Zarren Egesdal4 hours agoLast Updated: April 8, 2021 (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)(REED SAXON | Associated Press)
It’s not often a small northern Iowa community gets a shoutout during a major NCAA Division I school’s press conference. But even though it was brief, Mason City was on the mind of retiring University of Wisconsin-Madison Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez during his retirement press conference earlier this week.
A reporter asked Alvarez if he’d known in the late 1970’s – when he was coaching the Mohawks – that he’d have all the success he did at Wisconsin what he would say, and Alvarez responded, “I know.” He continued by laughing and saying, “I’m serious. I can remember one of my players said, ‘coach, it won’t be long; you’ll be a head coach in a college someplace’.