NORMAN, Okla. -- First-year  Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said Monday that he's been proud of his team's resolve and focus following longtime assistant coach Cale Gundy's sudden resignation last week and the way the players have so quickly bought into the new staff's vision. "All things considered, they've handled everything great and not allowed it to become a distraction," Venables told ESPN. "You gotta go through some mud sometimes. You gotta get scarred up. You gotta go through some things, and that's how you go get better. You don't go get better and improve through ease and comfort in anything." Gundy, an assistant coach at OU for 23 years, announced his resignation Aug. 7 after reading aloud "multiple times" what Venables said was a "racially charged word" to his players during a position meeting. In a statement announcing his resignation, Gundy apologized and explained that when he noticed a player, who was supposed to be taking notes during...