Brent Venables reflected on the poor state of Oklahoma when he took over the football program in 2022. He returned to Norman after coaching at Clemson as Lincoln Riley left for USC. Safe to say, it wasn’t like Riley taking over for Bob Stoops when the now-Trojans head coach got his first heading coaching gig. […]
Brent Venables reflected on the poor state of Oklahoma when he took over the football program in 2022. He returned to Norman after coaching at Clemson as Lincoln Riley left for USC.
Safe to say, it wasn’t like Riley taking over for Bob Stoops when the now-Trojans head coach got his first heading coaching gig. Venables cited a culture rebuild that’s still ongoing.
“Yeah, so we had a lot to work through, and I chose not to, you know, ask anyone to leave when I first got here,” Venables said. “Just let me give everybody a fair shot and just kind of see where we’re at and through time, tou know, some players chose to leave. Some players just weren’t fitting the bill when it comes to going to class and living right off the field, you know.
“You know, as a football program, we we had a lot of issues the first year, and we had guys weren’t going to class. We had a 2.2 team GPA, and a lot of guys that didn’t pass drug tests a lot. And so what comes with that, you know, lack of motivation, lack of synergy, lack of ambition. And so we had, and there were some, you know, broken spirits too, and guys that maybe weren’t confident on what we could become. So, you know, changing the mindset and how we thought (was the way to go).”
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