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Brent Venables addresses blowouts by Texas in the Cotton Bowl

Three years ago, at a different podium in a different conference, Oklahoma Sooners head coach Brent Venables used an awkward metaphor to describe his integration process into the program at which he spent more than a decade, including winning the 2000 national championship.

“The firehose is fully inserted in my mouth here. We’ve been blowing and going,” Venables said, drawing predictable commentary on social media.

Now Venables might want to use that firehose to put out the raging inferno underneath his coaching seat after compiling a 23-17 record over his three seasons as the head coach of the Sooners, culminating in a 6-7 mark last year.