At Tuesday’s OU football press conference, broadcasting legend Bob Barry Sr. announced this will be his last season. Barry has been the play-by-play voice for Sooner radio for 30 years.

“I’m very much looking forward to doing this, my final year with OU,” Barry said. “Something you love to do your entire life, and you’re able to do it and get paid for it, it’s hard to let go.”

Barry will stay on the air through football season and basketball season.

OU president David Boren offered his praise of Barry’s career and expressed thanks for the broadcaster’s years of service.

“In my mind, there is no more outstanding broadcast journalist and sports caster,” Boren said. “No one across the country is more outstanding than Bob Barry.”

Athletic Director Joe Castiglione, whose tenure at OU started in the middle of Barry’s, echoed Boren’s gratitude for Barry.

“I really think Bob Barry is aptly called an Oklahoma treasure,” Castiglione said.

Barry will continue to do special projects and pre-game shows in the future for the Sooners, Boren said.

“It simply would not be the same OU without Bob Barry,” Boren said.