The Pecan Park Eagle

Junior Jake Lamoine will be the strong arm guy for the No.3 ranked UH Cougars to start the 2015 College baseball season.

No other pre-season 2015 college baseball poll we’ve seen ranks the UH Cougars lower than 8th place, but Baseball America has the Houston Southeast East End Cats rated as their 3rd highest pick, trailing only #1 Vanderbilt and # 2 LSU. The complete list of Baseball America top picks are viewable at the following link:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/2015-college-baseball-season-preview-index/

Baseball America also features a well-stated article on how the UH return to baseball respectability began with the return of former assistant coach Todd Whiting and his staff from the very successful TCU baseball program during the summer of 2010, when Whiting took over the scattered and ineffective baseball program as head coach. 2015 marks the fifth season of full control for Whiting and Company over the recruitment of those quality athletes who are capable of looking past the prestige mantle of all the big brand schools to sign up for the renewed winning sports culture of the always lesser known UH Cougars.

The following article by Jim Shonerd on January 26. 2015 for Baseball America does a good job of summarizing how important the sensitivity of Whiting and his staff are to the recruitment challenges that always exist for UH. The messaging contact with recruits has to be honest and forthright: UH is not on your doorstep to try to win a prestige contest with UT, A&M, or LSU. That never happens. We are here to recruit you to a winning culture in college baseball in which you will be given the full opportunity to play as much as your competitive spirit and concern for team victory above all else is what matters most to you too.

Here’s a first version link to the Whiting story by Shonerd link:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/whitting-leads-houston-back-prominence/

Here’s a link to an even better version of the same information, which also includes some team digital film material and information on tape about Coach Whiting and the 2015 UH Cougar baseball team roster:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/college-preview-capsules-3-houston/

For those of with an interest in history, here’s a link to the roll call of UH’s baseball alumni fraternity, as provided by Baseball Almanac.com:

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/university_of_houston_baseball_players.shtml

And finally, here’s a link to how you may buy tickets for what is likely to be the biggest bang for your Houston baseball buck in 2015:

http://www.uhcougars.com/tickets/hou-tickets-m-basebl.html

C’mon, Houston fans! We have given Rice our support in the past. Now let’s do it for another of our own. Cougar Field stands to be hosting some great quality college baseball in 2015 and the prices for admission, as you can see for yourself, are really affordable. Even if your team is UT or A&M or LSU or Oklahoma State – this isn’t Austin, College Station, Baton Rouge, or Stillwater. We live in Houston – where the college baseball at all our local universities is on the rise – as fun for us – and deserving of our support.

As for all of you UH alumni baseball fans, you have no loyalty conflicts here. – Those of you can attend need to come on out and support YOUR Houston Cougars in baseball while keeping two other thoughts in mind. – Our Cougar hopes in football and basketball are also now on the rise with the arrivals of coaches Kelvin Sampson and Tom Herman. Those guys deserve and need our Cougar alumni and independent Houston fan support too!

As per usual whenever the subject is OUR Houston Cougars, The Pecan Park Eagle tries to report things to the best of our objective ability in this subject area.

Have a nice Saturday, everybody!

Tags: UH Cougars ranked #3 in pre-season baseball.

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