Despite the disappointment of a 20-10 loss to Iowa, much of the Camp Randall record crowd of 83,184 stayed in their seats to watch head coach Barry Alvarez honored following his final home game.
Camp Randall Stadium saw 66 ejections and 33 arrests from a record crowd of 83,184 for Barry Alvarez�s final home game as the University of Wisconsin�s head football coach Saturday.
MADISON, Wis. — Badger fans said farewell, Saturday, to the man who made Wisconsin proud.
Even though the game ended with a 20-10 loss to Iowa, fans, players, and the university paid tribute to Barry Alvarez with a program on the field.
Saturday’s big Badger football game brought out the “Hardcore Hawkeyes,” and, of course, those “Badger Backers.” But, no matter which team they rooted for, today everyone was a fan of UW football coach, Barry Alvarez.
“From a Hawkeye fan, we all love Barry Alvarez, thank you for what you’ve given to the Big Ten, we appreciate it,” says one Iowa fan.
If you want to know how Badger fans feel about their beloved coach, just walk into any campusââ?¬â??area bar this weekend.
“We compete every year, we’re getting into the bowl games we want to get into, we’re getting them money that we want … Barry brought everything to this school,” said John Siebert, UW fan.
Saturday Barry Alvarez coaches his last home football game of his career.
Cindy Alvarez has stood by her husband for their last 16 years in Madison. She’s been a supporter of UW athletics and in some ways, a coach herself.
other Nature wasn’t about to rain on Barry Alvarez’s moment, even if Iowa tried to spoil the party.
The Hawkeyes left Camp Randall Stadium with a 20-10 victory over Wisconsin in Alvarez’s last home game as coach; however, the rain that pounded the field Saturday afternoon stopped in time for Badgers fans to celebrate the rags-to-riches story that is Wisconsin football.
Brandon Williams, always ready with a heartfelt comment regardless of the topic, needed a moment of reflection before tackling this nagging question:
What’s the most attractive bowl Wisconsin can hope for in the wake of the crushing loss to Iowa?
Wisconsin’s Big Ten Conference football finale Saturday against visiting Iowa will be the last game in Camp Randall Stadium for coach Barry Alvarez and 16 seniors.
Several UW assistants could also be working their final home game given that defensive coordinator Bret Bielema is taking over the program after this season
Former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz does not recall precisely who brought Barry Alvarez to his attention when Holtz needed to add a coach to his Irish staff in 1987.
Dear Editor: Now that the Donald Lipski monstrosity (I’m sorry, I meant to say artwork) has been dedicated and installed, I have a few last words on the subject.
….I really wonder if any other major college football program has such an ugly, inappropriate sculpture at an entrance to a football stadium. Probably not. This could only happen in Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley says he hasn’t seen any evidence that unionization would lead to better working conditions for apparel factory workers.
But his office is still considering a proposal that would require apparel companies that make university logo clothing to use union labor.
The Associated Students of Madison is urging Wiley to adopt the policy, which was endorsed 9-0 last month by the UW’s Labor Licensing Policy Committee.
When Barry Alvarez claimed that his 2004 Wisconsin football team had overachieved, moments after the Badgers had closed the season with their third consecutive loss, he opened himself to deserved criticism.
By contrast, Alvarez is entitled to make such a claim about this team, his last at UW.
As each day passes, the University of Wisconsin football program inches closer to the time when Barry Alvarez will no longer be around as head coach of the Badgers.
In other words, with each tick of the clock 35-year-old UW defensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting Bret Bielema gets closer to taking over the reins from Alvarez.
What do you give someone who has everything, at least in the materialistic sense?
If the person is Barry Alvarez, and the occasion is his final appearance at Camp Randall Stadium as University of Wisconsin football coach, then you do what you can.
In a season that could have been an absolute disaster after losing so many key players to the NFL and then more players to injury, Barry Alvarez and the No. 19 Badgers (5-2 Big Ten, 8-2 overall) have somehow found a way to overcome adversity and put together a successful season. Quite the fitting finish for a coach that has done incredible things for the program, and the irony of finishing off the Big Ten season against Penn State and Iowa is not lost on him.
