The unexpected change at the top of the Oklahoma Sooners’ football program in late 2021 altered the direction of the program – a new head coach with different ideas, different schemes and different expectations. Not everyone was on board with changing course. A total of 29 scholarship players have left OU’s football program via transfer since the end of the 2021 regular season, some of whom certainly received a nudge out the door.
The group of departed players includes 14 offensive players and 15 from the other side of the ball. Surveying who landed where among the transfers using 247Sports transfer portal data can probably tell us a lot about the state of the roster head coach Brent Venables inherited, as well as giving some insights into where the program is heading.