Wisconsin Badgers: Barry Alvarez Finds a Coach Cut from the Same Cloth

The Wisconsin football program officially went two-plus weeks without a head coach after Bret Bielema departed for Arkansas on Dec. 4. Unofficially, though, the coaching foundation that athletic director Barry Alvarez laid never fractured as the search for a new coach unfolded. Two days after Bielema's unforeseen departure, Alvarez formally accepted players' requests to coach the team on an interim basis in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 against No. 8 Stanford. In addition to brandishing his coaching w...