Big 12 Poaches an SEC Coach in Shocking Move

[@drew7099]

Not a surprise. He knows Oklahoma will fire Venables next year and he would be out of a job, so he is moving to avoid losing his job a year later. This decision isn’t difficult to understand.

[@ChevelleSS-yr3gb]

Oklahoma is the new Nebraska!

[@TheOtherGygax]

It’s a great day to be a Mountaineer; wherever you may be.

[@briangreen256]

So they got an assistant from the SEC? The headline was a little click bait don't you think?

[@jasonjames1697]

Rich ROD gave him his first shot it's called being loyal

[@denisdooley1540]

I agree on this being about relationships. But using loyal and RichRod in the same sentence seems a little off.

[@zaphodbeatlebrox4906]

I hear he had 1.5 million reasons to go to WVU.

[@paulmezzetta6905]

Thank you for the content. Happy New Year for You and the Big12

[@suncitypro1]

He’s a good DC! Some guys should stay in their lane!

[@TTURaider_rED]

The day OU starts to become what Nebraska has in the B1G.

[@robertspringer5370]

This guy has a long history with Rich Rodriguez, the new coach at West Virginia. Why is this surprising in any way? And he got a million reasons to go.

[@BigDan-T]

I am so Fing sick of people saying this is a step down. Do you know how insulting that is for us. We are the 15th winningest program in college football history. Ignorant

[@seminoldschool7032]

I couldn’t agree more. It’s an absolutely ridicuous thing to say & eSECpn is the reason people even say it…they’ve been peddling this false narrative nonsense since they purchased the SEC & unfortunately there are a lot of people in this country dumb enough to believe whatever the TV tells em

[@mr.g1758]

Who? W Virginia? Big diff in OU and WVA.

[@IMO4SHO]

​@mr.g1758 Nevertheless, his point is that West Virginia is a very well-respected program and the fact that people refer to it as a step-down is disrespectful and as he stated, ignorant.

[@charliehenderson38]

Hey Big 12 Watch Out Here Comes The Mountaineers!!!

[@johnlee7085]

LOL. Wasn’t that the comment 11 months ago? Did that age well?

[@georgeedwards5468]

@@johnlee7085wvu will win big 12 before boomer sooner wins sec any takers?

[@paulkweiner6577]

Interesting, entertaining and informative !

[@silverback525]

Agreed John Good job on this segment

[@Educated2Extinction]

Remember when A&M hired Jimbo Fisher? That was a huge hire. How'd that work for them? Defensive coach Venables losing a DC isn't OU's problem. They need an offense.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

Can't blame they guy for getting out of dodge. B4 Venables gets fired next year. Another 6-6 he'll surely get canned.

[@Teasquared27]

OU is a sinking ship I dont understand why this is even a story the way its framed

[@russgunter3834]

Ooh, how could anyone leave the heavenly SEC? All us sports ass kissers just can’t take it.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

The same sec that's looked less than mid the whole bowl season..

[@HoustonCougarsGermany]

Don't forget SEC coach (Florids and Alabama) Austin Armstrong to Houston!

[@kyleorndorff1304]

Co-Dc versus DC. Still a move up in position.

[@trextrextrex]

Dont confuse him with facts

[@fast-one3871]

OU followed their rich neighbor to the SEC. They are a sinking ship and the guy knew it. OU fell behind letting Bob Stoops run the football and NIL program, he is the source of OU’s demise. One of the most overrated coaches in College football. OU is a poor boy in the SEC raked 14’

[@gbear34]

Yeah Bob Stoops made a name for himself by leaving KState and taking some key Snyder recruits with him.

[@JamieTheBangles11Fan]

OU sucks. You guys can have them back. Alabama begs you to take them back! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnlee7085]

Bama loves having ou in the sec. Gotta have teams to beat. Kinda like mizzoo and atm.

[@area.man.]

@@johnlee7085Not quite sure Alabama enjoyed having OU as a 'team to beat" this season. ​

[@johnlee7085]

I stand corrected. Thinking more in general vs having paying attention to each specific game, especially in the sec or by ou.

