With Bobby out due to a family obligation, the OG hosting duo of Dustin and Sam return to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports related topics:

• So long and farewell to Cougar football coaching stalwart Brian Early, who left for the same job at Mizzou
• An unforgettable week of men's basketball that has past and is to come, with a dramatic OT win in Austin over the hated burnt orange horns preceeded by a demolition of K State and looking ahead to an unforgettable upcoming roadie to Kansas that feels like its year's in the making
• Women's basketball splits games against the 2 fellow former AAC programs and we guess its not the worst case scenario?
• Quick Track & Field, Swim & Dive, and Tennis updates!

The original duo, the OG co-hosts Dustin & Sam re-convene with Bobby off in sunny Florida and proverbially chew on the following Houston Cougar topics:

• A 3-0 men's hoops week that featured career game from Jamal Shead in a demolition of Texas Tech, a historic defensive performance that saw UCF only make 7 field goals in regulation, AND the program's 1st ever Big 12 road win in a nailbiter at BYU
• Also previewing the men's hoops week to come: featuring a pesky and somewhat worrying K State team and the hated/enigmatic horns
• Back to frustration for women's hoops as the program goes 0-3 in conference play and hits rock bottom at WVU... but winnable games might beckon this week?
• A quick roundup of the finalized football staff and some transfer comings and goings
• Previewing the swim & dive and tennis seasons that have just started and are about to start, respectively.

Its the first TRULY meaty episode of the 2024, the usual Gang of Three is all here to discuss a lengthy list of Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's hoops continues to find out how hard it is to win a road Big 12 game, with an extremely narrow loss to TCU filled with missed opportunities and specific anger towards one Doug Sirmons
• The Big 12 account is now open for Cougar women's hoops, who put together back-to-back impressive performances at home
• Previewing the Indoor Track & Field and Golf Seasons

It finally happened, the Cougar men's basketball team lost a game and so the guys fight through incalculable sadness (okay, not really) to discuss the following topics on this week's pawd:

• Men's basketball opening its Big 12 account with a comprehensive thrashing of WVU and a tough, low scoring loss at Iowa State. Plus, looking ahead to a tough roadie to TCU
• Finding the takeaways from maybe the toughest road swing of the season for Cougar WBB and followed along live w/the Coogs eventual 1st Big 12 win over BYU
• A quick look at several new incoming transfers to the Cougar football program

The triumphant trio is back. Dustin, Bobby, and Sam return to discuss the following Cougar sports topics:

• Cougar football has another promising player withdraw from the portal and the early vibes continue to be positive around Willie Fritz and the new staff
• Men's basketball quickly goes full boa constrictor on Penn and AT LONG LAST we have Big 12 conference games to preview
• Women's basketball opens up conference play with a decisive loss to Texas Tech and looks ahead to their most daunting road trip of the season

Two of the usual three boys are back in town, with Dustin and Bobby taking the Cougar discussion to the following topics:

• Willie Fritz continues to fill out the new Cougar football staff and getting to know the new coaches
• Looking at the 2023 football signing class: D1 transfers and the usual high school/junior college signings
• A quick volleyball and soccer recruiting transfer update
• Men's Hoops gets a big non-conference win over Texas A&M, unfortunately sees an end to Terrance Arceneaux's 2023-24 season & holding Texas State to its fewest points in 10 years
• A less inspiring week for women's hoops who got massively outclassed by Wazzu, hut redeemed themselves a bit with a rivalry win over Rice

The boys are unambiguously back, with the following Houston Cougar sports topics to talk about from the week that was and will be:

• Willie Fritz's new Cougar football staff starts to take shape
• A number of key players enter the portal, including but not limited to: Matthew Golden, Tyler Johnson, and Chidozie Nwanko and the first commit of the Fritz era
• Men's hoops takes care of 2 outmatched opponents and look ahead to the first head to head with Texas A&M in 10 years
• Women's hoops also goes 2-0, including their first road win, and get 2 varying degrees of road tests in UTSA and Wazzu

It feels like 2 days ago that we were here pawding about a new football coach, but there's so much going on in the world of Houston Cougar sports that the full compliment of co-hosts wouldn't dare miss talking about the following topics:

• Willie Fritz won the opening press conference and we talked about things that caught our attention from the presser, plus: Fritz/staff contract talk, staff additions, and early portal talk
• Cougar volleyball had an incredible final weekend of the 2023 season: comprehensively beating a very good UCSB squad and then giving #2 Stanford everything they could handle. We also look ahead to 2024 and beyond for David Rehr's program
• Men's basketball passes its first road test over Xavier, overcoming overjudicious officiating and some offensive cold spells
• We reevaluate women's basketball's start to 2023-24 after a disappointing 25-point home loss to Middle Tennessee

Willie Fritz is officially the 16th head coach of the Houston Cougar football program and the 3 co-hosts are pretty stoked about it. Talking the news as its arrived, re: Fritz and the following related topics:

• Why specifically we're so excited about Willie Fritz coming to UH
• A quick biography of his ~30 years as a college football head coach
• Early vs long term expectations for what Fritz can do at a UH program in the Big 12 conference
• Roster and staff super duper early speculation.

