Oklahoma’s Brent Venables is Using Social Media Reports to Help Vet Recruits

DUNCAN, OK — Brent Venables is utilizing each device at his disposal in recruiting.

Since arriving on campus, Venables has confused how his program goes to do the whole lot potential to solely usher in the fitting guys that match the tradition.

And now, he’s utilizing social media to assist sift out recruits who is probably not a match.

“A part of our recruiting employees’s duty is to provide us a weekly report, a social media report, of each man that we have actively (recruited),” Venables mentioned Thursday on the OU Coaches Caravan cease in Duncan, OK.

The objective, Venables mentioned, is to attempt to discover any pink flags the teaching employees might have missed or not but uncovered earlier than a possible drawback even arrives on campus.

“We name it above the black line,” Venables mentioned. “So above the black line on our recruiting conflict room board means like, they’re the dudes. It is our first rounders. OK, that is the fellows that we might prefer to take first. And so we’re doing this social media report on these guys. And if it is inexperienced, it is good. However I am in search of wherever its pink.

“Whether or not it is questionable content material, questionable abusive language, guys that do not actually care about their platform, OK? And there is at all times — everyone who deserves some grace. Only for us is, that is OK, that is an alarm. Let’s try that, let’s look slightly additional. The knowledge’s there, why not benefit from it?”

The brand new Oklahoma head coach mentioned he’s attempting to do the whole lot in his energy to make sure that his employees is just pursuing high-character guys who stay and breathe soccer and wish to be Sooners.

“I believe too usually folks simply supply. They do not worth their very own supply,” Venables mentioned. “They only supply off spotlight tapes they usually’re not in search of match.

“We’re in search of match, and we’re wanting, once more, for long-term dedication. We’re in search of people who find themselves gonna carry worth to the College of Oklahoma.”

The plan is much from foolproof, Venables acknowledged. However he mentioned it might be silly to not attempt to use each single information level he can discover all through the recruiting course of.

“Once you cope with 17-18-19-20-21-22-year-olds, they’re gonna be gonna get into some silly stuff typically. Proper?” Venables mentioned. “And so you have gotta reply the fitting approach, however we’ll attempt to keep away from that on the entrance finish of the recruiting course of and simply attempt to be thorough.

“And it is not error free, however we bought to be very dedicated to that course of.”

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