Brent Venables’ six-year, $43.5 million contract that pays him an average of $7.25 million annually is one of the largest ever awarded to a first-year head coach and we now know that it is fully guaranteed. It was previously announced that Venables will make $7 million in the first year of his contract. That would […]
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Sound-Off Thread: Year 1 of the Brent Venables Era
Ben Queen-USA TODAY Sports The 2022 season has been a disaster, and this is a place to vent your frustrations. We’re all fuming after the Oklahoma Sooners’ 23-20 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers. We’re all still fuming from the previous loss to the Baylor Bears. And the 49-0 loss to the Texas Longhorns. You […]
Oklahoma football: Four downs on a stormy Sooner performance
The prominent English poet Geoffrey Chaucer once penned the phrase, “All good things must come to an end.” That is an apt way to sum up what happened to the Oklahoma football team in losing for the first time ever at West Virginia on a gloomy, November afternoon in Appalachia. West Virginia, which entered the […]
Oklahoma basketball: Takeaways from that elusive first win of season
With the bitterness of a season-opening loss fresh on their minds, men’s Oklahoma basketball held off Arkansas-Pine Bluff down the stretch to post a 66-58 win at Lloyd Noble Center on Friday. The Sooners led by a slim two-point margin, 58-56, with just under three minutes remaining in the game — a grim reminder of […]
Oklahoma football: OU hovering in mid-30s in The Athletic’s 1-131 ranking
After the devastating 49-0 loss to Texas in this year’s Red River Rout, Oklahoma football was ranked No. 47 out of the 131 teams that compete at college football’s highest level, according to The Athletic. Oklahoma has won two of its last three games since that time and has been slowly working its way upward […]
Oklahoma Sooners Football at West Virginia: Game Thread & How to Watch
NATHAN J FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK Give us your score predictions! Head on down to the comments section to give us your thoughts throughout the day! Can the #Sooners find a way to get it done in a cold, far away land? We’re about to find out.@LandersCDJROK Scene Setter ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/yM3jWNCCux — Oklahoma […]