Kerry Barth Locklin (born September 9, 1959) is an indoor football

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for the

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of the

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league (CIF). Locklin is the son of

Billy Ray Locklin Billy Ray Locklin (September 13, 1936 – November 8, 2019) was an American football defensive lineman who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League for two different teams. He was a CFL All Star three times. Locklin started his pro car ...

, a defensive end who played for the Aggies before spending ten years playing in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the Montreal Alouettes from 1961 to 1964 and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1965 to 1970. Locklin is the youngest of three brothers. Locklin graduated from Rockdale High School in

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. Like his older brother Ray, Locklin graduated from

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and played for the Aggies. Locklin was the All- WAC

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. Drafted in the sixth round of

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by the

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, he played with them for the 1982 season and with the

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in 1987. In between, he played with Arizona in the

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from 1984 to 1985. Locklin coached at Western New Mexico (1988),

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(1989),

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(1990–1993), for the

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in the

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(1994), and then for

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(1995–1999) and then as the

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, before joining the Jets. Locklin agreed to join New Mexico State as their DL Coach for the 2014 season. In 2022, it was announced that Locklin would take over the head coach job for the

for the 2023 season. He was then hired by the

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of the

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as head coach for the 2024 season.

References

External links

Toronto Argonauts bio
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