It’s no secret that the first year of Brent Venables’ tenure didn’t go the way that many Oklahoma Sooners fans thought it would. The Sooners suffered their first losing season in over two decades and finished with a 6-7 record. With valuable starters on both sides of the ball returning and another top 10 recruting class, there’s plenty of reasons to be hopeful for the future of OU Football.
While one-score losses are losses nonetheless, the Sooners were a very unlucky team in 2022. Flip just a few of those one-score results and the Sooners finish 8-4 or 9-3.
J.D. PicKell of On3 is also optimistic of OU’s chances of turning it around in 2023.
Here’s the deal. In your bowl game, you went toe-to-toe with a team that was further along than you and is a top-ten caliber team in Florida State. You’re not far off. Oklahoma is still processing. Did they have less success than I thought they would last year? Yeah, a lot of people thought they’d be more successful. I still think year two could be a big year for them. – PicKell on “The Hard Count”
Losing to Texas, Kansas State, and Baylor in the same year isn’t acceptable in Norman, Oklahoma. That being said, [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] knows that. The coaching staff knows that. The way they’ve attacked recruiting and the transfer portal is evidence enough.
Venables will have all the tools he will need to lead OU to a better result in 2023. With the move to the SEC closer and closer, Venables needs to show that the foundation for the program is cemented in whenever Oklahoma does make the move.
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