Barry Switzer 20 years later

[@jdp0359]

Nebraskan here too. He ruined so many of my Thanksgivings only because he was such a great coach. What a terrific recruiter and he meant so much to the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry. Thanks for everything coach Switzer!

[@robertmiller3381]

Nebraska fan here. Always much respect for coach Switzer. He has a lot of class.

[@CutandShoot5x5]

As was Tom Osborne!!!!

[@tombob671]

@@CutandShoot5x5 OU fan since 1956. Agree with you about Coach Osborne

[@CutandShoot5x5]

@@tombob671 That’s awesome! My French Bulldog, Archie, is a boomer Sooner! So now I am 💯%

[@dennissaunders5247]

I am originally from northern California , my dad was from Oklahoma so I grew up a Pac 10 and Oklahoma fan. I loved coach switzer and the wishbone. Thomas Lott and Billy Sims were some of my early memories of college football. GO SOONERS.

[@PapiSorrels]

Son of a Bootlegger, BEST recruiter, savvy coach. He’ll always be the center of my OU love! People don’t appreciate how he kept the Dallas Cowboys together while Jerry Jones used him. Love ol’ Barry!

[@franklinbolander1916]

AN ICONIC FOOTBALL GOD!!...THANKS COACH SWITZER FOR GIVING ME SUCH GREAT MEMORIES WHILE GROWING UP DOWN IN OKLAHOMA!

[@williamdiemert9866]

Tom Osborne, Barry Switzer, Bill McCartney, and Bill Snyder that was Big Eight conference football.

[@rickfrye7238]

So very true!!

[@ccth22]

Switzer for me is all college football. For us 70’s & 80’s kids in North Jersey we wore Oklahoma and Nebraska gear. We played our games on Thanksgiving and then watched their game on Saturday eating leftovers. Great memories🏈

[@pinkzeppelinjam]

Coach Barry Switzer is a Sooner Legend! I personally want to Thank him from the very bottom of my heart for all the wonderful years he coached at OU. He was always looked down upon by the National Media simply because he coached and won games against the "old school" NCAA teams that a midwest team wasn't suppose to do! Switzer put the Swagger in Sooner Football! I consider the years between Coach Switzer's reign and Coach Stoops as the "Regent Years"! Those Jerks RUINED Sooner football for 10 yrs! Coach Switzer had many more years of Coaching in him. I Thank YOU Coach Switzer for the best football memories, best memories except for my family, for me. BOOMER SOONER!

[@jimhardy7673]

I hope you did not get any of the COOL AID on you when you drank it all down so quickly !!

[@billhendricks90]

When I was 4 my father was a GM of a Ford dealership in Joplin Mo. He had 2 options to open his own dealership, a Cadillac dealership in Manhattan Kansas, or a Chrysler dealership in Oklahoma City, Thank God dad chose Oklahoma and thank God Oklahoma had you Barry. Dad opened Sooner Chrysler Plymouth in downtown OKC..for the years that it was open, he hired players to help out. It was wrong what they did, For us Barry was has much Oklahoma as were Will Rogers or Gene Autry or Garth Brooks. When your hand was forced in the end, we were two of a handfull of folks that took out a full page add in the Daily Oklahoman in support of you. Oklahoma football has stayed a part of our lives year after year. But there is only one Barry Switzer,, what a ride!!!! eternally greatful ...BOOMER!!!!

[@bubbysyelow]

Will always be my all time favorite coach!

[@datikit01]

What a great coach as well as an adversary he beat my horns many times and coached so many great players.

[@soonerbobby70]

Barry, we love you!! This is classic Switzer!

[@williameudy6615]

Joe Paterno was so self-righteously critical of Barry Switzer. It’s interesting how things turned out.

[@bryanelam7431]

Damn skippy!!!!

[@aaronrider4051]

Yeah, it's real interesting how he got framed by a corrupt governor's vindictive coup against the university and it's doubly interesting how the national news media deceived the entire country into believing a bunch of fiction and the worst moral hysteria since Salem, Mass.

[@celticprideisstillalive8766]

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[@celticprideisstillalive8766]

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[@svtinker]

Winning percentage: Barry Switzer .837 Tom Osborne .836 Nick Saban .800

[@hairyscotman1]

As a TEXAS fan, this man was the anti-Christ to me....until about a month ago and he saved a pitbull puppy from a locked van and found it a home.... now, even after all these years, Barry's OK with me..... all of us in our lives would have gone back and done a little different if we could....you do the best you know how at the time....that if LIFE.... Thanks, Barry....the rivalry that was TEXAS/ou was never better than when you were walking the sidelines....God, BLESS and KEEP you!