[@doc8013]

This guy serious? How in the world are you trying to frame this as a big deal? Lmao this is pretty casual analysis.

[@chikwadokanu9365]

Why the F are you here? You have an entire corporate network to jerk off to.

[@ChristopherWest-hc3nr]

He was the guy RR wanted and he went and got him simple as that more money and has full control no brainer dont make it bigger than what it is.

[@tracyhall2670]

Any DC @ OU w/ Brent Venables as HC will always have BV looking over their shoulder.

[@robertkeah-tigh9517]

Money, OU's, AD. is cheap, to make money you have to spend money.

[@WVUforus]

Go mountaineers !!!!@!!!

[@RichardDearth]

Oklahoma was big 12 till this past year remember

[@stevepeterson3850]

But they AREN"T NOW!

[@gbear34]

And they were largely irrelevant then too.

[@anthonyhill503]

Let's Go Mountaineers

[@thomastrofholz9508]

Don't go dissing the Skattebo Conference!👍😀

[@Shaunskee]

John love the West Virginia take! But are we starting to see the a mega conference form and who's going to do what it takes or not?

[@JBWV]

Is OU still a premier job? WVU has a much easier path to the playoff.

[@pwho405]

How? Or are you saying that the B12 is soft or not on the SEC's level?

[@JBWV]

@pwho405 I'm saying it's easier to win the Big 12 than to win the Sec. Next year OUs conference schedule is, Auburn, Texas, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri and LSU.

[@pwho405]

@@JBWV soooo you don’t see the Irony in that statement?

[@jamiegunter7016]

Sec worst team would have play in the big 12 championship game

[@JBWV]

@@pwho405 explain to me how what I said was wrong?

[@wvufan4ever]

As a WVU fan just let me say this. Venables has had 2 straight 6-7 seasons. Another mediocre season and Venables will be gone. Could be simple job security. He can have a long career at WVU and also be well paid. Zac will have complete autonomy at WVU to run the defense. He did not have that at OU and the possibility looming over he might only get one more year there if Venables gets fired I believe was a contributing factor. He has ties with RichRod as well. WVU has the 15th winningest program all time to have not won a Natty. WVU is pulling all the stops out to get back where they were in 2007.

[@pnut2552]

It may have something to do with Coach V getting all the credit at OU since he is the HC... Maybe he felt that no matter how good his defense was, it would always be the head coach that got the credit, so he goes somewhere for better money and total control of the defense... 🤔

[@keithwalker5078]

some guys don't like the HC job for all the media nonsense you have to put up with. Guy like this has always been a top flight DC, so he's going to work with his mentor and buddy and doing what he does best.

[@ChevelleSS-yr3gb]

You got em going with this one John! Lol

[@GlennWestbrook]

That says more about Oklahoma than it does the SEC.

[@thomasmoss1066]

If this is a story, it’s quite telling

[@larryobrien2694]

I was thrilled to get rid of Texas Longhorns, but OU, you disappointed us.

[@rodneyjuneau3021]

Wow this is a real reach. A 10 minute video about a coach who changed jobs for undisclosed reasons if speculation is what you want try maybe he wants to live in west Virginia. As a longhorn if we ain't barking about it it's nothing to park about. HOOKEM

[@mastertj99999]

No one wants to go to OU anymore, they aren't even the best school in the state, they have taken a backseat, poor OU.

[@ottobark]

I don’t get it this guy, it seems like he is trying to force conference rivalries. Coaches leave jobs for various reasons, this coach leaving OU doesn’t mean the Big 12 is better or worse than SEC. This guy embellishes and speculates to the point where it becomes weird fan fiction. I understand he has to make content but is this really the life you want to live being a college football edge lord and conspiracy theory guy?

[@trextrextrex]

Oklahoma isnt a real SEC team

[@Chris-jv3xp]

You guys hearing anything on Louisville? I’ve been hearing rumors again on Louisville and the Big 12.

[@MrSailorman1970]

THere's more to the store than what's out right now. Like everything else it will surface in time.Could be he got wind that he got wind that BV was gonna make some changes and he took the proactive route and took RR offer and good on him for watching out for himself.

