We don't have football this coming week, but we have an exciting Houston Cougar football win to chew on and numerous other topics from the world of Cougar sports, which we discussed in this order:

• The 1st ever Cougar football win in the Big 12 opener! Discussing everything from a 36-20 win over Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes, certainly this team's most complete effort, with PLENTY of Ethan Sanchez/Cougar special teams talk included
• Each of our biggest takeaways from 25% of the football regular season completed
• A miniature Down w/the Pickness & reviewing one co-host's 3-0 picking week in week 3
• Soccer closes non-conference play with a win & looks head to its Big 12 opener this week
• Volleyball gets its most challenging weekend done & looks ahead to its final non-conference weekend
• Quick Tennis & Cross Country updates

The boys are back (the boys are back) and its our meatiest pawd of the young season with an episode positively overflowing with Houston Cougar sports happenings to chew on, including the following topics:

• Recapping another dominant defensive performance from Cougar football's final scheduled Bayou Bucket game against the Rice Owls and thoughts on the future of the series.
• Longtime Colorado beat writer Brian Howell lends us his knowledge of the CU Buffaloes football program
• Additional thoughts on the 2025 Buffs' football team
• Volleyball's encouraging opening home weekend
• Another undefeated week for the Soccer program
• And a triumphant start to the 2025-26 Golf season

A little 12+ minute taste of what Bobby and Sam talked about on the Patreon-exclusive Bayou Bucket react episode, which you can get access to by going to patreon.com/shpawdcast and supporting the work the guys do talking about the Cougars.

Bobby and Sam, in certainly the meatiest episode of the new season, FINALLY have a real life Cougar football game to talk about in what is absolutely a jampacked week of Cougar sports and these were our topics for the week's pawd:

• Recapping Cougar football's 27-0 win over SFA, a defensive masterclass and an offensive performance with signs of promise and unanswered questions
• Previewing the Rice Owls w/help from friend of the show Matt Bartlett of At the Roost & our thoughts on what will hopefully not be the last Bayou Bucket game for the foreseeable future
• Week 2 Down With the Pickness and recapping week 1 picks
• Volleyball has an incredible 3-0 opening weekend & a big Flo Hyman Classic slate coming this week
• Soccer nears the end of its promising non-conference season
• A Cross Country update!

FOOTBALL IS BACK and we're excited to talk about that, along with multiple other very exciting Houston Cougar sports topics in roughly this order:

• Soccer absolutely demolishes UT-Austin 4-1 in a match that was nothing short of a statement of intent by this team and 1st year HC Ben Williams
• Previewing the SFA Lumberjacks w/help from SFA alum/D1 FCS football Internetsman Dustin Helton and adding our own thoughts on the 'Jacks and Thursday's match-up
• DOWN WITH THE PICKNESS RETURNS FOR 2025
• Volleyball kicks off its season on Friday, so we previewed what we think the 2025 team will look like

The return of Houston Cougar football is SO CLOSE we can taste it, with single digit days left until the season starts the boys returned to discuss plenty of future pigskin among the following UH sports topics:

• An in-depth preview of a '25 Cougar football offense with an exciting new QB in Conner Weigman, lots of new faces with some key returnees but questions still to answer and at the risk of jinxing it... almost nowhere to go but up
• Breaking down the first week of the Cougar soccer (fútbol) season and the Ben Williams era, plus a pair of interesting in state non-conference matchups
• With the Big 12 football season beginning this weekend, we answered the biggest and most interesting questions about the upcoming season

We've reached a truly wonderful time of the year, as Bobby and Sam return in the halcyon preseason days of August with seasons to look forward to and talk about, talking about the following topics tonight:

• Previewing the 2025 Houston Cougar football defense (by position) and special teams, players to watch in the coming season & thoughts on 1st year defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
• With the return of actual on field Cougar sports this week, we preview the annual 1st team in action: your Houston Cougar soccer program with 1st year head coach Ben Williams leading the team into what we hope will be an exciting new era

There's no special occasion quite like the beginning of a new season as we begin the 11th season of this pawd with all co-hosts (emeritus and regular) returning as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam stake their pre-season bold predictions w/at least 1 for every UH intercollegiate sport & revisit 24-25 bold predictions & find out who was the master prognosticator.

This year's pawd also features some new types of questions/predictions that we're stoked for y'all to hear!

