Gary Barnett
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:''This article refers to the college football coach. For Gary Barnett, the President of Extell Development, see [[Gary Barnett (developer)]]''
{{College coach infobox
| Name = Gary Barnett
| Image = Barnett at Fiesta Bowl cropped.jpg
| ImageWidth = 220px
| Caption =
| DateOfBirth = {{Birth date and age|1946|5|23|mf=y}}
| Birthplace = {{flagicon|Florida}} [[Lakeland, Florida|Lakeland, FL]]
| DateOfDeath =
| Sport = [[American football|Football]]
| College =
| Title =
| CurrentRecord =
| OverallRecord = 92-95-2
| Awards = 1995, 1996 [[Big Ten Conference]] Coach of the Year (AP)<br />2001, 2004 [[Big 12 Conference]] Coach of the Year (AP)
| Championships = 1995, 1996 Big Ten Championship<br />2001 Big 12 Conference Championship
| CFbDWID = 105
| Player = Y
| Years = 1966-1969
| Team = [[University of Missouri|Missouri]]
| Position = [[Wide receiver|WR]]
| Coach = Y
| CoachYears = 1982-83<br />1991-98<br />1999-2005
| CoachTeams = [[Fort Lewis College]]<br />[[Northwestern University|Northwestern]]<br />[[University of Colorado at Boulder|Colorado]]
| FootballHOF =
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'''Gary Barnett''' (born [[May 23]], [[1946]] in [[Lakeland, FL]]) is a [[college football|college]] [[American football|football]] [[head coach]]. He was the head coach of the [[Northwestern University|Northwestern]] [[Northwestern Wildcats|Wildcats]] from 1992 to 1999. He left Northwestern for the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|Colorado]] [[Colorado Buffaloes|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.<ref name="six rapes">{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/02/19/colorado.football/ | title=Sixth rape allegation surfaces at CU | publisher=CNN | date=[[20 February]] [[2004]] | accessdate=2006-12-01}}</ref>
==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, CO|Durango, Colorado]]. After two seasons as head coach, he left on [[February 20]], [[1984]] to become an assistant coach at [[University of Colorado at Boulder|Colorado]] under head coach [[Bill McCartney]]. He was the [[running back]]s coach for the first season, but switched to [[quarterback]]s and [[fullback (American football)|fullback]]s 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 Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] in the 1991 [[Orange Bowl (game)|Orange Bowl]] which Colorado won to earn their first and only [[NCAA Division I-A national football championship]].
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 Game|Rose Bowl]], their first since 1949. The Wildcats lost 41-32 to [[University of Southern California|USC]] [http://www.tournamentofroses.com/history/gamescores.asp]. The following year, the Wildcats reached the [[Capital One Bowl|Florida Citrus Bowl]], losing 48-28 to [[University of Tennessee|Tennessee]]. Barnett turned around a program that holds the record for longest losing streak in Division I-A to a championship caliber team.
In 1999, Barnett left Northwestern after eight seasons to become the 22nd head coach of Colorado. His career at Colorado was generally successful, but a recruiting scandal tarnished his reputation. Colorado was alleged to have enticed recruits to come to Colorado with sex and alcohol during recruiting visits causing the school to self-impose harsher recruiting rules than any other Division I-A school. That scandal, coupled with Barnett's dismissive comments about former [[placekicker]] [[Katie Hnida]], who alleged that she had been raped by a teammate, led to Barnett's temporary suspension in 2004 during the off-season. Barnett was reinstated before the start of the 2004 season, and went on to coach the team to an 8-5 record, earning [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] Coach of the Year honors along the way. Barnett is more commonly known for these two events than his coaching performance.
Barnett continued as coach in 2005, leading the Buffaloes to a 7-2 start. However, on [[December 9]], [[2005]], following consecutive losses to [[Iowa State University|Iowa State]] and [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln|Nebraska]] in the Buffaloes' last two regular-season games, and a 70-3 blowout by the [[2005 Texas Longhorn football team|eventual national champion Texas Longhorns]] in the Big 12 championship game, Barnett's contract was bought out in a $3 million settlement. Colorado then went on to play in the [[Champs Sports Bowl]] losing to [[Clemson University|Clemson]]. The loss is officially credited to Barnett, even though he was no longer with Colorado.
Colorado was the Big 12 North Champion 4 of the 7 years under Barnett, and Big 12 Champion one of those years (2001). Colorado was also ranked #2 in the nation and part of a controversy with the [[Bowl Championship Series|BCS]] Poll in the 2001 season when the [[Nebraska Cornhuskers]] were selected ahead of Colorado for the National Championship game, even though Colorado had just beat Nebraska 62-36.
