Oklahoma Sooners fans are tired of hearing head coach Brent Venables sing the same song after every loss
Brent Venables and the Oklahoma Sooners lost to the Ole Miss Rebels at home.
It’s 2025, and while the Oklahoma Sooners are obviously a much better team than the one we saw last season, they are still losing games they should win. Last season, they were a six-win team, and this may be an eight-win team. That is an improvement, but it’s simply not good enough for this fan base.
That’s why the fan base is tired of hearing head coach Brent Venables say the same things at the podium following losses.
Venables talks loss to Ole Miss Rebels
“We’ve gotta be better,” Venables told reporters after the game. “We knew that he had great lower-body strength. Saw that in several games this year where he’s able to elude the rush, and we’ve gotta be better. Very painful lesson. He’s [Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss] a winner. It’s what he’s done against everybody. But we needed to play better, and to have a chance to win, we needed to do better against him. I didn’t have them ready to do that. They were better than us.
“They called better plays and executed better. We needed to execute better on our side and make plays. I thought they made some plays. And we made some, but what was typical of the day, when we needed to make a play, we got a stop, and then we got a roughing. I have to look at it. I didn’t like it at the moment, but we can’t leave it in the official’s hands, and that turns into a field goal. And we were on the wrong side of it too often today. And those mistakes are magnified.”
It feels like every time the Sooners have lost the last three years or so, Venables is saying this exact same thing. It feels like he’s always saying they have to be better, that they weren’t prepared enough, and that the other team was just better. Not only are these the things your fan base does not want to hear every week, but these are also things that don’t make you look very good.
It is your job to get them prepared. It is your job to outcoach the other coach. Since the head coach is not on the field, actually doing the physical things it takes to win the game, he has to do all the others I just mentioned. Venables cannot keep saying this because the fans are tired of hearing about it. They want to see it.
In this game, the Sooners were not disciplined enough. The penalties are a discipline thing, and there is no reason the Sooners should be having egregious calls every week. This week, it was eight penalties for 52 yards to Ole Miss’ six for 50.
These came at terrible times, though, like the roughing the passer call that bailed Ole Miss out of fourth and long. Or the holding calls that put OU in their own end zone, where they proceeded to run the ball and get tackled for a safety.
These things can’t keep happening. You get paid millions of dollars to do your job, so why are you telling everyone after the game that you’re not doing your job?
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