re: Why isn't Barry Switzer mentioned more in GOAT CFB coach conversations?

If you read Barry's book and other accounts he interviewed for the Michigan State job in the 1970s. Can you imagine Barry, Bo, Woody, Gary, Earl, Lloyd, Jim, in the big ten in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s?

Same as Freeze

I'd trade O for Switzer right now

Nebraska games of the 80s were epic. I got to see the Miami games of that era too. I have some funny Troy Aikman, Boz, and many others stories.

I know Rick Reilly is a major douche...but he did say this:

"The Boz: Confessions of a Modern Anti-Hero" is released. The book is by former Sooner Brian Bosworth and Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly. "The stuff we talked about that didn't go in the book could have put away OU for 20 years," Reilly tells The Oklahoman. "We took out the stuff we thought was too bad for OU, too incriminating."

January 13, 1989: Redshirt freshman cornerback Jerry Parks allegedly shoots sophomore offensive lineman Zarak Peters in the chest. According to a 1989 Sports Illustrated story, Parks had been reportedly drinking. The argument rooted from a cassette tape that Parks claimed Peters borrowed. Switzer said two weeks later on, "The Barry Switzer Show," "Obviously the Jerry Parks incident was very unfortunate and a tragic and unlucky situation for us."

January 21, 1989: One week after the shooting and 19 days after the Citrus Bowl loss, sophomore running back Glen Bell, sophomore offensive tackle Nigel Clay and junior tight end Bernard Hall allegedly gang rape a woman in the Bud Wilkinson House. Switzer said on his Oklahoma News Network show, "You can't speak in general terms and say that these players are out of control. That's totally ridiculous."

February 13, 1989: Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson is arrested by the FBI on charges of selling 17 grams of cocaine to an undercover agent for $1,400 on January 26. The transaction was recorded by an FBI agent. Four hours before the arrest occurred, Switzer announced that he was suspending Thompson and moving him out of the Bud Wilkinson House. Oklahoma interim president David Swank tells The Oklahoman a day later, "The faculty is very concerned. They go to national meetings, as I do, and the first question that is always asked is, ‘what's wrong with your university?'"

February 15, 1989: Switzer tells the Associated Press that he's responsible for Oklahoma's troubled football program because he recruited the players who caused the problems. He still says he intends to remain head coach at OU. "I feel so used by these four or five kids. They've done me wrong. It's not fair what they did to us. They didn't think one thought whether what they did was right or wrong. It's just so selfish."

February 16, 1989: The Oklahoman reminds readers that it had called for Switzer's resignation in 1982. A day earlier, the Tulsa World called for both Switzer and athletic director Donnie Duncan to resign. The Tulsa Tribune, Dallas Morning News and the OU student newspaper all previously called for Switzer's resignation. "I'm tough and thick-skinned. They don't bother me. I'm not going to quit. The only people who can fire me are the regents. The president and the regents are the people I work for - not the newspapers, not the TV station, not the fans," Switzer tells the AP.

The media was all in on the "Dr Tom is a saint" narrative. So, naturally, Barry had to wear the black hat. Nebraska was as slimey and dirty as anyone but the national media decided Tom Osborne was holy, so there you go.
As a kid in the 70s and my college years in the 80s I hated Barry Switzer. Now? Love the guy.

Sounds like he knew how to party.

Damn, imagine the craziness that happened outside the game when they met up with Miami in the 80's.

You know Barry's a good guy when he can put the wood to one of his friend's/Asst coach's wife and they're both still friends.

Nick Saban at number 10 on that list is an absolute abortion. Imagine thinking Bobby Bowden or Joe Paterno is a better coach than Nick Saban. Wow