Madison — During his two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Pittsburgh, Taylor Mehlhaff told anyone who asked how much he believed in head coach Paul Chryst, how he treated the people in his charge and his vision for the football program.
Mehlhaff finds himself in a similar position with Chryst at Wisconsin, as UW's quality control assistant working with special teams.
There is one significant difference.
Mehlhaff, like Chryst, is a UW alum whose passion for the program is unquestioned.
"When you're around the different recruiting events and you're with the family and with the players," said Mehlhaff, an All-American kicker as a senior in 2007, "it is so easy to sell this place.