I really enjoyed these 4 snippets of interview with Barry Switzer

[Chuck 54]

“respect him as a HC”?

guy was garbage and was here collecting a paycheck

I detest the moron

Garbage coach who in two years won a SB and missed the other due to fumbles and ints in first quarter. So I’m guessing you are no fan of Jimmy and side with Jerry that any garbage coach could have won those SBs with the team existing them.

 

[Chuck 54]

Sad that many have opinions without actually reading facts.
Barry Switzer was successful everywhere. Broyles hired him to coach at Arkansas, and he was a coach on their National title team that Jerry and Jimmy played on. Broyles called him one of the key coaching hires.
When he went to Oklahoma, he perfected the wishbone there as the offensive coordinator. Oklahoma was 3-7 in 1965. Switzer was hired as OC in 1966, took over as head coach ‘73-‘88. Not a single losing season after taking over the offense in 1966. He was the architect of the most prolific rushing offense in NCAA history. As head coach, 157-29-4. In the NFL, 40-24 with a 5-2 playoff record.

To say Barry Switzer couldn’t coach is just ridiculous.

 

[OGCowboy]

Love me some Barry Switzer...vatto was comical and helluva coach. He won the lottery being handed the reins of the Cowboys in those days. Couldn’t have happened to a better cat...
Orale Barry...

 

[visionary]

Garbage coach who in two years won a SB and missed the other due to fumbles and ints in first quarter. So I’m guessing you are no fan of Jimmy and side with Jerry that any garbage coach could have won those SBs with the team existing them.

Switzer was Jerry’s lap dog
Together Switzer and Jerry systematically dismantled Jimmys Dallas Cowboys and no real Cowboy fan would have any respect for this piece of trash
Inconvenient facts are still facts

 

[visionary]

I’m no Barry Switzer fan but it’s totally unfair to blame him for our decline when you look at all the players we lost to free agency. When we still had a lot of talent we won a lot of games with Switzer including a Super Bowl. By 97 it didn’t matter who our head coach was we weren’t going to win a lot of games. We had lost too much talent and the good players we had were aging. There’s a reason it continued to get worse for the Cowboys after Switzer was fired.

LOL
if you have any idea of what was going on at that time you know very well that the continued decline was because if the same reason that brought Switzer and that was Jerry

 

[windward]

He had a job to do and he did it ba-bay!

 

[plasticman]

Coach #501 was so bad that Troy had to complain to Jerry that practices weren't hard enough. Switzer literally put the team on automatic drive. Just an ounce of coaching in 1994 and he might have been one of the 500 coaches that Jerry was referring to. This team was so good that winning just 3 Super Bowls was a letdown. He was so bad that this dynasty was over in just 5 seasons.

How do you have a losing season 2 years after winning 3 of 4 Super Bowls? You have the triplets with Smith a thousand yard rusher, Irvin a thousand yard receiver. You have the #2 ranked defense in the league. You have Larry Allen in his prime standing next to Erik Williams, both pro Bowlers

You have Deion Sanders....and you can't win more than 6 games? How do you get 250 more yards than your opponents for the season but 10 less points? The answer is you get 300 more yards in penalties for the season.

Discipline, preparation, standards.....a foreign language to coach #501. The Cowboys didn't need a "good ole boy". They didn't need a drinkin' buddy. They needed a coach.

In college Switzer was great, all he needed was the best players on the planet to be a great coach. He was a heluva recruiter, I'll give him that.

 

[KJJ]

LOL
if you have any idea of what was going on at that time you know very well that the continued decline was because if the same reason that brought Switzer and that was Jerry

I was around back then. Free agency was picking us apart, Jerry mismanaged the salary cap and other than Larry Allen our drafts weren’t very good. Shante Carver was a big miss.

 

[CouchCoach]

Switzer is the type coach that Booger would have wanted to be if he'd followed his heart instead of his mind. His hunger for money and to make it big was the driving force but he longed to be a coach just like Switzer.

There are task oriented coaches and there are relationship oriented ones, just like managers of companies. Switzer was all about the relationship and he was buddies with Booger and Jimmy when he coached them and they responded to him because they were self motivated and they wanted to please their coaches.

Jimmy was more task oriented and really didn't care about the relationship unless you earned that through accomplishing his tasks. That's why he said he treated all the players the same.........differently.

