I'm in mourning.

Barry Alverez announced today that this will be his last season coaching the Wisconsin Badgers Football team.

Wisconsin Football wouldn't be on the map in it weren't for this guy. As a matter of fact it wasn't 15 years ago.

Some of Barry's accomplishments:

• coached three Big Ten and Rose Bowl champions

• only Big Ten coach ever to win the Rose Bowl in consecutive seasons

• guided UW to back-to-back Big Ten titles in 1998 and 1999 (hadn’t happened at Wisconsin since 1896-97)

• Three Big Ten and Rose Bowl championship teams (the only other Big Ten coach with at least three Rose Bowl wins was Ohio State’s Woody Hayes).

• Coached 54 NFL draft choices at Wisconsin.

• Coached 30 All-Americans, including seven consensus first-team choices, at Wisconsin.

• Coached nine first-round NFL draft choices

The good news for us Badger fans, is that he'll continue his duties as Athletic Director. I hope the team doesn't slip back into it's old ways.