By Matt Hladik It looks like ESPN’s Paul Finebaum wants to temper some of the expectations being heaped on new Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables. Last week, Oklahoma’s Executive Director of Football Administration Thad Turnipseed, who worked at Alabama under Nick Saban, favorably compared his new boss to his old one. Turnipseed said Venables is “the closest thing to Nick Saban” he has ever seen. On his ESPN radio show yesterday, Finebaum cautioned that we’ve heard similar things about other coaches before, only to have them fail to live up to the hype. “Remember, we went through that for a lo…