Kevin Wilson

I ...

Unless they have another offensive line coach in waiting, uh, Kevin Wilson would go to the line and, and maybe coming out of that game, you know, you have Wilson, not s- not Venables in Arbuckle's ear like never before-

Right

... bucking him up and, and encouraging him because what ...

You know, Kevin Wilson didn't exactly run the air raid, although it, although Sam Bradford sure did complete a lot of passes in 2008 when he was offensive coordinator.

Um-

Oh, you mean, uh, Josh Heupel?

They would have to signal it now, but I had proposed Venables saving his skin by... relinquishing defensive calls, and then basically they might have to fire Arbuckle midseason.

It would be fire Arbuckle and Bedenboe, and then you'd let Kevin Wilson, who's a special assistant right now, call the plays.

Kevin Wilson, who was the OC for the Sam Bradford teams, and of course was the OC in Northwestern with Randy Walker, was the Indiana

coach, worked at Ohio

State with Ryan Day.

That, I think, I almost predicted this, but I was like, "Ian, you can't make...

There's only so many negative predictions you can make about Oklahoma before you completely lose your c- credibility," right? I really wanted to predict when they were like, "Kevin Wilson is gonna have them under center and running outside zone." I hinted at it a few times, but I didn't go all in.

But I was like, "I don't think that's a good idea when your offensive coordinator is an air raid guy." Like, those styles don't gel.

So are you gonna...

Yeah.

Because the ball was there and Kevin Wilson was there.

But anyway, just really excited for him.

And then one other thing I want to hit before we get to commercial break is that a gentleman on a message board was staying at a hotel and finds a game plan sheet.

... just went nine minutes down the field, and you're in a bad shape all the way around.

Well, and n- and not to bring up this school again, but 10 years ago under Kevin Wilson, Indiana was notorious for this.

They would score 30 a game, but they'd also have, like-

Yeah

Is there anything you can take away from that other than the fact that Kirk Ferentz has just been in the Big Ten forevs?

Well, first of all, Kevin Wilson was the offensive coordinator.

Oh, yeah.

And you, you expect to tell me Kevin Wilson was calling the plays then over...

Was he? I...

What, Kevin Wilson wasn't calling the plays over Ryan Day, was he?

Well, we had Bradley and Tyler confirm that, so.

And Troy thinks I was at that game in 1950.

And Brent Venables has said, "I don't wanna be the offensive coordinator.

I'm the head coach." So it's on Bill Bedenbaugh and Kevin Wilson like that, but if it doesn't work, then that inevitably comes back on, "Dude, Brent, that, that was your call, right?" And-

It's your call, yeah.

And so I understand when people like, "I gotta get your name.

Gabriel Osborne and Caden Penny are two guys that – barring injury, are going to be able to go as far as their work ethic will take them at Oklahoma because they have all the talent you could ask for at their respective positions.

Sooner Lisa from BA says, We've got Kevin Wilson on staff already.

He's a plug-and-play for offensive coordinator and or offensive line coach.

He's done it before.

Sure.

Because Oklahoma abbreviated that search process for the sake of continuity back in December of 2024 and just handed the gig to Seth Luttrell, and we all saw how that turned out.

So Kevin Wilson's a guy that's got OUDNA.

And there was a time where that was looked upon as a desirable, a coveted quality by this fan base.