In June 2007, the Buffaloes were placed under probation for two years and fined [[United States dollar|$]]100,000 for undercharging 133 student-athletes for meals over a six year span (2000-01 to 2005-06 encompassing Barnett's tenure at Colorado) resulting in the major infraction.<ref name="June2007infraction">{{Cite web | url=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2911946 | title=Colorado put on probation, fined $100,000 for undercharging meals | publisher=''[[ESPN.com]]'' | date=[[2007-06-21]] | accessdate=2007-06-21}}</ref> The football program, with 86 of the 133 student-athletes involved, also lost one scholarship for the next three seasons.<ref name="June2007infraction" />
== Record ==
{{CFB Yearly Record Start|type=coach|poll=both|poll2=AP}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Fort Lewis Raiders
| conf = NAIA Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1982
| endyear = 1983
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = 1982
| name = Fort Lewis
| overall = 4-5-1
| conference = 3-4-1
| confstanding = 5th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = 1983
| name = Fort Lewis
| overall = 4-6
| conference = 4-4
| confstanding = 4th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Fort Lewis
| overall = 8-11-1
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Northwestern
| conf = Big Ten
| startyear = 1992
| endyear = 1998
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1992 NCAA Division I-A football season|1992]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 3-8
| conference = 3-5
| confstanding = 6th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1993 NCAA Division I-A football season|1993]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 2-9
| conference = 0-8
| confstanding = 10th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1994 NCAA Division I-A football season|1994]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 3-7-1
| conference = 2-6
| confstanding = 10th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = [[1995 NCAA Division I-A football season|1995]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 10-2
| conference = 8-0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]]
| bowlopp = [[USC Trojans football|Southern California]]
| bowloutcome = L, 41-32
| ranking = 7
| ranking2 = 8
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = [[1996 NCAA Division I-A football season|1996]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 9-3
| conference = 7-1
| confstanding = T-1st
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Capital One Bowl|Comp USA Citrus Bowl]]
| bowlopp = [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]]
| bowloutcome = L, 48-28
| ranking = 16
| ranking2 = 15
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1997 NCAA Division I-A football season|1997]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 5-7
| conference = 3-5
| confstanding = 8th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1998 NCAA Division I-A football season|1998]]
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 3-9
| conference = 0-8
| confstanding = 11th
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Northwestern
| overall = 35-45-1
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Colorado
| conf = Big 12
| startyear = 1999
| endyear = 2005
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1999 NCAA Division I-A football season|1999]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 7-5
| conference = 5-3
| confstanding = 3rd (North Division
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Insight.com Bowl]]
| bowloutcome = W, 62-28
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[2000 NCAA Division I-A football season|2000]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 3-8
| conference = 3-5
| confstanding = 4th (North Division)
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = [[2001 NCAA Division I-A football season|2001]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 10-3
| conference = 7-1
| confstanding = 1st
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[2002 Fiesta Bowl|Fiesta Bowl]]
| bowloutcome = L, 38-16
| bcsbowl = yes
| ranking = 9
| ranking2 = 9
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[2002 NCAA Division I-A football season|2002]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 9-5
| conference = 7-1
| confstanding = 1st (North Division)
| championship = division
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Alamo Bowl]]
| bowloutcome = L, 31-28 (OT)
| ranking = 21
| ranking2 = 20
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[2003 NCAA Division I-A football season|2003]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 5-7
| conference = 3-5
| confstanding = T-4th (North Division)
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[2004 NCAA Division I-A football season|2004]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 8-5
| conference = 4-4
| confstanding = 1st (North Division)
| championship = division
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Houston Bowl|EV1.net Houston Bowl]]
| bowloutcome = W, 33-28
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[2005 NCAA Division I-A football season|2005]]
| name = Colorado
| overall = 7-5
| conference = 5-3
| confstanding = 1st (North Division)
| championship = division
| bowl = Y
| bowlname = [[Champs Sports Bowl]]
| bowloutcome = L, 19-10
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Colorado
| overall = 49-39
| confrecord = 34-22
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End|overall=85-82-1|poll=two}}
==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]]. 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]].
==Current==
He operates the Gary Barnett Foundation which was formed in February 2005. The foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the support of educational programs for economically disadvantaged and at-risk youth. There were rumors that Missouri was thinking of hiring Barnett during the 2005 season. [http://www3.buffzone.com/blogs/index.cfm/user/kringo/blogs/entry/alias/barnett_to_missouri_43 Source] He has been a TV commentator for the BCS show on [[Fox Sports Net]] for the 2006 season.
== See also ==
* [[Colorado Buffaloes football]]
* [[Northwestern Wildcats football]]
* [[2005 Colorado Buffaloes football team]]
==External links==
* [http://www.garybarnettfoundation.org Gary Barnett Foundation]
==References==
<references/>
*[http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=3854&SPID=255&DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=22897&Q_SEASON=2005 University of Colorado Biography]
*[http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-colorado-barnett&prov=ap&type=lgns Associated Press story about Barnett's firing]
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2250872 ESPN Article About Barnett's firing]
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title=[[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado Head Football Coach]]|
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