Venables

[MOJO_ERASER]

Being honest if you guys can’t see what Brent is doing then you’re just a casual fan. He literally restarted our football program from the ground up. We lost 2 5 star qbs 2 5 star wrs …. Our whole team was in a stake of shock after a Riley left and some didn’t wanna play for Brent .
He’s now got his culture in place and is stacking players all over the place . He’s created so much depth with his great walkon program and picking up the right transfers who can push players to be leaders and great players . Not to mention he just signed a number four ranked class and the 2024 class will go down as our best ever imo. Please don’t complain if you are a casual fan it makes you look like you are ignorant .He was born to do this job!

 

[CTOkie]

Being honest if you guys can’t see what Brent is doing then you’re just a casual fan. He literally restarted our football program from the ground up. We lost 2 5 star qbs 2 5 star wrs …. Our whole team was in a stake of shock after a Riley left and some didn’t wanna play for Brent .
He’s now got his culture in place and is stacking players all over the place . He’s created so much depth with his great walkon program and picking up the right transfers who can push players to be leaders and great players . Not to mention he just signed a number four ranked class and the 2024 class will go down as our best ever imo. Please don’t complain if you are a casual fan it makes you look like you are ignorant .He was born to do this job!

Don’t know if the 2024 class will be OU’s best ever but I agree with you on Venables work so far in the wake of the instability he was faced with.
As for recruiting, I believe some of OU’s best were in the years following WWII with the war veterans that Tatum and Wilkinson brought in, then the ones that fed OU’s monster teams of the 1950’s, then the Mildren class of 1967 and the great classes of the 1970’s, the 1980’s and several of Stoops’ classes in this century.
But that was all before the current era we are in that allows players to be “purchased”.
That said, the prospects of the 2024 class being among OU’s best is very much possible. Venables has OU recruiting all over the country while keeping OU’s presence in Texas intact.

 

[Plainosooner]

No OU class ever, was better than the guys who were freshmen my senior year, 1972. Two Selmons, Joe Washington., Tinker Owens, and a bunch of guys who went 32-1-1 their last 3 seasons.

 

[Oklabama]

No OU class ever, was better than the guys who were freshmen my senior year, 1972. Two Selmons, Joe Washington., Tinker Owens, and a bunch of guys who went 32-1-1 their last 3 seasons.

Exactly. And without NIL transfers. Amazing.

 

[Plainosooner]

And I saw that, having been at OU for 4/5 of Mildren's class and the first four years of the Wylie/Pruitt class. That latter had better linemen I believe, though the best DT was Derland Moore who began his career as a football walk-on whose initial scholership was for track.

But Wylie, Pruitt and Crosswhite, all beat out the RB's in Mildren's class. Bell co-started with Wylie for the GOTC in Mildren's senior year, but only after Joe got hurt when we played USC in game 3 of 1971. I remember talking with Jack after the second game of the season, a 55-29 win at Pitt. Jack told me that several times in the game, we ran the option outside, and THERE WAS NO ONE TO READ ON THE OPTION. They had no one to take the quarterback, or the pitch man. And then after the big three, red October of '71, USC, Texas and Colorado the latter who was third in the Big 8 AND in the national polls at the end of the season. After those big 3, we played at KState, in a game I got to be on the sideline for. We set all kinds of rushing records, over 700 onwon the ground and scored on every possession until the Steve Dodd, the third team HB fumbled.

The scuttlebutt was that they replaced him on the next drive because we won 75-28, and the spread going into the game was low 40's. The boosters took their favorites, and Fairbanks didn't want them unhappy losing against the spread. That was the day Pruitt set the school record for rushing yards in a game almost 300 in the game, not broken until Samaje Perine broke the all time national record over 40 years later.

That '71 team, made the recruiting of the '72 recruiting class possible. We wore those white shoes, when everyone else except Joe Namath wore black. You don't notice the difference in the old replays, but it made OU the coolest place to be in the country. Of course we had the heartbreaker in the GOTC, but the hump changed.

Starting with '71, after two mediocre seasons in '69 and '70, we were from 71 to 1975, 54-3-1. I sure would have loved to play USC in '72.

 

[Oklabama]

And I saw that, having been at OU for 4/5 of Mildren's class and the first four years of the Wylie/Pruitt class. That latter had better linemen I believe, though the best DT was Derland Moore who began his career as a football walk-on whose initial scholership was for track.

