The Golden Hurricast

Tulsa Football played its best game of the year on Homecoming, but came up just short against a very solid Temple team in dramatic overtime fashion. We talk about the choice to go for two, the play call, the Baylor <-> Brody connection, the growth of the team, and plenty more.After that, since we’ve got another bye week coming up, friend of the show J.J. Cody-Fox joins the podcast for our annual “J.J.’s No Sports Zone” segment! Always love chatting with J.J. about anything & everything EXCEPT sports.Also – it’s officially basketball season! The men’s team played their exhibition game against East Central University on Tuesday, beating them 94-56, and have their first regular season game next week, so we spend a bit of time on men’s hoops as well.

Tulsa Head Men’s Basketball Coach Eric Konkol joins the podcast to preview the 2025-26 basketball season!We break down the roster including all 12 new players, talk the schedule and why it is the way it is, ask what success means for this team, and get into some fun listener questions. Plus a lightning round! Always love having coach on the show and we’re grateful for his time.After that, we recap the ECU loss, take a look around what was a big week for the conference, preview this Saturday’s Homecoming game vs a solid Temple team, and round it out with a look across all other active TU sports.Really fun one this week. Hope you enjoy it!

Second verse, hopefully much better than the first.Tulsa just wrapped bye #1 on the year and, with that, is past all of the hardest teams on their schedule. ECU is no joke though, checking in at #68 in ESPN’s SP+ rankings this week.To help us preview Thursday night’s road game against the Pirates, we welcome in Jared Shafit from The Boneyard Podcast! Always a blast chatting with him.Also in this episode:* A quick basketball overview as we get closer to basketball season (full preview coming next week)* Around the American* TU sports roundup

First things first: We have a Patreon! It’s by far the best way to support this podcast. Ryan just published a new post breaking down how things are going across all 7 active TU fall sports now that we’re at the midpoint of the season for most of them. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-sports-2025-140596354On to football. Tulsa had a tough first-half of the season and capped that off with a 45-7 shellacking at the hands of the Memphis Tigers. We discuss what’s worth taking away from that game and recap the bright spots: Elijah Green! That one touchdown pass!But now we are at the first of two bye weeks and the schedule looks a lot more competitive for the Golden Hurricane going forward.We close things out with a look Around the American and conclude with our fall sports roundup.Read Ryan’s new post on Patreon – Fall Sports Halftime: 2025Support the show by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/thegoldenhurricast

After the historic win over Oklahoma State, Tulsa came back down to earth with Saturday’s loss to Tulane in the Battle of the Color-Based Water Phenomena. We do our best to break down the game (having not been able to watch it in its entirety) and talk what’s next for the football team this season.After that, we talk about some breaking news in the athletic department, look forward to Saturday’s road test at Memphis, and wrap it up by looking around campus at our other fall sports.