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per RandBall:
One story stands out from the rest for Will Ryan playing at Williams Arena on Wisconsin’s staff.
During pregame warmups against Dan Monson’s Gophers in 2005, Will walked up the stairs from the locker room underneath the Barn. The first thing he laid eyes on was a not very flattering sign in the Barnyard, the Gopher basketball student section nearby.
“They had not quite life-sized photos of Brian Butch that they took off probably the early days of Facebook,” Ryan said. “He was wearing something that was not a very flattering photo of him.”
Sources say it was a bikini top. Not a very good look. And his father, not surprisingly wasn’t too pleased.
“I remember telling my dad, the student section pretty much all have a picture of Brian Butch like that,” he said. “My dad rolled his eyes and said, ‘Oh boy.’”

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Go Gophers!!
One story stands out from the rest for Will Ryan playing at Williams Arena on Wisconsin’s staff.
During pregame warmups against Dan Monson’s Gophers in 2005, Will walked up the stairs from the locker room underneath the Barn. The first thing he laid eyes on was a not very flattering sign in the Barnyard, the Gopher basketball student section nearby.
“They had not quite life-sized photos of Brian Butch that they took off probably the early days of Facebook,” Ryan said. “He was wearing something that was not a very flattering photo of him.”
Sources say it was a bikini top. Not a very good look. And his father, not surprisingly wasn’t too pleased.
“I remember telling my dad, the student section pretty much all have a picture of Brian Butch like that,” he said. “My dad rolled his eyes and said, ‘Oh boy.’”


Will Ryan, son of ex-Badgers coach, makes D-I coaching debut at dad's old rival Gophers
Wisconsin-Green Bay coach Will Ryan makes his Division I coaching debut Wednesday night against his father's old rival Gophers at the Barn. Ryan, the son of ex-Badgers coach Bo Ryan, had some 'interesting memories' of Williams Arena.
Go Gophers!!