The Scott & Holman Pawdcast

Its that beautiful time of the college sports calendar where winter and spring sport seasons meet up and we're downright overflowing with Houston Cougar sports to talk about as Bobby and Sam kicked around the following topics: An unbelievably dominant weeknight men's hoops win over surprise team UCF Discussing Kelvin Sampson's post UCF 'poor' comments and the state of UH's NIL efforts Returning to the on court action discussing a pair of on-court men's hoops wins in the state of Utah: a comprehensive win over top 25 BYU and a workmanlike win over cellar dwellar Utah (with bonus time traveling) Finally, previewing men's hoops' pair of games to come: hosting woeful K State and a Big Monday trip to a top 5 Iowa State Previewing the 2026 Cougar baseball season Staying on the diamond to discuss a promising 1st weekend of the Chrissy Schoonmaker era for softball and some 2nd weekend tests Tennis Corner discusses 2 more sweep wins and the end of non-conference play Checking back in with track & field as they reach the business end of Indoor season

The calendar has turned to February and as always with that the sports start to pile up, with an absolutely jampacked episode of Houston Cougar sports happenings to discuss as Bobby and Sam chewed on the following topics: Men's hoops avoiding a 2nd straight Big 12 loss for the first time in 2+ years with a not always easy win over TCU and a mostly east (14th straight win) over Cincy Previewing a pair of challenging men's hoops opponents: a surprisingly good UCF team at home and a challenging roadie to top 25 BYU A long awaited 1st Big 12 win for Matthew Mitchell and Cougar women's hoops Previewing the 2026 Cougar softball season under 1st year HC Chrissy Schoonmaker An impressive women's golf spring opener in Mexico!

The boys are back, after a freezing weekend in the Lone Star state and large swaths of the country, Bobby and Sam return with only minimal cabin fever and a long list of Houston Cougar sports happenings to talk about from the week that was and will be: Men's basketball loses a classic re-match on the road to Texas Tech, featuring an all-time great performance from Kingston Flemings. Also, looking ahead to a tricky roadie at TCU and a return home to face Cincy again. Trying to put a happy face on the farce of Charles Bediako/James Nnaji playing college basketball & drafting our favorite past Cougar men's basketball alums to "join" the current season's team. Checking back in with women's basketball as they search for their 1st Big 12 win, showing respectably in losses to K State and #14 Baylor, with a winnable home matchup with Cincy looming Previewing the 2026 women's golf season with a senior-laden squad that has the potential to be one of the Big 12's best First track & field thoughts after the opening week of the Indoor season, highlighting top performers to watch from the Coogs Yet another triumphant Tennis corner with the Coogs coming off another pair of 4-0 road wins and Valeriia Krokhotina makes program history

The boys, Bobby and Sam specifically, are back here in late January (the year flies!) with the following Houston Cougar sports topics to discuss: Talking about a comprehensive men's hoops thrashing of Arizona St (and Bobby Hurley one last time) and looking ahead to the College Gameday game of the week at Texas Tech this weekend The latest football transfer portal class adds and some big picture thoughts on what Willie Fritz & the staff have done to strengthen the 2026 roster Checking in on the swimming & diving program's early '26 meet win against Big 12 opponents Tennis corner returns for the spring, with the Coogs rattling of a trio of dominant wins to start their '26 campaign

Back to the 2 regular co-hosts, Bobby and Sam return with a jampacked episode full of current Houston Cougar sports happenings, including the following: A 3-0 Cougar men's basketball week, including a heart in mouth win over Texas Tech and shellackings of Baylor and West Virginia to pace a 4-0 start to Big 12 play, PLUS previewing weekend opponent Arizona State Another challenging week for women's basketball's front loaded conference schedule Recapping the latest additions to the football transfer class Previewing the 2026 tennis season, including the roster, schedule and the Coogs' biggest storylines Sam pays off his loss in the 2025 football season pick 'em by talking about one of the most reprehensible albums of music ever recorded

With the calendar turning 2026, co-host emeritus Dustin returned to join Bobby and Sam to discuss these Houston Cougar sports topics: A heart in mouth men's hoops Big 12 opener win at Cincy with clutch Milos Uzan and Kingston Flemings performances Looking ahead to a week with against 2 in-state conference foes in Texas Tech & Baylor Bonus Dustin thoughts on the Big 12's men's hoops outlook Cougar football's first several transfer commitments are in and early returns are very exciting, while also talking some of the outgoing transfers as well Reminiscing on the 2025 football season & time capsule predictions for 2026

