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Brent Venables is hard-wired for defense.
Ask the OU football coach about the Sooners’ offense, the struggles on the line or the inconsistency at quarterback, and he is apt to take off on a tangent about the defense.
Bless his heart, that’s just how he is.
Defense, defense, defense.
Which leads us to an interesting question: Would Jim Knowles leave Ohio State to coach under Venables at OU?
Venables and the Sooners, as you know, are in the market for a new defensive coordinator. Zac Alley left for West Virginia after only one season as OU’s defensive coordinator, and one of the names that keeps popping up is Knowles.
It’d be a heck of a get for the Sooners.
Knowles is in his third season as the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator after leaving one OSU for another, Oklahoma State to Ohio State, and as you’ve probably heard, things are going pretty well for Knowles. The Buckeyes will play for a national championship on Monday and his defense is the biggest reason why.
Ohio State has the top-ranked defense in all the land.
That OU would be interested in hiring Knowles is not shocking.
But Knowles taking the job?
Now, that would be shocking like a lightning bolt.
Totally unexpected.
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It’s not that OU would be a bad landing spot. By all accounts, the Sooners have a defense able to go toe-to-toe with the behemoths of the SEC, ranking 31st nationally despite playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation this past season. They have the resources. The infrastructure. The tradition.
Then again, the same could be said of Ohio State.
OU does have one other thing: Venables.
He is the main…
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Author : The Oklahoman
Publish date : 2025-01-17 12:00:00
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