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We're BACK, mere weeks away from the start of the college football season and mere hours away from the start of the 2024-25 Houston Cougar athletics season, with these topics to kick around:

• Previewing the 2024 Houston Cougar football offense, what we are optimistic about, how we think it will look, standout players, storylines, and question marks
• Martin Marroquin, former UH football assistant director of scouting, joins the pawd to tell his unique story and give the pawd insight on what goes into evaluating players in a Division 1 football program
• Previewing a pivotal year 3 of the Jaime Frias era for UH soccer as the team opens its season (and the athletics year generally) this week

At last, we have a brand new, 10th (!!!) season of the Pawd to debut and we do so in our customary fashion, with a couple of news item appetizers to kick us off:

• Making at least 1 prediction about every single Houston Cougar intercollegiate sports team for the 2024-25 season and reviewing our 2023-24 bold predictions
• The football non-conference schedule of the next few years takes shape and pondering the future of the Bayou Bucket game with Rice
• A quick round-up of Cougar current athletes/alumni at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

The boys have reached the end of Season 9! And what better way to commemorate a UH athletics and pawd season in the books than the 7th annual Paw-scar awards, commemorating the best athletes, teams and moments of the 2023-24 season.

Plus, we found time to discuss the following newsy topics:

• Cougar men's hoops alums Jarace Walker and Jamal Shead standing out at NBA Summer League and TBT with the Forever Coogs team featuring Rob Gray, Fabian White Jr, Justin Gorham and other program favorites
• Baseball loses Ross Kivett to his old employer: the University of Tennessee
• PAWDCAST HOST NEWS (*bumbumbum*)

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We're back on our regular weekly recording pace, with the following Houston Cougar topics on the agenda:

• Introducing the nominees for our 7th annual Pawscar Awards, covering the 2023-24 UH athletics season
• Diving into Willie Fritz and the Cougar football staff's summer recruiting gains in the class of 2025
• A quick look at UH alums and current student athletes competing at this month's Paris Olympic Games

Oh hey, I guess our summer break is over. Its been a newsy last few weeks on many fronts in the world of Houston Cougar sports and the full trio of co-hosts return to discuss these topics:

• Discussing the rumored names for UH's athletic director vacancy, including but not limited to: David Fletcher, Oliver Luck, and Keli Zinn
• The bizarre decision to extend UH softball coach Kristin Vesely is finally revealed to the public at large
• Thoughts from Big 12 media days and where the Coogs were picked in the preseason poll
• Jamal Shead is a Toronto Raptor! Plus, Coogs in Summer League and TBT talk
• A trio of baseball pitchers get taken in this week's MLB Draft
• The much deserved extension for women's golf HC Lydia Lasprilla

We recap additional reporting on alleged unacceptable behavior by Houston Cougar softball head coach Kristin Vesely and the resulting toxic culture in the program under Vesely's leadership, as reported to us by players and staff members in the program and look at where UH appears to go from here with a subsequent AD change and other questions about who will even be coaching the program next year.

EMERGENCY PAWD! In a surprising and shocking move, UH leadership and Dr. Renu Khator dismissed Chris Pezman from his job as the UH athletics head honcho. We take a look at Pezman's 6-year tenure, successes/failures, what led to such a sudden and emphatic dismissal and what roles fundraising and other factors played in the decision.

And NOW for some fun summer content: Houston Cougar Tennis HC Kat Adamovic joins the Pawd to talk about her vision for the program, background, and gives listeners a little primer on college Tennis and what makes it uniquely awesome

The boys are back in town with some you might find a bit closer to the usual, standard pawdcast fare:

• Briefly addressing the 'elephant in the room' of what comes next from our most recent previous episode
• Louie Hinchliffe wins a natty (!!!!!) and Cougar men's track & field have a Big 12-best 6th place at NCAA Outdoors and the women grab their most points at Outdoors since 2007
• Breaking down UH's hire of new Tennis head coach Katarina Adamovic from Grand Canyon. Looking at Adamovic's strong resume & some of the new athletes that'll be playing next season for Adamovic
• Keisean Henderson and the seismic recruiting get he could represent for Cougar football in the c/o 2026, plus a quick c/o 2025 update after a summer recruiting weekend and catching up on a recent transfer addition in Ajani Carter
• Sean Kenny, we hardly knew ye and we get to know a familiar face in new baseball hitting coach Woody Williams.

In this episode we recap a number of serious allegations relayed to us by multiple sources with firsthand knowledge (players and staff) of the Houston Cougar Softball program under current head coach Kristin Vesely, in addition to related inaction by UH athletic department leadership.

