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Oklahoma to redshirt former starting Quarterback · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit more about this in the
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  four o'clock hour because we've got of a real pointed
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  example and it's and it's more about how fans and
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  media and certain different people get antsy this time of
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  year when things are not going the way that you
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  think they should be. And we did talk a little
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  bit about it obviously in the first hour of the
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  program when we had the audio from Jerry Jones and
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  how he's kind of bristling a little bit and get
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  a little sensitive, you know. So there's some things that
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  are making him not be in the best of moods
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  these days when it comes to interviews or whatever. Well,
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  it would probably be this way, I would say, obviously.
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  And this is not whatever flexing on Oklahoma or anything
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  like that. We just we just read the reports and
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  the stuff going on. Remember in this town, with this school.
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  The weekly press conference with Long Corn's head coach Steve
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  Sarkisian is on Mondays. It's part of our Longhorns Monday presentation.
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  We begin our coverage from the UT campus at eleven
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  o'clock in the morning on Monday. Sark goes live at
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  eleven thirty with his weekly press conference. We do that
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  that's our Longhorns Monday presentation. Then we recapped the news
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  conference during these proceedings on this show the afternoon. A
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  lot of college football programs do their press conferences on Monday,
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  some like Oklahoma do it on Tuesday, So that meant
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  today was the first time for Brent Venables to face
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  the media since the postgame press conference on Saturday. Now,
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  you were pretty busy after the game. They're the cop
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  bol getting to the Texas media ambue. You weren't in
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  the Oklahoma news conference. Were you were? Did you?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get there in time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. One goes before the other. That's why
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  we were to get Sar called so quickly while Venables
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  was on the Were you able to get a vibe
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  for how it was going and the things that we're
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  having to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: He was spicy and he was asked some questions that
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  we talked about yesterday. When Sark was asked about the
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  Billy Bowman and the Jack title comments, and Sark gave
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  an answer which we weren't surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Not my problem we won, is what he said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Venables just asked the question by Barry Trammel from
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  the I don't know if he's with the Oklahoma and.
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  Speaker 1: He's with the Tulsa World Now, Barry Trammel was And
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  Barry was the one who asked the question last week.
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  And I said, this is a classic hard boiled sports writer,
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  sports columnist question. It's a kind of question that Kirk Bowles,
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  formerly the Austin American Statesman now the Houston Chronicle, would ask.
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  It's a question that Kevin Sherrington of the Dallas Morning
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  News might ask, and it's certainly a question that Barry
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  Trammel would ask. He asked Brent Venables when text this
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  is good, like, this is your job harder? And and
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  was like, I don't you know, I don't pay attention
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  what they're doing that has nothing to do with what
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  we're trying to establish our own thing, blah blah blah.
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  But he said, does it make your job harder when
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  they're good? So so Barry asked that question. So what
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  did Barry ask him on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he asked Venables if he was alarmed at the
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  difference in talent between Texas and Oklahoma and what we've
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  seen in two of the last three years. Inventables gave
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  a very spicy answer. I don't remember the exact quote verbatim,
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  and he was morely, I don't know, alarmed, I don't know.
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  You could tell he was very annoyed with the question,
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  and he was asked something similar about the result and
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  kind of fired back two three four word response. But
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  a lot of it was coming from the Oklahoma side,
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  and you can kind of tell. You can always kind
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  of tell how the fan base is thinking based off
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  the reporters questions, because obviously they're riding to their fans,
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  and what they write is shaped by what the fans
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  perception of the program is. And the perception Oklahoma right
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  now is not that great for Brent Vnnables and a
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  thirty four to three loss does not help. That's now
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  two out of three games against taxes where they have
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  failed to score a touchdown. I mean, forty nine to
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  IZ think was embarrassing in year one, but year three
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  for Ventables, thirty four to three might be even worse
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  because he's had two years to prepare for this season.
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  Speaker 1: So things aren't great in Norman right now. Well, here's
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  the reason why I bring all this up. There's two things.
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  First of all, the media in Oklahoma is always fascinated
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  and They're not the only ones in this town. It
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  gets this way sometimes, and it certainly does in other towns,
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  both at the NFL and collegiate level, but they're fascinated
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  with the job security of coaches. I got to ask what.
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  I did three or four interviews last week, as I
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  always do that week with Oklahoma media, and on one
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  of the shows, I actually was asked, if Sark loses
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  this game to Oklahoma's E in trouble? Really okay? I
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  was like, no, No, everybody's behind him. It's okay. I've
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  been asked that question every single year that I've been
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  on that I've done a show going all the way
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  back to the first part of this decade, not this decade,
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  the first part of the century, early two thousands. If
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  Mac loses this, is he gonna lose his job? Is
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  he in trouble? Blah blah blah, And asked that all
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  the way up to me, and I didn't even really
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  think that we get asked that this year, but I did,
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  you know, if he loses this game, and are they
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  you know?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, at his news conference today, and this is the
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  other part of this, Brent Vennables confirmed that he has
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  discussed the possibility of red shirting Jackson Arnold since Michael
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  Hawkins has assumed the role at quarterback. He did say
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  that for now, Arnold will continue to be an option
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  in the second half of the regular season. He said,
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  it's been discussed between us. What was told to Jay
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  is if we put you in, it's because we need
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  you to help us go win. We're certainly sensitive to everything.
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  We're not sitting here with our head in the sand
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  or naive to what it is. But man, he's a
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  great teammate. He wants to be the starting quarterback at
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  the University of Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: We were debating this in the press box in that
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  second half when the outcome was not in doubt. Hawkins
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  was struggling and Arnold's on the sideline helmet on warming up.
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  Are they going to put him in? Are they going
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  to try and keep his red shirt in tact? And
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  it appears they're going to let him red shirt this season,
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  which is kind of surprising because I don't think there's
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  anything from Michael Hawkins junior that gives a lot of
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  Oklahoma fans hope.
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  Speaker 1: But well, and that rides only second only to the
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  hottest speculation is that Jackson Arnold will be the starting
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  quarterback for the Mississippi State Bulldogs next year, playing for
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  his old offensive coordinator, Jeff Levy, who's now the head coach,
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  although they seem to like Michael Van Buren, the freshman
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  this year who's playing quarterback for them.
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  Speaker 2: Played well against Georgia this past weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And remember they had Blake Shapin coming back next year
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  because he had gotten injured and couldn't do it. All right,
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  We'll be back to wrap up Hour number two here
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  on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.