Gary Andersen

[OreDucks01284]

to become Head Coach for Wisconsin


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[USUaggieDuck]

GAH I CAN'T ESCAPE THIS IT IS EVERYWHERE I GO


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[uostudent]

Nice hire for Wisconsin. Anderson is an excellent coach. Surprised that Anderson would take the Wisconsin job but turn down the opportunity to interview at Cal.

[karlhungis]

Wisconsin is a much better job than Cal.

[woundedknees]

Yahoo is reporting that Andersen personally called every player on his former team to say goodbye, and explain, at least in part, why he chose to do so.

It didn't necessarily endear him to all of their hearts, but it beats the heck out of walking out on a room full of recruits at dinner, to take a new position elsewhere.

[Duck24]

Yahoo is reporting that Andersen personally called every player on his former team to say goodbye, and explain, at least in part, why he chose to do so.

It didn't necessarily endear him to all of their hearts, but it beats the heck out of walking out on a room full of recruits at dinner, to take a new position elsewhere.

Or the Randy Edsall "hop on a private plane after getting plowed in the Fiesta Bowl to accept the Maryland job" shtick. Gotta respect a coach who does that sort of thing for sure.

[Duck07]

Yahoo is reporting that Andersen personally called every player on his former team to say goodbye, and explain, at least in part, why he chose to do so.

It didn't necessarily endear him to all of their hearts, but it beats the heck out of walking out on a room full of recruits at dinner, to take a new position elsewhere.

When I read that I was glad to finally read about a Coach who took the time to do something "difficult" rather than simply taking the easy route and avoiding it almost altogether as most seem to do and then blame it on things like recruiting or contract talk. Players know this stuff happens and by treating them with respect GA showed that he's got some integrity in a sport that seems to be fast losing it.

[woundedknees]

http://www.foxsportswisconsin.com/12/21 ... eedID=5065

"Gary Andersen had been in town less than 24 hours when he began arranging meetings to speak with members of Wisconsin's football team Thursday. But on his first day as the Badgers' new coach, he wasn't interested in talking much about X's and O's."

"He simply wanted to introduce himself, to give players his phone number and to let them know he was there for them now if they needed anything."

"I have a major care factor for them, and I'm very interested, as quickly as I can, to let them understand that they can trust me," Andersen said Friday when he was introduced as the 29th football coach in Wisconsin program history. "But that takes time. Just because I say I want them to trust me means nothing. I have to show it through the way I carry myself."

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"In particular, they took notice of the way Andersen left Utah State's program earlier this week. Andersen made phone calls to all 106 players on the Aggies' roster to inform them of his decision to leave the school, calling late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning."

"That's a tremendous gesture by a coach to be able to do that," Badgers center Travis Frederick said. "Obviously, kids probably had heard throughout the media or whatever. For him to reach out to each of them and personally break the news, I think that's a very classy act. I think all the kids probably really appreciated that."

"Andersen said he made the calls because his players had earned the right to hear the news directly from him."

"If they're frustrated, they deserve to tell me they're frustrated, which not one of them was," he said. "I'm not going to tell you they were doing back flips, but they understood the situation."

The more I hear, the more I like.

[USUaggieDuck]

They're really lucky.

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[Phenom]

lol