Mike Barry has over 35 years of coaching experience and is the former assistant offensive line coach for the National Football League Detroit Lions. Prior to being an integral part of the Lions offense, Coach Barry was at North Carolina State where he coached Sean Locklear who later played for the Seattle Seahawks and was on the Super Bowl XL team and still plays for the team today. Locklear was the first NC State offensive lineman since 1992 to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a senior.

Coach Barry has also coached at Tennessee, Southern Cal, Colorado, Iowa State, Arizona and Southern Illinois. He has coached in 14 bowl games and won two national titles with teams serving as an assistant with Colorado in 1990 and Tennessee in 1998 where he was also honored with the SEC Line Coach of the Year Award. He has had the privilege to coach 12 players in college who have progressed on to play in the NFL, many of which were selected in the first and second rounds of the draft.

Prior to coaching, Coach Barry played center at Nebraska and at Southern Illinois where he graduated with a degree in recreation and education. Coach Barry’s very first coaching assignment was at Carbondale High School in Illinois and then he proceeded on to Fenwick in the Chicago area. Here Barry says, “high school gave me my first experience in coaching. You learned from the guys you coached.” Coach Barry states that high school football formed the foundation of his coaching career.

Mike lives in Novi, Michigan with his wife Beverly and is a proud father of two children, Joe and Courtney.