Family Business: OU legend Gerald McCoy
Think about some of the strongest OU ambassadors, and it’s hard to top Gerald McCoy. He is as Oklahoma as Oklahoma gets.
Starting at Oklahoma City Southeast High. Then his star-making days at OU. And onto a sensational NFL career. The passion, enthusiasm for OU always shines through.
McCoy joined The Family Business with SoonerScoop, talking all things with hosts Joe Castiglione Jr. and Isaac Stoops.
You can’t talk OU right now without mentioning the move to the Southeastern Conference. McCoy knows OU is SEC ready.
Your message to recruits at the ChampUBBQ?
What the message was is, coming to the University of Oklahoma, beginning with football and making a name for yourself at the University of Oklahoma is a, a life-long achievement, long past what you do on the football field, period. Period. And you can always come back. There’s always going to be multiple opportunities. And you come to learn to be more of a better football player. You come to learn to be a better person.
Defensive guy, what about the way OU’s defensive line stacks up in the SEC? Has Brent Venables checked that box?
It starts with the guys up front. So BV being a defensive-minded coach, they knew, hey, listen, if we’re going to win we can score a lot of points. But if we can’t stop nobody, it don’t matter. So they knew in order to stop people on defense, we got to get the right guys up front because they make everything easy. This is the most important group on the team because if you have a dominant defensive line it makes it easier on everybody.
Still believe Venables is the right guy?
He’s seen it all. And he knows what brand of football is necessary to win championships. So even though he was a part of Big 12 or he was at Clemson, he’s a part of the SEC. We’re moving into the SEC. He’s coached and competed at the highest level. So he understood what was necessary going into competing against the SEC. That’s why, you know, being at Clemson, both national championships, he played SEC teams. So he’s competed against them and knows, yea, we want to beat them. We have to have the right type of guys, the right type of defense, the right type of alignment, the right type of mindset.
All that and a whole lot more from The Family Business on SoonerScoop.
