TO DATE WITH THE LATEST FIRST ALERT FORECAST. EVERYBODY, WELCOME INTO THE SHOW. TONIGHT I AM BRIAN KEATING ALONGSIDE HANNAH HOOVER. IT IS TIME FOR CRASHING ABOARD. LET’S DO IT ON A I THINK HISTORIC WEEK HERE IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA. IT’S BEEN A PRETTY HISTORIC WEEK. THAT’S FOR SURE. WE’LL GET TO THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER STUFF, WHICH MADE SOME MOVES THAT I THINK MAYBE MAKES THEM THE FAVORITE IN THE WESTERN CONFERENCE TO GET TO THE TEAM TO BEAT. BUT I’M TALKING ABOUT OKLAHOMA AND THE SEC AND THE CELEBRATION THAT WE HAD LAST WEEK IN NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. SO I WANT YOU TO ROLL THIS. IT IS THE HEAD COACH, BRANT VENABLES, ON THE PAUL FINEBAUM SHOW, TALKING ABOUT THE SOONERS HEADING TO THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A PROGRAM, WHETHER IT’S THE 47 GAME WINNING STREAK OR THE MOST CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL, THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS, ALL THE HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS, THE COUNTLESS UM PLAYERS THAT ARE NOW IN THE HALL OF FAME, BOTH PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, UH, THE CONSENSUS ALL-AMERICANS AGAIN, YOU START GOING THROUGH THE DRAFT PICKS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THIS PROGRAM STANDS OUT ON ITS OWN TWO LEGS. AND NOW YOU GET ELITE MATCHING UP WITH ELITE AND AN ELITE PROGRAM LIKE OKLAHOMA HAS BEEN FOR OVER 100 YEARS, MATCHING UP WITH THE BEST BRAND AND THE BEST LEAGUE IN ALL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL. WELL, BRANT VENABLES IS RIGHT ABOUT THAT. THE BEST BRAND AND THE BEST LEAGUE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. HE’S ALSO RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT HE SAID ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS FOOTBALL PROGRAMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SPORT. SO I’LL ASK YOU TO TAKE TAKE THIS ANY WAY YOU WANT. THE CELEBRATION WAS BIG AND THEY PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS IN NORMAN ON MONDAY. AND THEN, OH, YOU HEADED TO THE SEC? WHAT DO YOU THINK? WELL, EVERYONE’S VERY EXCITED. YEAH. ALL YOU HEAR ABOUT IS SEC AND BILLBOARDS EVERYWHERE. AND IT’S FUN. I MEAN, I’D BE BE EXCITED TO. IT’S A LONG TIME COMING. UM, BUT 50 CONFERENCE TITLES IS WHAT THEY HAVE. I’M GONNA PUT THAT UP FIVE ZERO. THEY’RE LOOKING TO ADD ANOTHER 151 IN THE SEC, AND YOU KNOW, LIKE BRANT VENABLES SAID, THEY’RE CONTENDERS. THEY COULD BE. BUT, UH, ELITE MATCHING UP WITH ELITE. I MEAN, THERE’S A LOT GOING ON AT OU. THIS QUESTION MARKS TO ME, NOT BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT GREAT PLAYERS. THEY DON’T HAVE PEOPLE RETURNING. THEY DO. BUT JACKSON ARNOLD IS THE QUARTERBACK AND HIS BOWL GAME APPEARANCE HAD FLASHES OF GOOD POINTS. YEP. UP AND DOWN. BUT YOU KNOW HE’S NEW AND HE’S UNPROVEN. AND SO NATURALLY THERE’S SOME QUESTION MARKS THERE. ALL RIGHT. SO I’M RIDING DOWN. LOOK I THINK IT IS COOL I CANNOT WAIT. JUST AS SOMEONE WHO GETS TO GO TO THE GAMES AND COVER THE GAMES, I CAN’T WAIT FOR OKLAHOMA AND ALABAMA AND OKLAHOMA AND LSU. I THINK THE POTENTIAL FOR BIG TIME MATCHUPS. HERE’S WHAT I ONE WE DIDN’T SEE A LOT OF ON ON MONDAY. WE DIDN’T SEE A LOT OF THE SEC, SEC. YOU KNOW, ALL THE STUFF THAT OU FANS USED TO MAKE FUN