Oklahoma coach Brent Venables speaks during a media day for the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) football team in Norman, Okla., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023.
Fall training camp for 2023 Oklahoma football is underway, and on Tuesday head coach Brent Venables and the two Sooner coordinators addressed the media.
Generally speaking, there was plenty of optimism expressed by Venables and his two coaching lieutenants in looking ahead to the 2023 season, now exactly a month off. But it was also tempered with a fair amount of cautious expectation.
The real test, of course, in aligning expectation with reality will come with performance on the field, but there is a lot of reason to believe that the Sooners will be better in the second season of the Venables era.