Author: jplucas

MADISON, Wis. – Camp Randall Stadium, one of college footballââ?¬â?¢s most traditional and historic venues, opens its doors this fall after nearly five years of renovation. The University of Wisconsin Athletic Department ushers in this new era with a season-long campaign called, ââ?¬Å?Celebrate the Legacy.ââ?¬Â (Athletic Communication)

ormer UW-Madison football star Brent Moss, who is facing possession of cocaine charges, has had his bail revoked for failing a drug test.
Moss, of Racine, was charged on July 26 with felony bail jumping. According to the criminal complaint, Moss tested positive for cocaine at a scheduled drug screening.

What is the ultimate souvenir from a University of Wisconsin football game?
The answer could come today when UW Athletic Department officials unveil plans for the grand reopening of Camp Randall Stadium.

The Badgers will wear custom-made throwback uniforms, circa 1962 to ’66, for their season opener against Bowling Green on Sept. 3. The game-worn uniforms then will be auctioned off as part of a massive commemoration of the $109 million renovation of Camp Randall.

(August 2, 2005) � PITTSFORD � Jim Leonhard has heard it before. Boy has he.

“You’re too small, kid. Just too small.”

“I’ve probably heard it at every level from everybody. It’s nothing new,” said Leonhard, a 5-foot-8 free-agent free safety with the Buffalo Bills. “But the way I see it, if you can play football, you can play football. That’s what I try to do. Don’t be somebody you’re not. I’m not a 210-pound safety so I can’t play like one. It’s about using your strengths.”

DELAFIELD – Trevon Hughes listened to the numerous recruiting pitches, explored all of his options and weighed advice and input from his family.
But when it came down to choosing where he would play college basketball, nothing was able to sway him.

“I had my mind set on Wisconsin,” he said.

Bret Bielema, the future head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, still has a note he received from Hayden Fry, when the former Iowa coach retired following the 1998 season.
Fry had an uncanny knack for identifying assistants with the potential to be head coaches and he saw something in Bielema, an undersized nose guard whom he coached as a player and then first hired as an undergraduate student assistant, working in the weight room in 1993, before eventually promoting him to linebacker coach.

Defensive coordinator Bret Bielema is keenly aware his success as the next football coach at the University of Wisconsin will be directly tied to his powers of persuasion as a recruiter.
“As coaches, we all realize, (we) kind of subscribe to the Kentucky Derby theory of coaching,” Bielema said. “Everybody remembers the horse. Not many people remember the jockey.

University of Wisconsin football coach/athletic director Barry Alvarez unwittingly failed to follow proper school hiring procedure when he appointed Bret Bielema to be his coaching successor.
UW regulations call for such a vacancy to be posted for two weeks before the position can be filled. Alvarez didn’t do this because he received inaccurate information from Casey Nagy, the special assistant to UW chancellor John Wiley.

MADISON � The University of Wisconsin didn�t follow school procedure when athletic director and football coach Barry Alvarez picked his coaching successor, a newspaper reported.

The University of Wisconsin did not follow procedure when Athletic Director and football coach Barry Alvarez picked his successor.

School regulations require the university to post the job vacancy for two weeks before filling the job. Casey Nagy, Assistant to the U.W. chancellor, says he didn’t know the school needed to post the job.

Whether or not UW’s hiring policy was violated, University officials confirm for 27 News that Bret Bielema will still take over as head football coach for the Badgers next season.

University of Wisconsin senior wide receiver Brandon Williams had no idea what was up when a team meeting was called for Wednesday morning.
Like other players, he had heard speculation over the years, about how long Barry Alvarez would be the football coach for the Badgers. That speculation only intensified when Alvarez also officially became the athletic director April 1, 2004.

at Richter called the Barry Alvarez years the greatest era in University of Wisconsin football history.
No one argued.

No one should.

When Richter hired Alvarez as coach in 1990, Alvarez took over a program that was competitively and financially bankrupt. Over the next 15 years, that all changed. The Badgers won three Rose Bowls, became a fixture in the top 25 rankings, played to full houses and helped pay for a beautifully renovated stadium.