UH baseball coach Todd Whitting interviews for Texas job

University of Houston baseball coach Todd Whitting interviewed with Texas about its vacant job, a source with knowledge of the situation said Sunday.

Whitting, who has been at UH the past six seasons, met with UT athletic director Mike Perrin on Saturday in Houston. The Austin American-Statesman first reported the news.

The Longhorns are in search of a replacement for Augie Garrido, the all-time winningest coach in college baseball history who stepped down at the end of the season.

UT is coming off its first losing season since 1998 and missed the NCAA postseason for the third time in five years.

Whitting currently has four years left on his contract that pays him $300,000 annually, the highest in the American Athletic Conference. 

Under Whitting, the Cougars have reached the NCAA Tournament two of the last three years, including a spot in the super regionals in 2014. With one of the nation's top pitching staffs, UH went 36-23 this season and came within a win of making the postseason for the third year in a row.

Whitting is 208-150-1 in six seasons at UH, his alma mater.

At least seven coaches have reportedly interviewed or pulled their names out of the running for the UT job, among them Louisville's Dan McDonnell, LSU's Paul Mainieri, TCU's Jim Schlossnagle, Florida's Kevin O'Sullivan, Virginia's Brian O'Connor, Vanderbilt's Tim Corbin and Oregon State's Pat Casy.

Tulane's David Pierce, a former assistant at Rice, is also believed to be a candidate for the job.