Bob Stoops calls out the people who need to be called out most for pulling a stunt that should be getting more attention
Bob Stoops is sending a message regarding the voters not choosing Brent Venables.
Earlier in the week, college football awards began to be announced. Of course, Oklahoma Sooners kicker Tate Sandell won the Lou Groza Award.
However, there should have been at least one more award won. Head coach Brent Venables should have won the Coach of the Year Award, and it’s not even up for debate. The fact that he wasn’t even a finalist floored former head coach Bob Stoops.
Bob Stoops reacts to Brent Venables not being a Coach of the Year finalist
“Ridiculous,” Bob Stoops said on The REF. “Guy calling the defense does it so well, one of the top-five defenses in America. It is, it’s wrong. I don’t get what their criteria are. Everybody, if you look ahead of the year, if we could win six, seven, eight games, that was amazing.
“We go 10-2 with one of the top three or four schedules in the country, toughest schedules in the country, and they don’t recognize it. So, short-sighted on their part. It’s wrong, and Brent doesn’t care. I know that. Just win, and that’s what he’s going to keep doing.”
So, let’s get this straight – Venables won just six games last season, where he had one of the worst offenses in college football. He loses to Navy in the Armed Forces Bowl, and from there, he’s on the hot seat to lose his job. He gets the hardest schedule in the country, or one of the hardest, and wins 10 games.
Plus, he also does it while calling the country’s best defense, which was the catalyst for Oklahoma making the College Football Playoff. Venables not being a finalist is completely wrong because he should be the winner. To make matters worse, he wasn’t even in the top 12 for the award.
I’m not sure who is voting for these awards, but in what world is Kirby Smart of the Georgia Bulldogs more deserving? No disrespect to Smart, who is one of the greatest coaches we have seen in the last decade, but his team is just a bit better than the one he had last year. They’re in a very similar position and played a worse schedule than the Sooners.
Something has to be re-evaluated here.
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