"Houston Wins!" as the Cougars Wrap Up 4 Players in Week 1 of Portal Kombat

Welcome to Episode #80 of the No Conference for Old Men Podcast.This is our 1st offseason episode of season 3.  And just like with the previous 2 years, the 3 old men  discuss the major Portal commitments and roster decisions made after Week 1 of the Portal season.  The Houston coaching staff clearly had a plan and executed it flawlessly.  As they quickly retained  all 3 of our top 7 players from this past season that hadn't graduated or declared for the NBA Draft, and then quickly pivoted to identifying & then locking down our targeted 4 Portal additions that will be key to the rotation next season.  The Coaching staff had clearly taken learnings from previous seasons to construct a roster than will be rich in offensive firepower & size, deep in D1 experience, & back to that "Dawg Mentality" that was missing this past season.  Add  2 elite freshmen into the mix, and we have the potential recipe for another run for the Final 4 & a National Championship next year.So we’ll kick things off with our thoughts around the 4 key Transfer Portal adds in Thomas, Gillespie, Hadnot, & East.  Then take a look at how we each respectively see rotations playing out going into next season.  And then we'll close things off by taking a quick look at how some of our counterparts in the XII fared so far in the Portal ahead of next season.- No Conference for Old Men is available for free via Spotify / Apple Podcast / SoundCloud & the GoCoogs.com YouTube page; we're also available via the Republic of Football Podcast feed from the folks at Dave Campbell's College Podcast Network as their only basketball-centric offering- Intro / Exit music:  Ground Zero provided by FreeBeats.io- Please follow us on https://gocoogs.com/old-men/