You couldn’t have asked for a worse start to a head coaching career at the University of Oklahoma. The Sooners, led by Brent Venables, went 6-7 and fell woefully under the “Blue Blood” standards the program has.
Part of that is he just didn’t have the roster, but part of that was mistakes he made along the way too. The roster was probably the worst it’s been since maybe 2014.
But on the flip side, they were in a lot of one-score games, or they had leads late in games they just blew. Some of that is the roster, but another big part of that is the coaching.
For Venables, he feels he needs to be better in “every single area.” He spoke more in-depth on that at Oklahoma Media Days on Tuesday.
“Even through success, you should continue to be improving and getting better,” Venables said at OU media day. “I’ve said that lots of times. So there’s no area that I can’t get better at. So, I’m working on all of them. My expectation is be the best version of me in year two. There’s not any one area.”
One specific area he mentioned that is different from being a head coach is having to deal with everyone’s needs, whether that’s the staff or the players. To be the best leader he wants to be, he said he needs to be “more mindful of that.”
That’s what fans and the administration hope happens with Venables and the entire staff that they learn from all of the mistakes they made a year ago. There are always mistakes that come with being a first-time head coach, but being a first-time head coach at a place like Oklahoma, those mistakes are magnified.
But for Venables, I’m sure he wouldn’t want it any other way.
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