Brent Venables
American football player and coach (born 1970)
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- Thomas Brent Venables (born December 18, 1970) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, a position he has held since the 2022 season.
- He was awarded the Broyles Award in 2016.
- Early life and playing career Venables was born in Homestead, Florida and was raised in Salina, Kansas.
- He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon at Kansas State.
- In 1996, Venables was promoted to linebackers coach and served in that capacity until 1998.
Thomas Brent Venables (born December 18, 1970) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, a position he has held since the 2022 season. Venables served as the associate head coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach at Clemson University from 2012 to 2021. He was awarded the Broyles Award in 2016.
Venables played football at Kansas State University as a linebacker from 1991 to 1992.
Early life and playing career
Venables was born in Homestead, Florida and was raised in Salina, Kansas. From 1989 to 1990, he played linebacker at Garden City Community College then at Kansas State University under head coach Bill Snyder from 1991 to 1992. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon at Kansas State.
Coaching career (1993-present)
Early career
In 1993, Venables began his coaching career at Kansas State as a graduate assistant. In 1996, Venables was promoted to linebackers coach and served in that capacity until 1998.
Oklahoma
In 1999, Venables began coaching at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Sooners winning a national championship in 2000 under head coach Bob Stoops, with whom he previously worked at Kansas State. He shared oversight of the defense with Stoops’ younger brother, Mike Stoops, until Mike became head coach at Arizona in 2004. Venables then became sole defensive coordinator, and was also promoted to associate head coach.
In 2006, he was one of five finalists for the Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach.
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