after the game plan vs Texas can you blame the guy for sniffing around elsewhere? No, I don't blame him. In fact, I said OU'd lose commits. It's only weird he'd chose ND because their QB development has been poor.
i hope he takes a visit, i would love to see Venables pressed on his dumb ass "take visits and get your offer yanked" policy. because it is dumb.
The policy, as I understand it, is that OU no longer considers you committed if you take other visits. I don't think they rescind the offer. That said, OU's policy is dumb. I said so several months ago and was surprised OU's gotten such a good class with it in place.
I fully expect Venables to keep his pledge to rescind the commitment. At the press conference after the UT game, Venables was visibly shaken and expressed some humility. That humility was gone by early this week based on his press conferences. So far, this staff appears uninterested in shifting directions.
losing Arnold would be a tremendous loss in the class. dude has been locked in for 10 months and OU only has offers out to three QBs this cycle: Malachi Nelson (who Riley was chasing for years), Arnold and Jaden Rashada who also i am guessing was an offer by the prior staff. OU didn't make his final 7.
Yes, Nelson and Rashada were Riley offers. Lebby has not pursued either. As I mentioned above, OU'll be looking in the portal, regardless of Arnold because it's stupid to expect a freshman to lead a Big 12 team.
that is a QB room that greatly needs some high end talent. Gabriel and Beeville, Booty (didn't realize he was unranked entirely?), Evers (who was a good get but looks as skinny as Jerrod Heard at QB which isn't good) and Arnold. Evers looks like a basketball player in body-type and because he likes to throw bounce passes.
a QB room without Gabriel AND Arnold is going to be very very not good. Of course. That's the room we saw in Dallas.
see i am interested to see how BV sells things. you guys are in a position where you can point to results and say "see, you can be the guy starting next year over these clowns" and offer early PT. Venables has a great history of being an excellent defensive coach and it isn't like that just goes away. guessing a lot of it is the kind of players he wants/recruits are not the kind of players the prior regime wanted/recruited on the defensive side.
Good coaches are able to modify their scheme to their players skills. It's the old Bum Phillips' quote "Bryant can take his'n and beat your'n, and then he can turn around and take your'n and beat his'n." In basketball, Popovich is one the best at modifying his strategies to fit his teams (that is until he decided to ignore that 3-point line).
Venables, if he were the coach he was reputed to be, would've taught his principles while molding a better defense. Instead, he's beaten down his defense and put a poor product on the field. And yet he's convinced he's doing it the right way.