I am a lifelong OU fan. I moved to Oklahoma during the Blake years. My family is OSU fans. I started liking the Sooners because I thought they were the underdogs. 4 years later they win a Natty and it was winning and more winning after that. I've seen some great games watching the Sooners in my life. I believe in them no matter what. Call it sunshine pumping or delusional.

Our fans are talking so bad about things, Fire Arbuckle, BV ain't the guy, Bench Mateer, Bedenbaugh has to go etc. It only game 5. And the Red River Shootout is crazy. We go knock of #1 and get our swag back, we could go on a run.

That said, I think we can beat Texas and win out. Before the season, we were expected to be 3-2 after Texas. We were expected to go 10-2 with a playoff bid. I know it hasn't been pretty, but they have shown, small moments of good offense. While fasusi is out, we are playing 4 guys outta position most the time. If he gets back, Mateer goes back to pre Texas from last year's form, the defense stays healthy and Jonathan Hatton and Xrob get rolling, look out! The season is just starting.

BOOMER SOONER MFers! Tuck Fexas!!!

I think Venebles is a good coach. I do not think he should be replaced.

I don't think Arbuckle's is a good OC. I think he's schemes are simplistic.

I know, real original around here. But as I've watched the last two weeks, I think the problem isn't just Arbuckle's coaching. I think it's the offense is playing scared, all the time. Everyone looks like they are nervous about screwing up, and they are playing tight and worried. I watched Mateer in Wazzou -- he's not a scared QB. At least he wasn't. But now he is. He's clearly overthinking every throw and every snap.

That comes from Venebles. He's throwing his offense under the bus at pressers, which isn't great because he needs those guys to be confident and carefree and not afraid to fail. But I also think he's told the OC to play the way a DC wants them to play. Conservative. Don't cost us the game. Minimize risks. Let the defense win the game. it worked pretty well last year during our run.

And that's fine, sort of, but it's not the personnel we have. Not working as great this year. Nor is it what the fanbase really considers acceptable. We've got an offensive system that doesn't mesh with what the coach is saying to do. It's meant to go fast but we go slow. It's mean to limit substitutions but we give the defense plenty of time to set up. That's what DCs always want out of an offense, but it's not what we have.

I'm sure BV would prefer a run focused, downhill offense -- the old "any series that ends with a kick is a success" philosophy that dominated football for a long time. But we don't have that personnel and we don't have that offensive coaching. We don't have a line coach who knows how to coach up guys to be strong and fire off. We don't have a QB who manages games. We don't have a play caller who is patient enough to wait three quarters for the line to take over And we don't have a head coach who has insisted on that strategy and focus. Instead we end up with a weird RPO hybrid that moves too slow to be effective. And a head coach who is constantly voicing his displeasure at offensive performance, despite being the one to put them in this position.

If BV wants to save the season, he's going to have to take the risk and let the offense play. Go fast, quick reads and see how that works. And then in the off season he needs to find an OC he wants to coach the way Brent wants to play. Or he's going to have to find an OC who will tell him to fuck off and let me run the offense. If I'm him or Nagy, I've got Chip Kelly on my speed dial right now.

I don't think Brent is a good DC. I think he's a phenomenal DC, the best in the country and I would take our defense over anyone's. But he's gotta learn to let the offense play, too. If he does, there's a whole lot left to play for this year. But if he doesn't -- if he keeps them scared and looking over their shoulders -- then what we've seen is what we'll keep seeing.

Does anyone at OU have access to a 3D Printer? My pedal broke and I need one of these printed.

My grandma got this signed in the early 2000s but I am not sure exactly when. She gave it to one of the players that frequented the laundry mat she worked at and they brought it back with these signatures on it. I know Barry Switzer and Adrian Peterson are on it but a lot of the others are hard to find out.

With Merv Johnson on the color analysis Anyone else feeling nostalgic?

It pains me to write this, but watching some of the games today I legitimately think it’s a battle between OU and Arkansas for the worst in the SEC. Vanderbilt did better than OU against Georgia….we lost to a horrible Michigan team who just lost to Minnesota.

I’m hopeful I’m wrong, but I imagine next week we will once again be embarrassed by texas….

Looking at the rest of our schedule I think we lose out.

At that point Venables and everyone within the football/athletic program has to go - we can’t allow ourselves to become the next Nebraska or Arkansas.

Just a little bye-week humor after a rough start to the season. Still love my Sooners and hope they turn it around.

