Takeaways from Brent Venables’ comments during first day of the SEC era

Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables was adamant about the past, present and future of the OU football program as the Sooners were becoming official SEC members on Monday.

Venables joined ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum on SEC Network live from Norman, as the SEC celebration festivities were in full bloom. If anyone needed selling on the Oklahoma football legacy, Venables made an extremely compelling argument.

“We’re one of the top five legendary, iconic, winningest programs in the history of college football,” Venables said on “The Paul Finebaum Show.” “This is a program, whether it’s the 47-game winning streak or the most conference championships in the history of college football. The national championships, all the Heisman Trophy winners. The countless players that are now in the Hall of Fame, both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. The consensus All-Americans, you start going through all the draft picks, things of that nature, this program stands on its own two legs.”

But Venables wasn’t only excited about what has already happened in Norman. He exuded the promise that the Sooners have in the here-and-now as well as down the road.

Venables began with his offense, speaking on his new quarterback, sophomore Jackson Arnold.

“I love where we’re at,” Venables said. “We’ve got tremendous experience coming back at the skill positions. Certainly Jackson, this’ll be his first full season. Jackson is as talented a player as there is in college football. He’s a winner. He’s won his whole life. Smart guy, great instincts, he’s got tremendous skill, he’s got great toughness to him. He can run it, he can throw it. Again, this is a game of development … wherever he ended the season in his first collegiate start, he’ll be on another…

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Author : Sooners Wire

Publish date : 2024-07-03 01:29:01

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