Urgent:Oklahoma headcoach Brent Venables has been placed on 2years Suspension due to….
To put it mildly, Oklahoma’s transition to the SEC has not been great. As they address a number of offensive problems in real time, the Sooners started Week 8 at 4-2 (1-2 SEC). After opening the season with victories against Temple, Houston, and Tulane, OU lost to Tennessee in its SEC debut, fought to win at Auburn, and then lost badly to Texas in the Red River Rivalry.
As the Sooners went behind 21-0 against South Carolina at home on Saturday and trailed 32-3 at halftime, the negative emotions only got worse. Despite not having won a bowl game at OU and being in the crucial third year of his Oklahoma contract, head coach Brent Venables
There is a pretty straightforward explanation. Oklahoma would have to pay $44.8 million to terminate Venables’ contract as of December 2024, based on USA TODAY Sports’ database of college football coach salaries. Among FBS head coaches, it is the tenth-biggest buyout. The appointment of a successor would then cost the Sooners millions more.
