Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables just revealed some damning details about the state of OU football under Lincoln Riley before Venables took over.
During his first weekly press conference of the 2025 season on Tuesday, Venables, while reminiscing at how far the Sooners have come heading into his fourth year, at least off the field, said during his first season in 2022 that OU had a team GPA of 2.2 and “a lot of guys that didn’t pass drug tests. A lot.”
Sooners had poor GPA and failed drug tests in Venables' first season
Venables left as Clemson’s defensive coordinator to return to Norman as OU’s head coach after the 2021 season, when Riley left in the middle of the night to USC to avoid a looming move to the SEC.