’s a powerful statement from what essentially is a super fan. Just woeful that we’re inflicting this on ourselves
You said it all.
Great post @hardcorehoustonian .
One thing that you said that is so important is that our disdain has absolutely nothing to do with the kids.
We all realize the fellas are out there playing to their abilities.
TW has actually brought in a handful of really high level talented kids over the years……I won’t get in to details but some of these guys were treated poorly IMO and chose to leave….and their new teams were the beneficiaries of these guys transferring.
So now we have a situation of Whitting in a contract year. He hasn’t recruited well in years, especially with starting pitchers, and now we expect him to recruit with other coaches telling recruits he’s a goner?
It has to be about money. It will be interesting who portals out now.
Barring a miracle our program will once again be a bottom dweller in the Big 12.
I can’t believe women’s hoops was more important than UH baseball
I’d rather bite the bullet rather than give him an extension……seems like it was a “ here’s the deal….we’ll let you have this last year on the contract but no extension, if that’s not okay with you then you’re fired”……
He has had way more than enough time to get his sh-t together……more than any of us have at our jobs.
When you consider how much has been spent to upgrade facilities and pay coaches over the last 6-8 years, the ROI on our baseball program has to be the worst in the entire athletic department. Even with football underperforming, they at least gave us a Top 20 finish and some bowl wins. Baseball hasn’t been in the 64 team playoff field in 8 years.
Remember when the Player Development Center was gonna be a “gamechanger” for the program? We need to hire someone to change it back.
Softball and basketball were replaced in women’s sports. Whitting has one more year on his contract and will be next to go if he has an improved budget and mediocre results. Simply means it will be another year that I don’t drive the 13 miles from my house to U of H (which can take up to an hour and a half) to watch poor play when I can catch it on ESPN+ and save myself the aggravation.
Give me a reason to go and I will be there.
Have a nice summer everyone.
What is sad is there are a lot of fans who have left, myself included. The problem is over time people find other things to do and a percentage will never be back. And this has a two fold effect because there is a younger group of recent alums who, as students, because of the program did not attend and will most likely never attend in the future.
You need to send this to Duarte and Nunez.
The story of “you’ve got one year left on your contract and we’re holding your feet to the fire” has happened three, four times? It is an absolute joke from an athletic department that has no idea how to prioritize the programs.
Yeah, it’s BS, and I don’t understand why anyone buys it, except that they lean on “he’s a Coog and a good man.” Those are admirable qualities, but they clearly don’t qualify one to be a successful head baseball coach.
The AD can quit telling people they need to step up and do more so that we can compete until he does the same. I’m not listening to it anymore.
Exactly! He is a joke. This shouldn’t have even been a decision, it should have automatically been done after the season finished in Arlington. The fact this wasn’t decided months ago tells me that they really don’t care about baseball at all.
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