It's been a generation since the Sooners presented one of college football's most feared defense, but Brent Venables and Danny Stutsman are confident it can happen.
The long-time defensive coordinator is widely regarded as a defensive genius, a savant, a tightly wound perfectionist, a screamer, spittle flying and veins bulging, eyes flaring and hands flailing. Venables has helped construct or lead championship defenses at Kansas State, Oklahoma and Clemson, and his reputation as one of the game’s top-shelf assistant coaches was secured years ago.
During that same stretch, Alabama — the standard by which all college football defenses are now measured — finished ranked in the NCAA top 10 in total defense eight times . But it’s taking time, and it’s taking a shift in the culture inside the Switzer Center. And this year, it’s taken another change at defensive coordinator. Young, labeled a Venables clone by the OU players, has heeded his mentor’s call and intends to spearhead the turnaround as Venables continues the Sooners’ defensive rebuild.
“Here were are two years later and the pieces are finally coming together,” Stutsman said. “I’m really excited with the foundation that we've built. Shout out to the previous guys before me that put into the culture and built the standard here and now guys are coming in and upholding to it.”
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