[@toddm9501]

With age comes wisdom. I've been a Sooner fan since I was 7. I'm 58 now. But, I love Earl Campbell, Ricky Williams, etc. Mack Brown is a class act. Vince Young epic win against usc.

[@garyhughes2446]

Barry was a fantastic coach his players loved him, he was a darn good and very resourceful and a cunning recruiter, he used a lot of initiative in his recruiting methods. I think he loved his players the game and winning. God bless Barry Switzer, he meant so much, and still does to Oklahoma football.

[@johnsierra9265]

Ou was never the same , you will always be my favorite Head Coach....you started sooner magic ! Ou invented championships .....thanks for all the great memories Coach !

[@christophercottrell8227]

The King. Switzer was a players coach. He was one of the greatest recruiters of all time. Saban is a modern day Switzer, who can stockpile talent even with all-Americans in front of them. Growing up in Oklahoma in the 70’s was a great time to be a Sooner. The games with Texas and Nebraska will always be etched into my memory. I miss the rivalry with Nebraska and the game was always on the day after Thanksgiving.

[@steverobertson3249]

Best Coach ever. He loved his players!

[@SoonerBear]

I have "Barry Switzer: Bootlegger's Boy & have read it several times. As a lifelong OU fan, I have to say that I enjoyed it every time I read it & will continue to do so. Yes, Barry was human, as we all are. You can't babysit 80someodd young men. That's what college football has turned into. I also like how he talks about Jerry Anderson and that he saved the lives of people he didn't even know. Unfortunately, the media doesn't care about people that risk their lives to save others and put themselves second. They want to write about rapists, dopeheads, crackheads, etc. Kudos to Barry for being honest & not "playing politics" w/the media.

[@Rubin4749]

I remember when I was 16 year old. To ME Barry Switzer was like "God" I had a poor relationship with my Dad. I had few friends. Barry Switzer was my hero, my idol, I have a German family background, You don't show outward emotions if you're German, I had a big emotional lump in my throat when Barry Switzer retired, I almost cried when I watched Barry Switzer leave OU on TV, it ripped my heart out when Barry Switzer left OU. But you know what?? Barry Switzer could have put out a "public statement"...... letter, or a "note" but Switzer didn't. Switzer held a PUBLIC press conference/ Switzer *took it like A MAN* It made me cry, but I will never forget it

[@47STRAIGHTTMSportsGifts]

Great interview, great thoughts!

[@Fattious]

That chair is exquisite. Fit for a king.

[@BradleyJuby]

Because he IS The King.

[@CutandShoot5x5]

The face & voice of OU football!

[@ogpigeon4431]

Didnt know the guy until Ive found him on KZbin recently. He's a great guy.

[@kjohnson7259]

since switzer was the coach of the cowboys, it doesn't look like he has aged much.

[@lloydkline6946]

❤ 1970s &1980s Barry switzer Oklahoma football teams

[@bryanelam7431]

When I was a kid in the 80's I hated Switzer but as a adult and everything I have learned and watched I have become a Switzer fan!!

[@mikec.9130]

Switzer has a lot of personality. Awesome...

[@mattheffner6831]

Love that guy and I'm a Buckeye fan

[@h2w25]

Long Live the King! Long Live the King! Long Live the King!

[@astrofrk]

This Husker/Sooner misses you.

[@stoopstified7376]

The king ,and always will be..

[@mitchlemons8379]

That move cost OU big-time. Everybody thinks we're back, 1 Nat. Championship since.

[@johndouglas4528]

Barry Switzer -- greatest ever! Boomer!

[@lloydkline6946]

❤ Oklahoma football teams 1970s & 1980s, Barry switzer, wishbone offense

[@71NU95]

Miss the ole days of NU/OU rivalry. UT "ruined" a EXCELLENT CONFERENCE, with help from their dear friend DAN BEEBE.

[@tombob671]

agree

[@donniedarko979]

In the human existence it is always the few who spoil it for most.

[@blueticecho5690]

I'm the one who voted this down NOT but because of coach Switzer story here but cause all the damn November heart ache you cause me with that damn Sooner Magic .Good luck coach.

[@philipwalker5405]

Biggest mistake the program ever made was running coach Switzer off because his 88 team went 9-3. We love you Barry. Miss your TV show as it was the best thing on TV, never a dull moment.

[@michaelnewton1332]

Barry Switzer is the Stone Cold Steve Austin of college football!!!

[@erickomah9404]

He’s the Fucking King!!!!!!

[@JohnnyYuma405]

I played football in HS with one of the players mentioned in Bootleggers Boy.

[@9879SigmundS]

College football as an institution has a lot to be desired. However, within that paradigm, Switzer was and is a great man.

