The Oklahoma Sooners attended SEC Media Days on Wednesday, which meant fourth-year head coach Brent Venables was at the podium to talk about his 2025 team heading into the program’s second season in the Southeastern Conference.
Venables dove into plenty of topics in his address to the media. One of those topics was the weight of the expectations of coaching and playing at a place like Oklahoma. In true Brent Venables fashion, he didn’t back down from the expectations or the challenges.
“Couldn’t be more excited about what I’ve seen up to this point in time,” Venables said. “This is a team I love to be in the building with every single day. I believe they have what it takes to claw our back to where I believe Oklahoma belongs. The expectations here and in the locker room are to win at the very highest level and to compete for a championship. That’s always been the way it is here at the University of Oklahoma. We embrace those standards and expectations of excellence. You choose to come to Oklahoma to coach or to play on the biggest stage, in the biggest games, and you accept everything that comes with that. In the new era of college football, we expect to be a program that is a year in, year out consistently a College Football Playoff contender. I believe the sum of all of our parts with this football team, the 2025 version, gives us a chance to have a really good football team.”
It’s no secret that the Sooners haven’t exactly played up to their own lofty standards in Venables’ three years at the helm. A 6-7 season in 2022 was followed up by a bounce-back 10-3 season in 2023. But in 2024, Oklahoma sank back down to 6-7.
After a 22-year streak of zero losing seasons from 1999 to 2021, OU has produced two losing seasons in the last three years, all under Venables. The last losing year before Venables’ arrival was under…
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Publish date : 2025-07-17 12:51:00
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