This is Brent Venables personal life testimony. If you want to know Brent Venables beyond the coach…I think you would be well served taking the time to watch the video.
Joe C flew Brent Venables into Norman tonight at the Norman regional airport to announce his new head coach. It was surreal as over five-hundred fans were there to greet Coach Venables.
The official press conference will be on Monday on OU’s campus at 10:30am.
A great loss for certain for Clemson, but in reality this should have been Brent Venables’ job five years ago.
OU has lost several guys off the 2022 recruiting class and so far Spencer Rattler has transferred to UCLA and Jadon Hazlewood has transferred to Arkansas. But the reality with both of those players is that they both greatly underacheived at OU this season and perhaps the change of scenery will be good for both of them. Hope they do well.
OU regained one of their top running back commits today — so I think the manner in which Bob Stoops and Joe C handled this in a week was paramount to the program being poised to be immediately relevant as long as Caleb Williams stays in Norman.
OU gets both O State and Baylor in Norman next season so maybe the Sooners can take care of both and win another Big 12 trophy before heading to the SEC.
I seriously don’t think Joe could have hired any other coach in America who can go into a living room and sell OU better than Brent Venables. He’s an extremely passionate people person who literally has to have a sideline person assigned to him during games to keep him from running onto the field. I love that. His players love that—they feed off it.
If ever the 2nd Rule of Coaching applied to a guy it’s Brent Venables: ‘You coach through your own unique character and personality.’ And what you see with Brent Venables is what you’re going to get.
Brent Venables is the perfect coach with the perfect personality to remove the gloom from a week ago and prepare this program for the move to the SEC.
Truth be told…losing Lincoln Riley who didn’t want any part of the SEC grind to get Brent Venables is a net gain for the program. How in the world could Joe C expect his players to make the SEC transition if his own coach was scared to embrace the challenge?
So in the end I think while it was a tough week in Oklahoma it’s all one big silver lining moving forward for the OU football program.
Joe C got his man.