SoonerScoop Video: OU, Brent Venables ready to gamble on Ben Arbuckle being the offensive answer
Go big or go home, and OU head coach Brent Venables is willing to risk it for one of the youngest and brightest minds in college football.
Venables said he needed to look at efficiency when it came to the offensive coordinator position. He believes he has found his guy in Ben Arbuckle.
The move was confirmed Monday afternoon.
At Washington State, his offense is known for its high-powered air attack. This season, the Cougars are 24th in passing offense, 22nd in total offense and 12th in scoring offense. Arbuckle will have quite the tall task in front of him taking over an offense that ranks 122nd, 124th and 94th in those same categories.
It’s here, and then it’s time for SoonerScoop to break it all down. George Stoia and Eddie Radosevich, fresh off the long drive home from LSU on Sunday, are here to tell you what you should know going forward.
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Venables ready to fix it
Venables wasn’t shy to take the blame last week when addressing the offensive coordinator position. He knows he has to get it right.
“OK, coach Venables made a mistake, if you will,” Venables said. “I had the wrong guy. It obviously wasn’t the right guy. That’s not centered on Seth. I failed, and I own that. That’s not earth-shattering news. Ok, what do I got to do to fix it? So what do we have to do as a staff now?
Finding the style:
“It’s one that’s efficient, that’s going to attract great players, that has a reputation in a scheme-friendly system that’s going to attract great quarterbacks and skill guys, running backs, tight ends, receivers. I think that’s really important. How can we win? What style of offense that we can win in this league? You look at the styles through the years that have been successful and we’ve seen them all, something that you know that can transition quickly with the roster that we have.”
The move is in. The Arbuckle era has arrived in Norman.
