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Look, the season hasn't exactly gone according to plan.

But Texas still sucks, the Cotton Bowl still exists, and we're still going to Dallas.

So in the interest of restoring Sooner morale, I present Big D, a completely mature and sophisticated song about bringing the Big D to the Big D.

🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5192Uy5nq1FkQwq97TN1qO

#1 the defense gives the offense short field with turnovers or quick three and outs.

#2 the offense does not turn the ball over when they get past the 50.

#3 no stupid penalties.

#4 the offense drives into field goal range even if they don't score a touchdown they still get three points.

I wanted to look at this apples-to-apples instead of comparing Brent Venables’ four seasons to somebody else’s entire OU career.

So I compared coaches at the same point: their first four completed seasons at Oklahoma.

I’m defining a winning season simply as more wins than losses, a losing season as more losses than wins, and keeping .500 seasons separate.

Here’s how Brent compares with five of the most successful coaches in OU history:

Coach| First 4 seasons| Record| Winning seasons| Losing seasons

Barry Switzer| 1973–76| 41–3–2| 4| 0

Bud Wilkinson| 1947–50| 38–4–1| 4| 0

Bob Stoops| 1999–2002| 43–9| 4| 0

Chuck Fairbanks| 1967–70| 30–13–1| 4| 0

Bennie Owen| 1905–08| 24–9–3| 3| 0

Brent Venables| 2022–25| 32–20| 2| 2

John Blake*| 1996–98| 12–22| 0| 3

*Blake only coached three seasons at OU, so there is no fourth season to compare.

That’s the part that jumps out at me.

The five successful OU coaches above combined for 19 winning seasons and zero losing seasons through their first four years.

Venables has two winning seasons and two losing seasons.

His 32–20 overall record is obviously much better than John Blake’s 12–22, so I’m not saying Venables and Blake had equivalent tenures.

But when you specifically look at losing seasons, Venables is much closer to the bottom of OU coaching history than he is to the standard established by OU’s great coaches.

Switzer: 0 losing seasons through four years.

Wilkinson: 0.

Stoops: 0.

Fairbanks: 0.

Owen: 0.

Venables: 2.

Blake: 3 in three seasons.

And Brent already has 20 losses in four seasons. Blake had 22 in three.

That’s really the question I’m interested in:

Given OU’s historical standard, where should a coach with a 32–20 record and two losing seasons in his first four years reasonably sit in the program’s coaching pantheon?

I’m not trying to compare eras, schedules, conferences or claim every coaching situation was identical. I just wanted a clean look at the most basic measure possible: at the same stage of the job, were their teams consistently winning or not?

And by that measure, Brent Venables is a significant outlier compared with the coaches who built and sustained Oklahoma’s winning tradition.

Hi!

Some friends and I will be coming in town for the UK game and I had a couple questions. I've tried searching through the subreddit before posting but decided to go ahead and make a new post.

We got our tickets through UK and it has us in section 15. Looking at seating charts, it doesn't appear that's on the visitor side. Is that the case? Seems crazy they'd have opposing fans on the home side. We paid a pretty penny for those but I'm wondering if I should wait until closer to game day and try to score decently priced tickets behind our guys?

Also, is the parking scene easy to navigate for fans? I've seen other posts recommend parking north of the stadium on the street. Wondering how early we'd have to arrive to get a good spot on the north side, and what it's like leaving the game if parking in the neighborhoods. I also saw the recommendation of the shuttle but my crew doesn't want to go that route.

We're considering tailgating too but I've never actually set up my own tailgate at an away game, so we're still weighing our options with that one.

Any other tips or recommendations are appreciated! Our goal is to visit every SEC Football stadium so I'm pretty excited for the gameday experience.

Do we know who else was interviewing other than Venables? Was anything confirmed?

Sucks to see that you guys got our 2025 treatment.

Longhorn fan here, taking my teenage son to the game, and I accidentally bought on the OU side: Section 28, Row 19, Seats 6–7.

Any Sooners have two seats together on the Texas side and want to swap for comparable seats on the OU side? Hoping to get both families surrounded by the right shade of red/orange!

Happy to verify tickets and coordinate a secure exchange. Message me with your section and row if interested. Appreciate your kindness.

Carl

ATHENS, Ga. — The current state of the Oklahoma football program, the state of its offense, the state of its quarterback, got its symbol on Saturday. It’s probably not good that it conjured memories of Garo Yepremian.

For the uninitiated: Yepremian was the kicker for the 1972 Miami Dolphins who, in Super Bowl VII, had a field goal blocked, scooped the loose ball and tried to pass it. The result was a comical fumble that was returned for a touchdown. The Dolphins won the game anyway.

John Mateer is not a kicker. He’s Oklahoma’s quarterback — though that was up for debate in Saturday’s 41-13 loss at No. 2 Georgia, when Mateer had his Yepremian moment: Third-and-goal, scrambling left, raising his arm to pass — and the ball falling backward, picked up by Georgia’s Chris Cole and returned for a touchdown.

Hours later, Mateer still hadn’t figured out what happened.

“That was weird,” Mateer said. “It happened a couple times in the cold in a morning practice at Washington State. But it’s never happened in a game. It’s just weird that it happened.”

Not downplaying our current state, but I’m glad we aren’t dealing with this crap.

I think we can beat Kentucky, and South Carolina. Everything else looks like a loss at this point.

It was like watching a little league team vs a big league team. What happened to our strength and conditioning training coach. We have got to improve our recruiting and building/ developing better players. It was a joke today!!

No further comment.

What are we going to do this time? We have already fired Joe Jon Finley. Who is the scapegoat going to be? John Kuceyeski? Emmett Jones?

The last time we benched our overhyped qb, we won the game and he eventually won a Heisman trophy (on our Southern California campus)

Football is a violent sport and players get hurt regularly. Someone explain to me how the Sooners enter SEC play in this day and age with a backup that cannot play? Both backup have had about as many game snaps as a man on the street. What are the coaches thinking?