Alvarez will be paid $225,000 for coaching Badgers in Rose Bowl

You work extra, you get paid extra. University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will get an extra $225,000 in his paycheck for one month on the job.

Alvarez will coach the Badgers in next month’s Rose Bowl. He will get the money the university would have paid head coach Bret Bielema before he left to coach Arkansas.

Alvarez makes $1 million a year as Wisconsin’s athletic director.

He’ll be pretty busy all month long, searching for Bielema’s permanent replacement, getting ready for the bowl game and meeting with new recruits during one of the busiest times of the athletic year. He also will perform his regular athletic director duties.

Alvarez says he served as coach and athletic director for three years, getting just one salary, and those days are history.

There’ll be no surprise when next coach leaves

Wisconsin’s next football coach will not be able to surprise University of Wisconsin officials like Bret Bielema did when he bolted for Arkansas last week.

Athletic director Barry Alvarez told Sirius XM Satellite Radio that a clause will be put into the next coach’s contract. He said it will require that his office be informed before another school has any contact with the coach, otherwise, it will be considered a breach of contract against the Badgers’ field leader.

Alvarez said his office normally contacts another school’s athletic office before making contact with a coach it might want to hire, and other schools should do the same. Alvarez said he didn’t know that Bielema was leaving until the day it was announced last Tuesday. Some of the coach’s closest associates in Madison didn’t know, either.

Meanwhile, media reports say Wisconsin receivers coach Zach Azzanni is no longer a possible candidate to join Bielema at Arkansas. Azzanni and the other Wisconsin assistants plan to stay with the team at least through the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl Game against Stanford.

Badger men lose to Marquette

Mistakes they usually don’t make doomed the Wisconsin Badgers in their in-state rivalry game in Milwaukee against Marquette.

Following the lead of Junior Cadougan, the Golden Eagles beat Wisconsin, 60-50, Saturday.

The Badgers made 14 turnovers, about half again the average. They also shot 33 percent from the field and 39 percent from the free throw line.

Marquette scored the first seven points of the game and never trailed. The Badgers were able to pull close twice in the second half. In each case, Cadougan stepped up and helped his team maintain its lead.

The senior point guard hit 7 of 10 shots, took down four rebounds and dished out a half-dozen assists, with only one turnover.

The Badger offense was so anemic nobody scored in double figures. Jared Berggren and Ryan Evans each scored nine points. Marquette’s record improved to 6-2, while Wisconsin’s fell to 6-4.

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