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Brent Venables' purpose was created by pain, and now he's using it to shape Oklahoma

NORMAN, Okla. -- The Oklahoma Sooners are in their second week of spring practice, and the football facility is buzzing with high school football players and their families ahead of a critical recruiting weekend, but head coach Brent Venables -- just three months into the job after his December hire -- wants to talk about breakfast cereal.

He's in his office, which looks like a cross between a Silicon Valley boardroom and a ski chalet, and he already has decided he doesn't want to spend too much time here because, frankly, he isn't a "big office kind of guy.