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class="infobox-label">Record</th><td class="infobox-data">22–17</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DDCBA4, inset -2px -2px 0 #DDCBA4; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Biographical details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1970-12-18</span>) </span>December 18, 1970<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 54)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Homestead,_Florida" title="Homestead, Florida">Homestead, Florida</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_University" title="Kansas State University">Kansas State University</a> (1992)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DDCBA4, inset -2px -2px 0 #DDCBA4; padding-left:0.3em; 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style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DDCBA4, inset -2px -2px 0 #DDCBA4; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Coaching career (<a href="/wiki/Head_coach" title="Head coach"><span style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;">HC</span></a> unless noted)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1993–1995</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_Wildcats_football" title="Kansas State Wildcats football">Kansas State</a> (<a href="/wiki/Graduate_assistant" title="Graduate assistant">GA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1996–1998</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;">Kansas State (LB)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1999–2003</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Oklahoma</a> (co-<a href="/wiki/Defensive_coordinator" title="Defensive coordinator">DC</a>/LB)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">2004–2011</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;">Oklahoma (<a href="/wiki/Head_Coach#Roles" class="mw-redirect" title="Head Coach">AHC</a>/DC/LB)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">2012–2017</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Clemson_Tigers_football" title="Clemson Tigers football">Clemson</a> (DC/LB)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">2018–2021</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;">Clemson (AHC/DC/LB)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">2022–present</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;">Oklahoma</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DDCBA4, inset -2px -2px 0 #DDCBA4; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Head coaching record</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Overall</th><td class="infobox-data">22–17 (.564)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bowls</th><td class="infobox-data">0–3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#841617;color:#FFFFFF;box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DDCBA4, inset -2px -2px 0 #DDCBA4; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Accomplishments and honors</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Broyles_Award" title="Broyles Award">Broyles Award</a> (2016)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Brent Venables</b> (born December 18, 1970) is an American <a href="/wiki/College_football" title="College football">college football</a> coach who is the head football coach at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma" title="University of Oklahoma">University of Oklahoma</a>, a position he has held since the 2022 season. Venables served as the associate head coach, <a href="/wiki/Defensive_coordinator" title="Defensive coordinator">defensive coordinator</a>, and linebackers coach at <a href="/wiki/Clemson_University" title="Clemson University">Clemson University</a> from 2012 to 2021. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Broyles_Award" title="Broyles Award">Broyles Award</a> in 2016. </p><p>Venables played football at <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_University" title="Kansas State University">Kansas State University</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">linebacker</a> from 1991 to 1992. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_playing_career">Early life and playing career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and playing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Venables was born in <a href="/wiki/Homestead,_Florida" title="Homestead, Florida">Homestead, Florida</a> and was raised in <a href="/wiki/Salina,_Kansas" title="Salina, Kansas">Salina, Kansas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1989 to 1990, he played <a href="/wiki/Linebacker" title="Linebacker">linebacker</a> at <a href="/wiki/Garden_City_Community_College" title="Garden City Community College">Garden City Community College</a> then at <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_University" title="Kansas State University">Kansas State University</a> under head coach <a href="/wiki/Bill_Snyder" title="Bill Snyder">Bill Snyder</a> from 1991 to 1992. He was a member of <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Phi_Epsilon" title="Sigma Phi Epsilon">Sigma Phi Epsilon</a> at Kansas State.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching_career">Coaching career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Coaching career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1993, Venables began his coaching career at Kansas State as a <a href="/wiki/Graduate_assistant" title="Graduate assistant">graduate assistant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1996, Venables was promoted to linebackers coach and served in that capacity until 1998. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Oklahoma"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, Venables began coaching at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma" title="University of Oklahoma">University of Oklahoma</a>, where he served as co-<a href="/wiki/Defensive_coordinator" title="Defensive coordinator">defensive coordinator</a> and linebackers coach for the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Sooners</a> under head coach <a href="/wiki/Bob_Stoops" title="Bob Stoops">Bob Stoops</a>, with whom he previously worked at Kansas State. He shared oversight of the defense with Stoops’ younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Stoops" title="Mike Stoops">Mike Stoops</a>, until Mike became head coach at <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Wildcats_football" title="Arizona Wildcats football">Arizona</a> in 2004. Venables then became sole defensive coordinator, and was also promoted to associate head coach. </p><p>In 2006, he was one of five finalists for the <a href="/wiki/Broyles_Award" title="Broyles Award">Broyles Award</a> for the nation's top assistant coach.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clemson">Clemson</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Clemson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brent_Venables_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Brent_Venables_2016.jpg/220px-Brent_Venables_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Brent_Venables_2016.jpg/330px-Brent_Venables_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Brent_Venables_2016.jpg/440px-Brent_Venables_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="917" data-file-height="775" /></a><figcaption>Venables at Clemson</figcaption></figure> <p>In January 2012, after it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Mike_Stoops" title="Mike Stoops">Mike Stoops</a> would be returning to Oklahoma to resume the defensive coordinator position he had held until 2004, Venables accepted the position of defensive coordinator at Clemson, where his salary was expected to be between $750,000 and $1 million.