Brent Venables

Jack Ol 18 Mar,2017

Facts of Brent Venables

Ethnicity
white
Birth Name
Thomas Brent Venables
Famous Name
Brent Venables
Nationality
American
Married to
Julie Venables
Currently Married
Yes

Contents:

Career & Net worth

Salary
$3 Million
Net Worth
$ 5 Million
Currently Club
NFL Draft

Relationship

Married to
Julie Venables
Currently Married
Yes

Thomas Brent Venables is a college football coach who is currently the head coach of the University of Oklahoma. He previously served as the defensive coordinator at Clemson University. He also played football for Kansas State and Garden City CC and started his coaching career with Kansas State (GA). Prior, he has also coached Oklahoma (Co-DC/LB).

Venables earned an annual salary of $2.5 million in 2020 while at Clemson. He has an estimated net worth of $5 million in 2022. He is currently married to his wife Julie Venables and has four children.

Brent Venables Net Worth and Salary

Brent Venables has an estimated net worth of $5 million as of 2022. He recently joined Oklahoma as their head coach, however, the details of his contract have not been reported yet. He will probably earn around $3 million annually.

Earlier, he coached Clemson where he earned $2 million initially. He later signed a contract extension with Clemson for 5 years worth $11.6 million. His recent salary was reported to be around $2.5 million in 2021 and was one of the highest-paid assistant coaches (paid highest than some head coaches).

The contract was also the richest deal for an assistant coach.

He is a great hustler with great energy and great intensity who has proved his career successful by his hard work and dedication towards the work. He earns a nearly half-million-dollar, increasing his annual salary to $1.35 million beginning next season. He has maintained a good net worth in his life.

Related Bio: Danny Ford Net worth, Salary, and Personal Life

Married to Julie Venables

Venables is married to Julie Venables and has four children. He met Julie His wife Julia during his professional career. After an affair for several years, they got married in July 1997. His wife Julia was born as Julie Anne Fisher on September 14, 1973, in Hutchinson, Kansas.

She is the daughter of Vicki and Carl Fisher. She has worked as a registered nurse at Memorial Hospital.

Brent Venables and his wife JuliaBrent Venables and his wife Julia SOURCE: Greenville Online

The couple is blessed with four children, two sons: Jake Venables and Tyler Venables, and two daughters: Laney and Addie. 

Brent Venables with his wife Julia and ChildrenBrent Venables with his wife Julia and Children SOURCE: Fabwags.com

 Both Brent's sons are athletes; Jake is a footballer who has played as an outside linebacker at Wren High School while Tyler is a quarterback at Daniel high school. 

He has reached the age of 46 now. His birth sign is Sagittarius.

Early Life and Education

Brent Venables was born on December 18, 1970, in Florida, the United States of America. He is the son of Nancy Schumaker (his mother). Venables' nationality is American and belongs to a white ethnic background. He has a sibling brother named Ken Venables.

He also has two brothers named Kirk and Ken. After his parents split, Venables moved to an Air Force base in Salina, Kansas at the age of 2. His mother worked in different places to raise them up. He and his family were later supported by his grandparents.

Brent Venables Professional Career

Born and grew up in Kansas, he attended Kansas State University, where he played as a linebacker for the team under Coach Bill Snyder. He later became an assistant on Snyder's staff at Kansas State. He has played for Garden City CC before playing with Kansas State University.  

He started his career serving as a Graduate Assistant at Kansas State in 1993. After serving in Kansas for about three years, he continued his career coaching the Linebackers in 1996 and became the Defensive Run Coordinator in 1998.

Also Read: Ben Boulware Bio, Salary, Net worth, and Married Life

Stoops brought him to the University of Oklahoma in 1999. There he served as associate head coach, defensive coordinator, and linebackers coach for the Sooners under the head coach Bob Stoops. He was one of five finalists for the Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach in 2006.

In January 2012, Mike Stoops returned to Oklahoma to resume his position as the defensive coordinator he used to hold in early 2004. After then, he reported at numbers of schools for the head coaching position, which includes Miami, Kansas, Arkansas, Kansas State, Texas Tech, and Clemson.

He accepted the position of defensive coordinator at Clemson University, where his salary was to be between $ 750,000 and $ 1 million. He became a winner of the 2016 Broyles Award for the nation's top assistant coach on December 6, 2016.

Venables signed with Oklahoma as their head coach in December 2021.

 

Latest Bio