The boys are back (echoes the boys are baaaack), with a menagerie of Houston Cougar topics that they are dying to discuss with you, the listening public, and amongst themselves:

• Football coaching rumors and looking at what the Coog fan public thinks about the various candidates to replace Dana Holgorsen.
• Volleyball finds out its postseason destination, plus an inspired come from behind senior day win & Big 12 postseason honors galore.
• Men's basketball makes easy work of Montana & looks ahead to its first true road test of the 2023-24 season.
• Women's basketball dominates an outmatched New Orleans team, but finally will get its first real test Wednesday night w/Middle Tennessee. Plus 2 co-hosts are emphatically buying stock in Kierra Merchant.

Its here, we kind of can't believe its here but its here. UH dismissed Dana Holgorsen as head football coach less than 24 hours after an uncompetitive end of season loss and a largely uncompetitive 2023 season. The full hosting triumvirate kicked around the following:

• How Dana Holgorsen's firing became inevitable after 5 years in charge
• Where Cougar football goes from here, including types of candidates and talking about semi-realistic individual candidates
• A quick break-in for where UH Volleyball ended up in this coming NCAA Tournament from the simultaneously airing selection show

The full trio of co-hosts, the hosting triumvirate if you will returns to discuss a variety of topics on this week's pawd:

• All the co-hosts' go-to Thanksgiving foods
• Men's basketball's extremely successful 3-0 week in Charleston, with the team answering its first serious tests of 2023-24
• Volleyball sees its 8 match win streak end, but no shortage of optimism abounds with the end of the regular season in sight
• Women's basketball does unprecedented things... against less than stellar competition, but gets their first big test next week
• Football ends its 2023 home slate and any hopes of bowl eligibility with a wet fart of a loss against Oklahoma State and mercifully ends the season in Orlando against UCF this Saturday

Bobby and Sam return bright eyed and bushy tailed (figuratively) to discuss a cornucopia of Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Volleyball continues to eviscerate Big 12 competition, this time on the road at Oklahoma & look ahead to an interesting but inconsistent TCU team
• Men's Hoops has a bright start against overmatched opponents and looks ahead to their first games away from Houston, plus a quick look at the 2024 program signees
• Women's Hoops surprises us with some unbelievable dominance in their first 2 games
• Aaaaaand football gets manhandled by Cincy, in a game that proves you can always be more unhappy with each passing week

Houston Cougar football got thoroghly taken apart in a 24-14 loss to a Cincinnati Bearcat team that hadn't won a football game in over 2 months. It really doesn't get a whole lot worse than that, and somehow we decided to talk about it.

Its a pawdcast original, Dustin and Bobby take the reigns to discuss the following Houston Cougar topics of recent import:

• Football wins a dramatic one in OT against Baylor, the program's first win in Waco since 1990, a game that featured a lot of things... but not much good football. Speaking of not good football, Cincy also comes to town this coming weekend.
• Women's Hoops opens their season on Friday against Air Force and the guys look at what the 2023-24 can do in its first Big 12 season
• Volleyball EMPHATICALLY sweeps a weekend back-to-back with UCF for its 5th straight conference win and goes on the road as heavy favorites to Oklahoma
• FINALLY, men's basketball opens their season with a whalloping of UL-Monroe

The boys are back in (their respective and different) town(s) again and with a variety of different Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Football finds a new rock bottom, getting shut out for the first time in 23 years on the road against K State. Additionally, Dana Holgorsen once again puts his proverbial foot in his mouth & the grim inevitability of Saturday's game with Baylor is discussed
• We have the release of 2024-27 Big 12 football schedules that we are kind... excited about?
• Volleyball dominates Cincy and looks ahead to a big weekend back-to-back at home against UCF
• Previewing the 2023-24 version of Houston Cougar men's basketball
• Our quick and dirty preview of the Big 12 men's basketball season to come

We're still not over the 2 missed spots, but we saw a lot to be encouraged about from Saturday's close, heartbreaking loss the horns... along with other topics of interest:

