Sooners coach Brent Venables was looking through some notes from 25 years ago when he realized just how much the players’ down time has changed.
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College football bye weeks just ain’t what they used to be.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables came to that full realization a couple weeks ago when he was looking through some old notes — from 1998, when he was Bill Snyder’s linebackers coach at Kansas State — and put it in perspective with how he’s approaching the Sooners’ open date this week.
“I think years and years ago, you practiced like it was a game week,” Venables said on Monday night. “Because football’s year-round now.
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