Barry Alvarez calls into local sports talk show to defend Bret Bielema

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My Preface Note - Barry Alvarez, UW Athletic Director, calls into local sports talk show to defend Bret Bielema, UW football coach - ahhh, the power of radio - for more information, see the link below:

http://www.badgerbeat.com/news/article/id/310024

UW football: Alvarez quiet about Badgers' struggles

By Jim Polzin
10/17/2008
Badgerbeat.com

Alvarez did call into Mike Heller and Owen Murphy's sports talk radio show on WTSO-AM/1070 on Wednesday afternoon. Heller and Murphy were discussing recruiting -- namely, why a lot of the blue-chip recruits end up at Southeastern Conference programs -- and Alvarez felt compelled to call in and point out that most of the top players end up at a school either in their homestate or at a border state.

Alvarez's point: Since precious few of the top high school players in the country are from Wisconsin and the states that surround it, it's difficult for UW to land the blue-chippers.

Later, Heller asked Alvarez about some of the fans' venom toward third-year coach Bret Bielema. By now, I'm sure you've heard that one fan even started a Web site devoted to getting Bielema fired.

Alvarez's response to the criticism of Bielema?

``It's foolish,'' Alvarez told Heller and Murphy. ``That shouldn't even be a conversation. That shouldn't even be acknowledged. The time spent even talking about that is ludicrous.''

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