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Barry Alvarez (official thread)

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Coaching is probably a lot more intense/stressful than AD (though AD is still very stressful I imagine)...or maybe he has health problems, I guess we'll have to wait and see
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Yeah, I suppose so. Still, I think given the choice a lot of coaches love coaching so much that they'd stay on as coach and not AD. I never much liked Alvarez, never much hated him eitehr. He did, however, strike me as the kind of guy who'd be in the "loves coaching" crowd. No particular reason I can point to for thinking that, just did.
 
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It looks like this will be his last year of coaching, with Bret Bielema taking over next year.

www.jsonline.com/badger

'05 season to be Alvarez's last as coach

Sources say he will stay on as athletic director; Bielema likely successor

By JEFF POTRYKUS
[email protected]

Posted: July 28, 2005

Madison - Barry Alvarez, head football coach and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, has finalized plans to turn over the coaching reins to his hand-picked successor after the upcoming 2005 season.


According to sources, Alvarez, 58, will coach through this season, his 16th at the school.

He then will step down to focus solely on his role as athletic director, a job he added before last season.

The leading candidate to replace Alvarez is 35-year-old Bret Bielema, who is entering his second season as the team's defensive coordinator. He came to UW from Kansas State, where he served as co-defensive coordinator.

Under Bielema last season, UW's defense led the team to a 9-0 start and No. 4 ranking in the nation. The Badgers faded down the stretch to finish 9-3.

UW officials declined to comment this morning but have scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference at the Kohl Center for a "significant" announcement.

In 15 seasons as the Badgers' coach, Alvarez has taken a once-downtrodden program and compiled a 108-70-4 career record.

His teams have won three Rose Bowls and gone to seven other bowl games, and won or shared three Big Ten championships. Alvarez succeeded Pat Richter as athletic director last year.
 
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Good riddance to bad rubbish. He's a classless goon, and still refuses to back his team off the logo-dancing even after it is clear that our coach now will not tolerate such behavior. It's just too bad we don't get one more chance to stick it to him before he goes. Oh well, here's hoping he goes out 5-6.

Now if we could just get Bowden* to follow him.
 
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BKB-I'm hoping that's true, and Bowden* doesn't have the superstar coordinators to bail his ass out anymore like he used to...heck, he's even resorting to family cronyism like, unfortunately, Joe has. Still, recruits go there because they know they can do whatever they want and still play, so I don't see the demise being as far or as fast as I'd like.
 
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Alvarez just has his news conference. I caught a little of it on TV. He will coach this season, and Bielema will take over in January. (Being AD lets you name your successor).

Alvarez said that the only difference for this season will be that Bielema will be in charge of recruiting.
 
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Oneshot said:
Strange; I have a friend who just verballed to Wisky a few weeks ago... I'll talk to him and see if he has any info.
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Is this kid OSU material? :wink:

Personally, I'd much rather Alvarez be able to run his mouth in the press about going out on a winning streak about us... then have him do the same about continuing the streak.

I'd rather beat him on the field, but I sure don't mind seeing him go.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
My inside sources have told me (and this should be considered rock solid reliable) that Miami, Fla's speed is now 40 miles out of Tempe. They say, it is hootin and hollarin, wearing army fatigues and talking shit. I, for one, am tempted to say, they still might win.
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:lol:
 
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Bret Bielema, a former co-defensive coordinator, linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Kansas State, enters his second season as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Wisconsin.

Bielema made his impact felt rightaway in his first season at UW. Through the first nine games in 2004, Wisconsin led the nation in scoring defense (9.1 ppg) and had allowed just nine touchdowns, fewest in the country. The Badgers ended up fifth in the nation in pass efficiency defense (100.1 pts), sixth in scoring defense (15.4 ppg), seventh in passing yards defense (167.2 avg) and ninth in total defense (291.2 ypg).

Bielema, who coached the Wildcats’ linebackers, helped guide a 2003 Kansas State unit that finished sixth nationally in total (283.1 ypg), seventh in pass (174.6 ypg), eighth in scoring (16.3 ppg), 12th in pass efficiency (104.4 rating) and 17th in run defense (108.5 ypg). The Wildcats led the Big 12 in run defense. In 2003, Kansas State limited six opponents to fewer than 10 points, registered one shutout and shut down top-ranked Oklahoma 35-7 in a Big 12 championship game victory that earned the Wildcats a berth in the Fiesta Bowl. Linebacker Josh Buhl, a Butkus Award semifinalist, earned first-team All-America honors and led the nation in tackles with a school-record 184 stops in 2003.

In Bielema’s first season (2002) at Kansas State, the Wildcats led the nation in scoring defense (11.8 ppg), were second nationally in total (249.0 ypg) and rushing (69.5 ypg) defense and third in the nation in pass efficiency defense (91.69 rating). Bielema’s top player in 2002 was middle linebacker Terry Pierce, a 2003 second-round NFL draft choice.

Kansas State was 22-6 overall during Bielema’s two seasons on Coach Bill Snyder’s staff.

Prior to his tenure at Kansas State, Bielema spent nine seasons as an assistant coach at Iowa. He moved through the ranks with the Hawkeyes, starting as an undergraduate student assistant coach, then graduate assistant and, finally, full-time assistant. He coached Iowa’s linebackers for six seasons. The 1997 Hawkeye defense posted three shutouts and ranked No. 4 nationally in scoring and pass efficiency defense, seventh in total defense and 11th in run defense. Among Bielema’s top linebackers at Iowa were honorable mention All-Big Ten picks Vernon Rollins and Matt Hughes (fifth in school career tackles with 354), and first-team all-conference selection Fred Barr.

Bielema earned four letters (1989-92) after joining the Hawkeye football program as a walk-on. A member of Iowa’s 1990 Big Ten champion, he was a starter as a junior in 1991 and helped the Hawkeyes to a 10-1-1 record, a No. 5 national ranking and a Holiday Bowl appearance. He was a team co-captain as a senior in 1992. He signed a free agent contract with the Seattle Seahawks in April of 1993 before completing his playing career with the Milwaukee Mustangs of the Arena Football League in 1994.

Bielema has participated in eight bowl games as a player (’91 Rose and ’91 Holiday) or coach (at Iowa: ’93 Alamo, ’95 Sun, ’96 Alamo, ’01 Alamo; at Kansas State: 02 Holiday, ’04 Fiesta).

A 1992 graduate of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, the 34-year-old Bielema was born on Jan. 13, 1970 in Prophetstown, Ill.
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At least the new coach doesn't have Ohio ties. From Illinois, played at Iowa, coaches at Kansas State. I would assume he'll probably recruit the Chicago area pretty hard against Iowa and Illinois.
 
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Some facts before we elevate him too much.

OSU vs Wisky 1990-2004: 7-5-1
2000-2004: 2-3

Thats hardly domination but he has managed to hold his own against us. The rest of the B10 as of late seems to have figured him out.
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Year Wisconsin
2004 6-2
2003 4-4
2002 2-6
2001 3-5
2000 4-4
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If it weren't for his creampuff OOC tendencies(16-3 vs OOC teams in that span) they would have a hard time going bowling as of late.

All in all he has brought Wisky a long way from where they used to be but I would be willing to bet his successor can't keep them there.
 
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