The boys are doing something a bit different for this one tonight here in the waning days of July, as co-host emeritus Dustin plays some combination of Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey, and Louie Anderson hosting "Pawdcast Feud" and testing the knowledge of the regular co-hosts on various UH and UH sports-related questions

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The boys are back (the boys are back) with a new pawd full of some new and familiar topics when it comes to Houston Cougar sports topics around these parts, including the following:

• Bobby was out at Big 12 football media days, talking with Willie Fritz and the Coog players in attendace up in Frisco & giving the biggest talking points during the heart of talking season
• Addressing the latest attempts by external forces to invent a UH and UCF sports rivalry out of thin air
• Antoine Jean & Connor McGinnis become the latest Coogs selected in the MLB Draft
• Discussing a really nice week for the UH football staff on the recruiting front as the 2026 class comes into focus w/2 new 4-star commitments

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After a week off, the boys returned to kick around the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's hoops finds out their first 2 games at the Players Era event in Vegas & we check in on program alums competing at the NBA Summer League
• The softball coaching staff starts to take shape, with Chrissy Schoonmaker hiring her first 2 asssistants
• Checking in on women's golfers competing overseas during the offseason
• Antoine Jean rakes in the college baseball All-American honors
• But our main topic is digging into the House v. NCAA settlement, the basics of the case, how UH is affected/ideas on disbursing the revenue and big picture takeaways of how we thing this settlement will/won't change the college sports landscape and the questions still to be answered
• A quick snippet of our latest patron exclusive episode!

Its one of our absolute favorite traditions, the 8th annual Pawscar awards as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam honor the best University of Houston athletes, teams, coaches, and moments from the 2024-25 athletics year that was!

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Oh hey its a throwback pawd, as the gang of 3 current and emeritus Pawdcast hosts convene to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Revealing our categories/nominees for the 9th edition of our season-ending Pawscar Awards
• Top performances from Cougar track & field athletes at the NCAA Outdoor championships
• A big football recruiting update earlier this month from consensus 5 star QB recruit and UH commit Keisean Henderson & the 2026 football class at large starting to take some shape

It may be mid June and by any definition, the dog days of summer, but the boys are still back to talk everything current in the world of Houston Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• Reacting to UH's newest head coach: Chrissy Schoonmaker, previously of George Washington. What we like (the pitching track record & not being Kristin Vesely) and still are unsure about with this hiring process (lots)
• Previewing Cougar track & field's entrants at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championship
• A quick look at a group of new assistant coaching hires from the baseball, soccer, and tennis programs
• At the end the boys treat themselves to a little general sports talk during this lighter month of college sports

The boys are back (echoing) the boys are back, and on this pawd where the month turns to June on the calendar, there are still Cougar sports topics to kick around and the regular co-hosts talked the following topics:

• UH's unsurprising, but not wildly encouraging decision to bring back baseball HC Todd Whitting for a 16th season in 2026
• What the lack of an update on the softball head coach tells us about who UH might be hiring
• Track & Field sends several athletes and a relay to NCAA Outdoors, with some heartbreaking near misses and one injury absence
• Kicking around some interesting Coog-related questions from our followers on the slime infested waters of social media... a summer tradition of sorts around here

The boys are back and its that, the most welcome of Houston Cougar offseason topics, an episode with a ton of good men's hoops offseason news which is included in a number of different Cougar sports topics covered in this episode, as follows:

• Milos Uzan officially returns to the men's basketball program! What Uzan's return means for the 2025-26 season & Pop Isaacs' corresponding de-commitment from the program
• Kelvin Sampson's extension becomes official
• Appropriately honoring Antoine Jean's incredible 2025 baseball season & the team's season ends at the Big 12 tournament
• Looking ahead to Cougar athletes competing at the NCAA Track & Field West Prelims

Just because the boys have reached the end of Houston Cougar regular season sports for the 2024-25 season doesn't mean there isn't a ton to talk about from sports in and out of their respective seasons, as Bobby & Sam kick around the following topics:

• A really encouraging 'ahead of schedule' performance from Track & Field (primarily, but not exclusively the men's team) at the BIg 12 Outdoor Championships
• Recapping the final regular season baseball series vs Arizona & looking ahead to a die or die week in Arlington (are there any other kind) at the Big 12 Baseball Championship
• The FINAL 24-25 Cougar Golf Corner, talking Moa Svedenskiold's NCAA Championship appearance & the latest commitment to the women's golf program
• Tennis has its first offseason roster movement with 2 interesting transfers commiting in the past couple of weeks
• Eddie Nuñez drops some interesting men's basketball news items
• A teaser of the otherwise Patron-exclusive '2025 Coog Vibe Check, Part 2' episode that's dropping this current week

We're partying like its an early season Pawd episode, because both co-hosts are in person in Vegas with the following Houston Cougar topics on offer:

• Bobby gets the chance to weigh in on UH moving on from Kristin Vesely, bigger picture thoughts on everything uncovered in the past 12 months, and talking specific candidates for UH's newest vacancy
• Baseball clinches (maybe?) at least a trip to the Big 12 postseason
• Another Golf Corner featuring the Coogs in an NCAA Regional
• Previewing the Coogs at the Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field championships
• SNEAK PREVIEW of our premium "Cougar Athletics Vibe Check, Pt 1" pawd

The original co-hosting duo returns to discuss UH letting go of longtime softball head coach Kristin Vesely, including returning to reporting last summer of a toxic environment in the Cougar softball program, things the co-hosts have learned in the time since, and what UH did right (very little) and didn't do right (lots) institutionally in reaching today's outcome and what the program should look for in its next leader.

