Brent Venables takes apparent shot at Deion Sanders
The Colorado Buffaloes football program looks much different now than it did at the end of the 2022 season. Deion Sanders has come in and wiped essentially everything clean, including the coaching staff.
With that, the transfer portal has been busy, and the recruiting front has been amazing for the Buffs and Coach Prime. However, it hasn’t been pleasing to everybody, including Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi.
Now, Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables has opened up about Sanders’ style during a radio interview with The REF:
“You want to talk about a coaching change, resetting the standards and what expectations are? I gave guys 12 months of grace, I was unlike Deion; I gave 12 months of grace to figure it out.”
Brent Venables went right at Coach Prime when it came to setting his roster as a new head coach 😬
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Venables took over after Lincoln Riley went to USC, and he finished with a losing record in his first season in Norman.
Venables went on to give the following comments on OUNightlySports, a student-run television station (h/t Bleacher Report):
“We’re another year in establishing our standards and our culture and our values,” Venables said. “That matters. A year ago, I challenged the guys. I wasn’t like Deion that gave guys a bunch of pink slips. I gave guys 12 months of grace to go to class, live right off the field and show up with a great urgency and respect for your opportunity at the University of Oklahoma.”
Sure, Coach Prime’s style of recruiting and bringing in a ton of transfer players is something we haven’t quite seen since Johnny Majors’ days, but it could work. Venables and Narduzzi have taken exception to it, and things could continue heating up as the college football season gets closer.
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