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Every college football season provides some new lessons and some new takeaways for college coaches, even the ones that have been doing it for a long time. Oklahoma<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s Brent Venables<\/a><\/strong> is still fairly new as a head coach, so he continues to soak things in.<\/p>\n

His second season was a marked improvement over the first, perhaps a sign that Oklahoma is ready to turn the corner and emerge as a legitimate national contender again.<\/p>\n

So what did Venables take away from 2023?<\/p>\n

\u201cJust again, being efficient and being willing to adapt and improve, get better,\u201d Brent Venables explained at the SEC spring meetings. \u201cThere\u2019s lots of resources to use to do that. Listen to your players. Building and maintaining competitive depth is critical at all the spots, but the right spots certainly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sooners will have some tinkering to do in 2024 after losing starting quarterback Dillon Gabriel<\/a><\/strong> to the transfer portal<\/strong><\/a>. Luckily new starter Jackson Arnold<\/a><\/strong> has been pegged as a breakout candidate, so Oklahoma should be in position to keep rolling.<\/p>\n

The rest is all about improvements across the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, again, just continue to grow being a step further along in all of our systems, whether again that\u2019s strength and conditioning, sports performance, nutrition, our life skills program, continuing to nurture and develop your culture,\u201d Venables said. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of the root and really for us where it all starts.\u201d<\/p>\n

That culture has largely been established by the way Venables has constructed his roster. He has used a mix of high school recruiting and the transfer portal, all while looking for under-the-radar gems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recruiting piece is something that\u2019s a lot of fun. It\u2019s a great challenge,\u201d Brent Venables said. \u201cAgain, we\u2019re competing against the best of the best. We\u2019ve got great resources, but so do the people we\u2019re recruiting against. I still believe in finding guys that maybe not a lot of other people think a lot about but looking for players in building a roster that there\u2019s certain percentage or a certain group of guys that have intrinsic values that maybe aren\u2019t well thought-of in recruiting circles, but they\u2019ve got the right stuff. And I think that\u2019s more important now than ever as you\u2019re looking for continuity in your rosters and guys that are motivated by the right things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are things that you really probably foundationally learn from, and again I was a guy that had to earn my way, so I have a great appreciation for that as a coach. I have a great appreciation for guys that value those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venables even game one specific example of a coach he\u2019s trying to mold his program after.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Snyder<\/a><\/strong>, he\u2019s been the master of doing more with less for a long time,\u201d Brent Venables said. \u201cAnd so again, I think just foundationally not losing your way in the middle of all the chaos. Being calm and having clear vision on your standards and your vision for your program and how you build it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Oklahoma heads into Year 3, the Sooner will do so with a lot of confidence, knowing Venables has been hard at work establishing the culture and slowly building up the standards for the program.<\/p>\n

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