Head football coach Barry Alvarez has a postââ?¬â?game policy for his team: win or lose, the players have 24 hours to forget the previous contest. There is no time to dwell on what has happened and what can no longer be controlled. Alvarez holds himself accountable to the same rule, and last Saturdayââ?¬â?¢s loss at Penn State was no exception.
MADISON, Wis. — The wearing of the red and white in Wisconsin is at a fevered pitch right now. Nationally, the school is ranked 16th for the most collegiate merchandise sold and is on the verge of a break out year.
“We achieved over $500,000 royalties for the first quarter, so we’re on pace for a record year right now,” said Cindy Van Matre of University of Wisconsin.
Sweet victory alone is worth getting dressed up for, but people who buy Badger gear are doing so much more, and it’s a safe bet that most people have no idea.
“Half of that amount that we earn then from the royalties, half of it goes to athletics to help student athletes, and then, the other half goes to a scholarship fund that we call the Bucky Grants,” Van Matre said.
The Green Bay Packers blew it again Sunday.
Barry Alvarez’s Badgers lost a tough one at Penn State, probably costing them the Big Ten title.
Then there’s the other Wisconsin “football” team that came out of nowhere to win its first Big Ten tournament title in more than a decade Sunday. Continue reading
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.
“Outlined against a blue, gray November sky the Four Obelisk Conspirators rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Lipski, Nathan, Manke and Fish. They formed the crest of the Madison cyclone before which the project was swept over the precipice at Camp Randall Stadium last week as bemused spectators peered up upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the bizarre sculpture above.”
Something like that.
Senior Amy Vermeulen started the scoring and added some second-half insurance as the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team won the Big Ten Conference tournament championship Sunday with a 3-1 victory over Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Wisconsin (13-8-2) gets an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, which opens Friday.
IT WAS a few minutes before 4 p.m. Thursday, and the man of the moment, sculptor Donald Lipski, was pacing in front of his controversial creation at the corner of Breese Terrace and Regent Street outside Camp Randall Stadium.
….At the late-afternoon ceremony celebrating the completion of “Nail’s Tales,” the 48-foot, $200,000 obelisk that has left many observers shaking their heads, Lipski was like a proud parent celebrating a birth. He did everything but pass out cigars.
When the college football season started, neither Wisconsin nor Penn State was considered to be among the Big Ten Conference’s elite. But when the two meet Saturday in State College, Pa., they’ll know that the winner will be one step closer to a spot in a Bowl Championship Series game.
The NCAA announced last week plans to begin allotting $10 million annually to reward Division I members whose student-athletes are in good academic standing.
It was only a matter of time before Barry Alvarez was asked if his University of Wisconsin football team has overachieved this season.
Of course, it has.
Green Bay Packer and former Badger Mark Tauscher donated $10,000 to Milwaukee Public Schools reading programs and said he hopes to support programs in other districts around the state.
Coming into Barry Alvarez�s final season as head football coach at Wisconsin, expectations for success were not high. The Badgers began the season unranked, and no one, even Alvarez, considered this year�s team strong enough to make a run at the Big Ten title.
Whenever a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin finds the kind of trouble that makes headlines, questions are invariably raised about their perceived lack of awareness.
Doesn’t he know better than to get into a bar fight, especially when he’s underage and everyone knows who he is?
Whenever a student-athlete at the University of Wisconsin finds the kind of trouble that makes headlines, questions are invariably raised about their perceived lack of awareness.
The Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame induction included:
The late John Walsh, who turned the University of Wisconsin boxing program into one of the most dominant intercollegiate programs in NCAA history. Under Walsh, the Badgers won eight NCAA titles and his boxers won 38 individual titles. He served as co-coach of the 1948 U.S. Olympic boxing team and was a member of the inaugural class of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
MADISON, Wis. – Would you like to see video of the Rose Bowl in 1963 or the first women’s basketball sellout? How about a breath-taking run from the career of Crazylegs Hirsch or the graceful running style of Suzy Favor-Hamilton? Do you want to test your knowledge of Badger Athletics and perhaps enjoy a video salute to the UW Band or Bucky Badger?