At the end of an eventful and mostly awesome calendar year for the Houston Cougar sports teams, the boys are back for 1 final time discuss the following Coog sports happenings from the week that was: Recapping a 38-35 Texas Bowl win over LSU that felt like a celebration of a special team and perhaps the start of a larger buy-in from the fanbase Men's Hoops closes non-conference play with a less than artful win over Middle Tennessee, with the excitement of Big 12 play beginning this coming weekend at Cincy The latest 2 games of a brutally difficult, all top 25 opponents start to women's hoops' Big 12 season, with a National POY candidate playing at Houston this week

The boys are back (the boys are back) on the eve of Christmas Eve with the following Houston Cougar topics to discuss: A 94-85 statement non-conference win by Cougar men's hoops over the #14 Arkansas Razorbacks & historic foe John Calipari Hunt Palmer of LSU pre and postgame (and other Louisiana sports talk) joins us to preview the '25 LSU Tigers Additional Texas Bowl/LSU thoughts from the boys Discussing football coaching staff movement in and out An auspicious start to Big 12 play for women's hoops

The boys are back (the boys are back), with a mid-December slate of Houston Cougar sports happenings to chew on this week: 1:01- Intro 5:25- Men's Hoops gets 2 more convincing wins over Jackson St/New Orleans, looks ahead to last non-conference test against #14 Arkansas 25:50- Cougar fans SELL OUT their Texas Bowl allotment 31:49- Early portal entries from the football team, including O Line starter Demetrius Hunter 37:48- Taking a trip down memory lane of all UH football bowls 2007-present 1:32:14- Catching up with women's hoops' last week & Big 2 opener at West Virginia

The boys are back, with the following Houston Cougar sports topics up for discussion in this week's episode: Cougar football finds out its postseason destination, early thoughts on the Texas Bowl/LSU & how attendance issues contributed Talking the 2026 football signing class, what 5-star QB Keisean Henderson's signing means & thoughts on other '26 signees and the class as a whole Men's hoops is back in action with a mostly convincing win over FSU (w/its own attendance discussion) & returns to the Fertitta Center for the first time since Thanksgiving Unpacking a difficult, now completed volleyball season Reviewing the still fairly newly released tennis spring schedule Revisiting a humbling home non-conference loss by women's hoops to Southern

We may have now reached the end of the Houston Cougar football regular season, but the boys are back with certainly no shortage of UH sports topics to discuss, including the following: 4:45- Football wins its 2nd straight game at Baylor 43:57- Down w/the Pickness, final regular season week 45:52- Recapping men's hoops' last game in Vegas against Notre Dame, big picture Players Era festival thoughts & previewing Florida State 1:05:16- Women's hoops splits a pair of games in the Bahamas, equals their 24-25 season win total

The boys are back here on the eve of Thanksgiving with more than just opinions on the best sides and turkey brine as they chew on these Houston Cougar sports topics from the week that was: 2:02- Thanksgiving food talk 6:25- Men's hoops continues to learn about itself in the challenging Vegas Players Era festival this week 29:36- Star recruits Arafan Diane & Ikenna Alozie sign to the men's hoops program 34:54- Recapping a heartbreaker of a senior day football loss to TCU 1:25:05- Brice Cherry of the Waco Tribune joins to preview Baylor football 1:46:28- Additional Baylor preview thoughts 1:54:14- Last regular season Down w/the Pickness 1:58:08- Women's hoops' encouraging 2-0 non-conference week

You can't sneeze at talking about both of the Houston Cougars' highest profile sports being top 25 programs with lots of happy stuff to talk about, which Bobby and Sam did this week among these following topics: 6:09- Men's basketball survives its first road test against Auburn w/plenty of help from super frosh Kingston Flemings & looks ahead to the Players Era Event in Vegas 43:58- Jamie Plunkett of Horned Frog Blitz/247Sports joins the pawd to preview TCU Horned Frog Football 1:02:48- Additional TCU preview thoughts 1:14:34- Down w/the Pickness weeks 12/13 1:20:53- Women's basketball loses a tough road opener, but shows some positives & gets 2 more interesting non-conference tests

