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Barry Layne Switzer (born October 5, 1937) is an American former football coach. He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
Barry Switzer is an American former collegiate and professional football coach. He was the head football coach for the University of Oklahoma for 16 years and NFL's Dallas Cowboys for four years. Who is Barry Switzer?
NORMAN — The first five years that Barry Switzer no longer was the Oklahoma football coach seemed longer than the next 20. “The older you get, the faster it goes,” Switzer said Thursday, the 25th anniversary of the day he resigned. The Switzer era ended June 19, 1989.
Oklahoma’s best teams under Barry Switzer were stamped with two overriding characteristics: an exciting triple-option offense, and an elite, punishing defense.
Barry Switzer took the stage at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, dozens of his players among the mourners at Grant Burget’s memorial service Saturday, and urged them to stop meeting like this.
Switzer had flown to Oklahoma City the night before, the first staff hire of new OU head coach Jim Mackenzie. Switzer had grown up in southern Arkansas, reading about Bud Wilkinson’s vaunted ...
Barry Switzer had a legendary coaching career. He is one of only three coaches to win both a championship in college and the NFL. During his sixteen-year tenure in Norman, Switzer achieved one...
Barry Switzer was only given a nine-month contract when OU hired him as its head football coach in 1973, but Switzer didn’t care. “Hell, I don’t need a contract,” Switzer told the Board of Regents. “We’re gonna win.”.
Sooner Nation is celebrating Coach Barry Switzer and his 50-year run with the University of Oklahoma Thursday.
Barry Switzer is a successful football coach who graduated from the University of Arkansas and served in the U.S. Army. He led the University of Oklahoma to three national championship wins and never had a losing season during his tenure as head coach.