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
backs game last physical respect spread stop week
It's going to be a very physical game, a game where you're going to have to take on linemen and stop very outstanding backs and then still respect the throw. Where last week was you're spread all over the field, this is a little more conventional.
duties fill football position season senior staff
It was important for me to redistribute Jamie's duties in the short-term. We will fill a position on the senior staff after the football season concludes.
duties fill football position season senior staff
It was important for me to redistribute Jamie's duties in the short-term, ... We will fill a position on the senior staff after the football season concludes.
absolutely fitting last
It's absolutely fitting that this is my last team.
covering good guess looked proud return took
It never looked like he was tired. I guess that's a good thing with having those 18-year-old legs. They don't get tired, those kids. Man, did he play. I'm really proud of him. That's unbelievable. Then he's covering punts and on the punt return and kickoff team. We took him off some of that.
crazy good win
I've been in some crazy shootouts, but never one like that. This is as good of a win as I've had.
coaching football good league recruit solid trying
They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to out-formation you, they know what it's all about. I think the coaching in this league is very strong.
coach plan until
This is the plan I've always had. Joe's plan is to coach until he's 100.
remember tremendous
They really executed. They had tremendous speed. That's what I remember about their team.
sick
That just makes you sick when something like that happens.
biggest bonus freshman guy step true
That may have been the biggest play of the game. That little guy (Davis) just makes plays. And that's a bonus when you get a true freshman to step in and play like he does.
blood came minutes pressure took
They came in and took my blood pressure about 10 minutes after the game, and it was off the charts,
avoid camp ceremony deal emotional final game last moments tried
I tried to avoid making a big deal about this being my final game. I had some emotional moments -- the last game at Camp Randall (Stadium), the ceremony after, the banquet.
address ask games guys past played tried
A lot of it has to do with that. Guys put a lot into the past two weeks. We tried to address that all week. But our guys played two four-quarter games and put a lot into it. Sometimes you can only go to the well so often, to ask guys to strain. I just thought we'd play better. But you have games like this.