Wow, Bo Ryan announces his retirement
Jake T.
Senior Member
Says him and Barry Alvarez were looking for the right time to pull the trigger and they decided end of semester worked okay.
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Good luck to the players with finals this week
Sounds like there are two schools of thought here. The first one is that Bo wanted his top assistant (Greg Gard) to get the job, so he did this at a time that forced the schools hand and they have no choice but to give it to him for the rest of the season. The other is that Bo wanted to get out sooner, but his Gard's dad was battling brain cancer and he didn't think the timing was right for him to bail, so he stuck it out until things stabilized for Gard (unfortunately, his dad passed away last month) and feels like now it's ok to walk away.
I've been a huge Bo Ryan fan. People that I've talked to that interact with him have told me that he's exactly the type of guy that you see on TV and that there isn't anything fake about him, just a really genuine guy. And he's also a great x's and o's coach and teacher, as I can't think of any coach that's maximized his team's talent as well as he has over the past decade.
It will be very difficult for Wisconsin to fill his shoes....
^^^^^^This