John Mateer dishes on SEC, new offensive scheme

New Oklahoma Sooners starting quarterback John Mateer followed new OU offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Ben Arbuckle from Washington State to Norman this winter. In doing so, he became one of the key figures in the 2025 season for the Sooners. Additionally, he became a big part of helping his teammates learn Arbuckle’s new offensive system ahead of the action this fall.

Mateer was at the Manning Passing Academy this week as a camp counselor, something many of the best college football quarterbacks do during the summer. While there, he was asked by “Locked On SEC” host Chris Gordy about his role in installing the new scheme and his relationship with Arbuckle.

“Yeah, I mean the duo, or trio if you add Coach Kuz (assistant QBs coach John Kuceyeski) in there, it’s huge,” Mateer said. “We understand each other, and I know what play he’s going to call next, and he knows what I like, and we talked through a lot of stuff this offseason. It’s just taking the next step, and it’s awesome, and then we got some good players here that can do a lot of different things. It’s going to be pretty fun. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Mateer continued to emphasize the number of playmakers that the Sooners have this year on offense before being asked about how he’ll adapt to playing in college football’s hardest conference, the SEC.

“I mean I think the discipline that we have and and the adaptability that we have to be able to learn, and you know, it’ll be a learning curve, it will,” Mateer said. “I’ll embrace that and it’s going to be fun and a challenge and that’s what football is supposed to be, a challenge. There will be learning curves, but for all of us, but there’s a lot of people with a lot of experience in the building, so we can avoid the really hard learning curves, and we’ll get it in quick. As long as I’m disciplined to…

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Publish date : 2025-07-02 19:00:00

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