The OG hosting pairing returns this week with a veritable cavalcade of Houston Cougar topics, in season and offseason, to discuss this week and those topics were as follows:

• Women's Golf comes heartbreakingly close to a historic season, falling a literal stroke short of advancing at the Auburn Regional, though we're still bullish on the program's future under coach Lydia Gumm
• Men's basketball's 2024-25 schedule gets a major boost from an inagural NIL-boosting Las Vegas event on Thanksgiving Week
• Football has an incredibly active weekend in the transfer portal
• Women's basketball makes a splash addition from a recent national champion to their coming season's roster.
• Softball ends their 2024 season and likely with it the Kristin Vesely era
• Baseball's Big 12 series woes continue

The boys are back (the boys are back), with Cougar sports questions to answer and a healthy offering of current sports happenings on Cullen Boulevard to kick around:

• A change in leadership for the Tennis program, with a chance for UH's leadership to revitalize a program that has historically struggled to get much momentum
• Patrick Paul goes in the 2nd round of last week's NFL Draft, plus you know we have some portal movement
• The bat & ball sports certainly could have had worse weeks
• Track & Field splits a really nice weekend performance between the Penn Relays and Texas Invitational
• Q&A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After a brief mid April hiatus, the Pawd is back to talk about a mixture of offseason and in season Houston Cougar sports talk, including the following topics:

• Cougar men's basketball adds Milos Uzan (formerly of Oklahoma) to the 2024-25 roster and we kick around who the newest Cougar is and what a successful 1st season for Uzan could look like
• Numerous football players enter the portal after spring practice, so we take a look at who is leaving and what it means for 1st year head coach Willie Frirz
• Solid showings at the 1st Big 12 championships for women's and men's golf, though showings tantalizingly close to something even more
• Baseball and Softball both continue to struggle in conference play
• Tennis season ends a very difficult, winless 1st year in the Big 12. We try and think creatively about how this program can improve its lot in (sports) life

The full group of co-hosts are back to talk about the 2 of the most positive things in Cougar athletics right now:

• Men's basketball gets the official returns of LJ Cryer and J'Wan Roberts, plus taking a deep dive on the 2023-24 season and what the roster could look like going forward
• Vibe checking the '24 spring football practice period under Willie Fritz and Saturday's on campus spring game

The OG co-hosts, Dustin and Sam, are back to discuss the end of a big and incredibly memorable season among the following Cougar topics:

• It ended in a way none of the Cougar faithful thought was just desserts, but we look back at the Sweet 16 loss and the downright cruel way Jamal Shead's season was ended early in this one. PLUS, the first portal entrant from the 2023-24 team.
• The women's hoopers have several players enter the portal and early thoughts on what the 2024-25 team could look like.
• Checking back in on baseball and softball
• Track & Field's downright excellent and for 1 athlete, a record setting weekend at the Texas Relays

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The gang is all here! Bobby, Dustin, and Sam are back in the saddle and somehow survived the roller coaster of emotions from Sunday night's Round of 32 win over Texas A&M to talk about the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's basketball's heart in mouth, absurdly stressful win over the Aggies in the Round of 32. We also find time to talk about a drastically less stressful opening round win over an outmatched Longwood
• Previewing the despicable Duke Blue Devils and the possible Elite 8 matchups of Marquette and NC State
• Quick updates on: Swim & Dive, Track, and Men's Golf

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2 of the boys are back in town to do what we all love to do and talk a little Houston Cougar sports, including these topics:

• Any additional thoughts on the opening weekend to come of men's basketball in March Madness
• Baseball drops a frustratingly close series at BYU and a big home series with K State beckons
• Softball's pitching goes missing again on the road in a series loss to Iowa State
• Bobby helps us catch up on the last week of both men's and women's golf
• A promising start to outdoor season for track & field and we talk about a new event for the pawd
• Tennis finishes the most brutal part of its Big 12 schedule and actually might have a couple winnable matches this weekend!?!!? Plus thoughts from Bobby watching the Coogs in person at TCU

Its the moooost wonderful time of the year, a mere minutes after the reveal of the 2024 NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket, Bobby and Sam joined to discuss the following topics:

• The Coogs' opening round opponent: the Longwood Lancers and what upset threats they pose, along with thoughts on possible Round of 32 matchups with Nebraska and Texas A&M and general South region thoughts
• Additional thoughts on Big 12 teams' seeding, tournament snubs, the collosal fuck-up of the NIT, and other parts of the bracket
• And some stray Big 12 tournament thoughts

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The full trio of co-hosts is back for what could be the best Houston Cougar regular season week in pawdcast history and since probably pre-dating all co-hosts' 17-18 years of fandom and discussed the following Coog topics:

• Men's basketball gives Kansas their worst road loss of the Bill Self era (and many years prior) after surviving a road trip to UCF where everything seemed to break against the Coogs... and oh yeah, won the Big 12 title by multiple games!
• Also, looking ahead to the Big 12 tournament AND talkin' the guys' Big 12 themed menu items
• Baseball sweeps its first every Big 12 series over the Baylor Bears, with plenty of help from a pitching staff we maaaaay be optimsitic about and clutch hitting
• SOFTBALL BEATS THE #1 TEAM IN THE COUNTRY! Taking down the Longhorns last Friday and competing far more than we expected vs Iowa St
• Recapping Coogs competing at NCAA Indoors
• A rare break from the positivity to talk about a disappointing end to the women's basketball season and an even more disappointing aversion from UH athletics leadership to make a change.

It was the best of times, it was... well, still pretty awesome times for the Houston Cougars (one host also came back with some good personal news) as Dustin and Sam soldiered on without Bobby who accidentally double booked us and dinner with his parents (understandably, the parents won out) to tackle the following topics:

• A nail biter of a road win at Oklahoma for men's basketball and an unfortunate season ending injury to a bright young star in JoJo Tugler as the regular season's final 2 games beckon
• A 2nd place at the Big 12 swim & dive championships for the Coogs that feels like a win
• Track & Field sends some potential high-placing athletes to NCAA Indoors
• Bat & ball sports start Big 12 play with very different expectations for very different opening weekend opponents
• Women's basketball forces us to ask some hard questions