Venables said that in his first season as OU's head coach in 2022 after replacing Lincoln Riley that OU had a team GPA of 2.2 and “a lot of guys that didn’t pass drug tests. A lot.”
“We had a lot to work through,” Venables said. “I chose not to ask anyone to leave when I first got here. Let me give everybody a fair shot and just kind of see where we’re at.