Its the first TRULY meaty episode of the 2024, the usual Gang of Three is all here to discuss a lengthy list of Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's hoops continues to find out how hard it is to win a road Big 12 game, with an extremely narrow loss to TCU filled with missed opportunities and specific anger towards one Doug Sirmons
• The Big 12 account is now open for Cougar women's hoops, who put together back-to-back impressive performances at home
• Previewing the Indoor Track & Field and Golf Seasons

It finally happened, the Cougar men's basketball team lost a game and so the guys fight through incalculable sadness (okay, not really) to discuss the following topics on this week's pawd:

• Men's basketball opening its Big 12 account with a comprehensive thrashing of WVU and a tough, low scoring loss at Iowa State. Plus, looking ahead to a tough roadie to TCU
• Finding the takeaways from maybe the toughest road swing of the season for Cougar WBB and followed along live w/the Coogs eventual 1st Big 12 win over BYU
• A quick look at several new incoming transfers to the Cougar football program

The triumphant trio is back. Dustin, Bobby, and Sam return to discuss the following Cougar sports topics:

• Cougar football has another promising player withdraw from the portal and the early vibes continue to be positive around Willie Fritz and the new staff
• Men's basketball quickly goes full boa constrictor on Penn and AT LONG LAST we have Big 12 conference games to preview
• Women's basketball opens up conference play with a decisive loss to Texas Tech and looks ahead to their most daunting road trip of the season

Two of the usual three boys are back in town, with Dustin and Bobby taking the Cougar discussion to the following topics:

• Willie Fritz continues to fill out the new Cougar football staff and getting to know the new coaches
• Looking at the 2023 football signing class: D1 transfers and the usual high school/junior college signings
• A quick volleyball and soccer recruiting transfer update
• Men's Hoops gets a big non-conference win over Texas A&M, unfortunately sees an end to Terrance Arceneaux's 2023-24 season & holding Texas State to its fewest points in 10 years
• A less inspiring week for women's hoops who got massively outclassed by Wazzu, hut redeemed themselves a bit with a rivalry win over Rice

The boys are unambiguously back, with the following Houston Cougar sports topics to talk about from the week that was and will be:

• Willie Fritz's new Cougar football staff starts to take shape
• A number of key players enter the portal, including but not limited to: Matthew Golden, Tyler Johnson, and Chidozie Nwanko and the first commit of the Fritz era
• Men's hoops takes care of 2 outmatched opponents and look ahead to the first head to head with Texas A&M in 10 years
• Women's hoops also goes 2-0, including their first road win, and get 2 varying degrees of road tests in UTSA and Wazzu

It feels like 2 days ago that we were here pawding about a new football coach, but there's so much going on in the world of Houston Cougar sports that the full compliment of co-hosts wouldn't dare miss talking about the following topics:

• Willie Fritz won the opening press conference and we talked about things that caught our attention from the presser, plus: Fritz/staff contract talk, staff additions, and early portal talk
• Cougar volleyball had an incredible final weekend of the 2023 season: comprehensively beating a very good UCSB squad and then giving #2 Stanford everything they could handle. We also look ahead to 2024 and beyond for David Rehr's program
• Men's basketball passes its first road test over Xavier, overcoming overjudicious officiating and some offensive cold spells
• We reevaluate women's basketball's start to 2023-24 after a disappointing 25-point home loss to Middle Tennessee

Willie Fritz is officially the 16th head coach of the Houston Cougar football program and the 3 co-hosts are pretty stoked about it. Talking the news as its arrived, re: Fritz and the following related topics:

• Why specifically we're so excited about Willie Fritz coming to UH
• A quick biography of his ~30 years as a college football head coach
• Early vs long term expectations for what Fritz can do at a UH program in the Big 12 conference
• Roster and staff super duper early speculation.

The boys are back (echoes the boys are baaaack), with a menagerie of Houston Cougar topics that they are dying to discuss with you, the listening public, and amongst themselves:

• Football coaching rumors and looking at what the Coog fan public thinks about the various candidates to replace Dana Holgorsen.
• Volleyball finds out its postseason destination, plus an inspired come from behind senior day win & Big 12 postseason honors galore.
• Men's basketball makes easy work of Montana & looks ahead to its first true road test of the 2023-24 season.
• Women's basketball dominates an outmatched New Orleans team, but finally will get its first real test Wednesday night w/Middle Tennessee. Plus 2 co-hosts are emphatically buying stock in Kierra Merchant.

Its here, we kind of can't believe its here but its here. UH dismissed Dana Holgorsen as head football coach less than 24 hours after an uncompetitive end of season loss and a largely uncompetitive 2023 season. The full hosting triumvirate kicked around the following:

• How Dana Holgorsen's firing became inevitable after 5 years in charge
• Where Cougar football goes from here, including types of candidates and talking about semi-realistic individual candidates
• A quick break-in for where UH Volleyball ended up in this coming NCAA Tournament from the simultaneously airing selection show

The full trio of co-hosts, the hosting triumvirate if you will returns to discuss a variety of topics on this week's pawd:

• All the co-hosts' go-to Thanksgiving foods
• Men's basketball's extremely successful 3-0 week in Charleston, with the team answering its first serious tests of 2023-24
• Volleyball sees its 8 match win streak end, but no shortage of optimism abounds with the end of the regular season in sight
• Women's basketball does unprecedented things... against less than stellar competition, but gets their first big test next week
• Football ends its 2023 home slate and any hopes of bowl eligibility with a wet fart of a loss against Oklahoma State and mercifully ends the season in Orlando against UCF this Saturday