The boys are back, sans technical issues this week, joining in the usual manner to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics from a typically busy March week that was:

• A bounce back week for men's hoops, talking a win over Colorado and previewing the final regular season week's opponents: Baylor and OK State.
• Once again swim & dive is in a tier of their own at the Big 12 championships, discussing a 3rd straight impressive performance at the conference level
• Track & Field's standout performances from Big 12 Indoors, including the return of recent sprinting legend Louie Hinchliffe to the program
• Tennis Corner talks multiple Big 12 wins in the same week for the first time ever (!!!) plus previewing a challenging AZ road swing
• Golf Corner checks back in on an impressive women's team performance in Vegas, Sam discusses his 1st college golf event experience
• The end of the women's hoops regular season & Big 12 tournament mini lookahead
• Checking in on the baseball & softball programs and their up & down weeks, largely playing on the road

It was a week where the pawd's technical challenges mirrored its (recently unprecedented) men's hoops challenges, but Bobby and Sam found a way to return and discuss the following topics from the Houston Cougars sports week that was:

• The boys (separately) talk about the men's hoops team's challenging week, what went wrong, and what's fixable/not for this year's team as March looms
• Bobby squeezes in a Golf Corner as the women's team hosts the Chevron Collegiate
• Table setting a pair of upcoming winter sport Big 12 championship meets this week (Swim, Indoor T&F)
• Softball has another impressive weekend, their 1st away from home of the season
• Baseball gets some tough questions asked of it after dropping their home opening series
• Previewing Tennis' Big 12 home opening weekend, with a couple of critical matches
• Checking back in with women's hoops who closes the regular season with 2 winnable match-ups

Its the time of the college sports calendar for only the most jam packed episodes and the boys certainly weren't disappointed by the Houston Cougar topics on offering tonight, including the following:

• Men's Hoops wins a decidedly not classic showdown with K State (Jerome Tang, we hardly knew ye) and loses a Big Monday classic at Iowa St with plenty of positives even in a defeat
• Previewing a downright gargauntuan men's hoops slate, hosting #4 Arizona and traveling to Kansas and the notorious Phog Allen Fieldhouse
• Baseball's most exciting opening weekend of results in many year and a sneaky big home opening series vs UTRGV
• More encouraging home results from softball, with the first road trip weekend coming
• Golf corner returns to preview the '26 spring men's golf season!
• Tennis closes non-conference play undefeated and with very few blemishes from the 1st part of the season

Its that beautiful time of the college sports calendar where winter and spring sport seasons meet up and we're downright overflowing with Houston Cougar sports to talk about as Bobby and Sam kicked around the following topics:

• An unbelievably dominant weeknight men's hoops win over surprise team UCF
• Discussing Kelvin Sampson's post UCF 'poor' comments and the state of UH's NIL efforts
• Returning to the on court action discussing a pair of on-court men's hoops wins in the state of Utah: a comprehensive win over top 25 BYU and a workmanlike win over cellar dwellar Utah (with bonus time traveling)
• Finally, previewing men's hoops' pair of games to come: hosting woeful K State and a Big Monday trip to a top 5 Iowa State
• Previewing the 2026 Cougar baseball season
• Staying on the diamond to discuss a promising 1st weekend of the Chrissy Schoonmaker era for softball and some 2nd weekend tests
• Tennis Corner discusses 2 more sweep wins and the end of non-conference play
• Checking back in with track & field as they reach the business end of Indoor season

The calendar has turned to February and as always with that the sports start to pile up, with an absolutely jampacked episode of Houston Cougar sports happenings to discuss as Bobby and Sam chewed on the following topics:

• Men's hoops avoiding a 2nd straight Big 12 loss for the first time in 2+ years with a not always easy win over TCU and a mostly east (14th straight win) over Cincy
• Previewing a pair of challenging men's hoops opponents: a surprisingly good UCF team at home and a challenging roadie to top 25 BYU
• A long awaited 1st Big 12 win for Matthew Mitchell and Cougar women's hoops
• Previewing the 2026 Cougar softball season under 1st year HC Chrissy Schoonmaker
• An impressive women's golf spring opener in Mexico!