Its another big meaty pawd full of Houston Cougar talk from a number of different recent sports happenings, in the following order: 3:29- Men's hoops gets out to a 2-0 start & looking ahead to a big weekend showdown w/Auburn on the road 28:14- Football's dramatic 30-27 win at UCF, the first ever by a non-UCF team in the Space Game 58:57- Our spicest future facing Cougar football takes + some of our followers' takes 1:16:15- Down w/the Pickness, Weeks 11/12 1:19:23- First fall season check-in on the Cougar Swimming & Diving program 1:24:00- Cougar Tennis Corner! (perhaps the last one of the year with fall action) 1:26:23- Women's hoops splits its games & looks ahead to the 1st road game of the season

The boys are back, with a meaty episode as we have reached that equinox state of the calendar where the football and basketball seasons collide, with the following topics (w/time stamps) up for discussion: 2:59- Cougar football drops a baffling game to West Virginia 46:20- Adam Eaton of Sons of UCF joins the pawd to preview the '25 UCF football team 1:03:32- Additional UCF preview thoughts 1:19:16- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 11/12 1:23:45- Men's basketball opens the season against Lehigh, looks ahead to Towson 1:36:13- Soccer ends a promising 1st season under Ben Williams 1:42:39- Women's basketball wins their season opener/1st game of the Matthew Mitchell era

The boys are back in the regular spot and with plenty of Houston Cougar on field triumphs to talk about and look ahead to, with the following topics this week: 0:00- RIP Kurt Hester 3:57- Recapping a top 25 Cougar football road upset of Arizona State 42:09- Previewing West Virginia, in year 1 of HC Rich Rodriguez's 2nd run there 1:01:38- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 9/10 1:06:34- Cougar soccer gets 2 results to stay alive for the Big 12 tournament 1:14:58- Cougar volleyball lets another Big 12 match slip away 1:20:19- Quick thoughts on Cougar men's hoops' opener next Monday vs Lehigh

Its HOOPS time! The boys return to discuss the upcoming seasons for both the Houston Cougar men's and women's basketball programs, as the teams look ahead to what should be exciting 2025-26 seasons to come.

The boys are back, even with Bobby once again coming from 'parts semi-known' on a work trip, with the following Hoston Cougar sports topics: 0:00- Paying tribute to the now late Cougar football legend Warren McVea 5:56- Recapping a 31-28 win over Arizona 51:35- Ralph Amsden helps us preview top 25 Arizona State 1:12:25- Additional Arizona State thoughts 1:28:42- Down w/the Pickness weeks 8/9 1:32:49- Soccer's unbeaten week 1:45:08- Assessing what's wrong w/volleyball 1:55:11- Cougar golf corner! (women's AND men's this week) 1:57:50- Tennis adds a decorated international recruit!

The boys are back in the saddle with the happy occasion of a Houston Cougar football win to discuss, along with a number of other UH sports topics: 4:01- Recapping a blowout 39-17 win by the Coogs at Oklahoma State 35:44- Brian Pedersen of AZDesertSwarm.com joins the preview Arizona Wildcat football 48:52- Additional Arizona preview thoughts 1:01:24- Down w/the Pickness week 7 recap/week 8 picks 1:06:51- Quicker than usual Soccer/Volleyball recaps 1:08:41- Cougar Men's Hoops preseason poll/metrics talk 1:14:28- Cougar tennis corner

The boys are back to talk the 1st loss of the football season (later than usual), along with a host of other Houston Cougar-related topics to metaphorically nosh on... including the following (w/time stamps): 3:50- Tech game recap 42:38- Phillip Slavin, our Ten12 Network empresario, joins to help preview Oklahoma State & talk Big 12 football 1:10:15- Additional OSU preview thoughts 1:20:11- Down w/the Pickness, weeks 6/7 1:25:10- Soccer gets a result vs BYU, drops a frustrating one vs Utah, travels to a tough WVU team 1:34:27- Volleyball struggles at Baylor/Colorado, finishes the road swing against the Utah Big 12 schools 1:40:06- Cougar Golf Corner off a 3rd (!!!!) men's golf individual title of the fall season 1:44:02- Quickly noting Cougar tennis' return to action later this week @ ITA Texas Regionals