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I chuckled at what this PSU fan said:

I heard from an insider close to the family with insider knowledge. He believe Oklahoma offers both the best chance to win it all, and to be close to his family and friends he has made over the years. Oklahoma has exceeded the penn state offer and he is ready to accept. It will be announced shortly now.

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8 hours ago, chiu1040 said:

If you had your choice would you rather be the DC at OU, OSU, Penn State, or Notre Dame?

When he chases that tail to ou and Botoxzilla still refuses to leave Oklahoma when Venables gets canned he’ll come back home to Stillwater.

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16 hours ago, chiu1040 said:

I chuckled at what this PSU fan said:

I heard from an insider close to the family with insider knowledge. He believe Oklahoma offers both the best chance to win it all, and to be close to his family and friends he has made over the years. Oklahoma has exceeded the penn state offer and he is ready to accept. It will be announced shortly now.

think he's going to get above $3M

 

 

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57 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

The smell of desparation

 

44 minutes ago, Pdawg88 said:

Desperation 

But yeah, what we have been doing isn’t working. I’d hire the Easter bunny if he can help us win games. 

Hopefully this becomes a disparate situation for OU , Venables won't get his man and next year he he doesn't just enough to not get dispersed 

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1 minute ago, BigHornedLurker said:

 

Hopefully this becomes a disparate situation for OU , Venables won't get his man and next year he he doesn't just enough to not get dispersed 

If he wins less than 8 games next year he is toast. 

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OU on3 update on Knowles

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The Jim Knowles sweepstakes is expected to come to an end in the hours following Ohio State’s National Championship parade. Here is the latest.

Knowles, who won the national title with Ohio State on Monday, reached out to Oklahoma coach Brent Venables shortly after Zac Alley’s departure for West Virginia on Dec. 28. Knowles expressed interest in the Sooners’ opening due to his personal connections to the state. Obviously, Venables wanted to make it happen. The two agreed to further their conversations shortly after the Buckeyes’ national title run. 

But in the days following the title game, negotiations between Knowles and Oklahoma got complicated. Knowles and his agent spoke almost exclusively with Venables — not the OU administration. Penn State and Notre Dame, which also have defensive coordinator openings, quickly got involved as well, further complicating the process. 

Knowles’ agent, Pete Roussel, quickly became the point of contact instead of Knowles himself. That led to all three schools making offers to Knowles that would make him the highest-paid assistant in college football. 

By Friday evening, Knowles stopped direct communication with Venables as well as all the other schools involved. That included Ohio State, which does not want to lose Knowles and was blindsided by his flirtation with other programs. Why Knowles is looking to potentially leave is anyone’s guess. Speculation has centered around his family dynamic, coaching relationships and his want to be the highest-paid assistant in the sport. 

Many inside the Barry Switzer Center viewed Knowles coming to Norman as a long shot from the beginning. Some still do. Right now, it feels like a coin flip with many industry sources believing he will leave Ohio State. Either way, the Sooners are as much in the dark as anyone as of Sunday morning. They have not heard from Knowles or Roussel since Friday. The hope is for Knowles to decide after Ohio State’s celebration on Sunday afternoon. 

Meanwhile, OU has pursued other candidates for its defensive coordinator opening if Knowles does not choose the Sooners. One name that was floated early to SoonerScoop by sources is Arkansas State defensive coordinator Nate Dreiling.

Sources told SoonerScoop early on that Dreiling was a name floated to Venables by people in the industry who he has a great amount of trust in. And after further investigation, OU’s administration was on board with Dreiling as a potential candidate for the opening. Dreiling served as Utah State’s interim head coach in 2024 after head coach Blake Anderson was fired.

Dreiling, 34, has been a quick riser in the coaching ranks. He started his career as a GA at Kansas and spent time at Pitt State, Southeastern Missouri State, New Mexico State and Oregon. If Dreiling were hired, it would be a very similar role to Alley in 2024, with Venables having the final say in the defense.

Oklahoma has spoken with other candidates for the position, though those names are unclear to SoonerScoop at this point. As for former Clemson defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin, he will likely not be considered for the defensive coordinator position or as the linebackers coach. Instead, he’s expected to possibly join the staff as a defensive analyst. That has not been made official as of Sunday morning. 

It’s SoonerScoop’s understating that the Knowles ordeal has slowed the Sooners’ hiring process. However, they are in no rush, as they are still waiting on Knowles’ decision and have reached a point where they feel negotiations have stopped.

The ball is firmly in Jim Knowles’ court. 