The boys are back, as the lazy days of May certainly don't equate to the lazy Pawdcast co-hosts of May as there are a number of Houston Cougar sports topics to discuss on this show:

• Baseball finally earns their way to lead the show, with a 4-0 week that puts the team in prime position for the Big 12 postseason & looks ahead to a big road series in the Valley of the Sun
• Golf Corner: checking in on women's golf at the NCAA Columbus Regional and the men's trip early next week to the NCAAs in Champaign-Urbana
• Men's Hoops makes a rare outsider hire for new assistant coach Mike Ekanem
• Bobby has Sam rank five songs that'll be near and dear to all Coogs' hearts
• Checking back in on an unsurprisingly poor softball season & telling ourselves some variation of "surely Kristin Vesely can't be the coach here much longer" 

For the last time in the month of April 2025, the boys have returned to discuss a mixture of Houston Cougar sports topics, both of the in season and offseason news variety, including the following:

• A triumphant Golf Corner following an impressive 4th place finish by the men's team at the Big 12 championships & the women's team learned their postseason destination and Bobby gives a listener refresher on the golf postseason format
• Football sees 4 new transfer arrivals and more departures from the defensive backs
• Talking Matthew Mitchell's first 3 transfer adds to the women's basketball program
• Catching up with the standout performances from the last few weeks of the Outdoor track & field season
• A 2-2 baseball week that the boys don't feel terrible about & a BIG weekend series with Utah looming

You better believe the boys are back for a late April Pawdstravaganza of Houston Cougar sports content... sports in their offseason (or spring season), sports in the business end of their seasons, sports right in the middle of their season. What we're saying is we're talking Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• JoJo Tugler, Emanuel Sharp, and others confirm their very welcome returns to Cougar men's basketball
• Diving into the '25 spring football practices, position groups/players the guys are most intrigued by, and some notable recent transfers in and out of the program.
• A Big 12 championship Golf Corner as the men have a solid first couple of rounds and the women are doomed by a poor final round after a strong start
• Our final in season Tennis Corner of 2025, with things we're encouraged about and areas the team can improve after year 1 of Kat Adamovic's tenure
• Baseball completes a season sweep of Rice and splits games in a weather shortened series at OK State and looks ahead to a big road series at K State

The boys are back here at the beginning of the hot part of the year with a variety of interesting Houston Cougar sports topics, including the following:

• Looking at the 2 newest men's hoopers: Pop Isaacs of Creighton and Kalifa Sakho of Sam Houston, what they've done in their careers prior to arriving at UH and how they could fit onthe 2025-26 team.
• Terrance Arceneaux departs men's hoops, our best memories & what went right/wrong in his time at UH, plus Milos Uzan's unsurprising decision to test the NBA draft waters
• Matthew Mitchell makes some intriguing hires on his 1st women's hoops staff
• A Cougar Golf Corner featuring the women's team winning an event in Dallas that Bobby caught in person & beginning competition at Big 12 championships & an encouraging event finish in Arizona from the men's team ahead of Big 12s next week
• A Cougar Tennis Corner where Sam finally got to watch the Coogs in person for 2 very different matches in Utah that showed how far the team has to go & also the positive signs of the culture Kat Adamovic has started building in year 1
• Baseball gets swept for the 2nd time in 3 home Big 12 series and it feels like another week of 1 step forward, 2 steps back

The boys return to discuss a tough loss from an absolute classic of a national championship game against Florida and the unbridaled joy of the semifinal come from behind win against Duke and its crew of uber talented freshmen. 

The boys are back in town again in classic pawdcast fashion to talk about an absolutely jam packed week of Houston Cougar sports and news, including the following topics:

• A titanic men's basketball Final Four showdown with Duke, previewing everything about the Blue Devils and their various uber talented freshmen
• Matthew Mitchell takes over as UH women's basketball head coach, unpacking his impressive coaching resume & what he can realistically achieve here
• A TRIUMPHANT Tennis Corner off of a 1st ever Big 12 victory
• What we learned about Track & Field's top performances at the Texas Relays
• A disappointing baseball series loss to TCU that has the boys asking a lot of the same questions as before