Gary Barnett (born May 23, 1946) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Fort Lewis College (1982–1983), Northwestern University (1992–1998), and the University of Colorado at Boulder (1999–2005), compiling a career college football record of 92–94–2. His 1995 Northwestern team won the Big Ten Conference title, the first for the program since 1936, and played in the school's first Rose Bowl since 1949. At Colorado, Barnett was suspended briefly in the 2004 offseason due to events stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct by several members of the football team.
Early life and playing career
Barnett attended Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in social studies. He continued on to get his masters degree in 1971 in education. Barnett played wide receiver for Missouri from 1966–1969. He lettered his senior year under coach Dan Devine.
Coaching career
Gary Barnett (born c. 1956) is an American businessman. He is President and founder of Extell Development Company, a real estate development company of residential, commercial, and hospitality properties, including several high profile buildings in Manhattan.
Early life
Barnett was born Gershon Swiatycki on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father Chaim Swiatycki was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He later moved to Monsey, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in math from Queens College and received a Master of Economics degree from Hunter College.
Career
Barnett began his career as a diamond trader in Antwerp, Belgium in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he returned to the United States to diversify into real estate, purchasing shopping malls and office buildings in the Midwest. In 1994, he joined Kevin P. Maloney's Property Markets Group as a principal and made his first New York City purchase, the Belnord apartment house. In 1998, he built what would become the W Times Square. In 2003, Barnett partnered with the Carlyle Group to build The Orion, a 60-story luxury tower on 42nd Street.
Gary Lloyd Barnett (born 11 March 1963 in Stratford-upon-Avon) is an English former professional footballer who made nearly 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a midfielder for Oxford United, Wimbledon, Fulham, Huddersfield Town, Leyton Orient and Kidderminster Harriers. As player-manager of League of Wales club Barry Town, he was honoured with the League of Wales Manager of the Year award in three consecutive seasons, for leading the club to a succession of domestic honours and to the First Round proper of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup.
In 2012, Gary Barnett was inducted into the Barry Town Hall of Fame
Current Player manager of Moreton Rangers Fc