AUSTIN, TX – SEPTEMBER 14: Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder looks on from the sidelines as the Texas Longhorns play the Mississippi Rebels on September 14, 2013 at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
Texas completely destroyed Oklahoma in the Red River Showdown and Longhorn basketball great Kevin Durant just savaged Sooners head coach Brent Venables.
Even if Texas football fans believed that the Longhorns were simply better than bitter rival Oklahoma, particularly with the return of quarterback Quinn Ewers to the field, they couldn’t have imagined what Red River would look like in 2022 in their wildest dreams.
To put it simply, it was pure domination. Steve Sarkisian coached circles around Brent Venables from start to finish as the Longhorns pasted the Sooners on both sides of the ball. And in what felt like an instant it was an absolute blowout.
When 60 minutes had finally come off the clock and Ewers playing sparingly in the second half, the end result was a 49-0 rout in favor of Texas, the largest shutout loss in the history of Oklahoma football.
Kevin Durant burns Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables to a crisp
Late in the game, though, former Texas basketball star and current NBA superstar Kevin Durant didn’t hold back as he went off on Venables for his horrendous coaching display.
Ayo somebody tell Brent Venables to pass the joystick….this ain’t it
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) October 8, 2022
Oklahoma was so bad in this game that this doesn’t even sound like a rival talking trash. This legitimately sounds like a fan wanting the rivalry matchup to even be something close to competitive, which Saturday’s game was not.
If there’s any defense of Venables, he was without starting quarterback Dillon Gabriel after an injury suffered last week. That being said, Venables came from Clemson with a defensive background and that side of the ball looked truly horrendous in trying to even slow down the Longhorns.
Starting 0-3 in Big 12 is bad, but Venables can still turn it around based on that. There is, however, no coming back from the savagery Durant unleashed on him.
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