{"id":299369,"date":"2026-05-19T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/299369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:59:17","slug":"university-of-houston-parts-ways-with-baseball-coach-todd-whitting-after-16-seasons-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/299369\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Houston parts ways with baseball coach Todd Whitting after 16 seasons \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-18-143039.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-552193 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-18-143039.jpg\" alt=\"The University of Houston announced Sunday that Cougar Baseball coach Todd Whitting will not be offered a new contract.\" width=\"2412\" height=\"1610\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Houston\/Erik Williams<\/p>\n<p>The University of Houston announced Sunday that Cougar Baseball coach Todd Whitting will not be offered a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Houston announced Sunday that longtime baseball coach Todd Whitting will not be offered a new contract. <\/p>\n<p>Whitting was with the team for 16 seasons, during which he led the Cougars to 498 wins and had a .558 winning percentage, according to the university. Seventy-one of those wins were against nationally ranked opponents, including against No. 2 Texas earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful evaluation, we have decided to make a change in the leadership of our baseball program,\u201d UH athletics director Eddie Nu\u00f1ez said in a statement. &#8220;We cannot thank coach Whitting and his family enough for their efforts and wish him and his family well in their next endeavors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, Whitting had not publicly commented on the university\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after UH&#8217;s season-ending, 8-2 victory against Wake Forest on Friday.  The Cougars were 24-31 overall and 7-23 in Big 12 Conference games this season. <\/p>\n<p>According to the university, Whitting is a two-time ABCA Regional Coach of the Year, having coached 13 All-Americans, 54 All-Conference selections and 49 MLB draft picks, including first-round pick Seth Romero. <\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez said the university will immediately begin a national search for its next head baseball coach. <\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Houston Public Media is licensed to the University of Houston System. The university does not play a role in Houston Public Media\u2019s editorial decisions.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/about\/ethics-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Read our statement of ethics and standards here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Houston\/Erik Williams The University of Houston announced Sunday that Cougar Baseball coach Todd Whitting will not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[416,56,58,57,66,223,154,108855,91177,513],"class_list":["post-299369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-sports","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-todd-whitting","tag-uh-baseball","tag-university-of-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}