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
four guys move
With four guys wide, you've got to move (defenders) out of the box,
bowl focused reason stay team
There can be a lot of distractions during a bowl game. The team that can stay focused can win. I think that's one reason you see a lot of upsets.
great guy trophy
We've had great ones and we've had Heisman Trophy winners. This guy is special, and I think he showed that.
beaten both football good sides solid team
Well, we were beaten by a very good football team today. They are very solid on both sides of the ball.
backs happens rose running talented three win
We've had MVPs of three Rose Bowls, and they're all running backs. When we win big games, our running backs play well. This one happens to be the most talented one that we've had.
backs bowls happens rose running talented three win
We've had MVPs of three Rose Bowls and they're all running backs. When we win big games, our running backs play well. This one happens to be the most talented one that we've had.
talented teams win
We weren't very talented and (Fry said), 'We can win four.' And we did. He was right on, because there were teams that weren't very sound.
ball major ok pleased
We were OK at the half. They didn't have the ball much, and I didn't think there were any major things we had to correct. ... I would have been pleased to play like we did in the first half.
guys hard secondary
We were on some of our secondary guys pretty hard this week.
athletics drafted easy entire front great guys lose played research written
When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.
asked good help jump man press week
We asked them to jump up in there and play press man and I thought they did a pretty good job. I think it will help them. Every week they should get a little better.
coaches conversation fast problem scoring sidelines time
We were scoring so fast a lot of the times, there wasn't a lot of time on the sidelines for the coaches to get enough conversation to know what the problem was, before they were back on the field.
backs happens running talented win
When we win big games, our running backs play well. This one happens to be the most talented of the ones that we had.
figure focus further good guys hope late mix smart talk
We don't talk about that. To be in the mix is good this late in the season, but I hope our guys are all smart enough to figure out it's about (Purdue) this week. All the focus is on this week, and no further than this week.