• Soccer ends a season with as many questions as they started with
• Volleyball has some road get right matches and dispatches Texas Tech easily
• Bobby's Golf Corner
• Big 12 week 8 recap and week 9 preview

Did a big football game happen or something? But seriously folks, the boys were back to talk about the following Houston Cougar topics:

• Piecing our thoughts together from an unforgettable first Big 12 football win by Dana Holgorsen's current employer, against Dana Holgorsen's former employer
• Big 12 football week 7 recap and week 8 lookahead
• An almost entirely vibes-based preview of the university of texas at austin's intercollegiate football program
• Men's basketball gets consensus 4-star wing Chase McCarty and low numbers in various preseason polls
• Volleyball gets record crowds and competed valiantly but unsuccessfully at home against the #7 Longhorns, plus looking ahead at a big road weekend
• And Soccer keeps its conference postseason hopes alive with a shock road result at TCU, but struggles to keep that momentum going at home

The OG co-hosts return (or you might say are back in town) for the 2nd pawd of the week to talk about this veritable menagerie of Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Cougar football gets a much needed off week and looks ahead to facing Dana Holgorsen's old employer: the West Virginia Mountaineers, who are off to their own surprising 4-1 start to the season.
• Volleyball gets its expected 1st Big 12 wins over West Virginia and stays at home for an enormous showdown with the #7 Texas Longhorns this weekend at the Fertitta Center
• Soccer gets its first Big 12 road win, still struggles against the soft part of the conference schedule
• Recapping week 6 Big 12 football action, including one co-host taking a deserved victory lap on his correct prediction of an Iowa State win
• Previewing week 7 Big 12 football action

With Cougar football off this past week, we had on Ryan Monceaux (publisher and founder of GoCoogs.com) to discuss the 2023 Houston Cougar football to date, looking at what we've seen through 5/12 games and big picture/little picture implications and of course looking ahead at the remainder of the season.

The boys are back in (their respective) towns again, to talk about some Houston Cougar sports topics of the moment:

• Football's inability to play complimentary football or 4 quarters of offense in a 6th straight loss to Texas Tech, by a score of 49-28 in Lubbock
• Big 12 football week 5 recap and week 6 lookahead
• Soccer gets UH athletics on the board w/a Big 12 win over WVU, encounters some of the same late match issues
• Volleyball's murderous road trip concludes in Kansas, finally gets a manageable home Big 12 slate

The boys are back and the vibes... aren't entirely bad, as Cougar football's surprisingly dominant 38-7 win over Sam Houston State is discussed, along with the following topics (Coogs and otherwise):

• Previewing 2023 Texas Tech Red Raiders football w/our friend Jeramey from our Ten12 Network friends Tortillas & Takes.
• Volleyball shows flashes against a truly excellent conference opening opponent in the BYU Cougars and looks ahead to the #20 Kansas Jayhawks
• Women's golf has an impressive showing in Oklahoma
• Soccer forces us to re-assess some of the non-conference optimism, with a big week ahead
• Big 12 football week 4 recap/week 5 lookahead

We unlocked our instant react premium pawd to a surprisingly and stress free 38-7 win over the Sam Houston State Bearkats on Saturday night. If you liked this pawd and don't do so already, please consider subscribing for $0.16/day at patreon.com/shpawdcast!

The boys talk about a disastrous Houston Cougar football Big 12 opener against the TCU Horned Frogs, and other topics that are all varying degrees of less painful, such as the following:

• Week 3 Big 12 football recap and week 4 lookahead... which may actually feature some teams that feel as bad about their 2023 prospects as our team of choice
• The debut of our new, Cougar golf segment
• Volleyball's encouraging bounceback week to close out non-conference play
• Soccer opens Big 12 play for the athletic department and why we're not sweating the 3-0 loss to Texas Tech too badly

LANGUAGE WARNING: We have to talk about it, don't we? The surprising and upsetting loss to Rice was the first topic of this latest pawdcast... but far from the only topics of Houston Cougar import to talk about tonight, including the following:

• Yes, recapping the Rice game, what happened and what it means
• Week 2 Big 12 football recap and Week 3 lookahead
• Anthony North of FrogsOWar.com and the Frogs Up podcast joins the show to preview the TCU Horned Frogs football program
• Season openers for both Cougar golf programs & a team title to talk about already!
• Volleyball gets another top 25 challenge and beats an old familiar foe
• Soccer opens Big 12 play for all of UH athletics this week
• COUGAR HOCKEY TALK! COUGAR HOCKEY TALK! COUGAR HOCKEY TALK!