[@frankdavis1466]

The Best of the Best

[@tomitstube]

barry has always been demonized by the press and his rivals, and sooner fans loved him for it i loved things about barry that people hated, how he gave kids second and third chances, how he recruited kids considered "high risk", how he went into junior colleges and grabbed athletes universities considered poison. did he/they skirt some rules? sure they did, did he ignore uppity university protocol, yep. it was a win-win-win policy... win for oklahoma university, win for kids who needed a break, and a win for the man who took those chances. if a kid gets in trouble does the family throw him to the wolves? of course not, you take him in, protect him, defend him, get him a good lawyer, feed him, help him get back on his feet, you help him become a productive citizen. why is america so blood thirsty that kids in trouble need to be ruined for life? that a professional athlete who makes a bad choice should be financially ruined? how in the fuck does that make sense? all you're doing is punishing the people he needs to taken care of, but no one thinks of that... what asshole decided we should throw away the key and not try to rehabilitate young people? that punishing people and hardening them is better than helping and rehabilitating them? what kind of society are you building with this insane approach? america is the incarceration capital of the world, and coincidently the gun violence capital of the world, it's just an insane cycle of violence, incarceration, and destroyed families and communities. all this b.s. about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps but at the same time making it impossible to do so, someone comes out of jail and can't get a job, can't afford an apartment, can't pay the bills, how in the fuck do you expect them to contribute? help their family? help their community? barry had a hard life growing up and understood these things. and he passed that compassion on to others. the man is a saint.

[@robjones8733]

Apparently prisons are cash cows. I only recently figured this out. No telling what else I'm missing. Crap-evil world. 😶

[@tomitstube]

@@robjones8733 keep learning, private prisons are an abomination and should be banned.

[@chefpablo2000]

I answer to God, and Barry Switzer, in that order. Pride of Oklahoma, 1983.

[@yourontheair]

fun watchin

[@nancybutler8217]

OU needs a coach this now

[@DonOfPC]

Yep. Steve needs to read Bootleggers Boy.

[@okcmallrat]

First, I am an atheist. Second, Barry Switzer is a God.

[@Selfhigh5Tv]

That's got to be one of the dumbest few sentences i've seen strung together in a long time. LoL got me to chuckle.

[@CarmieSchulz]

Switzer turned up his game against all of his best rivals and I give him credit for being a great motivator, but his hands off approach caused him a lot of grief and some blame must fall on him. Paterno was basically senile at the end of his career and look what happened to him, basically the same thing only worse.

[@theredbaronlives9889]

there's always 2 sides to every story and the public usually only hear's about the 1 side there allowed to.

[@huckfinn9225]

Barry is OU God in Norman, OK

[@DrJrmabry]

Great coach, second only to the Bear.

[@steven8086]

Barry Switzer is Second to NO ONE

[@jimbosc]

Nick Saban would like to challenge that statement - Barry would be more fun to have a beer with...

[@Zionsol777]

Barry isfar more than the coach to the players that played for him, 2 most he is a dear dear friend that is much bigger in life then the title of coach and it is far more than can be said about bear

[@TheJoggerby3]

Bear is the goat

[@AchRock1509]

Woody Hayes says hello.

[@brad6420]

Dangit Charles!! Got to ask if they a cop first son!

[@jamesbingham1007]

Let's turn Marcus Dupree into a TE. Legeng?

[@johnmanning4097]

can't wait till the bootleggers boy movie comes out

[@michaelnewton1332]

John Manning who do you think should play him???

[@johnmanning4097]

@@michaelnewton1332 don't know but I think it would B a helluva of a movie

[@nailhead668]

It sure would. It would make a lot of $$$. It will have to be made outside of Hollywood, though.

[@jacktheripper4768]

Barry Switzer is a bad person because his Oklahoma teams had a nasty habit of beating Nebraska on a consistent basis and that makes him a bad person. I guess.

[@GeorgeFlippin]

Not hardly, Nebraska had nothing to do with Switzer being betrayed as a bad guy.

[@cooltu2000]

Jimmy johnson won super bowl xxx

[@theredbaronlives9889]

tremendous recruiter at OU and a winner. was a joke at Dallas Cowboys he was fired by Jerry.Inherited a super bowl team and stood out of the way. less than 2 yrs from 1995 super bowl was canned.Dallas hasn't won it since and it's now 2017.Not acceptable Jerry. Dallas has been wildly inconsistent for 20yrs

[@gutaxe]

Cheated, lied, and got caught. Been proven they payed players why lie and sugar coat it.

[@jimboslice9472]

I never seen a bigger fake as a coach, even his pigeon toes are crossed more than any other I have ever seen. I'm surprised he don't end it, and surprised he don't trip over his big toes!

[@johnmanning4097]

Lmaooooo must B a Longhorns fan

[@bv9613]

Jumbo, lay off the booze when you write these things.