 

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On 1/22/2025 at 1:13 PM, 'stache said:

Saw on a OSU board this his fiancé lives in OKC and doesn’t want to move. Is there some set number above $1 mil a year in salary where mangled ass suture face becomes attractive?

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39 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

If OU had $3M for an assistant coach, why don't they use that $3M to go get better players?

I asked the same question, and my understanding was that the money would come from two different sources. Money for NIL comes from collectives, boosters ect. Money for coaches comes from the school. 

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10 hours ago, South Austin said:

Money + pussy.

Yeah OU got lucky.  Not that this will save them.  It’s just that this would have made things worse - as far as wasting money they don’t have.  
What they do need is to spend on something other than defensive coaching.  It’s the only thing that may not be a dumpster fire down there…

2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Why would OU be willing to pay a DC $3 million dollars to work for a defensive HC who is on the hot seat? Why would Venables want to do that as well? Just throwing shit on the wall and hoping it sticks, I guess. 

 

Yes.  See above.  

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4 minutes ago, chiu1040 said:

Supposedly it would have freed BV to do more head coaching things. Kind of like UT hiring an offensive coordinator to free up Sark.

The only thing BV does well is coach the defense. It would free him up to be completely worthless. 

 

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Brent Venables to be his own play-caller in 2025

Absent the ability to clone himself, in a make-or-break season Venables is doubling-down on his successful defense while giving himself less time to oversee his moribund offense and tend to the CEO aspects of his struggling program.

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Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables on Saturday announced the hiring of Arkansas State defensive coordinator Nate Dreiling as inside linebackers coach and former Clemson defensive coordinator Wes Goodwin as assistant linebackers/outside linebackers coach, and the promotion of himself to defensive play-caller.

"I have reflected on all facets of our program over the past several weeks," Venables said in a statement. "Since I was hired as head coach, we have carefully assembled the defensive personnel and scheme that is suited to compete at the highest level, and we've built a deep and talented roster ready for the moment. I have high expectations for our program and will do everything in my power to achieve our goals for our players. To that end, I will take over defensive play-calling responsibilities for the 2025 season."

Three seasons in, Venables finds himself stuck in a Catch-22 that ensnares many first-time head coaches:

It was his prowess as a defensive coordinator that got him the Oklahoma job in the first place. Why wouldn't he run his own defense?

Then again, Venables was hired to be Oklahoma's head coach. Every moment he's spending with the defense is a moment he's not overseeing the offense and tending to the many CEO aspects of the job. If Venables isn't monitoring those things, who is?

One could respond that Venables can be both things in one body, but that ignores the key point of how we got here: Thus far, he hasn't been both. Or at least he hasn't done a good enough job of it. And if Venables's team doesn't improve in 2025, there will very likely be a different staff in place in 2026.

Three seasons in, Oklahoma's defense looks like what the Sooner signed up for upon his hire in December 2021. The Sooners ranked 82nd in yards per play in 2022, then 54th in 2023, and then 23rd this past season. That ranking is more impressive than the number implies, for reasons we'll get to in a moment. Linebacker Danny Stutsman was a consensus All-American, leading a defense that ranked in the top 40 nationally in sacks, tackles for loss, and takeaways.

The offense, meanwhile, has been a complete mess. 

The 2024 season was banked upon the promotion of Seth Littrell to offensive coordinator and Jackson Arnold to starting quarterback, and neither are with the program today. As a unit, OU finished 124th in yards per play, 97th in scoring (aided by multiple defensive touchdowns), 95th in yards per carry, and 128th in yards per attempt. 

Venables has since hired Washington State's Ben Arbuckle as offensive coordinator and brought quarterback John Mateer along with him, but those remains the only wholesale structural changes to the offense to date. The rest of the offensive staff remains intact.

And in naming himself the de facto defensive coordinator, Venables has also named Arbuckle -- a 30-year-old with three years of on-field coaching experience at the college level -- as his de facto associate head coach.

Meanwhile, the stakes could not be higher for this coaching staff. Venables has finished 6-7 in two of his three seasons leading Oklahoma. No one knows the minimum number of victories needed to secure a fifth season atop the program, but rest assured it's north of six. 

With his job on the line, Venables is betting on himself and doubling down on the side of the ball that's performing as expected, thereby reducing his oversight over the aspects of his program that put his job security in jeopardy in the first place. 

 

https://footballscoop.com/news/brent-venables-to-be-his-own-play-caller-in-2025-oklahoma

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