The Oklahoma Sooners are entering a pivotal season in 2025. After a 6-7 record in 2024, the fallout that could come if OU under-delivers again could be massive. Head coach Brent Venables is walking on thin ice after another losing season.
In an offseason in which few Power Four programs made head coaching changes (six changes in total out of 68 teams), plenty of coaches are under the microscope heading into 2025. Two of On3 Sports’ college football analysts, Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman, identified Venables as one of the coaches under the most pressure this season on the Andy and Ari podcast.
“If Brent Venables has a bad year at Oklahoma, that would be three bad years in four seasons,” Staples said. “He would be fired, I’m telling you that right now. They already hired a GM (Jim Nagy) who doesn’t answer to Venables. It’s a very precarious situation.”
The duo outlined a few other rival coaches who are under big-time pressure, including Florida’s Billy Napier, LSU’s Brian Kelly, and USC’s Lincoln Riley. They had harsh words for the job the former OU coach has done at Southern Cal over the last three seasons.
“If USC and Oklahoma are very cheap stocks to buy right now, I’m definitely buying Oklahoma’s stock going into this year,” Wasserman said. “Oklahoma could be awesome this year. I don’t think that there’s any chance that USC is awesome this year. Oklahoma seems trended upward at least. It might not work, but with their offensive line fixes, hopefully their entire receiver room won’t be injured this year, and you get who I think is probably going to be one of the four best quarterbacks in college football this year (John Mateer), you have actual, tangible improvements that you can cling to.”
Oklahoma’s offense was one of the biggest problems that led to least year’s downfall, but the additions of Mateer and new…
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Publish date : 2025-03-26 14:54:00
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