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In addition to revealing our award nominations, we tackled the following Houston Cougar/Cougar adjacent topics:

• The surprising, but completely understandable departure of Leroy Burrell to take over at Auburn
• 'Houston Rise' begins the task of fundraising for the Coogs' imminent Big 12 move
• A favorite emerges for Big 12 commish
• Soccer releases its full schedule and MBB's non-conference schedule takes shape
• Football recruiting picks up for 2023 & one more portal add for 2022 and beyond

For the pawd's (semi or so ) annual off topic episode, Sam brought on long time in real life friends, and friends of the show: Bobby and Bill to discuss the following topics from Formula 1 auto racing:

• Introducing the 10 F1 teams and their respective driver pairings
• The race weekend format & Championships
• Favorite/Least Favorite Race from '22 calendar year
• Contracts & possible future driver movement
• Opening the 'time capsule' on our early season predictions
• Thoughts on the most recent season of the Netflix F1 smash hit "Drive to Survive"

It was an exciting week in Cougar athletics, as men's track & field put together a top-20 team finish at Outdoor Nationals, and because Outdoor Nationals signified the final event of the 2021-22 Cougar athletics calendar. And since the past week also saw *official* confirmation that UH will be joining the Big 12 next summer, we are officially in our last off-season as a member of the American Athletic Conference. So we're back and we're talking track, and we're talking Big 12, and we're also talking baseball players in the transfer portal.

You didn't think we (the royal 'we') wouldn't have an instant react on the return of Cougar men's basketball star Marcus Sasser? Then you were sadly mistaken.

Sasser wasn't the only Cougar men's hoops topic as a 2023 local recruit committed *and* the first D1 transfer of the offseason joined.

PLUS! Cougar baseball makes a run in the conference tournament (+ big picture end of season thoughts) and Cougar track & field goes to Prelims and sends athletes/relays to NCAA Outdoors.