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How Nate Dreiling's dad and Jerry Kill shaped his coaching journey

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Defensive coordinator Nate Dreiling. (Jamie Sabau - Imagn Images)

In the summer of 1994, a 23-year-old Brent Venables, dressed in a coat and tie, returned to his alma mater, South Salina High School, to teach the football staff how to play quarters defense.  Learning under Bill Snyder, Venables was a graduate assistant at Kansas State. And the defensive coordinator at South Salina at the time was 33-year-old Randy Dreiling — the father of Oklahoma’s new linebackers coach, Nate Dreiling.

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