Gary Barnett’s playing days as a University of Missouri receiver (1966-69) did not include gaudy statistics or monumental achievements but his football path afterward granted the former Colorado Buffaloes head coach arguably The Show-Me State’s top athletic honor.
Barnett, 71, was inducted into Missouri Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday.
“It’s sort of surreal, especially once you go through the hall of fame and you see the people who have been enshrined and what this whole thing seems to be about,” Barnett told KOMU-TV in Columbia.