Barry Alvarez
Alvarez in 2013
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Athletic director |
| Team | Wisconsin |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
December 30, 1946 Langeloth, Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Playing career | |
| 1965–1967 | Nebraska |
| Position(s) | Linebacker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1971–1973 | Lincoln NE HS (NE) (assistant) |
| 1974–1975 | Lexington HS (NE) |
| 1976–1978 | Mason City HS (IA) |
| 1979–1986 | Iowa (LB) |
| 1987 | Notre Dame (LB) |
| 1988–1989 | Notre Dame (DC) |
| 1990–2005 | Wisconsin |
| 2012 | Wisconsin (Interim HC) |
| 2014 | Wisconsin (Interim HC) |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2004–present | Wisconsin |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 119–74–4 |
| Bowls | 9–4 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 Big Ten (1993, 1998–1999) | |
| Awards | |
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AFCA Coach of the Year (1993) Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (1993) 2x Big Ten Coach of the Year (1993, 1998) |
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College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 2010 (profile) |
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Barry Lee Alvarez (born December 30, 1946) is a former American football coach who is currently the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as the head football coach at Wisconsin for 16 seasons, from 1990 to 2005, compiling a career college football record of 118–73–4. He has the longest head coaching tenure and the most wins in Wisconsin Badgers football history. Alvarez stepped down as head coach after the 2005 season, remaining as athletics director.
Since retiring, Alvarez has served as interim head coach on two occasions. He coached Wisconsin in the 2013 Rose Bowl, after the departure of Bret Bielema to the University of Arkansas, and in 2015 Outback Bowl, following the departure of Gary Andersen to Oregon State University.
Alvarez was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2010.
Barry Alvarez was born and raised in Langeloth, Pennsylvania, where his family settled after his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Spain. He graduated from Burgettstown Union High School in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played linebacker from 1966 to 1968 under Bob Devaney, who became one of his major coaching influences along with Hayden Fry and Lou Holtz. Alvarez intercepted a pass in a game played between the Cornhuskers and the Badgers in Madison. Alvarez later became a head coach at Lexington High School in Lexington, Nebraska and then Mason City High School in Mason City, Iowa where the Mohawks won the 1978 class 4A state title, 15–13, over Dubuque Hempstead before becoming an assistant coach at University of Iowa and then at the University of Notre Dame.
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