Bob Stoops passes by Brent Venables’ ranch and strikes up a conversation with his defensive coord. sitting by the gate.
Stoops asks Venables, "Mind if I talk to your dog over there?"
"Damn fool, don't you know dogs can't talk?"
Stoops replies, "So what's the harm?"
Venables shrugs, "Go right ahead."
Stoops ambles up to the dog and says, "Howdy!" The dog replies, "Hello."
Brent’s eyes pop wide open.
Bob continues, "Does your master here treat you alright?"
"Sure does. He feeds me, lets me sleep inside, and every day he takes me to the lake."
Bob asks the shocked Brent Venables, "Mind if I talk to your horse over there?"
Brent replies, "Now, I don't know what you're up to, but I know for a fact that horses can't talk."
"Well then, what's the harm?"
"Go right ahead," says the OU defensive coord..
Coach Stoops says to the horse, "Hello." The horse replies, "Hello."
Brent’s jaw drops.
Stoops asks, "Your owner here treat you OK?"
"Sure," replies the horse, tossing his mane. "He rides me every day, brushes me down, feeds me good, and he keeps me in the barn out of the bad weather."
Bob Stoops looks satisfied and turns to Brent Venables, "Are those your sheep over there?"
Brent Venables looks alarmed and stammers, "Listen -- them sheep out there, they're -- they're nothing but a bunch of liars!"
