Barry Alvarez
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"Barry L. Alvarez" is 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.

Alvarez served as interim head coach in 2012, after the departure of Bret Bielema, who left the program in December 2012 to take the head coaching position at the University of Arkansas, managing the team through the 2013 Rose Bowl. He served again as interim head coach in 2014, after the departure of Gary Andersen, who left the program on December 10, 2014 to take the head coaching position at Oregon State University, managing the team through the 2015 Outback Bowl. Alvarez was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2010.

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Bernie blocked better and played better than he's ever played in his career.

The great thing is, I know he can get better. He's critiquing his runs and critiquing his play coming up here. That's what's going to make him better.

I wanted to get it settled in their system and out of the media and everything else.

[Where does that leave Butler?] We're trying to get Jerry ready, ... brings something else to the table - that speed of his.

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.

It's the Dog Days of camp. You can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. But this is where you have to work through it. This is where you can get your conditioning and learn to push yourself when you're tired.

I was familiar with the campus, the community, the stadium, and we felt that we could put these pieces together and build a program, ... My on-the-field memories could fill a book.

You have two ranked teams and I think this is the second-biggest stadium in the country.