Article on Brent Venables

I'm definitely beginning to think that Foster may be the 2nd best option behind Boom.

Foster has never had athletes like he'd have here. WRECKING MFIN CREW

all of this is true, but I do believe Venables would be able to enhance defensive recruiting and lock down top prospects almost as good as Sumlin can.

Bottom line we'd always have the talent with him at the helm.

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You look at more sophisticated stats that attempt to measure the quality of a defense by considering quality of opponent faced, filtering out garbage drives, etc, and Venables comes out looking great nearly every time. For example, the 2010 season at OU, his Defensive Fremeau Efficiency Index is 4th highest in the nation. His first year at Clemson is the only year his DFEI is outside the top 20.

Considering all the factors, Venables is probably my first choice. He's a very good to great Xs and Os guy, and an even better recruiter. And the latter might mean more than we expect if we were to lose David Beatty as some rumors suggest might be a possibility.

Beatty wants to be a HC. He's not even an OC here. Another school could offer him either position, and he'd be a threat to go.

Beatty a candidate for Kansas HC