Mike Barber (tight end)
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Date of birth | June 4, 1953 |
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Place of birth | Louisiana Tech |
NFL draft | 1976 / Round: 2/ Pick 48 |
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1976–1981 | Houston Oilers |
1981–1985 | Los Angeles Rams |
1985 | Denver Broncos |
Career highlights and awards | |
Awards | Louisiana Tech Athletic Hall of Fame (1995) |
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Michael Dwayne “Mike” Barber (born June 4, 1953) is a former American football player; he played as a tight end.
Early life and education
Barber attended White Oak High School, where he played
He was selected in the second round of
Career
High school coaching
During the mid-1990s, Mike returned to football, when he took a voluntary coaching position at Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas. He coached for two years with Trinity, and then left amid a minor dispute to join Arlington's Grace Prep Academy, where he coached or was involved with coaching between 1998 and 2005.
Grace Prep was successful while Barber was the coach (in various guises, including head coach); during his eight-year tenure there, the team had a winning record every season, and won the State Championship in their division five of those years. However, he was suspended for a year in 2001, and was fired from the Head coaching position in May 2006 after a dispute with school administrators. He has since focused his efforts on his ministry.
Controversy
While associated with the Grace Prep football program, Barber was given "one of the sternest sanctions ever administered" by the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. According to TAPPS, he had offered athletes "improper inducements". He was suspended from coaching for a year, and the school's program placed on three years' probation. Barber denied all accusations and maintains that he did nothing improper.
Because several prominent players transferred to Grace Prep along with Barber (for some of whom he was accused of improperly paying tuition, a claim he denies), TAPPS instituted what is informally known as "The Mike Barber Rule": players who follow a coach to another school are ineligible from playing for a year.
In July 2006, the
Two years ago, the high-profile charity paid its founder $236,500 in salary and benefits, one of the highest pay packages in the nation among similar religious charities. His wife, who worked part time, received $118,000. The ministry also pays three other members of Mr. Barber's family.[1]
Also, "[a]mong officers at about 4,000 groups that filed returns, Mr. Barber's 2003 pay package ranked 13th highest..." and they note that the average pay was "about $97,000".[1]
In his only quoted response in the article, Barber defends himself simply:
I give so much of that away," Mr. Barber said of his pay. "If somebody wants to judge me for that [salary], go for it.[1]
Barber Prison ministries continues to spread the word to prison inmates.