Jalen Hurts will be the first rookie Oklahoma quarterback to start an NFL game since Kyler Murray started as a rookie and Baker Mayfield the year before that.
Sources tell me Brent Venables first Oklahoma practice was flawless. One observer noted “They would have beat every Super Bowl champion since the AFL/NFL merger ... Aaron Rodgers couldn't start on this team"
It isn't surprising the gutless Oklahoma media didn't ask about interim HC Bob Stoops living with a current players mother. This is a developing story.
The storyline of Bob being betrayed and turning to his friend Brent Venables -- who gets his opportunity of a lifetime at what he's called his dream job-- is storybook stuff. Many, many former players are ecstatic about a BV/OU reunion.
So am I to understand
@OU_WBBall
day included:
- Flight canceled out of OKC
- Bussed to Waco
- Game delayed 45 mins;
@PlankShow
pregame radio interviews on bus
- Arrived at 7:15
- Beat No.9 Baylor on the road; 2nd consecutive Top 10 win
Jennie. Baranczyk.
This is what Oklahoma replaced:
- Heisman trophy winner/No.1 pick
- First round WR pick
- 4 OL
- New defensive coordinator and staff (129 pass def in 2018)
Perhaps Lincoln Riley's best coaching job since arrival in Norman.
OU football alumni were major proponents of the Brent Venables hire and comments like this are a reason why:
"I talked to Brent Venbables more on Monday than I did with Lincoln Riley in five years," -
@GabeIkard
on
@OK_Breakdown
.
Oklahoma went from not taking a quarterback in 2022 to landing the No.4 ranked dual-threat QB in the country. Not a bad start for
@Coach_Leb
. Could be a big week for
#Sooners
.
Something that could be prolonging the OU contingents departure from South Carolina is the process of placing OUDNA back into Brent Venables body, normally a transfusion of this sort takes 2-3 hours. Maybe longer without a Doctor.
There is beautiful irony in Baker Mayfield hosting a youth football camp in Norman today while the 'adult' the Browns so desired attends a hearing in which he's expected to be suspended indefinitely by the NFL.
It's at the very least funny. Not the actions, the irony.
Today is a significant historical marker in
#Sooners
football history. 23 years ago today Bob Stoops was announced as the next head coach. How symbolic would it be if the next HC was announced today.
I’m no historian but Jocelyn Alo going 4-for-4 with two home runs and 7 RBIs to clinch a Championship series appearance has to be up there on the list of all-time single game performances in the history of OU athletics.
OU officially flips Daeh McCullough from Cincinatti and brother Dasan McCullough (Indiana transfer, top rated edge in Portal) commits to
#Sooners
. A massive pick up with immediate impact.
Brent Venables contract details (not confirmed; best I could do):
- $500 billion contract
- Lifetime
@RealTarahumaras
skip the line pass
- Buying a $23 million home in gated Norman community w/ storm shelter
- Unlimited use of Lake Thunderbird
Perhaps lost in the coolness of Bob Stoops return to the sidelines this evening will be the fact he's doing so with his sons alongside him, Isaac is student assistant and Drake, of course, is a wide receiver. That's the good stuff.