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Badgers athletic director Barry Alvarez says he missed 2 calls from someone named POTUS

How does University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez describe his interactions with President Donald Trump during efforts last month to get Big Ten Conference football back on the fall schedule?

"Interesting" was one of the words in play.

"I missed two calls," Alvarez said through laughs during his monthly radio show that aired on 1310 WIBA and Learfield/IMG College Wednesday night. "I said to my wife, who is POTUS? POTUS tried to call me. She started laughing. POTUS is trying to call."

POTUS, Alvarez now knows, is the acronym for President of the United States.