gary barnett

Sport Football Born May 23, 1946 (1946-05-23) (age 62) Place of birth Lakeland, FL Career highlights Overall 92-95-2 Coaching stats College Football DataWarehouse Championships 1995, 1996 Big Ten Championship

2001 Big 12 Conference Championship Awards 1995, 1996 Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year (AP)

2001, 2004 Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year (AP) Playing career 1966-1969 Missouri Position WR Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1982-83

1991-98

1999-2005 Fort Lewis College

Northwestern

Colorado

Gary Barnett (born May 23, 1946 in Lakeland, Florida) is a former college football head coach. He was the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats from 1992 to 1999. He left Northwestern for the Colorado Buffaloes, where he was head coach from 1999 to 2005, though he was suspended briefly in the 2004 offseason due to events stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct by several members of the football team.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Coaching 2.1 Northwestern 2.2 Colorado 3 Record 4 After Colorado 5 See also 6 External links 7 References //

Background

Barnett went to high school at Parkway Central in Chesterfield, Missouri. Barnett graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969 with a bachelors degree in social studies. He continued on to get his masters degree in 1971 in education. Barnett played wide receiver for Missouri from 1966–1969. He lettered his senior year under coach Dan Devine. Along with playing on the football team, Barnett was also a member of the notorious Zeta Phi chapter of Beta Theta Pi.

Coaching

Barnett started his coaching career at the University of Missouri as a graduate assistant from 1969–1971 under coach Al Onofrio. After he graduated, he was a successful high school coach at Air Academy High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado for eleven years (9 as head coach). His teams won 6 conference titles and reached the state semi-finals twice (1980 and 1981). Barnett then began his head coaching at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. After two seasons as head coach, he left on February 20, 1984 to become an assistant coach at Colorado under head coach Bill McCartney. He was the running backs coach for the first season, but switched to quarterbacks and fullbacks coach for the next 7 seasons. On December 3, 1990, he was promoted to Offensive Coordinator and his first game as OC was against Notre Dame in the 1991 Orange Bowl which Colorado won to earn their first and only NCAA Division I-A national football championship.

Northwestern

Later in 1991, he left Colorado to become the head coach at Northwestern, then a perennial doormat team. In 1995, Barnett led Northwestern to the Big Ten Conference title and the 1996 Rose Bowl, their first since 1949. The Wildcats lost 41–32 to USC [1]. The following year, the Wildcats reached the Florida Citrus