Less than two months before the start of summer camp, and three months before the season opener, Gary Andersen could’ve found himself with an unexpected vacancy on his Wisconsin coaching staff.
In the end, though, it was much ado about mostly nothing.
Citing sources with knowledge of the situation, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that wide receivers coach Chris Beatty had interviewed for the head-coaching vacancy at East Tennessee State (Phillip Fulmer‘s new stomping grounds). Beatty played at the school in the nineties.
For whatever reason, though, the reunion between Beatty and his alma mater did not come to fruition.
“I told coach that I am happy here,” Beatty told the Journal-Sentinel. “I’m not a candidate for any job.”
Beatty came to the Badgers in February after spending the 2012 season as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Illinois.
The assistant would’ve become the second coach Andersen had lost since completing his first UW staff. In early March, and after just a month or so in Madison, Jay Boulware left for a job at Oklahoma.
Boulware was replaced by new tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Jeff Genyk.
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