Brent Venables, Oklahoma

Will Brent Venables assuming Oklahoma defensive play-calling duties help Sooners bounce back in 2025 season?
After an extensive coordinator search that saw Oklahoma weave through potential candidates like Jim Knowles, the Sooners finally have their new defensive play caller: head coach Brent Venables. Venables,
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COLUMN: Why Brent Venables Coaching the Defense is Oklahoma's Best Available Choice
With realistic DC options now limited, Venables can take full control of the defense, turn the offense over to Ben Arbuckle and lean more on his staff for help.
Oklahoma's Brent Venables to call plays, adds 2 assistants
Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables announced he will call defensive plays for the Sooners next season, while also adding Nate Dreiling and Wes Goodwin to his defensive staff.
Brent Venables to call defense in 2025, officially announces new hires
Head coach Brent Venables officially announced the hires of Nate Dreiling and Wes Goodwin to the defensive staff on Saturday.
Analyst makes damnatory prediction for Oklahoma football if Brent Venables' play-calling decision goes awry
Oklahoma head football coach Brent Venables is under the microscope with one of his key offseason decisions for the Sooners.
Oklahoma Sooners legend Bob Stoops makes a strong statement regarding Brent Venables calling the defense in 2025
The Oklahoma Sooners found their offensive coordinator replacement in Ben Arbuckle. That wasn't a very hard job as once the idea came, everyone was on board, and everyone bought into the idea of having Arbuckle bring his elite offensive scheme over to the SEC,
Firing Venables or Moser would be bad business for OU | Berry Tramel's ScissorTales
We are in a time when firing coaches no longer can be based on performance. The financial ramifications have to be considered ...
College football third-year coach grades: Dan Lanning, Marcus Freeman earn 'A'; Brent Venables gets a 'C'
The 2021-22 college football coaching carousel was a blockbuster event headlined by landscape-shifting moves by some of the ...
5 college football coaches who will be on the hot seat with a bad 2025 season
Although one could argue that these big-name head coaches could be entering this season on the hot seat, I feel they have too ...
Oklahoma HC Brent Venables officially announces the hire of Wes Goodwin
Former Clemson defensive coordinator and current Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables hires former Clemson defensive ...
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Not landing Jim Knowles is a tough blow for Oklahoma, but it won’t determine Brent Venables’ future in Norman
It would’ve been an incredibly splashy hire for Venables after 2024 defensive coordinator Zac Alley left for the same ...
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Which position group does The Oklahoman think will be the best in 2025?
The Oklahoma Sooners enter a pivotal 2025 season with so many new players on the roster in every position group. Brent ...
Oklahoma football 2025 national signing day: Ranking the Sooners’ high school signees
Despite a difficult first season in the SEC, head coach Brent Venables has put together a top-20 recruiting class for the ...
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Bob Stitt returning to college football as head coach of his previous program
Bob Stitt is set to resume his position as the head coach at Colorado School of Mines, according to a report Thursday.
Transfer Talk: What Oklahoma is Getting in LB Kendal Daniels
Brent Venables and the Sooners have added big play ability, versatility and massive experience at one of their most important positions on defense.