Barry Switzer was only given a nine-month contract when OU hired him as its head football coach in 1973, but Switzer didn’t care. “Hell, I don’t need a contract,” Switzer told the Board of Regents.

As an OU assistant, Barry Switzer aggressively recruited black athletes years before other power programs like Texas. After failing in several attempts to start his own business, Frank Switzer became ...

When Corby Davidson of KTCK 1310 approached Barry Switzer about joining a radio show for an interview in 2000, the former Sooners and Dallas Cowboys coach said no in only the way Barry Switzer can, in ...

Switzer Light Lager is a new offering from OKC's Skydance Brewing Co. Fans of the University of Oklahoma and Barry Switzer now have another beer to stock coolers and fridges thanks to a new ...

Troy Aikman can pinpoint the exact moment his already-strained relationship with Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer passed the point of no return during their second campaign together in 1995. When ...

Former Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer has been named a member of the SEC’s 2024 Football Legends class, to be honored at events around the SEC Football Championship Game in December. Switzer, ...

18 Jul 1997: Head coach Barry Switzer (left) and owner Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys speak at a press conference during the Cowboys training camp at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas.

Leave it to Barry Switzer to very colorfully and concisely sum up this current kerfuffle. The kerfuffle in question involves Switzer’s former program Oklahoma, with Baker Mayfield grabbing headlines - ...

Some visitors to the University of Oklahoma have an up-close and personal look into the life and career of longtime OU football coach Barry Switzer when they stay at his exclusive and ...

Olympic gold medalists signed an amicus brief defending Idaho and West Virginia laws that restrict trans athletes from ...

Barry Layne Switzer was born on Oct. 5, 1937, in Crossett, Ark. Crossett is 135 miles south of Little Rock and only a few miles north of the Louisiana border. When Switzer was a newborn, his family's ...