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Soonerus

1/15/2009, 11:24 PM

Former Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer will be honored with the 2009 Paul "Bear" Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3051498) at the 23rd Annual Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coaching Awards Dinner on Thursday, January 15, 2009. Dr. Thomas William "Tom" Osborne, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Honoree, will be presenting the award to Coach Switzer.

Congrats "Coach" !!!

Soonerus

1/15/2009, 11:28 PM

Barry Switzer to receive Paul "Bear" Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award

HOUSTON (Sept. 29, 2008) – The Paul Bear Bryant Awards committee of the American Heart Association has announced that former University of Oklahoma Head Coach Barry Switzer has been named the 2009 winner of its’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Switzer will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Paul Bear Bryant College Football Coaching Awards Dinner Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. The award recognizes excellence in coaching on and off the field during a career, allowing recipients to take their place in history alongside legends such as Bryant. Recent Lifetime Achievement recipients include Tom Osborne, Glenn "Bo" Schembechler, Jack Pardee and Lou Holtz.
Switzer became the head coach at Oklahoma in 1973, leading the team to undefeated seasons that year and the next. Oklahoma won national championships in 1974, 1975 and 1985 under Switzer's leadership. The team won or shared in the Big 8 championship every year from 1973 to 1980. During his sixteen years as head coach at Oklahoma, his teams won eight of the thirteen post-season bowls games they played. Switzer was known as an outstanding recruiter of high school talent; 54 of his players were selected as All-Americans. In 1978, Billy Sims won the Heisman Trophy. Switzer left Oklahoma with one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history. His overall record was 157-29-4.
Switzer went on to coach at the professional level with the Dallas Cowboys where he won a Super Bowl in 1995. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, he received the Jim Thorpe Lifetime Achievement Award. In August 2007, XMSN added Switzer as a part of the channel's expanded college sports coverage.
The Paul Bear Bryant Awards honor excellence in coaching while raising funds to fight heart disease and stroke. Bryant himself suffered a heart attack prior to his death in 1983. Funds raised benefit research, community education and outreach programs of the Association. For more information on the Bryant Awards, or to purchase tickets or a table for the event, visit www.americanheart.org/bryantawards or call 713-610-5000.
Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association today is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of heart diseases and stroke. These diseases, America’s No. 1 and No. 3 killers, and all other cardiovascular diseases, claim nearly 870,000 lives a year. In fiscal year 2006-07 the association invested more than $554 million in research, professional and public education, advocacy and community service programs to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. To learn more, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit americanheart.org.

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IBleedCrimson

1/15/2009, 11:28 PM

congratulations barry, you earned it. ill always refer to you as "the King"!!!!!

Soonerus

1/15/2009, 11:31 PM

Stoops as well as many other Sooners attended tonight...

Crucifax Autumn

1/16/2009, 12:02 AM

That's great news. Congrats to the King

SOONER STEAKER

1/16/2009, 12:04 AM

Does Barry have enough room in his trophy case. Congrats Coach!!

olevetonahill

1/16/2009, 04:55 AM

oupride

1/16/2009, 09:16 AM

The King.

CarolinaSoonerFan

1/16/2009, 10:42 AM

Grats to the KING
But I gots a Question ?
How Come why for aint there an Bud , and Or Barry award yet ????????????;)

Only Stoops would be good enough to get it!!!!

OuSX

1/16/2009, 10:54 AM

SOMEBODY PLEASE READ THIS!

I do not have the ability to post a new thread so I am posting it here in the hopes that someone can either move this to a thread of its own or just start one to get this out there. Sorry in advance for doing this.

http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/01/15/0115texfoot.html

The above is a link talking about how Texass has failed to strengthen its out of conference schedule. There has been plenty of logical explanations posted here as to why they do this (i.e. scared of going on the road, scared of playing a team that could actually win, etc.) and I found this article incredibly interesting.

"At the behest of ESPN, Texas had agreed to shift its game against Central Florida, set for Sept. 19, to a future year and substitute Wisconsin onto this year's schedule, but the schools couldn't arrange a return date to Madison, Wis., until 2013 and the proposal died."

When Texass knows that their pathetic OOC is what killed them and they do nothing to fix it, ESPN TRIES TO DO IT FOR THEM!!! And some people claim that the Mack Brown's team isn't the regional media darlings. ESPN is desperate to get rid of OU. They want something new for a change. OU dominates year after year, and to them that is bad. They need competition for OU. OU has become so dominant that even though we lose to Texass we still pass them when it counts.

Try as you might ESPN...We're still here mother****ers.

P.S. LMAO at Texass to being giftwrapped a chance to bolster their OOC with a win that ESPN would hype all year, and FAILING to get it done. Ha Ha Ha.