Barry Alvarez
Barry Alvarez
Barry Lee Alvarezis a former American football coach who is currently the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as the head football coach at Wisconsin for 16 seasons, from 1990 to 2005, compiling a career college football record of 118–73–4. He has the longest head coaching tenure and the most wins in Wisconsin Badgers football history. Alvarez stepped down as head coach after the 2005 season, remaining as athletics director...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 December 1946
anybody beat care game happen
That's what can happen in this game if you don't take care of the football. Anybody can beat you.
finally helps rewarded row victory weeks
That's two weeks in a row we've had to come back. Finally getting rewarded with a victory helps morale.
athletic confidence graceful impressive moves playing
Just how graceful he moves and how athletic he is, he was very impressive in the game, just playing with a lot of confidence and savvy.
absorb confidence forward higher honest loss move people priority until valuable wrapped
We'll absorb Jamie's loss and move forward and, to be honest with you, I'm not going to get real wrapped up in it this week. I have one other priority that sits a little higher than replacing Jamie, as valuable as he was, and I have a lot of confidence in the people that I have that we'll be able to absorb it for the short-term until we find a replacement. But I'm not going to let it be a distraction.
effort given playing reward special teams tremendous
Our special teams have been playing very well and they've given us tremendous effort. I wanted to reward someone, acknowledge someone who exemplified the effort that we look for in a special team - and that's what Zach has done.
coaches recognize supposed
I think young players, in particular, see that, recognize, 'This is what the coaches want,' because we recognize that. This is what the game's all about, this is how you go about the game. This is how you're supposed to play.
fortunate lucky played
I feel fortunate to win. You are very lucky if you don't play well and win. I didn't think we played very well today.
business chancellor cooperation frankly good grateful guys situation supportive unique university
I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.
business guys
Frankly, there are not too many guys in my business who can do it.
gone kick maybe middle might pinned
If that onside kick hadn't pinned them back there, ... and maybe if they were out in the middle of the field, they might have gone for it on fourth-and-1.
games great magnitude performance quality today
He's had some great games for us. The stage, the magnitude of the game, the quality of the opposition, his performance today should squelch any criticism. I thought he was fantastic.
exactly great guys kick
He made a great kick - that's exactly what you want and we had our guys sprinting after it.
decisions department difficult early issues middle million small start title
When he was here, this was small time. We had to go through some very, very difficult times early on. When I first started, the department was over $2 million in debt, there was no one in the (football) stadium, we had issues with Title IX. We had to start from scratch, and there were some very difficult decisions made. Joel was in the middle of that.
appears players system understand week
What I see is a system that's being implemented and every week it appears that players understand it a little more and they play a little faster,