[@mattst.4699]

You keep on breezing over the "CO" in Co-Defensive Coordinator. Those 2 letters matter. Even though he was the Defensive Play Caller, he still was a CO-Coordinator. He wants to be the Guy and make all of the Defensive gameplans and gametime decisions, not one of the guys. I would call it a slight promotion, not lateral, or downward move. Also, last time Rich Rod was there, West Virginia was very relavent nationally.

[@cliffknott4937]

Let's Goooooooo

[@amycarcaterra8177]

oklahoma has always been a medicore college football team. they had a 5 years of fame.

[@silvertiger1324]

He got out before the OU BoT tossed him out with BV and the rest.

[@richardmckinney4963]

Just a reminder that Oklahoma State won the bedlam duel 35-3.

[@pwho405]

Sooooo its still OSU

[@richardmckinney4963]

@pwho405 yeah that total wins is reaching close to 130

[@pwho405]

@@richardmckinney4963 huh?

[@pwho405]

@@richardmckinney4963 what is close to 130?

[@BlackBoyKingTV]

IDIOTIC COLLEGE FOOTBALL TAKE

[@aardvarmario]

The Big 12 seems so sad and desperate. It does suck to see this happen to you guys

[@rolltide5586]

OU has to change direction this year on both sides of the ball, to save the head coach job, Brent is desperately doing anything to show improvement.

[@jsleep]

Come back to me when it's a SEC head coach taking a Big. 12 head coaching job. That was a big set up and a big swing and miss.

[@rogerraines1796]

John, your points on OU and ZA are spot on! From a WV fan, you are welcome, Big 12.

[@pwho405]

For what exactly?

[@dennisromero4757]

Wasn't it Oklahoma who ran away from the Big 12? Now their crying that their coach running out on them. Kinda sounds like Karma. Ask the SEC they should now that.

[@EL.JEFE1231]

Huh?

[@pwho405]

Y'all say some dumb stuff 😂😂😂

[@31446963048]

Who s crying? We wish OU would go back to the Big 12. They re not making the cut.

[@mikeking8699]

He pulled the Rich Rodriguez

[@FrankRapier]

Think about this, defensive play caller and 26 players enter the portal. Maybe, just maybe there’s a culture problem and that’s why no one wants to stay there

[@johnnyjoe9796]

OU has had 2 losing in a row which hasn't happened in forever (with this guy on staff). He's looking for stability and it could've been any team, not necessarily a big 12 team

[@rodneyjuneau3021]

A coach changed teams and it's not news. There could be a 1000 reasons to make a lateral move. Not a huge thing and a damn longhorn. Neither conference had spit to do it.

[@31446963048]

Bet someone could poach Sam Pittman.

[@JuanHernandez-rm5dm]

Venables sucks goat nuggets as a head coach. Betty White could have coached this OU team to a winning season.

[@brianross7311]

You have obviously have not did any real research on Rich. 95 percent of the national writers think this is a great hire. When he wins the big 12 with in three years I look forward to you eating crow.

[@Piratemitch]

Probably because he was going to get fired next year.

[@scottrichardson3961]

Big12 sucks....

[@enigmaticbrain1225]

Low integrity coaches seem to be in abundance at Oklahoma recently. First Riley and now Alley. Riley has basically sucked at USC, hopefully Alley has the same type of success at West Virginia!

[@pwho405]

Nah he's a good coach and this is a good opportunity for him. We will be fine.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

It's rich's guy. Ou an Venables poached him first. Why stay and be co-dc (where you can't even run the d you want) when you can go and run the whole thing. With the guy that put you on the map to begin with. Oh and a million and a half other reasons..

[@EL.JEFE1231]

John, you're off-base, really... WV didn't poach him. Rich Rod did, just like BV did to him a year ago at Jacksonville State. He will most likely be a great DC at some point, but the way the information is coming out now, he couldn't run his own defense, which is 3-5-3 BV runs a 4-man front most of the time, and let's be honest, BV is really running that DEF. Alley's DEF will be great to run in the B12 as a standalone but not in the SEC.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

3-5-3. Will be interesting. Maybe they'll have bigger guys in those outside backer/ hybrid safety positions. In comparison to a 3-3-5

[@EL.JEFE1231]

@@matthewbeaver5026 I would prefer a 3-3-5 if I was playing, but if you look at his ULM or Jacksonvillie st tape he runs a lot of it.

