Alex Barr - Football Coach - Ball State University Athletics

Alex Barr

Title:
Offensive Line Coach
Phone:
765-285-8251
Email:
football@bsu.edu
Alma Mater:
NC State '16
Years at Ball State:
1st season in 2025
Years Coaching:
10th season in 2025

Alex Barr joined the Ball State coaching staff in December of 2024, following head coach Mike Uremovich after a three-year stint together at Butler.

Barr arrived at Butler in January of 2022, working as the Bulldog's run-game coordinator and offensive line coach during his first season on campus and was promoted to offensive coordinator before the start of the 2023 campaign. A three-year starter as an offensive lineman under Uremovich at North Carolina State, Barr joined the Butler staff after spending the 2021 campaign with the Wolfpack as a graduate assistant.

With Barr as the offensive coordinator, the Bulldogs ranked first or second in the PFL in scoring offense, total offense and rushing offense in both 2023 and 2024. BU's 214.4 rush yards per game in 2024 were seventh among FCS teams and its 407.8 yards of total offense ranked 28th.

Barr's 2023 offense and offensive line paved the way for PFL Offensive Player of the Year and third-team All-American Jyran Mitchell who ended the regular season with 1,268 rushing yards, the ninth-most ever at Butler in a single-season. He ranked fifth among all FCS running backs in rushing yards per game and seventh in total rushing yards. Behind Mitchell, BU averaged 28.9 points per game in 2023. A year later, Barr's troops scored even more – leading PFL and ranking ninth nationally with 35.6 points scored per game.

Counting a 27.2 points per game average in Barr's first season at Butler, the Bulldogs averaged over 27 points over three consecutive seasons.

After graduating from NC State, Barr joined Uremovich at Northern Illinois as an intern in 2016 assisting with running backs. He spent the next two years working as a graduate assistant with the Huskies. In 2017 he worked closely with the defensive line unit and the following year he moved over to the offensive line. NIU won the MAC title in 2018 and played in the Boca Raton Bowl. In 2017, NIU was selected to participate in the Quick Lane Bowl.

Barr returned to his alma mater in 2019 as an offensive graduate assistant. He specialized in working with offensive linemen during his tenure on the staff.

As a player, Barr played in the 2012 Music City Bowl, the 2014 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl and the 2015 Belk Bowl. He was a three-year starter on the offensive line at NC State from 2012-15. Prior to attending NC State, Barr was a first-team all-state player at Starr’s Mill High School in Fayetteville, Georgia.

Barr earned a degree in history from NC State in 2015 and a master’s degree in adult and higher education from NIU in 2018. He was also awarded graduate certificates in sports management (NIU 2018) and youth development and leadership (NC State 2020). Most recently, Barr earned a second master's degree in youth, family and community sciences from NC State in 2021.

He is married to Christina Hemphill, an NC State graduate.