U40: Brent Venables and George Stoia are now best friends in Florida

U40: Brent Venables and George Stoia are now best friends in Florida

Author: SoonerScoop.com May 29, 2025 Duration: 1:12:50
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It's the upside down world on the Unofficial 40 as Josh McCuistion is here in studio during his Oklahoma spring football tour and George Stoia is in Florida at the SEC Meetings. We catch up with George on everything that's been going down in Florida as he's had a chance to speak with Brent Venables on multiple occasions. We talk about all the news that's come out as well as what that means moving forward. Josh is here going all over the state checking out the top prospects in Oklahoma. We also hit on a larger discussion on how Brent Venables and his coaching staff are working with Jim Nagy and his staff in the front office. Recruiting, scouting, offers, decision making... It's a lot for two different departments to figure out how to work together. THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the U40! Josh in studio; George in Destin at SEC Spring Meetings 8:10 - SEC Spring Meetings 22:00 - George’s takeaways after talking with Brent Venables 41:00 - Josh talking OU recruiting strategy; difference with front office running things?  45:00 - Venables excitement about Cal transfer RB Jadyn Ott 52:00 - OKPreps Recruiting Round Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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U40: Standouts are emerging in preseason camp [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:45
It's a megasized preseason camp edition of the Unofficial 40. We don't leave a single position out of this breakdown of things we've heard from practice, scrimmages, injuries, etc. Carey, Josh, Eddie and George are all h…
U40: Jayden Gibson injury, impressions from preseason camp [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:36
Preseason camp is underway and we've had more media access and interview sessions since we last talked. Last night George Stoia broke the news about wide receiver Jayden Gibson's knee injury. We break that down even more…
U40: Preseason camp is underway and we're breaking down the roster [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:50
Carey, Josh, Eddie and George are all here to celebrate the start of preseason camp and we all go over the players and positions we're most eager to see, talk to and watch over the next month before kickoff is finally he…
U40: We're rolling into fall camp and Nijaree Canady got how much? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:31
It's that time of the year between talking season and practices starting. We're here for all of it as we had plenty to talk about on today's edition of the Unofficial 40. The office is alive with the sounds of college fo…
U40: Reporting back from SEC Media Days and Josh speaks! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:20
So much to talk about after the gang returns back from SEC Media Days. Brent Venables seemed different this year as the head coach of the Sooners. And it was in a very good way. We talk about impressions from everything…
U40: We have reached powerless Josh and SEC Media Days coming [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:55
We finally reach Josh who has been without power on the outskirts of Houston for days with no idea when he will be back. He finally gets a chance to address Lamont Rogers and talk about the rest of the OL recruiting clas…
U40: A lot of opinions out there concerning OU's position in the SEC [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:02
What a wild start to the pod this week. We welcome in an uninvited visitor that we still don't know a lot about. But Calf Tat Josh was here for the rescue. The first nine minutes of this podcast are frankly, kind of insa…
U40: OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione joins the show [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:59
It was a big day on the Unofficial 40 as Joe Castiglione, the father of one half of The Family Business came in studio to talk with Carey and Eddie about a number of topics. We talked about OU's official move to the SEC…

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