In the span of three jaw-dropping weeks, Oklahoma is in free fall. ByPatForde on the Sooners’ rough start to the Venables era, and whether Texas should get a Quinn Ewers–sized mulligan
and weren’t very good to begin with. Such is the power of a Brand Name beating another Brand Name, no matter how dated those labels might have been.
We don’t need him anyway. He was slowly ruining the program. Too soft. No defense. Brent Venables will make us better than Riley ever could.showing Venables and strength coach Jerry Schmidt clapping and looking intense before the Nebraska game was trumpeted as evidence of a “different” culture.LM Otero/AP
In football parlance, a “dark-room guy” is a coach who excels in the film room, lights off, preparing a gameplan. The head coach’s job extends far beyond that, into the light, into the public, into organizing and overseeing an entire sprawling program. It can be too big for some career assistants, with some notable examples at blueblood programs.
Is Venables next to join that list? Too early to say. But this three-game stretch is bad enough to conjure up memories of John Blake and Howard Schnellenberger, the two coaches who oversaw the last Sooner Dark Period, from 1995 to ’98. Blake got three seasons on the job, but Schnellenberger was one-and-done, fired after going 5-5-1 and ending that season with a three-game losing streak that is similar to this one, being outscored 98–10.
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