It took Barry Alvarez a few moments to fully warm up to the idea that his weekly Monday press conference was, for the most part, going to be a 26-minute question-and-answer session centering on the fact that Saturday will be his final game at Camp Randall Stadium as coach of the University of Wisconsin football team.
Not that anyone would expect anything different from an all-business, old-school coach like Alvarez.
….When asked if he has had any second thoughts about retiring from coaching, Alvarez said: “I try to think things out well enough before I make a decision. I never look back and say, ‘Well, you shouldn’t have done this.’ I really haven’t.