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Brent Venables Adds to Oklahoma Offensive Staff With Two Hires

Two new additions to the quarterback room, both young and fast-risers in the coaching industry, will help new offensive coordinator Seth Littrell's transition.
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Brent Venables Adds to Oklahoma Offensive Staff With Two Hires
Brent Venables Adds to Oklahoma Offensive Staff With Two Hires

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Oklahoma coach Brent Venables has apparently begun the process of restocking his offensive staff.

Venables has hired two offensive support staffers in Jack Lowary from Tennessee and Ty Hatcher from Texas A&M, both of whom will work with quarterbacks.

The news was first reported by Rivals network site OUInsider.com, and confirmed by an OU source Monday night.

Lowary and Hatcher have both updated their Twitter bios to reflect their new positions, and both hires are expected to be formally announced soon.

Venables replaced offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby by elevating offensive analyst Seth Littrell to offensive coordinator. With assistant QB coach Matt Holocek now coaching quarterbacks full time for Lebby at Mississippi State, Lowary will fill that spot on Venables’ staff.

Lowary hails from Huntington Beach, CA. He played the 2015 at Long Beach City College, then played three years at Missouri under Barry Odom as Drew Lock’s backup. The Tigers’ offensive coordinator at the time was former Sooners QB Josh Heupel.

When Kelly Bryant transferred to Missouri from Clemson at the end of the 2018 season, Lowary decided to skip his final season of eligibility and transitioned to a student assistant role at Mizzou.

“He was kind of an assistant coach last year,” then-offensive coordinator Derek Dooley told The Kansas City Star in 2019. “He had his trial with Drew. He really helped Drew a lot. He was sort of a student-coach last year, now he’ll be a graduate coach and one day he’s going to be a full-time great coach. He understands ball, he asks the right questions. I think Drew looked up to him. Drew leaned on him.”

“He’s got that coaching factor,” former Tigers QB Micah Wilson told the Star in 2019. “He’s naturally a coach. Even since he was playing. He’s on top of everything, the perfect coaching point to give somebody.”

When Heupel got the head coaching job at Tennessee, he hired Lowary to assist with quarterbacks. In Knoxville this season, Lowary answered directly to former Sooner QB and UT offensive coordinator Joey Halzle.

“The guys I have working with me in the quarterback room, Mitch (Mitello) and Jack (Lowary), are amazing,” Halzle said in August. “They do a great job, trust them completely and wholeheartedly.”

Hatcher joins Venables’ staff as a graduate assistant after working for Jimbo Fisher in College Station last season.

Hatcher was a dual-threat quarterback at Bessemer Academy in Hueytown, AL, and played three seasons for his father, Chris Hatcher, at Samford University before joining the A&M staff.

OU offensive analyst Matt Wells remains a candidate for other coaching jobs around the country.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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