Brent Venables – Soonerguys

Second year in SEC pivotal for Sooners’ coach

Published on August 28, 2025 by Dave

Oklahoma football in the SEC…take two.

Season one was for lack of a better term, awful. It resulted in the second losing season in the past three years for the Sooners. And that would also be the second losing season out of three total for head coach Brent Venables.

Fourth time is the charm? Brent had better hope it is. With the amount of money involved in college football these days, championships are expected at a program like Oklahoma.

To be fair, Venables was dealt a lousy hand when he took over. Maybe worse than we were led to believe. During his press conference this week, Brent made comments that highlighted how bad it really was. No culture. A bunch of individuals out for themselves rather than a team. A recruiting system in shambles that ignored positional needs.

And maybe most concerning of all, multiple failed drug tests.

Being someone who takes the high road, he stopped short of saying who was to blame for all this. But of course, we all know who it was. (Hey USC…how is that working out for ya? Hope you’re getting your money’s worth. Because you sure opened the check book for that one.)

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Venables: ‘I’m pissed about all the things that happened….’

Published on September 25, 2022 by Mike

Last week in Lincoln the Sooners showed they could play complimentary football (a balanced offense and defense) — in a good way to beat Nebraska.

This week back in Norman they showed they could play complimentary football — in a bad way to lose to Kansas State.

Both squads bear the responsibility for failure on Owen Field on Saturday night, when the Wildcats upset No. 6 Oklahoma 41-34.

And a noticeably angry Coach Brent Venables said so in his post-game press conference.

“I am pissed about all the things that happened out there today….”

The only highlight of the game was a raucous crowd. But even some of them began to file out of the stadium with 8 minutes remaining when K-State extended their lead to 34-20 and the Sooners defense had no answer for KSU running back Deuce Vaughn (25 carries for 123 yards) and quarterback Adrian Martinez (21 carries for 148 yards).

On a third and 16 from their own 41 yard line, Martinez scrambled out of the pocket for 55 yards to seal the Sooners’ fate. The Wildcats scored two plays later, extending the lead they had maintained the entire game to 41-27 with 1:58 left.

“It broke our back at the most critical of time,” OU Coach Brent Venables said of Martinez’ play.

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Worry meter: Sooners start new chapter with low stress start

Published on September 1, 2022 by Dave

It certainly was a one two gut punch last November for the Oklahoma Sooners Football program.

First, the rare loss to the okie pokies, and then finding out the next day the main reason for the rare loss.

A coach who had one foot out the door, and knew that winning that game and going to the Big 12 Title
game would actually make it harder to leave.

Yes, Oklahoma’s 22nd head coach in school history decided that a move to the SEC was going to be too challenging for his taste and took off for the west coast where the easier competition would be more to his liking.

Lying through his teeth, he said that the decision to leave took place on the Sunday after the Bedlam game when he was contacted for the first time by USC about their head coaching position.

All the while his kids had been pulled out of school for several weeks prior to that Sunday. And even if he himself had not spoken to USC officials, you know his agent started speaking with them the moment Todd Helton was fired by the Trojans.

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