Lamar University’s baseball coach has been hired to lead the resurgence of a Big 12 Conference program in Texas.<\/p>\n
After a decade in Beaumont, Will Davis was announced Tuesday as the next head coach at the University of Houston. He replaces former Cougars coach Todd\u00a0Whitting, who was fired earlier this month after 16 seasons at Houston.<\/p>\n
A Lamar University spokesperson did not confirm if Davis, 41, will continue to coach the Cardinals in the NCAA tournament or immediately take over at Houston.<\/p>\n
Houston athletic director Eddie Nu\u00f1ez had a previous connection with Davis from their shared time at LSU. Now, Davis will be tasked with turning the Cougars into an annual contender like he did at the mid-major level with Lamar.<\/p>\n
Houston went 24-31 this season and has not\u00a0reached the NCAA tournament in eight years.<\/p>\n
“I am thrilled and honored to be the head baseball coach at the University of Houston,” Davis said in a news release from Houston’s athletic department. “I have spent my whole coaching career at both\u00a0LSU and Lamar competing against them and have seen firsthand what a special place this is. In my time in college baseball, they have come so close to making it to Omaha on several occasions and I am excited to take on the challenge of getting the program over that hump.”<\/p>\n
In 2024, Davis signed a four-year extension with Lamar that came after a 44-win season that year. Davis’ new deal with Houston is a five-year contract worth roughly $425,000 annually, according to a report from the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n
Lamar pitching coach Jace Hutchins and hitting coach Scott Hatten will follow Davis and join the new coaching staff for the Cougars, according to the Chronicle’s report.<\/p>\n
Before coaching at Lamar, Davis served as an assistant coach at his alma mater\u00a0LSU from 2009 to 2015. He first came to Lamar as the coach-in-waiting during Jim Gilligan’s final season at the helm in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar University’s baseball coach has been hired to lead the resurgence of a Big 12 Conference program in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,97911],"class_list":["post-309735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sportsdata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309735","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=309735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}