Back in October, I wrote about processing the results of the Oklahoma Sooners’ first season under head coach Brent Venables. The early signs that the Sooners might be in for a long season proved accurate as OU stumbled to its worst record since 1998. Now that we have the complete body of work from season one, what conclusions can we draw?
I coined the term Dead Man Walking nearly a decade ago when I saw that there was a pattern of first-year head coaches posting a -4 games coach effect or
worse in their first year and none of them making it to the end of their contract.