Is Brent Venables humble enough to take full advantage of Kevin Wilson's return?
Reported widely and not denied, let’s go ahead and believe Kevin Wilson’s on his way back to Norman to be an analyst where, once upon a time, he directed, good chance, the finest offense any of us have ever seen at the collegiate level.
Wilson was a line coach when he arrived at Oklahoma the first time and became offensive coordinator just in time for the 2005 Holiday Bowl, Chuck Long having departed to run the show at San Diego State where he lasted for three seasons and nine wins.
Before Wilson was lured to run Indiana’s program, he spent five seasons in charge of the Sooner offense, most famously directing it to consecutive outputs of 62, 66, 65, 61 and 62 points against Nebraska, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Missouri, gaining 508, 653, 625, 557 and 627 yards in each tussle on the way to meeting Florida for the 2008 national championship back in those quaint days college football’s playoff topped out at two teams.
Wilson enjoyed a modicum of success at Indiana, where he won a single game in 2011 before eventually claiming six victories in 2015 and 2016, pretty good for the Hoosiers at the time.
He’ll arrive back at OU after spending two seasons banging his head against the wall at Tulsa, going 7-17 for the effort.
The short story is Wilson signing on to help Brent Venables keep his job as head coach and OU to get its good football name back in the nation’s most rugged conference makes all the sense in the world.
The more complicated story is it will work only as long as Venables allows it to work, taking full advantage of all the expertise Williams has to offer, which may sound simple enough, though it’s not like Venables has been in the good-decision business since leaving Clemson for OU.
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