But Wylie, Pruitt and Crosswhite, all beat out the RB's in Mildren's class. Bell co-started with Wylie for the GOTC in Mildren's senior year, but only after Joe got hurt when we played USC in game 3 of 1971. I remember talking with Jack after the second game of the season, a 55-29 win at Pitt. Jack told me that several times in the game, we ran the option outside, and THERE WAS NO ONE TO READ ON THE OPTION. They had no one to take the quarterback, or the pitch man. And then after the big three, red October of '71, USC, Texas and Colorado the latter who was third in the Big 8 AND in the national polls at the end of the season. After those big 3, we played at KState, in a game I got to be on the sideline for. We set all kinds of rushing records, over 700 onwon the ground and scored on every possession until the Steve Dodd, the third team HB fumbled.

The scuttlebutt was that they replaced him on the next drive because we won 75-28, and the spread going into the game was low 40's. The boosters took their favorites, and Fairbanks didn't want them unhappy losing against the spread. That was the day Pruitt set the school record for rushing yards in a game almost 300 in the game, not broken until Samaje Perine broke the all time national record over 40 years later.

That '71 team, made the recruiting of the '72 recruiting class possible. We wore those white shoes, when everyone else except Joe Namath wore black. You don't notice the difference in the old replays, but it made OU the coolest place to be in the country. Of course we had the heartbreaker in the GOTC, but the hump changed.

Starting with '71, after two mediocre seasons in '69 and '70, we were from 71 to 1975, 54-3-1. I sure would have loved to play USC in '72.

Plaino, you got to see some of the best Oklahoma football firsthand. You are blessed.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

And I saw that, having been at OU for 4/5 of Mildren's class and the first four years of the Wylie/Pruitt class. That latter had better linemen I believe, though the best DT was Derland Moore who began his career as a football walk-on whose initial scholership was for track.

But Wylie, Pruitt and Crosswhite, all beat out the RB's in Mildren's class. Bell co-started with Wylie for the GOTC in Mildren's senior year, but only after Joe got hurt when we played USC in game 3 of 1971. I remember talking with Jack after the second game of the season, a 55-29 win at Pitt. Jack told me that several times in the game, we ran the option outside, and THERE WAS NO ONE TO READ ON THE OPTION. They had no one to take the quarterback, or the pitch man. And then after the big three, red October of '71, USC, Texas and Colorado the latter who was third in the Big 8 AND in the national polls at the end of the season. After those big 3, we played at KState, in a game I got to be on the sideline for. We set all kinds of rushing records, over 700 onwon the ground and scored on every possession until the Steve Dodd, the third team HB fumbled.

The scuttlebutt was that they replaced him on the next drive because we won 75-28, and the spread going into the game was low 40's. The boosters took their favorites, and Fairbanks didn't want them unhappy losing against the spread. That was the day Pruitt set the school record for rushing yards in a game almost 300 in the game, not broken until Samaje Perine broke the all time national record over 40 years later.

That '71 team, made the recruiting of the '72 recruiting class possible. We wore those white shoes, when everyone else except Joe Namath wore black. You don't notice the difference in the old replays, but it made OU the coolest place to be in the country. Of course we had the heartbreaker in the GOTC, but the hump changed.

Starting with '71, after two mediocre seasons in '69 and '70, we were from 71 to 1975, 54-3-1. I sure would have loved to play USC in '72.

These are the posts I love. Someone who was there. I appreciate it plaino. 👍

 

[CTOkie]

I was at OU from 1968-70 as the team went from Warmack to Mildren and from a power I to the wishbone two weeks before the 1970 Texas game.
I believe the 1967 team’s success amped up recruiting for the great Mildren class of 1968 (before freshman could play) and that laid the foundation for OU to have its dominate decade of the ‘70’s.
I also believe the two decisive defeats to Notre Dame in ‘66 and ‘68 influened OU to recruited bigger players as ND had about a 35 lbs per man size advantage… in addition to speed.
And in switching to the wishbone in 1970, OU realized the need to recruiting black athletes which added a whole new dimension of speed and athleticism.

 

[Plainosooner]

It doesn't take much to get me to talk about Sooner football from my first game on tv, when the Domers beat us 19-6 in the 1961 opener. It seemed like Bud quick kicked about four times in the game, at least to my ten year old mind. From then until three years after I graduated which would be 1975, I'm a bit of a Sooner historian. I can remember stuff from those seasons better sometimes than two years ago.

BTW, when I tell somebody I was a manager, I usually describe it by saying that I washed jock straps, stacked dummies and ran to the Sooner Superette before practice every day to get Beachnut Chewing Tobacco for the OLine coach Billy Michael. I actually chatted briefly after he died, with his daughter on the precursor of this site. Bill wasn't a great HC, but he coached at UTEP when the really sucked. But he was great to me, even occasionally let me take snaps from two future All American centers, Tom Brahaney and Kyle Davis. It gave him a better look at correcting them.

