Teddy Lehman says OU will win a title in next 3 years

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Thoughts?

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Baw should be forced to fight phsteven's tic tok source.

Their softball team will and their baseball squad looked pretty good this year.

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bigDgator

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I think he dropped a S

I give them great odds to do so. Their women's softball team is tremendous. You really have to make them the favorite.

In football they will go to the CFP. They will lose in the CFP. They will rinse and repeat that next year.

To understand the current buzz you have to understand the head coach. If one takes the time to read this article they will understand why Brent Venables was the perfect coach to lead OU forward. Its long and some don’t like to read but its well worth your time. Some may not know he turned down both Auburn and FSU HC jobs. He is passionate and if one looks at his teams he never had a losing season while DC. Some say leap to HC is a lot but if you read this article you will understand how prepared he is (Saban like if not more in preparing).

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Brent Venables' purpose was created by pain, and now he's using it to shape Oklahoma

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“In 29 years as an assistant, he has never had a losing season, and his teams won 10 games or more 23 times.”

“But he knows his story could've gone differently. In 2011, amid Venables' final season as an assistant at Oklahoma, his older brother, Kirk, died from a seizure resulting from years of alcohol abuse. Two brothers who grew up with the same struggles; two entirely different outcomes.”

At Clemson, Venables would grow tired of the shoddy work of some noodle-armed walk-on running scout team, grab the football and play QB himself. Well, not exactly "himself." He dubbed his QB alter ego "Jimmy Greenbeans," and his exploits became legendary. There was the time Venables got sandwiched between future NFL first-rounder D-linemen Clelin Ferrell and Christian Wilkins, and it opened a massive gash across the bridge of his nose. He kept working as QB the rest of practice, blood gushing down his face. Or another time he threw a pass and caught his finger on a lineman's helmet. He broke a bone, but that's nothing new. Venables broke another finger attempting to catch a softball last year, and he recently lost a fingernail in what he casually explained as "an incident with my dry cleaning."


Gundy, who has been an assistant at Oklahoma since 1999, said he has never been more excited about the program than he is now.

"I've coached with some of the best, but this stuff that Brent's doing is on a whole other level," Gundy said.


At each stop, Venables burnished his reputation as one of the most detailed and prepared coaches in the country.


"He's the closest assistant I've ever seen to Nick Saban," said Thad Turnipseed, who worked for Saban at Alabama and with Swinney at Clemson prior to following Venables to Oklahoma. "His love for the game, his love for coaching and that Nick Saban fire."


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IT WAS THE second week of his sophomore season in 2014, and Ben Boulware was done.

Looking back, his biggest problem was that he was too similar to his coach. He was an undersized linebacker who played with a ferocious intensity, a personality Venables knew all too well.

"He'd talk s--- to me all the time," Boulware said. "He said he was tougher on me than any other athlete he's coached."

Eventually, Boulware grew to love the fight. He didn't compete against the opponent, he said. He was competing with Venables, and it drove him to become one of the most feared linebackers in the ACC and the defensive leader of Clemson's 2016 national championship team.

But as a sophomore, Boulware hadn't quite adapted. He'd endured a year of constant criticism, and he figured Venables owed him a little playing time. Week 1 came and Boulware barely saw the field. Now he was mad. Furious, actually. Maybe Venables sensed the anger. When practice began the following Monday, Boulware was with the 1s. Here's your shot, kid.

"I go in for one play," Boulware said, "and I called the wrong front."

Venables was livid -- that Saban fire on display.

"And I'm about to cry because he's just cussing me out in front of the whole defense," Boulware said.

Boulware seethed throughout the rest of practice, and when the linebacker huddle wrapped at the end, he marched up to Venables, tears streaming down his face, and quit.

"I'm just like, 'Dude, I can't take this anymore. I'm done. I hate football. I hate you,'" Boulware recalled.

He looked at his coach expecting -- what? Not this.

"He just laughed," Boulware said. "He laughed and said, 'You're not quitting.'"

Venables put his arm around the kid, smiled that devilish grin that makes it seem like he knows something no one else does, and told Boulware he was too damn good to walk away.

"He flipped a switch," Boulware said. "We had this great conversation. He said, 'It's just business, and football ain't rainbows and daisies. We've got to get stuff done.' He was ripping me a new one for two hours, and then he's got his arm around my back, and he's crying with me."

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Go read the article its one of the best in depth ones I’ve read in some time. Covers a lot of territiry and years. Very well written.

ESPN Article

Venables is going to be a .500 coach.

Plus he'll be on that okie dope Chaggy style in no time (if he isnt already).

Dude's a tweeker from WAY back in the day.

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Don't waste your time.

All they know is Riley/playoffs era OU, and that's who they think OU is. It's a comfortable narrative to cling to. Let them do it.

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22 years since you won a NC, and not due to lack of opportunity.

I wonder if anyone has had as many missed opportunities as Oklahoma over the past 20 years. I can't think of anyone.