I'm going to level with you, its 11:31 PM and I am having of all things, writer's block writing a show description, BUT the full compliment of pawd co-hosts had plenty to say about the following Houston Cougar topics:

• Men's Golf comes heartbreakingly close to advancing past the Baton Rouge regionals. Looking at an end of season run to be proud of and what the future looks like with one big, probable departure
• Track & Field leaves its first Big 12 Outdoor Championship with a lot of performances to be proud of and taking an early look at NCAA West Prelims
• Football adds CB JD Rhym, recently of Auburn to a position group that could use a former highly recruited talent needing a fresh start
• Women's basketball adds a couple of promising transfers, but still has some of the same questions
• Baseball's unfortunately bad conference season mercifully ends
• Softball sees its top 2 projected returning hitters enter the portal and a complete lack of an answer on who'll be leading this program in 2025

The OG hosting pairing returns this week with a veritable cavalcade of Houston Cougar topics, in season and offseason, to discuss this week and those topics were as follows:

• Women's Golf comes heartbreakingly close to a historic season, falling a literal stroke short of advancing at the Auburn Regional, though we're still bullish on the program's future under coach Lydia Gumm
• Men's basketball's 2024-25 schedule gets a major boost from an inagural NIL-boosting Las Vegas event on Thanksgiving Week
• Football has an incredibly active weekend in the transfer portal
• Women's basketball makes a splash addition from a recent national champion to their coming season's roster.
• Softball ends their 2024 season and likely with it the Kristin Vesely era
• Baseball's Big 12 series woes continue

The boys are back (the boys are back), with Cougar sports questions to answer and a healthy offering of current sports happenings on Cullen Boulevard to kick around:

• A change in leadership for the Tennis program, with a chance for UH's leadership to revitalize a program that has historically struggled to get much momentum
• Patrick Paul goes in the 2nd round of last week's NFL Draft, plus you know we have some portal movement
• The bat & ball sports certainly could have had worse weeks
• Track & Field splits a really nice weekend performance between the Penn Relays and Texas Invitational
• Q&A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After a brief mid April hiatus, the Pawd is back to talk about a mixture of offseason and in season Houston Cougar sports talk, including the following topics:

• Cougar men's basketball adds Milos Uzan (formerly of Oklahoma) to the 2024-25 roster and we kick around who the newest Cougar is and what a successful 1st season for Uzan could look like
• Numerous football players enter the portal after spring practice, so we take a look at who is leaving and what it means for 1st year head coach Willie Frirz
• Solid showings at the 1st Big 12 championships for women's and men's golf, though showings tantalizingly close to something even more
• Baseball and Softball both continue to struggle in conference play
• Tennis season ends a very difficult, winless 1st year in the Big 12. We try and think creatively about how this program can improve its lot in (sports) life

The full group of co-hosts are back to talk about the 2 of the most positive things in Cougar athletics right now:

• Men's basketball gets the official returns of LJ Cryer and J'Wan Roberts, plus taking a deep dive on the 2023-24 season and what the roster could look like going forward
• Vibe checking the '24 spring football practice period under Willie Fritz and Saturday's on campus spring game

The OG co-hosts, Dustin and Sam, are back to discuss the end of a big and incredibly memorable season among the following Cougar topics:

• It ended in a way none of the Cougar faithful thought was just desserts, but we look back at the Sweet 16 loss and the downright cruel way Jamal Shead's season was ended early in this one. PLUS, the first portal entrant from the 2023-24 team.
• The women's hoopers have several players enter the portal and early thoughts on what the 2024-25 team could look like.
• Checking back in on baseball and softball
• Track & Field's downright excellent and for 1 athlete, a record setting weekend at the Texas Relays

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The gang is all here! Bobby, Dustin, and Sam are back in the saddle and somehow survived the roller coaster of emotions from Sunday night's Round of 32 win over Texas A&M to talk about the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's basketball's heart in mouth, absurdly stressful win over the Aggies in the Round of 32. We also find time to talk about a drastically less stressful opening round win over an outmatched Longwood
• Previewing the despicable Duke Blue Devils and the possible Elite 8 matchups of Marquette and NC State
• Quick updates on: Swim & Dive, Track, and Men's Golf

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2 of the boys are back in town to do what we all love to do and talk a little Houston Cougar sports, including these topics:

• Any additional thoughts on the opening weekend to come of men's basketball in March Madness
• Baseball drops a frustratingly close series at BYU and a big home series with K State beckons
• Softball's pitching goes missing again on the road in a series loss to Iowa State
• Bobby helps us catch up on the last week of both men's and women's golf
• A promising start to outdoor season for track & field and we talk about a new event for the pawd
• Tennis finishes the most brutal part of its Big 12 schedule and actually might have a couple winnable matches this weekend!?!!? Plus thoughts from Bobby watching the Coogs in person at TCU

