Posted on 02/19/2004 10:37:06 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
They named a restaurant after him. For all the awards, endorsements and lucrative contract offers, nothing said more about Gary Barnett in the mid-1990s than, well, Gary Barnett's, the sports bar that opened up on Orrington Avenue in Evanston, Ill., in honor of the coach who in 1995 led Northwestern to its first Rose Bowl in 47 years.
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