The Scott & Holman Pawdcast

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 in...

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...

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)...

The boys, including Bobby fresh off of a plane, return to discuss a near miss loss by Houston Cougar football to the Oklahoma Sooners, among other worthwhile UH topics in a meaty 100+ minutes of pawd goodness: What we liked and didn't like from Saturday's heartbreakingly close, 16-12 defensive struggle loss at Oklahoma that revealed where the Coogs look quite good and where they have a long, long...

Well, that wasn't what we hoped for, was it? The boys return to talk about everything they liked (yes, believe it or not some things) and didn't like (lots of stuff) from a humbling 27-7 season opening loss to UNLV.  There were also the following topics on offer: Previewing the week 2 opponents: the #15 Oklahoma Sooners and what they look like Evaluating the success (or lack thereof) from the week...

ITS HERE! Two sports weeks we've been looking forward to for a while, with the following topics as part of the veritable buffet of Pawd happenings: Mike Grimala of the Las Vegas Sun gives the guys an inside look at a hotly anticipated season from the Coogs' week 1 opponents: UNLV.  The guys take a look at what the Coogs need to do on both sides of the ball, key players/position groups for Saturday...

THIRD WARD RACQUET CLUB STORE:  https://third-ward-racquet-club.printify.me/products The long-awaited UH athletic director position has finally been filled! The boys discuss new AD Eddie Nuñez, what he did as AD at the University of New Mexico and how that experience could help him in his new role in the Third Ward. AND preview season is still in full swing, as the boys preview the 2024 Cougar def...

THIRD WARD RACQUET CLUB STORE: https://third-ward-racquet-club.printify.me/products Martin Marroquin's "So You Want to Work In College Football": https://mahrowkeen.medium.com/so-you-want-to-work-in-college-football-201a8be02898 We're BACK, mere weeks away from the start of the college football season and mere hours away from the start of the 2024-25 Houston Cougar athletics season, with these top...

At last, we have a brand new, 10th (!!!) season of the Pawd to debut and we do so in our customary fashion, with a couple of news item appetizers to kick us off: Making at least 1 prediction about every single Houston Cougar intercollegiate sports team for the 2024-25 season and reviewing our 2023-24 bold predictions The football non-conference schedule of the next few years takes shape and ponder...

The boys have reached the end of Season 9! And what better way to commemorate a UH athletics and pawd season in the books than the 7th annual Paw-scar awards, commemorating the best athletes, teams and moments of the 2023-24 season. Plus, we found time to discuss the following newsy topics: Cougar men's hoops alums Jarace Walker and Jamal Shead standing out at NBA Summer League and TBT with the Fo...

VOTE FOR THE 2023-24 PAWSCARS HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rgtUyXtEZPo6OJdPPK5QlUPPtnC23iHKc8U60GljgQk/viewform?edit_requested=true Twitter thread of 2023-24 Play of the Year Pawscars: https://x.com/SHPawdcast/status/1815755628817862742 We're back on our regular weekly recording pace, with the following Houston Cougar topics on the agenda: Introducing the nominees for our 7th annual Paws...

Oh hey, I guess our summer break is over. Its been a newsy last few weeks on many fronts in the world of Houston Cougar sports and the full trio of co-hosts return to discuss these topics: Discussing the rumored names for UH's athletic director vacancy, including but not limited to: David Fletcher, Oliver Luck, and Keli Zinn The bizarre decision to extend UH softball coach Kristin Vesely is finall...

We recap additional reporting on alleged unacceptable behavior by Houston Cougar softball head coach Kristin Vesely and the resulting toxic culture in the program under Vesely's leadership, as reported to us by players and staff members in the program and look at where UH appears to go from here with a subsequent AD change and other questions about who will even be coaching the program next year.

EMERGENCY PAWD! In a surprising and shocking move, UH leadership and Dr. Renu Khator dismissed Chris Pezman from his job as the UH athletics head honcho. We take a look at Pezman's 6-year tenure, successes/failures, what led to such a sudden and emphatic dismissal and what roles fundraising and other factors played in the decision.

And NOW for some fun summer content: Houston Cougar Tennis HC Kat Adamovic joins the Pawd to talk about her vision for the program, background, and gives listeners a little primer on college Tennis and what makes it uniquely awesome

The boys are back in town with some you might find a bit closer to the usual, standard pawdcast fare: Briefly addressing the 'elephant in the room' of what comes next from our most recent previous episode Louie Hinchliffe wins a natty (!!!!!) and Cougar men's track & field have a Big 12-best 6th place at NCAA Outdoors and the women grab their most points at Outdoors since 2007 Breaking down UH's h...

In this episode we recap a number of serious allegations relayed to us by multiple sources with firsthand knowledge (players and staff) of the Houston Cougar Softball program under current head coach Kristin Vesely, in addition to related inaction by UH athletic department leadership.

I'm going to level with you, its 11:31 PM and I am having of all things, writer's block writing a show description, BUT the full compliment of pawd co-hosts had plenty to say about the following Houston Cougar topics: Men's Golf comes heartbreakingly close to advancing past the Baton Rouge regionals. Looking at an end of season run to be proud of and what the future looks like with one big, probab...

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 20...

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 w...

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 spri...

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...

Don't forget to download AUTOGRAPH: https://link.ag.fan/shpawd . 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...

DOWNLOAD Autograph at: link.ag.fan/shpawd 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 r...