The Scott & Holman Pawdcast

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

The boys are back, with the genuinely joyful task of discussing the 24-19 Houston Cougar football upset of #17/#15 Kansas State, how it happened and what it means along with the following Cougar sports topics:

• The triumphant return of men's basketball, with a dominant win to open over Jackson State and a big match-up with #11 Auburn waiting over the weekend
• Quick Big 12 football thoughts for the Cougar bye week
• Volleyball wins back to back in conference play!
• Women's basketball has a... less triumphant opener
• Swim & Dive and Tennis updates!

There's nothing quite like a Houston Cougar football win, even one that wasn't pretty or easy as UH won a 17-14 defensive struggle against the Utah Utes, which the boys discuss in detail along with the following Cougar topics:

• Previewing the K State Wildcats, with help from honored repeat guest Scott McFarland of the great Cats pod "Boscoe's Boys"
• Thoughts from last Sunday's men's hoops charity exhibition vs. Texas A&M
• Previewing the 2024-25 Cougar women's hoops season
• Volleyball's same story against a top 25 opponent, along with a redemptive road win
• Soccer is finally done, what can be done to fix a program that's won 4 conference games in 3 seasons under this head coach
• An encouraging fall performance from men's golf

To give those of y'all who don't listen a taste of what we're doing weekly on the Patreon feed: here's the latest instant react episode, from last Saturday's 17-14 Cougar win over the Utah Utes.

Mama said there'd be days like this, Cougar football follows up their most complete win with a disheartening road no show against a hungry Kansas team. Bobby and Sam break down the good and mostly bad from the 42-14 loss at Arrowhead Stadium from last Saturday in addition to the following topics:

• The defensive wizardry and offensive inepitude of Utah football
• What we have our eye on for the upcoming men's basketball scrimmage vs Texas A&M
• Volleyball has a tough Arizona swing and a top 25 win opportunity
• Soccer... is almost done for 2024
• Bobby makes the case for why YOU should be getting on the Women's Golf bandwagon right now

Its truly a classic pawd, the boys are back for a meaty 100ish minute episode consisting of the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Previewing the 2024-25 Cougar men's basketball season with expectations, returning experience, and excitement galore
• Off a much needed bye week, previewing Cougar football's next opponent: the Kansas Jayhawks
• Volleyball's big, heart stopping win over Iowa St & a tough Arizona road swing to come
• We finally have a reason to be positive for 1 episode about Soccer
• Both golf programs were in action, the men at the Big 12 match play tournament and the women at the Illini Invitational @ Medinah
• Tennis' weekend in Ft Worth at the ITA TX Regional Championship, with Bobby giving an in person report of some of the action

Turns out, wins are really fun to talk about! Bobby and Sam return to dive into everything that happened in Cougar football's 30-19 upset win over TCU in Ft. Worth, with little picture and big picture takeaways galore from an incredibly morale boosting victory.

Unfortunately, the big story is shutout loss by Cougar football, a 20-0 defeat to the Iowa State Cyclones that saw a surplus of offensive futility and an unfortunate waste of a bounceback defensive performance. Bobby & Sam recap the ISU game, preview the TCU game with help from Jamie Plunkett of Horned Frog Blitz and the Frogs Insider podcast helps us preview the opponent and the guys also dive into these other Cougar topics:

• Release of the Big 12 men's and women's basketball schedules, our most interesting match-ups
• Volleyball opens conference play with a win & has their most encouraging week in over a month
• Soccer scores a goal against a conference opponent and they can never take that away from us
• Quick Golf & Tennis corners

While losing football games are scientifically proven to be less fun to talk about than their winning counterparts, the boys return to discuss a disappointing 34-0 loss by the Coogs to Cincy, how it happened and look ahead to a fearsome Big 12 home opener vs Iowa St along with a packed episode of Cougar topics featuring the following:

• Volleyball drops another 5-set heartbreaker in the last weekend of non-conference play. What that all means & how the Coogs will deal with K State and Kansas to open Big 12 play
• Soccer finds a new rock bottom... but hey those scarves are a nice fan giveaway
• The 2024-25 debut of 'Golf Corner' with both the women's and men's programs opening their fall season in the past few weeks
• Aaaaaand the 2024-25 debut of 'Tennis Corner' as Santa Strombacha represents the Coogs at the ITA All-American Championship and several other Cougar teammates also begin their fall seasons in Waco.

The boys are back, thankfully not to talk about a 2nd straight Bayou Bucket loss among the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Reviewing the many highs from a dominant 33-7 Cougar football win to get the 1st win of the Willie Fritz era & return the Bayou Bucket to Cullen Boulevard
• Previewing the Big 12 opener against the Cincy Bearcats
• Isiah Harwell becomes the latest (and highest rated ever) commit to commit to Kelvin Sampson's program
• Bobby's in person thoughts from watching Cougar volleyball up in Dallas to close out an expected tough week against a gauntlet of top 25 opponents
• Soccer & Tennis updates!