Illinois Football Jersey, Since playing their first football game in 1889, the University of Wisconsin Badgers football program has seen its share of ups and downs. With an overall record of 614 wins and 465 losses, the ups have outweighed the downs, to be sure, but when the program has been down it has been for an extended period of time. For example, after their 1901 season, Badger teams suffered through what could only be described as a 35 year period of utter mediocrity - with the one exception being the team\'s 1912 undefeated season. Another thirty year period of poor performances and mediocre results occurred after the Badgers\' 1962 loss in the Rose Bowl. It would not be until Barry Alvarez arrived as the team\'s head coach in 1990 that the program\'s fortunes would begin to turn around.
Alvarez the man
Barry Alvarez had a strong pedigree in college football when he first arrived at Wisconsin. As a player in the 1960s, he was coached by the great Bob Devaney. He later tried his hand as a high school Illinois Football Jersey coach in both Nebraska and Iowa, until he was given an assistant coaching position at the University of Iowa under the legendary Hawkeye Illinois Football Jersey coach Hayden Fry. A brief tenure as an assistant at the University of Notre Dame completed the Alvarez journey to the Badgers\' front door. His arrival at the school in 1990 was to be the beginning of the Badger revival - though the first three seasons of play gave little indication of the outstanding results that would soon follow.
A slow start
As often happens with new coaches, the early years of the Alvarez era were something less than spectacular. In fact, the first season\'s campaign saw the Badgers lose all but one of their eleven games. The next two seasons were slightly better, with a five win, six loss record in each. Still, there were already grumblings that the team was not progressing quickly enough. That all began to change as the 1993 season began.
Success at last
The \'93 campaign saw an Illinois Football Jersey impressive Badger team charge through the Big Ten Conference by winning 10 of their 12 games, with one loss and one tie. It also saw them head to the Rose Bowl - where they had played and lost three times before in their history. Under Alvarez\' leadership, though, this Badger team not only played well but won the Rose Bowl and ended up being ranked number six in the final AP poll of the season. The 1994 season was an 8 game season, and resulted in a postseason victory in the Hall of Fame Bowl. Over the next eleven seasons, the Badgers would suffer only two losing seasons, and would repeatedly receive invites to various bowl games. Most impressively, the program returned to the Rose Bowl after the 1998 and 1999 seasons, winning both. When he left the program after the 2005, the most successful coach in the program\'s history left behind one unassailable fact: Wisconsin football was back at last!
