Oklahoma, Brent Venables and Sooners

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 defensive side of the ball, turn the offense over to Ben Arbuckle and lean more on his staff for help.
Josh Pate casts doubts over Brent Venables' Oklahoma Sooners due to strength of schedule for 2025
The Sooners won only two SEC games in 2024. They also lost the Armed Forces Bowl to Navy, warming Venables' seat. And heading into the 2025 season, the CBS Sports analyst is concerned with what could happen to Brent Venables and the Sooners.
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,
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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 ...
Bob Stoops & Brent Venables comparisons are unfair | Berry Tramel's ScissorTales
Jim Knowles’ recent decision increases the likelihood that Brent Venables will go back to calling defense. Some think that’s ...
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Sooners defensive coordinator target Jim Knowles accepts job at Penn State
The former Ohio State and Oklahoma State defensive coordinator has accepted a job at Penn State, according to Griffin Media's ...
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Brent Venables is circling the wagons at Oklahoma and it might actually work
Brent Venables puts his job on the line with defensive ... defensive coordinator Jim Knowles in their sights. With Knowles off the board, though, Venables has concluded that the best ...
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OU football misses out on Ohio State's Jim Knowles to Penn State, per reports
More:Jim Knowles would be great at OU ... football and runs a 4-2-5 scheme with similar philosophies as coach Brent Venables, also one of the sport’s great defensive teachers.
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3 powerhouse programs looking to potentially poach Jim Knowles from Ohio State
Reports suggest that Ohio State's defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles, is a hot commodity in the coaching world right now.
Penn State went all-in on Jim Knowles. But the new DC craved the home-state reunion too
Knowles was introduced as Penn State's defensive coordinator on Tuesday, one week after he left Ohio State to take the job.
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Brent Venables’ Billy Napier Move Gets Seal of Approval as Jim Knowles’ Setback Launches Sooners to Familiar Waters
"If you chase two rabbits, you will catch none." Wise words, right? The post Brent Venables’ Billy Napier Move Gets Seal of ...