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
blame calling fault flat gave kicked swift three
I'm going to take the blame on that one ... because I called the swift kick. We should have just kicked it deeper. We flat out gave them three points. It's my fault for calling it.
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.
ball both built executing game management momentum next playing plus prepared run sides
I thought just the management of the game, making adjustments on the run and executing on both sides of the ball as well as playing all the young guys, I think all those things are good. I think just the way they prepared for a game like this and went out and executed it. Just a lot of things were built on. Plus we got some momentum going into next week.
game guys keeping means score sure
Sure it's significant. We're keeping score so the game means something. We're here representing our league, our school. I want our guys to play well.
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.
coach deserve effort emphasize entire focus football fullest great guarantee hard immediate players share team tremendous worked
I think it's very important to emphasize that my immediate focus is to coach the 2005 football team and coach them to its fullest potential, ... The thing that I share with the players ... that I would guarantee them that they will have a great effort and great preparation and tremendous focus from myself and our entire staff. They deserve that because they've worked so hard in preparation for this season, and we will not let them down.
ball carried exactly expecting extremely john practiced saw thrown
John has practiced very well. He has thrown the ball extremely well through practice. You always like to see it carried over to the game. That's exactly what I saw - what I was expecting to see.
best decision father gave maybe quite support
Quite frankly, I thought the best thing for him would be to come back. But that is their decision. We gave them the facts. He and his father had to make the decision and they did. So I have to support it. Quite frankly, maybe selfishly, I wanted to see him come back.
approach bowl cherish days deal emotional last stay trying
I try to stay away from making a big deal about this being my last game. I've had some very emotional days. I just always try to cherish the days before a bowl game. I'm trying to approach this one like I do all of them.
games good kept offense rewarded sneak weeks win
The offense battled, kept us in games two weeks in a row. To be rewarded the way we did and sneak out of here with a win is pretty good for these guys.
change communication three time
When they change formations . . . two or three times, every time there's a change, there's a different communication that comes out,
came defense four guys hayden kicking listened sound win
Hayden came back and said, 'Listen, I just listened to all of those guys and if we're just sound in everything we do, if we're sound on offense, we're sound on defense and we're sound in the kicking game, we'll win at least four (Big Ten) games,'
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,