We've reached a truly wonderful time of the year, as Bobby and Sam return in the halcyon preseason days of August with seasons to look forward to and talk about, talking about the following topics tonight:

• Previewing the 2025 Houston Cougar football defense (by position) and special teams, players to watch in the coming season & thoughts on 1st year defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
• With the return of actual on field Cougar sports this week, we preview the annual 1st team in action: your Houston Cougar soccer program with 1st year head coach Ben Williams leading the team into what we hope will be an exciting new era

There's no special occasion quite like the beginning of a new season as we begin the 11th season of this pawd with all co-hosts (emeritus and regular) returning as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam stake their pre-season bold predictions w/at least 1 for every UH intercollegiate sport & revisit 24-25 bold predictions & find out who was the master prognosticator.

This year's pawd also features some new types of questions/predictions that we're stoked for y'all to hear!

The boys are doing something a bit different for this one tonight here in the waning days of July, as co-host emeritus Dustin plays some combination of Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey, and Louie Anderson hosting "Pawdcast Feud" and testing the knowledge of the regular co-hosts on various UH and UH sports-related questions

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The boys are back (the boys are back) with a new pawd full of some new and familiar topics when it comes to Houston Cougar sports topics around these parts, including the following:

• Bobby was out at Big 12 football media days, talking with Willie Fritz and the Coog players in attendace up in Frisco & giving the biggest talking points during the heart of talking season
• Addressing the latest attempts by external forces to invent a UH and UCF sports rivalry out of thin air
• Antoine Jean & Connor McGinnis become the latest Coogs selected in the MLB Draft
• Discussing a really nice week for the UH football staff on the recruiting front as the 2026 class comes into focus w/2 new 4-star commitments

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After a week off, the boys returned to kick around the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's hoops finds out their first 2 games at the Players Era event in Vegas & we check in on program alums competing at the NBA Summer League
• The softball coaching staff starts to take shape, with Chrissy Schoonmaker hiring her first 2 asssistants
• Checking in on women's golfers competing overseas during the offseason
• Antoine Jean rakes in the college baseball All-American honors
• But our main topic is digging into the House v. NCAA settlement, the basics of the case, how UH is affected/ideas on disbursing the revenue and big picture takeaways of how we thing this settlement will/won't change the college sports landscape and the questions still to be answered
• A quick snippet of our latest patron exclusive episode!

Its one of our absolute favorite traditions, the 8th annual Pawscar awards as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam honor the best University of Houston athletes, teams, coaches, and moments from the 2024-25 athletics year that was!

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Oh hey its a throwback pawd, as the gang of 3 current and emeritus Pawdcast hosts convene to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Revealing our categories/nominees for the 9th edition of our season-ending Pawscar Awards
• Top performances from Cougar track & field athletes at the NCAA Outdoor championships
• A big football recruiting update earlier this month from consensus 5 star QB recruit and UH commit Keisean Henderson & the 2026 football class at large starting to take some shape

It may be mid June and by any definition, the dog days of summer, but the boys are still back to talk everything current in the world of Houston Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• Reacting to UH's newest head coach: Chrissy Schoonmaker, previously of George Washington. What we like (the pitching track record & not being Kristin Vesely) and still are unsure about with this hiring process (lots)
• Previewing Cougar track & field's entrants at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championship
• A quick look at a group of new assistant coaching hires from the baseball, soccer, and tennis programs
• At the end the boys treat themselves to a little general sports talk during this lighter month of college sports

The boys are back (echoing) the boys are back, and on this pawd where the month turns to June on the calendar, there are still Cougar sports topics to kick around and the regular co-hosts talked the following topics:

• UH's unsurprising, but not wildly encouraging decision to bring back baseball HC Todd Whitting for a 16th season in 2026
• What the lack of an update on the softball head coach tells us about who UH might be hiring
• Track & Field sends several athletes and a relay to NCAA Outdoors, with some heartbreaking near misses and one injury absence
• Kicking around some interesting Coog-related questions from our followers on the slime infested waters of social media... a summer tradition of sorts around here

The boys are back and its that, the most welcome of Houston Cougar offseason topics, an episode with a ton of good men's hoops offseason news which is included in a number of different Cougar sports topics covered in this episode, as follows:

• Milos Uzan officially returns to the men's basketball program! What Uzan's return means for the 2025-26 season & Pop Isaacs' corresponding de-commitment from the program
• Kelvin Sampson's extension becomes official
• Appropriately honoring Antoine Jean's incredible 2025 baseball season & the team's season ends at the Big 12 tournament
• Looking ahead to Cougar athletes competing at the NCAA Track & Field West Prelims