The boys are back, after a freezing weekend in the Lone Star state and large swaths of the country, Bobby and Sam return with only minimal cabin fever and a long list of Houston Cougar sports happenings to talk about from the week that was and will be:

• Men's basketball loses a classic re-match on the road to Texas Tech, featuring an all-time great performance from Kingston Flemings. Also, looking ahead to a tricky roadie at TCU and a return home to face Cincy again.
• Trying to put a happy face on the farce of Charles Bediako/James Nnaji playing college basketball & drafting our favorite past Cougar men's basketball alums to "join" the current season's team.
• Checking back in with women's basketball as they search for their 1st Big 12 win, showing respectably in losses to K State and #14 Baylor, with a winnable home matchup with Cincy looming
• Previewing the 2026 women's golf season with a senior-laden squad that has the potential to be one of the Big 12's best
• First track & field thoughts after the opening week of the Indoor season, highlighting top performers to watch from the Coogs
• Yet another triumphant Tennis corner with the Coogs coming off another pair of 4-0 road wins and Valeriia Krokhotina makes program history

The boys, Bobby and Sam specifically, are back here in late January (the year flies!) with the following Houston Cougar sports topics to discuss:

• Talking about a comprehensive men's hoops thrashing of Arizona St (and Bobby Hurley one last time) and looking ahead to the College Gameday game of the week at Texas Tech this weekend
• The latest football transfer portal class adds and some big picture thoughts on what Willie Fritz & the staff have done to strengthen the 2026 roster
• Checking in on the swimming & diving program's early '26 meet win against Big 12 opponents
• Tennis corner returns for the spring, with the Coogs rattling of a trio of dominant wins to start their '26 campaign

Back to the 2 regular co-hosts, Bobby and Sam return with a jampacked episode full of current Houston Cougar sports happenings, including the following:

• A 3-0 Cougar men's basketball week, including a heart in mouth win over Texas Tech and shellackings of Baylor and West Virginia to pace a 4-0 start to Big 12 play, PLUS previewing weekend opponent Arizona State
• Another challenging week for women's basketball's front loaded conference schedule
• Recapping the latest additions to the football transfer class
• Previewing the 2026 tennis season, including the roster, schedule and the Coogs' biggest storylines
• Sam pays off his loss in the 2025 football season pick 'em by talking about one of the most reprehensible albums of music ever recorded

With the calendar turning 2026, co-host emeritus Dustin returned to join Bobby and Sam to discuss these Houston Cougar sports topics:

• A heart in mouth men's hoops Big 12 opener win at Cincy with clutch Milos Uzan and Kingston Flemings performances
• Looking ahead to a week with against 2 in-state conference foes in Texas Tech & Baylor
• Bonus Dustin thoughts on the Big 12's men's hoops outlook
• Cougar football's first several transfer commitments are in and early returns are very exciting, while also talking some of the outgoing transfers as well
• Reminiscing on the 2025 football season & time capsule predictions for 2026

At the end of an eventful and mostly awesome calendar year for the Houston Cougar sports teams, the boys are back for 1 final time discuss the following Coog sports happenings from the week that was:

• Recapping a 38-35 Texas Bowl win over LSU that felt like a celebration of a special team and perhaps the start of a larger buy-in from the fanbase
• Men's Hoops closes non-conference play with a less than artful win over Middle Tennessee, with the excitement of Big 12 play beginning this coming weekend at Cincy
• The latest 2 games of a brutally difficult, all top 25 opponents start to women's hoops' Big 12 season, with a National POY candidate playing at Houston this week

The boys are back (the boys are back) on the eve of Christmas Eve with the following Houston Cougar topics to discuss:

• A 94-85 statement non-conference win by Cougar men's hoops over the #14 Arkansas Razorbacks & historic foe John Calipari
• Hunt Palmer of LSU pre and postgame (and other Louisiana sports talk) joins us to preview the '25 LSU Tigers
• Additional Texas Bowl/LSU thoughts from the boys
• Discussing football coaching staff movement in and out
• An auspicious start to Big 12 play for women's hoops

The boys are back (the boys are back), with a mid-December slate of Houston Cougar sports happenings to chew on this week:

1:01- Intro

5:25- Men’s Hoops gets 2 more convincing wins over Jackson St/New Orleans, looks ahead to last non-conference test against #14 Arkansas

