Does Brent Venables Want To Be The Next Head Coach At Oklahoma?

I haven’t mentioned Brent Venables yet as the next head coach at Oklahoma for one simple reason. That reason being…to date in his coaching career Brent Venables hasn’t shown all that much interest in becoming a head coach.

Otherwise he would be an imminently qualified candidate to fill the position.

Does he want to be a head coach? Does he have any residual angst about the manner in which he was forced out at Oklahoma for Mike Stoops? Is he ready to embrace a professional challenge beyond being Dabo Sweeny’s defensive coordinator?

All good questions.

If he answers those questions….yes, no, and hell, yeah he would soar to the top of my list in my top three.

Brent Venables more than any other coach in America through his experiences at Oklahoma and Clemson knows the physicality talent gap which exists between Alabama, Georgia, and LSU from that of the current talent level at Oklahoma.

He knows exactly what that gap is and would have the best understanding of what Oklahoma has to do to become a ‘realistic’ national championship contender.

He could bring his No. 1 defensive assistant with him to Norman and then go persuade Joe Brady to be the offensive coordinator and that would be a nice core to go along with the OU coaches not going to USC with Lincoln Riley.

Coach Venables in reality has coached in the SEC at the highest level because in essence Clemson is an ACC member playing as an SEC at large team from the Committee’s view in most seasons.

Brent Venables has been a big part of those two national championships at Clemson. It’s a cultural fit with Joe C and the kind of hire he likes to make. It would be another coordinator being elevated to the head position at OU.

What a day in Oklahoma from a football standpoint! Just basically insane that we’re having to write about this instead of the impending O State-Baylor game at Jerry’s World.

Brent Venables just makes so much sense if he and wife want to do this at this point in their lives. In Porter Moser and Brent Venables…Joe C will have gone yard in the last seven months with two of the most important hires during his tenure at OU.

I listened to the Sports Animal today and quite frankly there’s way too much emotion right now. Jim Traber, please settle down a little. I like your show, but we need to settle down a little. This is going to work itself out.

In fact it could be a silver lining in that OU will come out of this with a head coach and set of coordinators much more aligned as to what it takes to be be relevant in the SEC.

Lincoln Riley is right where he should be with his finess Air Raid offense…that being… in the weakest Power 5 conference in the country.

Lincoln Riley has never built a team in his career. Lincoln will be the eighth head coach at USC since Pete Caroll if that says anything. If every single member of this year’s OU team had played in the PAC 12 there’s a reasonable chance OU would have finished 3rd behind Utah and Oregon pretty much like they finished third in the Big 12 for the same reason.

You know what that reason is? I’ll share it with you. The answer is you can’t win a league championship in any Power 5 conference playing like a bunch of entitled, delusional dumbasses and beat anybody that’s relatively any good.

That would be the answer.

So…I’m redoing my top five…1 Brent Venables, 2 Coach Luke from Cincy, 3 Brian Kelly, Notre Dame (don’t laugh), 4 Matt Campbell, Iowa State, 5 Mark Stoops, Kentucky. I’m getting serious now….just like Joe C.

I loved it in the presser when he was ask about the list he keeps in desk. Oh…he has one–trust me.

And remember…Lincoln Riley isn’t a traitor, he’s just a simple guy from some bumblefuck town in Texas who wanted no part of the SEC grind, but instead wanted to find a college coaching job which pays $110 million and provdes a private jet.

Can you really blame him?

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