Boston College Athletics
Barry Gallup Receives Promotion
May 06, 2008 | Football
May 6, 2008
Boston College Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo has announced that Barry Gallup has been promoted from Assistant to Associate Director of Athletics for Football Operations. Gallup had served as Assistant A.D. since 2000.
"This is a fitting promotion for one of the hardest working members of our staff," DeFilippo said. "Barry plays a key role in the administration of our football program, and I am very pleased to make this announcement."
Gallup has dedicated a large part of his life to football in Boston. In early 2007, Gallup received the John Baronian Award for Lifetime Contribution to Football from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston at its annual awards ceremony.
After starring on the football field at Swampscott High for legendary coach Stan Bondelevitch, earning All-America honors as a senior, he entered BC in 1965 and would become the greatest receiver in the school's history before graduating in 1969. In 1970, he embarked upon a 20-year coaching career with the Eagles when he became a part-time assistant coach at BC. He became a full-time assistant in 1973, coaching the team's defensive line.
As an assistant first to Joe Yukica, then to Ed Chlebek and finally to Bicknell, Gallup established himself as a top recruiter and football strategist. Gallup played a key role in attracting some of the nation's most talented players to BC, including Heisman Trophy winner and current New England Patriot Doug Flutie, Joe Nash, Fred Smerlas and Peter Cronan. He was inducted into BC's Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1983.
Gallup took over the Northeastern University football program in 1991 and built the program into a winner that finished with a 6-5 mark in 1996 and an 8-3 record in 1997. He was named New England Coach of the Year in 1997. His 1998 senior class left as the most successful in school history. He left NU with an overall coaching record of 38-60-1. Before returning strictly to coaching in 1998, Gallup had an eventful four-year tenure as NU's athletics director.
Gallup resides in Wellesley with wife, Victoria, and they are the parents of Lisa Ann, a senior in the School of Nursing at Boston College, Barry Charles Jr., a sophomore football player at Notre Dame, and the late Darren Douglas.
