• 7 months ago
Oklahoma Sooners Coach Brent Venables
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00:00 >> What about you, how things change for you in practice,
00:03 in year three, whether it's your just natural progression as a coach,
00:07 or having Zach here or whatever, has that dynamic changed here this spring?
00:11 >> I think that there's more depth from an experience standpoint of myself and
00:19 Zach and our other defensive coaches than maybe what we had before.
00:28 And so there's a different level of trust and understanding.
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00:38 Zach thinks more like me and does a good job, no matter what it is,
00:44 if it's the fundamentals, if it's areas of weakness,
00:49 if it's development drills, or if it's scheme wise and situationally.
00:56 So we work through a lot before we come out to practice, and
00:59 I'm always gonna be hands on.
01:03 But I'm also trying to do what a head coach needs to be able to do,
01:09 and that's get connected with other aspects of the team.
01:12 Can't just be all in on one particular area,
01:17 gotta have all hands on deck everywhere.
01:19 So that's been a maturation from December 5th of 21 to where we're at now.
01:26 And the practice wise, what we're doing from a schedule standpoint,
01:33 those types of things, very similar to what we did a year ago.
01:36 But we've given our guys four straight Fridays off.
01:41 And a lot of coaches like to practice them on Saturdays and
01:46 keep them out of harm's way, if you will.
01:50 But the game has become so demanding from the year round standpoint,
01:56 from the time standpoint.
01:57 So trying to find ways to give the players time,
02:00 that's one thing that they love, is time.
02:02 And so we've given them four straight weekends off.
02:04 This weekend we won't be, we'll have a sleep in,
02:07 we'll practice around 10.30 on Saturday.
02:10 But try to be mindful for the players and
02:14 put a schedule that we get our work done.
02:17 But also be mindful of recovery and their time, those types of things.