Viney has experience on the Oklahoma staff as a graduate assistant and former quality control coach and meshes perfectly with Riley’s young, hungry and dynamic coaching staff.
Everyone loved Viney’s predecessor in the role Eric Striker. He approached the role with the same vigor and intensity that made him an overachieving all-time Sooner great at his position (his voice over work on Oklahoma athletic department videos was also pretty spectacular). His departure to play football in the CFL left a significant hole in the OU coaching staff, but Viney fills that role with aplomb.
A homecoming
In a press release from the University of Oklahoma, Viney mentions the word “home” and “family”.