As a federal investigation into the state’s current contract with Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel Systems continues, a former state senator told 27 News similar questions about the propriety of Adelman’s affiliation with a state entity were raised twelve years ago.
In 1993, UW-Madison officials took the unprecedented step of leasing UW Athletic Department office space inside Camp Randall to Adelman to serve as the department’s in-house agency.
The NCAA is drawing up a groundbreaking incentives program that could award schools up to $100,000 for scoring high in a new measure of athletes’ academic performance. Teams with lofty academic performance rates (APRs) also would be recognized with plaques and possibly uniform patches.
With four games left, Barry Alvarez is approaching his best job ever with the Badgers, which is saying something for the only Big Ten coach to win three Rose Bowls. Even if Wisconsin finishes the regular season 9-3, it would be infinitely better than last year’s 9-3, when Alvarez had much more talent and then made the mistake of saying UW had overachieved when it was done.
I became involved in a discussion/debate last night regarding fans rushing the field after victories. It was sparked by the fact I noticed a story on the wire about a 20-year-old Minnesota-Morris student killed Saturday.
Officials believe he was hit by part of the goalpost after fans tore it down to celebrate the victory. I shared my thoughts with some UW fans because the incident struck me as tragic, a terrible waste of a life and a cautionary tale given that so many folks seem to ignore the potenial dangers when they rush the field.
Barry Alvarez was beaming Sunday morning.
“It’s always nice to prove people wrong,” the Wisconsin football coach said during his weekly TV show. “I don’t know if anyone thought we would (clinch) a bowl game in Week 8.”
No one would have been so brazen.
UW leaders say this football season, they’re receiving more complaints about Badger fans harassing, intimidating and bullying visiting fans, both in and near Camp Randall, particularly at the Michigan game.
“It’s just the nature of the game, people are going to be more excited and we have many more Michigan fans here,” says John Finkler, Guest Services Manager for the UW Athletic Departm
In regard to your article ââ?¬Å?Michigan fans claim UW students grossly inappropriate at game,ââ?¬Â I must say that I am dismayed by the bellyaching of Michigan fans about their alleged mistreatment at the hands of zealous Badger fans. I am a Michigan alumnus and a current UW graduate student, and I had ten friends from my undergraduate days up to Madison for the game. They all enjoyed themselves immensely.
UW Police say an alarming number of students are drinking themselves to near-death.
Records show more students at UW went to detox in the last 6 weeks than in previous years at the school.
UW leaders say Badger games play a part.
Thousands of University of Michigan fans traveled to Camp Randall Stadium Sept. 24 only to watch their beloved Wolverines succumb to the Badgers in a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback.
“Lucky” and “blessed” are the curious words University of Wisconsin police chief Susan Riseling used to describe the fact that no UW student has died this semester as the result of excessive alcohol consumption.
A report detailing the worst cases – students so trashed that they couldn’t stand, sit up, extricate themselves from their own bodily discharges, identify their surroundings and/or blow into a Breathalyzer – was open on the conference table in front of her. Riseling searched for the proper verbiage to express her relief that no autopsies have been needed.
Dear Editor: Doug Moe, Bob Hunt, etc., are right on! Alan Ameche should have been the “Celebrate the Legacy” statue without a second thought.
Get with it, UW Athletic Department and Wisconsin Arts Board – you are embarrassing the University of Wisconsin, the city of Madison, the state of Wisconsin and yourselves. It’s never too late to say you goofed and you will correct it.
Joyce Harrington, Madison
….Discerning Monroe Street parkers might be tempted to ask at this point: “If I park at a meter on Monroe Street on a football Saturday a block from Camp Randall and I get a $10 parking ticket for an expired meter, isn’t that better than paying $20 to park in a lot that’s farther away and I have to wait for the rest of the drivers to come back and move their cars before I can get out?”
“Nail’s Tales,” the spiky new 48-foot-high Camp Randall Stadium sculpture, will not be erected this weekend as planned.
Donald Lipski, a UW-Madison graduate, had wanted to top off homecoming and the Camp Randall renovations in spectacular fashion.
But, he said, the piece just isn’t right yet.
