Rose Bowl Rewind: Badgers came to win
Behind Bevell and Moss,Wisconsin had 'Camp Randall West' rocking in 1994
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BY MIKE LUCAS
olitely but firmly, Barry Alvarez interrupted the questioner, who was innocently suggesting his players' focus might not
be as sharp for the 1994 Rose Bowl given all the
goals that the Badgers had reached to get there.
Patiently, the UW coach reiterated a point that
he had made earlier.
"We have one goal left – win,'' he said. "Win
the bowl game. Our kids listen to what we say.
That's why I wasn't going to be satisfied with
getting to any bowl game or getting to a January
1st game or getting to the Rose Bowl. The last
goal is to win – win the bowl game."
The Badgers did what they had to do in Tokyo
against Michigan State. They won. And now
Alvarez was preparing them for the ultimate
challenge – to win the Rose Bowl.
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"I had no trouble finding an edge against
UCLA,'' Alvarez said. "I played the 'home team
advantage' card. During the regular season, the
Bruins play their home games at the Rose Bowl
and their coach, Terry Donahue, asked me if he
could keep his players in the home locker room.
"C'mon, do you really think I'm going to let
them do that? We're going to take the home
locker room, we're going to dress in red, and
we're going to make them as uncomfortable as
hell about the whole deal. I started telling the
kids,
'We're going to be playing at Camp Randall
West.''''
Alvarez knew that playing in the Rose Bowl
was obviously not as big of a deal to UCLA as it
was to Wisconsin.
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