A midseason switch from Spencer Rattler to Caleb Williams provided a real spark, but the fireworks their freshman quarterback provided couldn’t totally cover up their flaws. They survived close calls over and over against Tulane, Nebraska, West Virginia, Kansas State, Texas and even Kansas before they eventually came up short against Baylor. 2 squad had a hard time playing up to great expectations in 2021. These Oklahoma players he’s inherited? They’ve gone through some stuff. That’s what the growth process is all about.” You have to get in the mud and get your hands dirty and you gotta get scarred up. You have to have a good perspective on where you’re at and where you want to go and what it takes.
I try to self-talk and show some patience, but I just have an aggressive mindset. We’re not where we want to be, but I do think from a realistic standpoint, and anybody that knows me, I’m not patient. “It’s been a lot of fun to build the team,” Venables said. No, it’s about reminding himself to have a little patience and grace. He’s not saying these things to start building excuses for this season. Venables estimated there are at least 50 players in his program who have never put on a Sooner uniform in a real game. The program’s quarterback signees from 2018 through 2021 are now playing at SMU, South Carolina, TCU and USC. Oklahoma lost nearly 400 career starts off last year’s squad, including 68 percent on offense and 60 percent on defense. I think production-wise, probably 70 percent of our production is gone. The man could not be more fired up about where these Sooners are heading.īut where are they today? Venables couldn’t help but chuckle a little when the discussion turned to his 2022 squad and the starting point of a bold new era for this program. Venables is bringing big ideas to this job, a carefully considered and exhaustively detailed philosophy accrued from winners like Bill Snyder, Bob Stoops and Dabo Swinney and close to 30 years in coaching. What he’s aiming for is something with deep roots, sustainability, longevity. Chasing the achievement of a great team is, in his view, too singularly focused. The new head coach of Oklahoma has said that plenty this offseason. At the end of the year, Downer returned to his solo work with the singles "Bird" and "Rudebwoy" with Joey Bada$$.Brent Venables is building a program, not just a team.
They issued a 2019 album, Escape from New York, and embarked on a U.S. Hopping back to his duties with Pro Era, he joined the crew for single "King to a God" and later teamed with Flatbush Zombies and the Underachievers to form the hip-hop supergroup Beast Coast. The album included the single "Now You Know," as well as appearances by Canadian rapper Devontée and singer Eryn Allen Kane. His official solo debut, Flytrap, was issued at the end of 2016. and the Shift EP arrived in 2014 before Downer returned to his own work.
The collection featured appearances by Ab-Soul and Phife Dawg, as well as production by Statik Selektah and Cookin' Soul. In 2013, he joined tours with the likes of Flatbush Zombies, the Underachievers, Wiz Khalifa, and A$AP Rocky before releasing his first mixtape, Thee Way Eye See It. After the formation of Pro Era, his early career followed the crew's trajectory, with notable appearances on their 2012 effort, P.E.E.P.: The Aprocalypse, and Bada$$'s debut, 1999. His official debut, Flytrap, arrived three years later.īorn Chaine Downer, Jr., the Bedford-Stuyvesant native transformed a childhood love of poetry into a focus on rap in the seventh grade. As a solo artist, he issued his debut mixtape, Thee Way Eye See It, in 2013. Along with high school friends Joey Bada$$, Powers Pleasant, and Capital Steez, Brooklyn rapper CJ Fly founded the Pro Era hip-hop collective in 2011.
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