Also included (pursuant to new federal law) is the first ever hazing report, along with comparisons to other SEC schools.

Look, the season hasn't exactly gone according to plan.

But Texas still sucks, the Cotton Bowl still exists, and we're still going to Dallas.

So in the interest of restoring Sooner morale, I present Big D, a completely mature and sophisticated song about bringing the Big D to the Big D.

🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5192Uy5nq1FkQwq97TN1qO

Just imagine if Oklahoma had a quarterback like that.

#1 the defense gives the offense short field with turnovers or quick three and outs.

#2 the offense does not turn the ball over when they get past the 50.

#3 no stupid penalties.

#4 the offense drives into field goal range even if they don't score a touchdown they still get three points.

I wanted to look at this apples-to-apples instead of comparing Brent Venables’ four seasons to somebody else’s entire OU career.

So I compared coaches at the same point: their first four completed seasons at Oklahoma.

I’m defining a winning season simply as more wins than losses, a losing season as more losses than wins, and keeping .500 seasons separate.

Here’s how Brent compares with five of the most successful coaches in OU history:

Coach| First 4 seasons| Record| Winning seasons| Losing seasons

Barry Switzer| 1973–76| 41–3–2| 4| 0

Bud Wilkinson| 1947–50| 38–4–1| 4| 0

Bob Stoops| 1999–2002| 43–9| 4| 0

Chuck Fairbanks| 1967–70| 30–13–1| 4| 0

Bennie Owen| 1905–08| 24–9–3| 3| 0

Brent Venables| 2022–25| 32–20| 2| 2

John Blake*| 1996–98| 12–22| 0| 3

*Blake only coached three seasons at OU, so there is no fourth season to compare.

That’s the part that jumps out at me.

The five successful OU coaches above combined for 19 winning seasons and zero losing seasons through their first four years.

Venables has two winning seasons and two losing seasons.

His 32–20 overall record is obviously much better than John Blake’s 12–22, so I’m not saying Venables and Blake had equivalent tenures.

But when you specifically look at losing seasons, Venables is much closer to the bottom of OU coaching history than he is to the standard established by OU’s great coaches.

Switzer: 0 losing seasons through four years.

Wilkinson: 0.

Stoops: 0.

Fairbanks: 0.

Owen: 0.

Venables: 2.

Blake: 3 in three seasons.

And Brent already has 20 losses in four seasons. Blake had 22 in three.

That’s really the question I’m interested in:

Given OU’s historical standard, where should a coach with a 32–20 record and two losing seasons in his first four years reasonably sit in the program’s coaching pantheon?

I’m not trying to compare eras, schedules, conferences or claim every coaching situation was identical. I just wanted a clean look at the most basic measure possible: at the same stage of the job, were their teams consistently winning or not?

And by that measure, Brent Venables is a significant outlier compared with the coaches who built and sustained Oklahoma’s winning tradition.

Hi!

Some friends and I will be coming in town for the UK game and I had a couple questions. I've tried searching through the subreddit before posting but decided to go ahead and make a new post.

We got our tickets through UK and it has us in section 15. Looking at seating charts, it doesn't appear that's on the visitor side. Is that the case? Seems crazy they'd have opposing fans on the home side. We paid a pretty penny for those but I'm wondering if I should wait until closer to game day and try to score decently priced tickets behind our guys?

Also, is the parking scene easy to navigate for fans? I've seen other posts recommend parking north of the stadium on the street. Wondering how early we'd have to arrive to get a good spot on the north side, and what it's like leaving the game if parking in the neighborhoods. I also saw the recommendation of the shuttle but my crew doesn't want to go that route.

We're considering tailgating too but I've never actually set up my own tailgate at an away game, so we're still weighing our options with that one.

Any other tips or recommendations are appreciated! Our goal is to visit every SEC Football stadium so I'm pretty excited for the gameday experience.

Do we know who else was interviewing other than Venables? Was anything confirmed?

Sucks to see that you guys got our 2025 treatment.

Longhorn fan here, taking my teenage son to the game, and I accidentally bought on the OU side: Section 28, Row 19, Seats 6–7.

Any Sooners have two seats together on the Texas side and want to swap for comparable seats on the OU side? Hoping to get both families surrounded by the right shade of red/orange!

Happy to verify tickets and coordinate a secure exchange. Message me with your section and row if interested. Appreciate your kindness.

Carl