Barry Odom Promoted to Director of Football Recruiting
7/29/2004 12:00:00 AM | Football
July 29, 2004
Columbia, Mo. - University of Missouri football staff assistant Barry Odom has been promoted to director of football recruiting, as announced today by Mizzou Head Coach Gary Pinkel.
Odom served the 2003 season on Pinkel's staff as an administrative graduate assistant. In his new position, Odom will oversee organizational efforts of virtually all aspects of MU's extensive recruiting operation, such as coordinating on-and-off-campus visits, recruiting mailings and other logistical arrangements.
"I'm pleased that we are able to keep someone the caliber of Barry Odom on our staff," said Pinkel. "Barry is a very hard-working and talented person who can bring a lot to the table for our program," he said.
Odom, a native of Maysville, Okla., was a four-year letterman at linebacker for Mizzou from 1996-99. He was a key player on MU squads that went to bowl games in 1997 and 1998, and he ended his career ranked fifth on the school's career tackles list, with 362 stops.
Odom graduated from MU in December of 1999, and served as a development intern for the Tiger Scholarship Fund, assisting with various fund raising projects for Tiger Athletics. He returned to his home state of Oklahoma in July of 2000 to serve as an assistant football coach for Ada High School, which finished that season as runners-up for a state championship.
Odom returned to Columbia in the spring of 2001 as head football coach of Rock Bridge High School, and he quickly built the Bruins into a power, as they went 6-4 and won a conference championship that fall. He followed with an 8-4 campaign in 2002 that saw Rock Bridge reach the semifinals of the state playoffs.
"I'd like to thank Coach Pinkel, Mike Alden and the University administration for giving me this opportunity," said Odom. "I think the world of Mizzou, and I look forward to helping continue the momentum that is building around our football program," he said.
