When Barry Alvarez became athletic director at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, his wife suggested his role model should be Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley.
Before a child sex abuse scandal and coverup rocked Penn State, cost Curley and other top administrators their jobs, and tainted the Big Ten school and its football program, “all of us looked at Penn State as a model,” Alvarez told the UW System Board of Regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Stout in Menomonie.