Brent Venables is the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, a position he had held since the 2022 season.
12 Facts About Brent Venables
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Brent Venables played football at Kansas State University as a linebacker from 1991 to 1992.
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In 1993, Brent Venables began his coaching career at Kansas State as a graduate assistant.
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In 1996, Brent Venables was promoted to linebackers coach and served in that capacity until 1998.
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In 1999, Brent Venables began coaching at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Sooners under head coach Bob Stoops, with whom he previously worked at Kansas State.
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Brent Venables shared oversight of the defense with Stoops' younger brother, Mike Stoops, until Mike became head coach at Arizona in 2004.
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Brent Venables then became sole defensive coordinator, and was promoted to associate head coach.
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In January 2012, after it was announced that Mike Stoops would be returning to Oklahoma to resume the defensive coordinator position he had held until 2004, Brent Venables accepted the position of defensive coordinator at Clemson, where his salary was expected to be between $750,000 and $1 million.
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Brent Venables had been previously reported to be a candidate for the head coaching position at a number of schools including Miami, Kansas, Kansas State, and Texas Tech.
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On December 6,2016, Brent Venables was named the winner of the 2016 Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach.
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Clemson Diehards reported on December 6,2017, that Brent Venables was the second-highest paid assistant football coach in college football that year, receiving $1.7 million from Clemson.
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On December 5,2021, Brent Venables was named the 23rd head coach at the University of Oklahoma, replacing Lincoln Riley after his departure to become the head coach at the University of Southern California.