The boys are back in tooooooooown, the boys are back (whispers the boys are back), and with a heaping helping of Houston Cougar sports stuff to discuss:

• Cougar men's hoops thrashes K State 87-57 on the road & looks ahead to challenging Big 12 opponents West Virginia and UCF
• The portal stops for no program and UH adds a couple of transfer defensive backs and we bid a fond farewell to Hershey McLaurin
• Tennis head coach Kat Adamovic joins the pawd for a 2nd time, discussing the fall that was and looking ahead to a new era for the program
• Track & Field kicks off the indoor season in style at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational
• Swim & Dive start 2025 with an emphatic dual meet win over a Big 12 opponent

Back to the regular 2 co-hosts, this humble University of Houston sports-focused podcast returns to discuss the following UH sports topics of note:

• Recapping men's hoops' dominant 2-0 mini homestand w/victories over BYU and TCU, with a road trip to Kansas State on the horizon
• Women's hoops trudges through an 0-3 start to conference play and the boys try and assess what's wrong
• 3 intriguing late winter window football transfer adds
• Quick notations of immediately upcoming events for: Track & Field, Swim & Dive, and Tennis.

The co-hosts (wonder if that includes a special guest one) return for the first time in 2025 to discuss the following Houston Cougar and tangentially related topics:

• Recapping smothering defense & questionable offense from Cougar men's hoops' Big 12 opening win over Oklahoma State
• Special guest co-host Dustin talks about what he's seen from the partial men's hoops season to date
• Previewing BYU and TCU MBB
• More football portal talk, post winter window closing thoughts
• Dustin's wishlist for all of UH athletics in the year 2025

In the last episode before the Christmas holiday and 2nd to last of the calendar year, Bobby and Sam kick around the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Getting to know new Cougar football defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
• Talking the official add of former A&M QB Conner Weigman & a number of other notable transfer pickups for Cougar football (and one BIG return to the roster)
• 2 pre-holiday buy games for Cougar men's hoops & what we can glean from these 2 contests
• Women's Hoops ending non conference on a high note & starting Big 12 play this weekend
• Tennis' 2025 schedule & a great final fall ranking for Santa Strombacha
• Some women's golfers competing at Euorpean Q School
• Sam's punishment for losing 2024 "Down with the Pickness"

Bobby and Sam return to discuss the following topics from the last week or two in the world of Houston Cougar sports:

• Men's Hoops showing a lot of really encouraging stuff, including a record setting defensive half, in wins over Butler and Troy
• Chris Cenac Jr becoming the latest blue chip recruit to join the men's hoops 2025 class
• Shiel Wood departs to become Texas Tech's defensive coordinator (candidates we like for the opening) & getting to know new UH offensive coordinator Slade Nagle
• Football portal departures & the impending arrival (later confirmed) of former blue chip QB Conner Weigman
• A positive end to the '24 volleyball season & early offseason thoughts
• Still short on positives for women's hoops, even in a week w/some positives

Is it already December?! Bobby and Sam return off of Thanksgiving week to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• The dismissal of former UH football OC Kevin Barbay, why it happened and where Willie Fritz may be looking next for the replacement
• An encouraging, but still flawed performance to end the 2024 football season at BYU
• Men's Hoops' tough week in Vegas at the Players Era Event
• And a week that truly might represent "rock bottom" for Women's Hoops

A little early release, pre-Thanksgiving breaking news as Bobby discusses UH dismissing football offensive coordinator Kevin Barbay and possible replacements for the position.

Bobby and Sam have both the unenviable and enviable task of discussing the following topics on this week's pawdcast (w/time stamps included):

• 1:49- Thanksgiving food talk
• 6:33- Recapping football vs. Baylor
• 44:28- Previewing football @ BYU
• 57:08- Recapping MBB vs. Hofstra
• 1:06:44- Previewing MBB @ the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas
• 1:14:28- Volleyball's week that was/will be

The boys are back with not all bad news in the world of Houston Cougar sports on the menu for discussion, but it certainly isn't all good news either here in mid-November. See below for the time stamped breakdown of this week pawd:

3:30- Blue chip 2025 point guard Kingston Flemings commits to men's hoops

9:34- UL-Lafeyette recap/Hofstra preview

25:21- Arizona recap

56:25- Baylor preview

1:05:29- Volleyball

1:10:27- Women's hoops

The boys return about 24 hours earlier for the usual weekly, heaping helping of Houston Cougar pawdcast goodness, talking about all of the following sports topics of recent relevance:

• Men's Hoops learns some tough lessons & still shows some encouraging signs from a marquee match-up and close loss to the #11 Auburn Tigers
• Previewing a potential statement game for football on the road at Arizona, with the Coogs' looking to stay on schedule for bowl eligibility
• Volleyball has extreme highs and lows over 2 Big 12 matches in the last week
• Women's basketball continues to find a Laila Blair-less early season schedule difficult
• Our longest ever Tennis corner: recapping 2 different events the Coogs competed at, with officiating critiques and some positive notes to end the fall season on