25:50- Cougar fans SELL OUT their Texas Bowl allotment

31:49- Early portal entries from the football team, including O Line starter Demetrius Hunter

37:48- Taking a trip down memory lane of all UH football bowls 2007-present

1:32:14- Catching up with women’s hoops’ last week & Big 2 opener at West Virginia

The boys are back, with the following Houston Cougar sports topics up for discussion in this week's episode:

• Cougar football finds out its postseason destination, early thoughts on the Texas Bowl/LSU & how attendance issues contributed
• Talking the 2026 football signing class, what 5-star QB Keisean Henderson's signing means & thoughts on other '26 signees and the class as a whole
• Men's hoops is back in action with a mostly convincing win over FSU (w/its own attendance discussion) & returns to the Fertitta Center for the first time since Thanksgiving
• Unpacking a difficult, now completed volleyball season
• Reviewing the still fairly newly released tennis spring schedule
• Revisiting a humbling home non-conference loss by women's hoops to Southern

We may have now reached the end of the Houston Cougar football regular season, but the boys are back with certainly no shortage of UH sports topics to discuss, including the following:

4:45- Football wins its 2nd straight game at Baylor

43:57- Down w/the Pickness, final regular season week

45:52- Recapping men's hoops' last game in Vegas against Notre Dame, big picture Players Era festival thoughts & previewing Florida State

1:05:16- Women's hoops splits a pair of games in the Bahamas, equals their 24-25 season win total

The boys are back here on the eve of Thanksgiving with more than just opinions on the best sides and turkey brine as they chew on these Houston Cougar sports topics from the week that was:

2:02- Thanksgiving food talk

6:25- Men's hoops continues to learn about itself in the challenging Vegas Players Era festival this week

29:36- Star recruits Arafan Diane & Ikenna Alozie sign to the men's hoops program

34:54- Recapping a heartbreaker of a senior day football loss to TCU

1:25:05- Brice Cherry of the Waco Tribune joins to preview Baylor football

1:46:28- Additional Baylor preview thoughts

1:54:14- Last regular season Down w/the Pickness

1:58:08- Women's hoops' encouraging 2-0 non-conference week

You can't sneeze at talking about both of the Houston Cougars' highest profile sports being top 25 programs with lots of happy stuff to talk about, which Bobby and Sam did this week among these following topics:

6:09- Men's basketball survives its first road test against Auburn w/plenty of help from super frosh Kingston Flemings & looks ahead to the Players Era Event in Vegas

43:58- Jamie Plunkett of Horned Frog Blitz/247Sports joins the pawd to preview TCU Horned Frog Football

1:02:48- Additional TCU preview thoughts

1:14:34- Down w/the Pickness weeks 12/13

1:20:53- Women's basketball loses a tough road opener, but shows some positives & gets 2 more interesting non-conference tests

Its another big meaty pawd full of Houston Cougar talk from a number of different recent sports happenings, in the following order:

3:29- Men's hoops gets out to a 2-0 start & looking ahead to a big weekend showdown w/Auburn on the road

28:14- Football's dramatic 30-27 win at UCF, the first ever by a non-UCF team in the Space Game

58:57- Our spicest future facing Cougar football takes + some of our followers' takes

1:16:15- Down w/the Pickness, Weeks 11/12

1:19:23- First fall season check-in on the Cougar Swimming & Diving program

1:24:00- Cougar Tennis Corner! (perhaps the last one of the year with fall action)

1:26:23- Women's hoops splits its games & looks ahead to the 1st road game of the season

The boys are back, with a meaty episode as we have reached that equinox state of the calendar where the football and basketball seasons collide, with the following topics (w/time stamps) up for discussion:

2:59- Cougar football drops a baffling game to West Virginia

46:20- Adam Eaton of Sons of UCF joins the pawd to preview the ’25 UCF football team

1:03:32- Additional UCF preview thoughts

1:19:16- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 11/12

1:23:45- Men’s basketball opens the season against Lehigh, looks ahead to Towson

1:36:13- Soccer ends a promising 1^st season under Ben Williams

1:42:39- Women’s basketball wins their season opener/1^st game of the Matthew Mitchell era