OF. SEC. ARE THEY THEY’RE PART OF THE GROUP NOW. I KNOW. SO THEY’RE THE IN GROUP. ARE THEY GOING TO DO THIS. AND IT’S LIKE EVERYTHING THAT THEY MADE FUN OF FOREVER. SO I WAS, YOU KNOW, GIVE IT UP TO YOU FANS ON MONDAY. WE DIDN’T SEE A LOT OF THAT STUFF AS FAR AS THIS YEAR’S TEAM, I JUST DON’T KNOW. AND THERE’S BEEN SO MUCH CONVERSATION IS OKLAHOMA SEC READY? I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’D ASKED ME THIS QUESTION IN 2016, 2017, 2018, I WOULD HAVE SAID, ABSOLUTELY, THEY CAN GO. THEY CAN PLAY WITH ANYBODY IN THE COUNTRY. THEY CAN WIN ON ANY FIELD WITH ANYBODY IN THE COUNTRY. BUT NOW THINGS JUST SEEM TO BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. AND SO, I DON’T KNOW, I LIKE JACKSON ARNOLD A LOT. I THINK HE HAS POTENTIAL TO BE ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. OKLAHOMA AS A BRAND IS ONE OF THE ELITE NAMES IN ALL OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL, AND THAT DOESN’T CHANGE GOING INTO THE SEC. THE SEC. NOT ONLY IS OU FOOTBALL AT A HIGHER LEVEL BEING IN THAT CONFERENCE, THE SEC IS TOO, BECAUSE THEY GOT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. SO I’VE SEEN A LOT OF THIS TEXAS STUFF. I JUST DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS TEAM. WHAT WILL OKLAHOMA BE IN THE SEC WILL THEY BE AS HISTORIC? CAN THEY DO FOR THE NEXT 75 YEARS? WHAT THEY HAVE DONE THE PREVIOUS 75 YEARS? I DON’T DON’T I DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK IT’S COOL. AND I THOUGHT THE CELEBRATION WAS AWESOME. THEY PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS. I THINK EVERYBODY SAID ALL THE RIGHT STUFFS. PEOPLE WERE EXCITED FOR GOOD REASON. UM, HERE’S THE ONE THING THAT MAKES YOU JUST A, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A LITTLE BIT NERVOUS. PUT UP THE GRAPHIC. WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT OKLAHOMA. WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE MOVING FORWARD. THEY, UH, AT THE MOMENT HAVE THE NINTH BEST ODDS, ACCORDING TO THE FINE FOLKS IN LAS VEGAS TO WIN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE. AND SO, LOOK, TEXAS IS UP THERE. WE WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM. OH, YOU BEAT TEXAS LAST YEAR, RIGHT? ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS OU TEAM. AND I CAN’T WAIT TO FIND OUT WHEN WE GET TO YOU KNOW, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER AND THIS REALLY STARTS TO TO UNFOLD. I MENTIONED LAS VEGAS, WHICH BY THE WAY, PUT UP THE NEXT GRAPHIC BECAUSE THE BIG 12 ALSO HAS ODDS TO WIN THE CONFERENCE. AND OKLAHOMA STATE IS THIRD. I MENTIONED LAS VEGAS HANNAH, BECAUSE I CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT ARE WE AT JULY 7TH AND BIG 12 MEDIA DAYS ARE IN LAS VEGAS ON TUESDAY. AND WEDNESDAY. AND SO WE’RE GOING TO GET TO HEAR FROM MIKE GUNDY. AND FINALLY, I KNOW FINALLY, IT’S JULY 7TH SEASON YET JULY WAS LAST WEEK. SO FOOTBALL SEASON UM, IS SORT OF UPON US HERE AND BEGINS THE RUN UP TO FOOTBALL SEASON. SO I WILL ASK YOU THIS AS WE GET PREPARED FOR BIG 12 MEDIA DAYS AND THE SEC IS A NEW LEAGUE, THE BIG 12 IS ALSO A NEW LEAGUE. IT’S A NEW LOOK. