New coach Venables handles early test at No. 9 Oklahoma
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August 17, 2022
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Brent Venables got his first welcome-to-the-hot-seat moment well before his first game as Oklahoma's new coach.
He attacked that controversy the same way he took on ball-carriers as a gritty, undersized linebacker at Kansas State -- head on.
Earlier this month, Oklahoma said assistant head coach Cale Gundy spoke a "racially charged" word multiple times during a film session as he was reading off of a player's device. Gundy, a popular ex-Sooners quarterback, quickly resigned and Venables accepted.
Public support around Gundy swelled in the hours that followed, but Vena...
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