[@matthewbeaver5026]

@@EL.JEFE1231 yea I played as the spur or bandit in a 3-3-5 in high school. It was a fun defense to run. Years ago big 12 I though 5 db's was a good call. Now a days. 3 dbs. With 2 hybrid almost big enough to be linebacker quick enough to be safety types in those hybrid positions (what I know as spur and bandit) should beable to compete in today's b12. With that said we still must have a 4 man front package. Not necessarily diff players. But a guy that could roll up and play the line w/o the need for substitution if it's a whole separate package. They'll get stuck on the field in bad situations when the O doesn't sub.

[@creepycrespi8180]

that's it??? lol

[@Kiamichi-Okie]

Sorry, but you are a dollar short , and a day late. This move happened last week . A slap in the face to Brent V, Zac was with Brent at Clemson. Rumor is, and you heard it here first Brent is leaving, his wife has stage 4 cancer . Yes we have a huge pool in money, because of Oil. How long is Rich Rod going to coach, will Zac be the next H.C.

[@eatya345]

WV Is poised to beat some SEC Ass. Watch and learn boys

[@EL.JEFE1231]

🤣🤣🤣

[@pwho405]

Oooooo k

[@grobble8954]

NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS SHOCKING! It's an assistant coach. Also, he knows the B12 is much weaker than the SEC and he can look better vs weaker competition.

[@UncleTed447]

Cope better, Nancy

[@richardmckinney4963]

Funny seeing how Oklahoma got BEAT by Navy from the AAC

[@caljerm]

That's the dumbest take I've ever seen lmao

[@lexingtonconcord8751]

I'm an OU fan. We have to be honest with ourselves! This is embarrassing for our program.

[@bige2012]

"much weaker" you sec fans are delusional dorks. There're literally only 3 teams in SEC that might typically be stronger than Big12, the rest are no better than top 14 teams in big12, top to bottom.

[@howardcobb4656]

The SEC will be poaching more Big12 coaches.

[@dougwatchesiowastate]

SEC! SEC! SEC! 👎

[@varrick1226]

The SEC is Georgia and Alabama that's it and Alabama without Saban will turn into another Vanderbilt.

[@bige2012]

but wait, why? Isn't the SEC so great, why would they take coach's from the weak big12?! Oh, because the big12 really isn't less than SEC, who only has 2-3 power teams.

[@AF-jz3qp]

@@varrick1226Big 12 is only Sooner and Texas 🤣 😭 you guys stay little brothers

[@elvangulley3210]

Thats funny florida tennessee lsu auburn all have national titles how many big 12 teams have won anything of note the only title contenders you had are in the sec. ​@bige2012

[@pauliewalnuts2527]

sec aint shit pal

[@johnsonbt]

Big 12 is trash asu 17 Texas 38

[@robertspringer5370]

Good luck with Texas in your conference. Largest confrenece crybabies in the nation. OU has great fans. Both have better fanbases than most SEC schools, most who are way overrated.

[@pwho405]

Nah its not trash but some of the fan are frfr.

[@ottobark]

I don’t get it this guy, it seems like he is trying to force conference rivalries. Coaches leave jobs for various reasons, this coach leaving OU doesn’t mean the Big 12 is better or worse than SEC. This guy embellishes and speculates to the point where it becomes weird fan fiction. I understand he has to make content but is this really the life you want to live being a college football edge lord and conspiracy theory guy?

[@robertgump9398]

I don’t see where he said that Big XII > sec; he simply said that a Big XII team hired a DC away from an sec team - hope the rest of sec fans have better reading comprehension than you…

[@pwho405]

Do you not see the title? Talking about reading comp 😂😂

[@robertgump9398]

@@pwho405”Big 12 Poaches an SEC Coach in Shocking Move” …and your reading comprehension tells you that says “ Big XII is better conference than sec”. Oh, dear, honey, better get back to your third-grade reading class, and stay off the internet.