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO OVER THE NEXT WEEK TO HERE IN LAS VEGAS? I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM SOME OF THE NEW GUYS ON THE BLOCK. UM, I’LL THROW IT OUT THERE. MY BROTHER, JOSH HOOVER, I KNOW THIS IS GREAT. YOUR BROTHER IS THE QUARTERBACK AT TCU, BY THE WAY. I JUST GOTTA I JUST WANT TO HEAR HIM ON, YOU KNOW, THE SET. I JUST WANT TO HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY BECAUSE I KNOW JOSH HOOVER, MY BROTHER. BUT ANYWAY, THAT ASIDE, YOU KNOW CAMERON RISING I THINK THAT’S A BIG NAME THAT YOU WANT THE QUARTERBACK THAT YOU TALK ABOUT. UTAH. YES. BECAUSE THERE YOU SAW IT NUMBER ONE. AND TO WIN THE TITLE. SO THEY’RE NEW TO THE SEC THAT THE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK AND SUPPOSEDLY YOU KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD YEAR. WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YEAH THEY OUGHT TO BE GOOD. UH BUT HE’S BEEN INJURED AND HE’S COMING BACK. SO THERE’S THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL. THERE’S JUST SOME UNCERTAINTIES IN ANY SEASON. AND THIS ONE’S NO DIFFERENT. YEAH. I’M WITH YOU I, I THINK IT’S GOING TO BE INTERESTING BECAUSE THE SEC MEDIA DAYS WHERE WE GO IN TWO WEEKS, THAT’LL BE DIFFERENT WITH OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. AND I WAS AT THE SEC MEDIA DAYS LAST WEEK, AND IT JUST FELT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT WAS UNFAMILIAR. AND ALL THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS AND COACHES THAT YOU’RE NOT USED TO BEING AROUND. AND SO I DO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE ARIZONA SCHOOLS AND UTAH AND BEING AROUND BYU A LITTLE BIT MORE, AND COLORADO. BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO AND I JUST GO PRIME GUNDY. AND I COULD JUST SAY PRIME GUNDY AND THAT WOULD MEAN EVERYTHING I WANT TO SEE MIKE. BECAUSE ANYTIME YOU PUT A MICROPHONE IN FRONT OF MIKE GUNDY ON A PODIUM WHEN HE’S FEELING GOOD, ONE I THINK YOU LEARN WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT HIS OWN TEAM. WHEN MIKE IS RELAXED, MAN, HE THINKS HIS TEAM IS GOING TO BE AWFULLY GOOD AND THEY SHOULD BE GOOD. BUT I WANT TO SEE DEION SANDERS. I WANT TO SEE PRIME TIME, BABY. COME ON. WHO DOES THAT? I WANT TO SEE DEION SANDERS AND COLORADO BECAUSE THEY HAVE GOTTEN A LOT OF HYPE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF SEASONS. LAST YEAR WE KNEW IT WAS REBUILDING SITUATION, BUT HE BROUGHT THAT PROGRAM TO AT LEAST BACK TO WHERE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. SO I WANT TO SEE DEION SANDERS AND I WANT TO SEE MIKE GUNDY BECAUSE MIKE IS IS REALLY THE ELDER STATESMAN OF THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE. AND MIKE HAS BEEN VERY PRO, BIG 12 CONFERENCE HERE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS SINCE THE NEWS ABOUT OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. HE IS STILL PRO BIG 12 CONFERENCE. SO I AM CURIOUS TO HEAR FROM MIKE AND AND SEE WHAT HE THINKS ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOLS AS HE GETS TO KNOW SOME OF THE COACHES AND THE PROGRAMS AND THE TEAMS INSIDE THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL. IT SEEMS EARLY IN I’M READY FOR IT. SEVENTH. BUT MAN, IT’LL BE A FUN COUPLE OF WEEKS WITH THE BIG 12 THIS WEEK IN LAS VEGAS, A LITTLE WEST COAST, AND THEN THE SEC IN DALLAS BACK TO BACK AND BACK TO BACK. AND SO IT’LL BE A FUN COUPLE OF WEEKS. THE BIG 12 ON TUESDAY AND SO WE’LL BE TALKING COLLEGE FOOTBALL HERE LEADING UP INTO THROUGHOUT THE END OF THE YEAR.