Danny Barrett Hometown: Boynton Beach, Fla. Last College: Cincinnati '88 Position: Running Backs Coach Experience: Second Year at UCF

Danny Barrett joined the UCF coaching staff in February 2011 as the Knights' running backs coach, and enters his second year in 2012. A former head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Barrett is one of three members of the UCF staff who has been a head coach on the professional or collegiate level joining O'Leary and offensive coordinator Charlie Taaffe who led The Citadel along with the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

UCF had several options on the ground in 2011, with five players rushing for at least 100 yards, and the Knights recording the fourth-most rushing touchdowns in school history with 27. Overall, the Black and Gold averaged 168.8 rushing yards a game, the third-highest average since UCF joined the FBS in 1996. In the final game of the season, team MVP Latavius Murray raced for 233 yards and two rushing touchdowns vs. UTEP. The 233 yards marked the fourth-best rushing day in school history, and went on to be a finalist for the National Running Back Performance of the Year presented by Intersport.

Barrett spent the 2010 season at Bethune-Cookman where he helped the Wildcats to a 10-2 record a share of the MEAC championship and a spot in the Football Championship Series postseason as the team's quarterbacks coach. B-CU was second in the nation for the FCS in scoring offense at 38.17 points per game and 12th in total offense 425.58 yards per game in 2010. Barrett came to Daytona Beach after three years as an assistant coach under Turner Gill at Buffalo, a run that reached a historical peak in 2008 when the Bulls won their first MAC championship and played in the International Bowl, UB's first-ever bowl appearance.

Following an honorable mention All-America playing career at Cincinnati, the Boynton Beach native and Lake Worth High School graduate headed north to Canada where he had remained until returning to the U.S at Buffalo. Barrett amassed 23,419 career passing yards in a 15-year CFL playing career with Calgary, Toronto, B.C. and Ottawa. Twice Barrett led his team to the Grey Cup finals coming with the 1987 Toronto Argonauts and 1991 Calgary Stampeders.

After serving as the quarterbacks coach for Calgary, where he mentored future NFL Pro Bowl pick Jeff Garcia, and B.C., Barrett took over the reigns of Saskatchewan from 2000-06. As the Roughriders' head coach and assistant general manager, Barrett's teams advanced to the playoffs for five-consecutive seasons from 2002-06, reaching the West Division final three times.