There's no better way to be because both ways work and fail. Campo was relationship but didn't have the talent and his boss was stronger on the relationship with the players' side. That's why Switzer was on his short list along with Jimmy but he knew Jimmy would make the tough calls a lot easier. He made the right hire because Switzer would have never considered trading their best player, he was all about recruiting at OU. And he was a damned good one. He was as effective at schmoozing parents as the players.

Switzer had been the other candidate on that short list and no other was considered after one that Booger considered to be a friend turned on him. Switzer was the logical choice to caretake the team and smooth things over for Booger. He knew exactly what he was getting and Switzer said it coming in, "they're adults, I'm going to treat them that way". He also considered it Booger's team, not his own. The inmates were getting a doc that was as looney as they were. Think they didn't get a kick out of Barry packing heat on a plane?

 

[visionary]

I was around back then. Free agency was picking us apart, Jerry mismanaged the salary cap and other than Larry Allen our drafts weren’t very good. Shante Carver was a big miss.

agree but Switzer was part of and a reflection of the problem known as Jerry Jones

I don’t absolve Switzer and have zero respect for him. He was Jerry’s stooge

 

[visionary]

Switzer is the type coach that Booger would have wanted to be if he'd followed his heart instead of his mind. His hunger for money and to make it big was the driving force but he longed to be a coach just like Switzer.

There are task oriented coaches and there are relationship oriented ones, just like managers of companies. Switzer was all about the relationship and he was buddies with Booger and Jimmy when he coached them and they responded to him because they were self motivated and they wanted to please their coaches.

Jimmy was more task oriented and really didn't care about the relationship unless you earned that through accomplishing his tasks. That's why he said he treated all the players the same.........differently.

There's no better way to be because both ways work and fail. Campo was relationship but didn't have the talent and his boss was stronger on the relationship with the players' side. That's why Switzer was on his short list along with Jimmy but he knew Jimmy would make the tough calls a lot easier. He made the right hire because Switzer would have never considered trading their best player, he was all about recruiting at OU. And he was a damned good one. He was as effective at schmoozing parents as the players.

Switzer had been the other candidate on that short list and no other was considered after one that Booger considered to be a friend turned on him. Switzer was the logical choice to caretake the team and smooth things over for Booger. He knew exactly what he was getting and Switzer said it coming in, "they're adults, I'm going to treat them that way". He also considered it Booger's team, not his own. The inmates were getting a doc that was as looney as they were. Think they didn't get a kick out of Barry packing heat on a plane?

cant agree with you at all here CC

jimmy had a great relationship with his players but the relationship was based on respect. The players knew Jimmy wasn’t playing around. Switzer may know football but his “relationships” with players were based on an ‘aw shucks’ ‘you guys can do whatever you want’ attitude

Jimmy was a winner and had high expectations of himself whereas Switzer was there to run the team into the ground

 

[CouchCoach]

cant agree with you at all here CC

jimmy had a great relationship with his players but the relationship was based on respect. The players knew Jimmy wasn’t playing around. Switzer may know football but his “relationships” with players were based on an ‘aw shucks’ ‘you guys can do whatever you want’ attitude

Jimmy was a winner and had high expectations of himself whereas Switzer was there to run the team into the ground

Ok to disagree with me but Switzer wasn't there to run it into the ground, he was caretaking it. He took the same attitude he had at OU to Dallas, he wasn't going to change his MO and step out of character. He let his coaches run it.

Switzer was a good coach at the X's and the O's but the goal of every HC is what he achieved as well as guys like Saban and Swinney, the perpetual recruiting machine. Riley inherited that from Stoops and has kept it running. Smart learned that from Saban and has achieved that at UGA. Once you get the program running, easy street.

It takes a different type of college coach to make it in the NFL because the 4 and 5 stars don't come so easily. The playing field is a lot more level so a different skill set is needed and Switzer did not have that and didn't want it. Booger knew exactly what he was getting and what he wanted and Barry was more than happy to get him back into the locker room where he wanted to be. Switzer knew exactly what his job was, give Booger's team back to him.

 

[visionary]

Ok to disagree with me but Switzer wasn't there to run it into the ground, he was caretaking it. He took the same attitude he had at OU to Dallas, he wasn't going to change his MO and step out of character. He let his coaches run it.

