After a lengthy absence, it's time to take stock of the state of Cougar athletics, and everything that entails. From the positive of seeing student-athletes wielding their societal power, to the shock of having symptomatic student-athletes test positive for COVID, and the huge questions facing UH leadership in the wake of their decision to begin workouts without universal testing.

In more run-of-the-mill offseason news, we talked the state of Cougar men's basketball after Fabian White's is injured, Ramon Walker commits, and another SEC opponent is added to the schedule. Plus football and baseball added a couple transfers each, and women's hoops made a couple of coaching hires.