The boys are back in the regular spot and with plenty of Houston Cougar on field triumphs to talk about and look ahead to, with the following topics this week:

0:00- RIP Kurt Hester

3:57- Recapping a top 25 Cougar football road upset of Arizona State

42:09- Previewing West Virginia, in year 1 of HC Rich Rodriguez's 2nd run there

1:01:38- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 9/10

1:06:34- Cougar soccer gets 2 results to stay alive for the Big 12 tournament

1:14:58- Cougar volleyball lets another Big 12 match slip away

1:20:19- Quick thoughts on Cougar men's hoops' opener next Monday vs Lehigh

Its HOOPS time! The boys return to discuss the upcoming seasons for both the Houston Cougar men's and women's basketball programs, as the teams look ahead to what should be exciting 2025-26 seasons to come.

The boys are back, even with Bobby once again coming from 'parts semi-known' on a work trip, with the following Hoston Cougar sports topics:

0:00- Paying tribute to the now late Cougar football legend Warren McVea

5:56- Recapping a 31-28 win over Arizona

51:35- Ralph Amsden helps us preview top 25 Arizona State

1:12:25- Additional Arizona State thoughts

1:28:42- Down w/the Pickness weeks 8/9

1:32:49- Soccer's unbeaten week

1:45:08- Assessing what's wrong w/volleyball

1:55:11- Cougar golf corner! (women's AND men's this week)

1:57:50- Tennis adds a decorated international recruit!

The boys are back in the saddle with the happy occasion of a Houston Cougar football win to discuss, along with a number of other UH sports topics:

4:01- Recapping a blowout 39-17 win by the Coogs at Oklahoma State

35:44- Brian Pedersen of AZDesertSwarm.com joins the preview Arizona Wildcat football

48:52- Additional Arizona preview thoughts

1:01:24- Down w/the Pickness week 7 recap/week 8 picks

1:06:51- Quicker than usual Soccer/Volleyball recaps

1:08:41- Cougar Men's Hoops preseason poll/metrics talk

1:14:28- Cougar tennis corner

The boys are back to talk the 1st loss of the football season (later than usual), along with a host of other Houston Cougar-related topics to metaphorically nosh on... including the following (w/time stamps):

3:50- Tech game recap

42:38- Phillip Slavin, our Ten12 Network empresario, joins to help preview Oklahoma State & talk Big 12 football

1:10:15- Additional OSU preview thoughts

1:20:11- Down w/the Pickness, weeks 6/7

1:25:10- Soccer gets a result vs BYU, drops a frustrating one vs Utah, travels to a tough WVU team

1:34:27- Volleyball struggles at Baylor/Colorado, finishes the road swing against the Utah Big 12 schools

1:40:06- Cougar Golf Corner off a 3rd (!!!!) men's golf individual title of the fall season

1:44:02- Quickly noting Cougar tennis' return to action later this week @ ITA Texas Regionals

The boys are back, the boys are back, with indisputably the meatiest episode of Season 11 and discussed these following topics (w/time stamps!!!):

2:47 - Football @ Oregon State recap

40:53 - Albie Shore of Tortillas & Takes helps us preview Texas Tech football

1:04:07 - Additional Tech thoughts

1:17:24 - Down w/the Pickness week 5 & 6

1:21:40 - Soccer's encouraging week against a brutal road slate

1:35:53 - Volleyball's close shave at TCU, gets in win column vs Tech

1:45:27 - Cougar tennis corner after a strong weekend @ Big 12 Individuals

1:55:16 - Mini Cougar golf corner after Grant Doggett's Bayou City Classic win!

The boys have survived the lack of Houston Cougar football during the past week, with the following UH sports topics to discuss:

• Previewing the Oregon St Beavers, with help from Anchie Machado of BeaverBlitz.com
• Week 4/5 Down w/the Pickness updates
• Quickly discussing the newly-released men's hoops Big 12 schedule
• Soccer opens Big 12 play with a statement win and looks ahead to a brutal schedule over the next 3 weeks
• Some concerns after UH dropped a 5-setter last weekend & looking ahead to Big 12 opening opponents TCU & Texas Tech.
• Fall updates/results to discuss from women's golf and tennis