<sup id="cite_ref-Haney_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haney-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Venables had been previously reported to be a candidate for the head coaching position at a number of schools including <a href="/wiki/Miami_Hurricanes_football" title="Miami Hurricanes football">Miami</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_football" title="Kansas Jayhawks football">Kansas</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_Wildcats_football" title="Kansas State Wildcats football">Kansas State</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Texas_Tech_Red_Raiders_football" title="Texas Tech Red Raiders football">Texas Tech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 6, 2016, Venables was named the winner of the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Broyles_Award" title="Broyles Award">Broyles Award</a> for the nation's top assistant coach. Venables was soon promoted to <a href="/wiki/Head_Coach#Roles" class="mw-redirect" title="Head Coach">Associate head coach</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Clemson Diehards</i> reported on December 6, 2017, that Venables was the second-highest paid assistant football coach in college football that year, receiving $1.7 million from Clemson. The only coach in this category receiving more money was <a href="/wiki/Dave_Aranda" title="Dave Aranda">Dave Aranda</a> of LSU, who was paid $1.8 million.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oklahoma_(as_head_coach)"><span id="Oklahoma_.28as_head_coach.29"></span>Oklahoma (as head coach)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Oklahoma (as head coach)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On December 5, 2021, Venables was named the 23rd head coach at the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">University of Oklahoma</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Riley" title="Lincoln Riley">Lincoln Riley</a> after his departure to become the head coach at the <a href="/wiki/USC_Trojans_football" title="USC Trojans football">University of Southern California</a> (USC).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching_tree">Coaching tree</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Coaching tree"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Head coaches under whom Venables served: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Snyder" title="Bill Snyder">Bill Snyder</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_Wildcats_football" title="Kansas State Wildcats football">Kansas State</a> (1993–1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Stoops" title="Bob Stoops">Bob Stoops</a>: <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Oklahoma</a> (1999–2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dabo_Swinney" title="Dabo Swinney">Dabo Swinney</a>: <a href="/wiki/Clemson_Tigers_football" title="Clemson Tigers football">Clemson</a> (2012–2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Venables and his wife have four children, two sons and two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Head_coaching_record">Head coaching record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brent_Venables&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Head coaching record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Overall </th> <th>Conference</th> <th>Standing </th> <th>Bowl/playoffs </th> <th>Coaches<sup>#</sup> </th> <th>AP<sup>°</sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;text-align:center;" colspan="9"><b><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Oklahoma Sooners</a></b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Big_12_Conference" title="Big 12 Conference">Big 12 Conference</a>)</i> <small>(2022–2023)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2022_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_season" title="2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season">2022</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team" title="2022 Oklahoma Sooners football team">Oklahoma</a> </td> <td>6–7</td> <td>3–6</td> <td>T–7th</td> <td><b>L</b> <a href="/wiki/2022_Cheez-It_Bowl" title="2022 Cheez-It Bowl">Cheez-It</a></td> <td style="text-align:right"></td> <td style="text-align:right"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2023_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_season" title="2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season">2023</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team" title="2023 Oklahoma Sooners football team">Oklahoma</a> </td> <td>10–3</td> <td>7–2</td> <td>T–2nd</td> <td><b>L</b> <a href="/wiki/2023_Alamo_Bowl" title="2023 Alamo Bowl">Alamo</a></td> <td style="text-align:right">15</td> <td style="text-align:right">15 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;text-align:center;" colspan="9"><b><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners_football" title="Oklahoma Sooners football">Oklahoma Sooners</a></b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a>)</i> <small>(2024–present)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2024_NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_season" title="2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_Oklahoma_Sooners_football_team" title="2024 Oklahoma Sooners football team">Oklahoma</a> </td> <td>6–7</td> <td>2–6</td> <td>T–13th</td> <td><b>L</b> <a href="/wiki/2024_Armed_Forces_Bowl" title="2024 Armed Forces Bowl">Armed Forces</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#fafafa; border-top: 2px solid #aaaaaa;"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" scope="row"><b>Oklahoma:</b> </td> <td>22–17</td> <td>12–14</td> <td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#dddddd"> <td colspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center"><b>Total:</b></td> <td>22–17</td> <td colspan="7"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading 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"Clemson football: Brent Venables is nation's second-highest paid assistant coach. December 6, 2017.</a> Accessed December 8, 2017.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://soonersports.com/news/2021/12/5/brent-venables-named-oklahomas-23rd-head-football-coach.aspx">"Venables named OU's 23rd head football coach"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Sooners" title="Oklahoma Sooners">Oklahoma Sooners</a>. December 5, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/Lane_Kiffin" title="Lane Kiffin">Lane Kiffin</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Ole_Miss_Rebels_head_football_coaches" title="List of Ole Miss Rebels head football coaches">Ole Miss</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/Shane_Beamer" title="Shane Beamer">Shane Beamer</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_South_Carolina_Gamecocks_head_football_coaches" title="List of South Carolina Gamecocks head football coaches">South Carolina</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/Josh_Heupel" title="Josh Heupel">Josh Heupel</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Tennessee_Volunteers_head_football_coaches" title="List of Tennessee Volunteers head football coaches">Tennessee</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/Steve_Sarkisian" title="Steve Sarkisian">Steve Sarkisian</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Texas_Longhorns_head_football_coaches" title="List of Texas Longhorns head football coaches">Texas</a>)</span></li> 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