Brent Venables predicts when Oklahoma Sooners GM Jim Nagy will start having his recruiting success shown

The Oklahoma Sooners needed to get with the new ways of college football. You can't be stuck in the past too long in this new era of college football, or you will get left behind. Just ask Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State Cowboys after what happened last year.

Gundy hadn't paid any transfer portal players yet till this season, and it came back to bite him, as he didn't have any depth when injuries struck, and his team finished with just three wins on the year. Now, nothing like that has happened to Oklahoma and Brent Venables, but it's important that they adjust to the new era.

And, they have. No, they haven't done as well with these adjustments as some of the other blue-blood programs in the country, like Ohio State, Georgia, Texas (unfortunately for OU), and others. But, they aren't being left in the past, yet, that is. And to help them on the recruiting side of things, they hired a general manager, something that every major school is doing and has done.

They were one of two SEC schools left to do it. But they hired someone who knows talent when he sees it. Jim Nagy, who worked in the NFL for 18 years, primarily as an NFL scout, was hired as the Sooners' GM. This is a guy who knows football so well that he was interviewed for the New York Jets GM job this offseason before he got hired by OU.

And, he's been putting in work.