Switzer was a good coach at the X's and the O's but the goal of every HC is what he achieved as well as guys like Saban and Swinney, the perpetual recruiting machine. Riley inherited that from Stoops and has kept it running. Smart learned that from Saban and has achieved that at UGA. Once you get the program running, easy street.

It takes a different type of college coach to make it in the NFL because the 4 and 5 stars don't come so easily. The playing field is a lot more level so a different skill set is needed and Switzer did not have that and didn't want it. Booger knew exactly what he was getting and what he wanted and Barry was more than happy to get him back into the locker room where he wanted to be. Switzer knew exactly what his job was, give Booger's team back to him.

by “here to run it into the ground” I mean that that was always going to be the end result of any professional team that Switzer were to coach. Can’t let the inmates run the asylum

 

[KJJ]

agree but Switzer was part of and a reflection of the problem known as Jerry Jones

I don’t absolve Switzer and have zero respect for him. He was Jerry’s stooge

Everyone became a Jerry stooge after Jimmy left, except Parcells. Jerry started hand picking draft picks. Jimmy was the unofficial GM when he was the coach. Switzer had no choice but to go along with Jerry. The team continued to decline after Switzer was fired.

 

[ItzKelz]

I loved Barry! He was just collecting a paycheck by the time we got him, but he was a character! Imagine playing for Jimmy and then for Barry.....like getting out of prison and going to Hawaii. Lol

Death Row to Freedom

 

[basel90]

Switzer is a great all around person and coach . His strength is relationship building . He is a great recruiter . Knows a lot about football and his achievements at Oklahoma are outstanding.
Barry is very loyal . He was always closer to Jerry than jimmy . Jimmy used to criticize and belittle Switzer despite Switzer having been his coach at Arkansas and hired him to OU in 1970 , and helped him land other jobs . Jimmy was simply not loyal or appreciative. In fact he used to take swipes at Switzer behind his back. Jimmy would rub it in when he beat barry . Barry is not like that even when both met for the last time as opposing coach , barry for dallas and jimmy with the dolphins ,at Miami . Barry won big , and refused Jerry’s request to score another late TD In a lob-sided game that dallas won.

When Barry was hired by Jerry , it was tough for him to get any credit , and he had to let Jerry do what he wants , out of respect to Jerry and out of friendship . No other coach after jimmy was able to manage the team and select players .

give barry some credit , he had to get the respect of Jimmy’s players and win Super Bowls immediately. He did fine on both verticals . No other coach sniffed a super bowl since barry left .

 

[rags747]

I love Jimmy, but he comes across as a very small petty person. Plenty of things prove this out. Jimmy ran those teams into the ground, there is no way that he or the team would be able to go through another season, this he has said himself. Jimmy is a very short term flavor, highly intoxicating for awhile but then it almost certainly turns to highly toxic. Parcells was the exact same way, great great great in the short term but then it grows old quickly. Barry was the right choice at that point in time. Jimmy was done mentally and forced himself out.

 

[Williamsboys]

It’s so hard not to like the guy and respect him as a coach. His personality made him seem like a defuse at times because he did it his own way that no one was used to, but the guy was successful everywhere, and when he is asked a question, you know you’ll get an honest, entertaining answer.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/08/09...ma-coach-barry-switzer/?ref=NEWSandRUMORS.com

Sure he was successful in Dallas, he inherited Jimmy Johnson's team.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Switzer was Jerry’s lap dog
Together Switzer and Jerry systematically dismantled Jimmys Dallas Cowboys and no real Cowboy fan would have any respect for this piece of trash
Inconvenient facts are still facts

So i'm not a real Cowboy fan for liking him? Awesome.

 

[kskboys]

He helped lead us to a Super Bowl win that cemented the Cowboys as the team of the 90s. The players were unhappy that Jimmy was gone and Switzer was able to keep the team together. Our Super Bowl run appeared to be over after the 94 championship game loss to San Francisco but we were able to rebound the next season. The team fell apart because of free agency. We started losing key players every year as teams began raiding our roster. It’s not like any of the other head coaches Jerry hired had any success after Switzer. Don’t understand why Switzer receives so much grief from Cowboys fans, the team could have easily quit on him when he was hired but the Cowboys ended up winning another Super Bowl.

He really didn't.