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Alvarez patient with Wisconsin’s coaching search

Surrounded by reporters after Wisconsin?s practice Sunday night, Barry Alvarez displayed a mix of confidence, defiance and frustration as he addressed his search for a head football coach and the impending departure of several assistants. “Everyone gets anxious,” he said of the coaching search that began Dec. 4 when Bret Bielema informed Alvarez he was taking over the program at Arkansas. “But I said all along we?re going to take our time and get the right guy.