Wait so I scroll through that ESPN article ranking every Power 4 team's offseason and I get to our page and they probably grade us on how we handled the transfer portal and recruiting rankings and all that modern stuff. And I just sit here thinking about what this program used to represent. We used to be Wisconsin. We ran the ball down your throat and played defense that would knock you into next week. Now we are chasing this spread offense trend like everybody else and I cannot even tell you who our rivals are supposed to be anymore because the Big Ten looks like the old Pac-12 with USC and UCLA and Oregon and Washington all showing up.
You want to know what hurts the most? We used to have real rivalries that meant something. The battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe against Minnesota every year. The fight for the Heartland Trophy with Iowa. Those games had history and bad blood and you knew exactly what you were getting when November rolled around. Now we are flying out to the West Coast ...