The most hated man in Oklahoma is no longer Lincoln Riley. That would be his successor Brent Venables. He may have been a great defensive coordinator at Clemson for a decade, and a pretty good head coach at OU in the old Big 12, but this is the SEC, baby, he’s being boiled alive every week. After getting embarrassed at Red River, South Carolina fried its team.

I keep coming back to this. Why did Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione give Venables a contract extension last summer for no reason? This may have been done to take the pressure off him when Oklahoma joined the SEC. Instead, Castiglione has looked like a complete fool for perpetuating this Boomer Sooner Loser clown show that we are painfully having to endure.

The decision to bench Jackson Arnold after looking like a sad puppy at home against Tennessee almost a month ago was the right thing to do at the time. The choice of Michael Hawkins Jr. may have helped them make things interesting against UTK, and hold off awful Auburn, but it did nothing to help OU against Texas, nor South Carolina. This team is a tire fire on the side of the road on good old Route 66.

So how is the internet reacting to Oklahoma’s demise on social media? As you would expect.

Well, Message Board Geniuses is having a big day today, mainly because Oklahoma is a disaster.

It’s clear that the rest of the college football world wants Venables to do literally anything other than run OU.

Assuming Castiglione also wants to keep his job, he may have to sacrifice Venables to the gods to appease a bunch of sad and really angry Oklahomans. If you have a tweet from someone named Jimmy Greenbeans with Dr. Manhattan as his avatar, we really live in a simulation. Tulsa is no Norman, but nothing is normal in Greater Oklahoma City these days with this football team. Tap, tap…

So in case you were wondering, Venables’ buyout is a whopping $48 million. He is the 15th highest paid head coach in college football at over $8 million per year. His buyout is the 10th largest in the sport. The only problem is that every other head coach with a bigger buyout than him has accomplished more than him. This includes Dan Lanning, who leads No. 2 Oregon in year three…

Oklahoma leaving the Big 12 for the SEC has had disastrous consequences from the start. I thought that over time their elite football culture would be absorbed quite well into the new league. What came as a surprise is how ill-prepared they appear in conference play. I understand this is a leap forward in the league, but we’re talking about a top-three program in college football history, folks!

I don’t think it’s going to happen this year, but hey, Venables is firmly on the hot seat in Oklahoma.