Brent Venables set for a date with the mirror after Sooners' complete physical collapse in Red River Rivalry

Venables Needs Some Soul-Searching

I have only seen one coach have as bad a performance against a single team as Venables has against Texas (shoutout to Ryan Day for his anathema with Michigan). It doesn't make any sense how Oklahoma can rise up for every other big game on the season, and have consistently under Venables, but they get pantsed routinely by the Longhorns. You know, the one game you have to win every year as head coach of the Sooners.

Venables has won it once, and it took a legendary game-winning drive for it to happen after they almost gave the game away. Outside of that game? 49-0, 34-3, and 23-6. These aren't close, competitive losses, they are embarrassing blowouts. These blowouts are made even worse by Venables' post game comments.

All the pressure was on this staff to finally deliver a win. Mateer was healthy and playing, they couldn't rely on the backup quarterback excuse anymore. They had an opportunity to prove that their elite defense was deserving of consideration for the best unit in football. Instead, that disappeared like sand between their fingers with every missed tackle and ill-prepared play. Players looked confused pre-snap, the gameplan was a mess, and the team was completely exhausted by the end of the third quarter.

I don't know about you, but with a bye week and a pseudo bye-week (Kent State) to prepare for this game, I would sure hope my team would be more prepared than the Sooners looked. For them to look that out of sync and "without any fire" is a damning indictment of Venables' tenure as head coach of the Sooners, and it's one he'll have to fix, and soon, if he wants to stay that.