Yes I know how lucky I was. Ironically, when I made an application to be a manager, a concession to my father who wanted me to quit my three year job doing that at Plano. And I responded that managers in college could get scholarships. But my application, which in a form letter reply was called outstanding but their staff was full. Then, less than a week before two a days started, I received a letter saying that there was a new opening, and if I wanted the job, I could have it. I didn't find out for more than a year, that the manager who's job I got, got his girlfriend pregnant, and had to quit and get a real job. So that's how I got the job.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

I was at OU from 1968-70 as the team went from Warmack to Mildren and from a power I to the wishbone two weeks before the 1970 Texas game.
I believe the 1967 team’s success amped up recruiting for the great Mildren class of 1968 (before freshman could play) and that laid the foundation for OU to have its dominate decade of the ‘70’s.
I also believe the two decisive defeats to Notre Dame in ‘66 and ‘68 influened OU to recruited bigger players as ND had about a 35 lbs per man size advantage… in addition to speed.
And in switching to the wishbone in 1970, OU realized the need to recruiting black athletes which added a whole new dimension of speed and athleticism.

Were you a player ct?

 

[CTOkie]

Were you a player ct?

No.
Just an avid fan since 1958 when my dad took me to the OU-Texas game. The year that the 2-point conversion rule was introduced and Texas used it to win the game 15-14.

 

[Plainosooner]

That began the LH streak where they won 12 of 13 until my junior year. Then we didn't lose until 1977. Tho that '76 game was the stinker 6-6. It's been a series of streaks for a long time.

 

[LAY THE WOODY]

It doesn't take much to get me to talk about Sooner football from my first game on tv, when the Domers beat us 19-6 in the 1961 opener. It seemed like Bud quick kicked about four times in the game, at least to my ten year old mind. From then until three years after I graduated which would be 1975, I'm a bit of a Sooner historian. I can remember stuff from those seasons better sometimes than two years ago.

BTW, when I tell somebody I was a manager, I usually describe it by saying that I washed jock straps, stacked dummies and ran to the Sooner Superette before practice every day to get Beachnut Chewing Tobacco for the OLine coach Billy Michael. I actually chatted briefly after he died, with his daughter on the precursor of this site. Bill wasn't a great HC, but he coached at UTEP when the really sucked. But he was great to me, even occasionally let me take snaps from two future All American centers, Tom Brahaney and Kyle Davis. It gave him a better look at correcting them.

Yes I know how lucky I was. Ironically, when I made an application to be a manager, a concession to my father who wanted me to quit my three year job doing that at Plano. And I responded that managers in college could get scholarships. But my application, which in a form letter reply was called outstanding but their staff was full. Then, less than a week before two a days started, I received a letter saying that there was a new opening, and if I wanted the job, I could have it. I didn't find out for more than a year, that the manager who's job I got, got his girlfriend pregnant, and had to quit and get a real job. So that's how I got the job.

Good stuff right there. 👍

 

[iasooner2000]

Damn Griffin and ncaa for stealing the trophy from Joe Silvershoes !

 

[Plainosooner]

If not for the probation, Joe would have won it at least once.

 

[OUSOONER67]

Being honest if you guys can’t see what Brent is doing then you’re just a casual fan. He literally restarted our football program from the ground up. We lost 2 5 star qbs 2 5 star wrs …. Our whole team was in a stake of shock after a Riley left and some didn’t wanna play for Brent .
He’s now got his culture in place and is stacking players all over the place . He’s created so much depth with his great walkon program and picking up the right transfers who can push players to be leaders and great players . Not to mention he just signed a number four ranked class and the 2024 class will go down as our best ever imo. Please don’t complain if you are a casual fan it makes you look like you are ignorant .He was born to do this job!

Everyone knows what happened, a lot of us could see it way before Riley left but you have to be able to use all the talent they have recruited and transfers as well so its a wait and see for most I guess myself included. I think Brent and Company can get it done but imma wait to give praise until I see it. So ready for the Season to start!

 

[SoonerJaz]

I can feel the mounting pressure on Brent going into this 2023 season. He has to win. With going to the SEC in 24 it is very important that OU shows massive improvement in 2023. Not saying anything we all dont already know but damn, imagine dropping an 6-6 or 7-5 record this year. I think Brent can do it, but a losing record or even a couple games above .500 and the hand wrenching and pacing the floors will get very loud and uncomfortable. If I can break a sweat just thinking about it, then Brent must be in hell lol!!!

If you've listened to Venebles, he is EXTREMELY confident his team will have a very good year!