Johnny Barr - Director of Football Recruiting - Cowboy Football Coaches

Johnny Barr

Title:
Director of Football Recruiting
Email:
johnny.barr@okstate.edu

• Johnny Barr is in the ninth year of his third tenure in Stillwater after returning to the Cowboy staff in 2009. He serves as director of recruiting. Barr was co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach under Bob Simmons at Oklahoma State in 1995 and 1996 and was the Cowboys’ outside linebackers coach under Pat Jones from 1986-88.

• Barr returned to OSU after serving as coordinator of on-campus recruiting at Texas A&M from 2004-07.

• Barr is well-known in Big 12 circles. In addition to his first two stints at Oklahoma State and his time at Texas A&M, he also coached linebackers at Oklahoma from 1989-94 and at Kansas in 2001 before moving on to coach safeties at Texas Tech in 2003.

• His career path has also taken him to stops at Arizona State, where he coached linebackers from 1997-2000, Texas State, where he was defensive coordinator and secondary coach from 1983-85, and Lamar, where he coached the secondary from 1979-82.

• Barr entered the coaching profession as freshman receivers coach at Oklahoma in 1970 before moving on to become a varsity assistant coach at Lufkin (Texas) HS from 1971-72 and Clear Creek (Texas) HS from 1973-74. He was offensive coordinator at Navarro Junior College from 1975-78 before getting into the Division I coaching level at Lamar.

• Barr has been part of 20 bowl teams in his career.

• Barr was a three-year letterman at Atlanta High School in Texas and was an all-state quarterback and all-east Texas. He played college football at Oklahoma and set Bluebonnet Bowl records as a receiver for most receptions, most touchdown catches and most points scored in that bowl game.

• Barr graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1970 with a degree in business education. He is married to the former Christi Groce. Barr has four children, twins Allie and Caroline Barr, and OSU grad Stephanie Rupe and Stacy Bruce.