Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore.

Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready?

Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command.

What's going on, y'all, Bud Elliott here at the Cover 3 College Ball podcast. This is summer school, and school is in session. We are talking today. Josh Calloway of Sooners Illustrated has joined us many times now since coming over to the network to break down everything Oklahoma, which is a good time to be breaking out of Oklahoma, man. Coming off an excellent year, looking to run it back and do it even better how you been doing

well doing well yeah definitely a lot better vibes around the program this time this year compared to

last year coming off 2024 which was a total disaster we talked about it was a huge year in 2025

and a great year to get back to the playoff and and definitely lot of positivity, a lot of good vibes around the program right now.

I know you fans very excited about the way things are moving and obviously the season coming up here in a few months.

Absolutely.

So Venables, obviously, there was a lot of questions about him coming into 2025, but the 10 and 3 season, as you mentioned.

I want to focus on Arbuck a little bit,

the officer coordinator who came over, and I thought it was a big get for them, and like the

offense improved dramatically year every year. I know sooner fans want more as they should,

but how do you see this transitioning from year one to year two? Is there stuff that you know he

wants to do that maybe wasn't able to do last year?

Yeah, I do think that there's, it was certainly a lot better in 2025 compared to 24, right?

Which he took over an offense that was historically awful for Oklahoma the year before. So it has worked cut out for him. It certainly helped that he brought his quarterback with him, right, in John Metteere, who knew the offense. But it's a learning curve. It's a learning curve for all the players, but also for Ben. I mean, it was a big jump up in competition for him, going from Washington State to the SEC. He also just hadn't coach for that long. He's only cold plays at the college level for a few years going to last year. So you knew there'd be a little bit of like a, you know, need some patience here to give him a little time to just kind of get his feet wet a bit.

But it was a good year overall.

And, you know, I think the the big emphasis of this offseason for Oklahoma and certainly this spring, which just wrapped up, you know, obviously in April,

has been to try and get better running the football. They did not have a run game really at all last year. John Mateer kind of was the run game for a lot of the year, which can't really do. And the SECA, John was really beat up last year. Ironically, the play where he hurt his thumb, which was, you know, the big storyline, I really kind of altered Oklahoma season, happened on a past play. So he didn't actually get hurt on a run, but he was beat up by the end of the year. And so they know they just need to get more out of their run game and out of the running backs. And there's a lot of belief that they will be able to do that. The offensive line feels like it's in a better place. they've, you know, signed a couple of highly tired freshmen. They got some key guys back in that running back room.

And so that. the offensive line feels like it's in a better place. They've, you know, signed a couple of highly tied freshmen.

They got some key guys back in that running back room.

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