Observers are chewing on Donald Lipski’s new Camp Randall Stadium sculpture as if it were snaggle-toothed cob of corn. Many would prefer a manly steak or classy caviar rather than what appears to be a huge helping of sporty surrealism.
….Final judgments on the work will hold more validity when the piece is fully installed at the intersection of Breese Terrace and Regent Street. Originally scheduled for Saturday’s homecoming, the installation will be delayed at least a week due to a production delay.
UW-Madison graduate Donald Lipski’s new football-themed sculpture, “Nail’s Tales,” at Camp Randall Stadium was a cooperative project between the UW Athletic Department and Wisconsin Arts Board.
The Athletic Department gave Lipski information on the history of Camp Randall and requested a work “to celebrate the campus tradition of football,” but left the design otherwise open-ended, says Chris Manke, coordinator of the Wisconsin Arts Board’s Percent for Art Program, which commissioned the $200,000 artwork.
….What do you think? Send your reactions to SCULPTURE, The Capital Times, PO Box 8060, Madison WI 53708 or to tctlife@madison.com. We will publish a selection.
You’ve probably heard the phrase “knowledge is power.”
Now some working in sports medicine reinforce that statement.
A new sports program offered by UW Health Sports Medicine teaches kids how to practice. And practice is the athlete’s pregame.
They rarely say so in public, but many college administrators and athletics directors generally dislike their obligation to declare financial information under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act.
An NCAA task force may finally do what Congress, the Department of Education and even the athletic association have failed to do for more than 10 years: provide an accurate and useful look at how individual athletic departments really spend money. And ââ?¬â? in a reversal of longtime NCAA policy ââ?¬â? the committee of university presidents will also consider making at least some of the disclosures public.
Major-college spending on sports hit an all-time high of $3.6 billion in 2003-04, but a USA TODAY review of how accurately athletic spending is reported shows errors, omissions and undercounts.
Wisconsin ranks 14th in first BCS poll of the season.
There is a host of ways to measure the growth of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department since 1990, but perhaps the most telling involves finance.
They work in the same building, have the same jobs, share the same goals and peer out from the same tiny fish bowl.
For those reasons alone, you would expect University of Wisconsin coaches Mike Eaves, Bo Ryan and Lisa Stone to have a relationship that extends beyond the walls of their adjacent third-floor offices at the Kohl Center.
The demand for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball student season tickets may have trickled down to help raise season ticket sales for the Badgers’ men’s hockey team this year.
Corbin Hunt, the UW assistant athletic director for ticket operations, ventures that some of the roughly 2,600 students who weren’t successful in their bid for men’s basketball tickets turned to men’s hockey, which has come close to selling out its student allotment.
Dear Editor: The statue planned for near Camp Randall definitely needs to be rethought. Doug Moe is on the right track in his recent column. This should have been a cooperative project between the UW’s athletic department and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
The athletic department has designated this football season as “Celebrate the Legacy” of Camp Randall. This is printed on every ticket and is why the statue should be of a football player.
World renowned hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari and skateboarding sensation Stevie Williams are scheduled to appear here at tonight’s celebration of the opening of the first-ever Rbk concept store on a college campus.
Williams will kick off the party at 6 p.m. at Peace Park with a skateboard exhibition and Ben-Ari, the newest face of Reebok’s “I Am What I Am” campaign, will perform songs from her newly released debut album. Following the performances, students can check out more than 200 styles of footwear, Reebok performance gear and exclusive UW vintage inspired lifestyle apparel.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Women’s golf team had a team of 24 walkers participate in the “Light the Night” walk on Thursday, Sept. 29 at Olin Park in Madison. The team raised over $2,200 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Remember middle school gym class?
If you were a little overweight, not very coordinated and perhaps shy, it was a pretty miserable experience. But a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers at River Bluff Middle School in Stoughton could change all that.
….”Even a small change in the amount of physical activity showed beneficial effects on body composition, fitness and insulin levels in children,” the authors wrote in a study that was published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
After a gruesome afternoon like Saturday’s, when a Northwestern offense once again reminded a Wisconsin defense that purple is among a contusion’s dominant colors, you’ve got to be asking yourself:
Who is this Bret Bielema guy, and why has he already been entrusted with the future of the UW football program?
