Personal life

He was born in 1952. His parents’ names are not known to media. He was born in Ohio and graduated from Kenmore High School. He got his bachelor degree in 1973 and started his career in the same university. He is fighting non-Hodgkins lymphoma now.

He announced his engagement with Missy in 2014 and announced that they would get married by the fall of the same year. They made their own wedding site to announce the date too. Due to unknown reasons, the wedding did not happen and this led to a lot of rumors of separation. Some stated that he did not want to marry as he was very old. Neither of them commented on the stories. He got married to Missy Pinkel in 2016 when he was around 60 years old. There was no break up after the wedding was cancelled. They continued to date. He spends his time with motorcycle riding and family time. His wife once told that, he used to wake her up every now and then to talk about football. They love to visit off-bucket concerts. Missy had been married before and has a daughter from her previous marriage. Gary has very good relationship with his stepdaughter.

Gary was also married previously to Vicki and divorced her in 2012. He had three children. The reason for the divorce is not known to public. He paid a huge divorce settlement to his wife. He needs to pay 276 thousand dollars per year to Vicki. There was no custody battle as the children were older. He never spoke a lot about his relationship with Vicki, when he was married to her. He is not known to have married, before being married to Vicki. The marital problems that occurred are not known to public. There are no details to whether he was dating Missy, when he was still married to his first wife. The romantic relationships of Vicki after the divorce are not known to the public.

Career

He coached in University of Kent State after graduating under Don James, his former coach. He worked with Bowling Green for two years. In 1991, he became the head coach of Toledo. Later, he did his post graduation at Kent State. After winning quite a few times, he went to Missouri in 2000. He took the tigers for ten bowl games and won six of them. He also ended their losing streak with Nebraska in 2003. In 2008, he signed a seven year contract for 2.3 million dollars. In 2015, he announced that he would retire as he was having cancer and wanted to spend more time with his friends and family. He has a net worth of ten million dollars.

He is awarded with numerous awards and recognitions for his work. He was included in the hall of fame in 2009. In 1995 and 1997, he was awarded with MAC coach of the year award. He got SEC coach of the year award in 2014. Now he focuses on fundraising and public relationships.