Barry Odom

Barry Odom
Current position
Sport(s)	Football
Title	Head coach
Team	Missouri Tigers
Conference	SEC
Record	0–0
Biographical details
Born	(1976-11-26) November 26, 1976 Lawton, Oklahoma
Playing career
1996–1999	Missouri
Position(s)	Middle linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2000	Ada HS (Assistant coach)
2001–2002	Rock Bridge HS
2003	Missouri (GA)
2004–2005	Missouri (Dir. of Recruiting)
2006–2008	Missouri (Dir. Football Ops)
2009–2011	Missouri (Safeties)
2012–2014	Memphis (DC/LB)
2015	Missouri (DC/LB)
2016–present	Missouri
Head coaching record
Overall	14–8 (high school) 0–0 (college)
Bowls	0–0

Barry Odom (born November 26, 1976) is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach of the Missouri Tigers football team.

Odom played college football at the University of Missouri as a linebacker from 1996 to 1999.^[1] After his playing career ended he became a high school football coach, coaching Ada High School in Ada, Oklahoma in 2000 and Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri from 2001 to 2002. In 2003, Odom returned to Missouri as an administrative graduate assistant. He stayed at Missouri until 2012, serving in numerous different coaching and administrative positions.

In 2012, Odom left Missouri to become defensive coordinator of the Memphis Tigers football team. Odom returned to Missouri to become their defensive coordinator in 2015.^[2] Odom was named the head coach of the Missouri Tigers football team on December 3, 2015,^[3] after former head coach Gary Pinkel retired after 15 seasons at the university due to health related issues.

References

↑ New Mizzou DC Odom rides Memphis success back to alma mater
↑ Missouri hires familiar face, Barry Odom, as new defensive coordinator
↑ McMurphy, Brett (December 3, 2015). "Missouri defensive coordinator Barry Odom promoted to head coach". ESPN. Retrieved December 3, 2015.

External links

Missouri Tigers bio

Missouri Tigers head football coaches

A. L. McRae (1890)
Hal Reid (1891)
E. H. Jones (1892)
Harry Orman Robinson (1893–1894)
C. D. Bliss (1895)
Frank Patterson (1896)
Charles Young (1897)
Dave Fultz (1898–1899)
Fred W. Murphy (1900–1901)
Pat O'Dea (1902)
John McLean (1903–1905)
W. J. Monilaw (1906–1908)
Bill Roper (1909)
Bill Hollenback (1910)
Chester Brewer (1911–1913)
Henry Schulte (1914–1917)
No team (1918)
John F. Miller (1919)
James Phelan (1920–1921)
Thomas Kelley (1922)
Gwinn Henry (1923–1931)
Frank Carideo (1932–1934)
Don Faurot (1935–1942)
Chauncey Simpson (1943–1945)
Don Faurot (1946–1956)
Frank Broyles (1957)
Dan Devine (1958–1970)
Al Onofrio (1971–1977)
Warren Powers (1978–1984)
Woody Widenhofer (1985–1988)
Bob Stull (1989–1993)
Larry Smith (1994–2000)
Gary Pinkel (2001–2015)
Barry Odom (2016– )

Current head football coaches of the Southeastern Conference

Eastern Division	Jim McElwain (Florida) Kirby Smart (Georgia) Mark Stoops (Kentucky) Barry Odom (Missouri) Will Muschamp (South Carolina) Butch Jones (Tennessee) Derek Mason (Vanderbilt)

Western Division	Nick Saban (Alabama) Bret Bielema (Arkansas) Gus Malzahn (Auburn) Les Miles (LSU) Dan Mullen (Mississippi State) Hugh Freeze (Ole Miss) Kevin Sumlin (Texas A&M)

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