ESPN’s Paul Finebaum Writes Off $63M Head Coach as “Dead” After Humiliating SEC Loss

Oklahoma entered its Halloween night home game against South Carolina with a chance to steady a season that had been slipping. By the early fourth quarter, the deficit was 42-16, fans were booing the team off the field, and some were reportedly chanting for offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle to be fired. The final read 42-25. A day later, ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum, one of the loudest voices in college football, delivered a verdict on the man running the program. “I’m going to tell you right now, Brent Venables is dead,” Finebaum said on The Matt Barrie Show on Sunday .