Bernie Moore: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
Charles Barney: Okay. Bernie Moore. Yeah, sure. He was such a great example for all of us. He was a wonderful person. Didn’t put up with any horsing around or anything like that. He was very strict, but he was an excellent coach. Very good. Had won a lot of games, was very prominent.
Frances Barney: He and his wife would have the players and their . . . sometimes girlfriends and wives over to the house. And they would have big dinners and they were so nice to us. And it was . . . They were just a wonderful, homey, down to earth family and they really cared about the players. Really treated them like family. Just a great guy.
Jennifer Abraham: What are some things that you learned from him as a coach?
C. Barney: Well the first thing I learned was I wanted to be a coach the rest of my life [laughs] because I was so enamored with what I was doing and so excited about it that . . . And he was such an outstanding person himself that I thought that would be a great career. And I told my wife many times that’s what I was going to be. But it turned out that . . . that I found other interests. So I didn’t turn out to be a coach. And I still to this day kind of wish I had have been a coach. [Charles and Frances laugh]
-- Charles Barney and wife Frances, interviewed by Jennifer Abraham, 2007