Its the moooost wonderful time of the year, a mere minutes after the reveal of the 2024 NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket, Bobby and Sam joined to discuss the following topics:

• The Coogs' opening round opponent: the Longwood Lancers and what upset threats they pose, along with thoughts on possible Round of 32 matchups with Nebraska and Texas A&M and general South region thoughts
• Additional thoughts on Big 12 teams' seeding, tournament snubs, the collosal fuck-up of the NIT, and other parts of the bracket
• And some stray Big 12 tournament thoughts

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The full trio of co-hosts is back for what could be the best Houston Cougar regular season week in pawdcast history and since probably pre-dating all co-hosts' 17-18 years of fandom and discussed the following Coog topics:

• Men's basketball gives Kansas their worst road loss of the Bill Self era (and many years prior) after surviving a road trip to UCF where everything seemed to break against the Coogs... and oh yeah, won the Big 12 title by multiple games!
• Also, looking ahead to the Big 12 tournament AND talkin' the guys' Big 12 themed menu items
• Baseball sweeps its first every Big 12 series over the Baylor Bears, with plenty of help from a pitching staff we maaaaay be optimsitic about and clutch hitting
• SOFTBALL BEATS THE #1 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY! Taking down the Longhorns last Friday and competing far more than we expected vs Iowa St
• Recapping Coogs competing at NCAA Indoors
• A rare break from the positivity to talk about a disappointing end to the women's basketball season and an even more disappointing aversion from UH athletics leadership to make a change.

It was the best of times, it was... well, still pretty awesome times for the Houston Cougars (one host also came back with some good personal news) as Dustin and Sam soldiered on without Bobby who accidentally double booked us and dinner with his parents (understandably, the parents won out) to tackle the following topics:

• A nail biter of a road win at Oklahoma for men's basketball and an unfortunate season ending injury to a bright young star in JoJo Tugler as the regular season's final 2 games beckon
• A 2nd place at the Big 12 swim & dive championships for the Coogs that feels like a win
• Track & Field sends some potential high-placing athletes to NCAA Indoors
• Bat & ball sports start Big 12 play with very different expectations for very different opening weekend opponents
• Women's basketball forces us to ask some hard questions

The boys are back, all 3 co-hosts are healthy and in full voice with plenty of Houston Cougar happenings to talk about, including the following:

• A dramatic OT win for men's basketball at #15 Baylor, a slightly more stressful 11th straight win over Cincy, and a big homecoming for Kelvin Sampson this Saturday at Oklahoma
• Men's and women's track & field combine for 4 titles at the program's inagural Big 12 Indoor championship
• Baseball takes a weekend series with St. Johns & drops a heartbreaker midweek vs UTSA, plus the guys recount stories of watching college baseball at Minute Maid Park before this weekend's trip downtown
• Softball avoids bad losses in their first road trip weekend, but some of the same questions still persist
• Women's basketball fails to get any Big 12 momentum off their Oklahoma State road win with 2 straight double digit losses
• An encouraging weekend for women's golf and Santiago de la Fuente makes a PGA cut in Mexico!
• Tennis continues to vex us and opens Big 12 play this week

With Dustin sidelined due to illness, Bobby and Sam returned to discuss a really positive week from the world of Houston Cougar sports:

• A 2-0 week from men's basketball featuring a demolition of the hated longhorns and hard fought, wire to wire win over #6 Iowa State, plus looking ahead to a challenging road trip to Baylor
• Baseball's positive opening weekend and an absurd midweek win
• Softball takes care of business and gets their first series challenges this coming weekend in Baton Rouge
• A real life women's basketball road win!
• Golf updates!

The boys are back in to-ooown again, as all 3 co-hosts return to tackle the following Houston Cougar topics:

• Men's basketball gets a big road win over Cincy, an unbelievable 10th straight against the Bearcats and looks ahead to a challenging 2 game homestand against ut-austin and Iowa State
• Previewing the 2024 baseball season, with plenty of intrigue and some of the same questions of the past several seasons
• Softball has a mostly encouraging opening weekend and looks ahead to a compressed home weekend of nearly all must-win games
• Women's basketball... long sigh
• Quick hitters for (now top 25) track, men's/women's golf, and tennis

The full compliment of co-hosts, the trio of Dustin, Bobby, and Sam return with a metaphorical overflowing pot of Houston Cougar happenings to talk about:

• Men's basketball gets a tough introduction to Allen Fieldhouse, takes care of business against OK State, Kelvin Sampson takes some issue w/officiating and a big, difficult roadie to Cincy awaits
• Unfortunately, women's basketball has another tough week
• Football gets a late gamechanging 2024 recruit & an exciting new D Line coach
• Previewing the 2024 Softball & Women's Golf seasons
• Quick round up of Track, Swim & Dive, and Tennis recent results