This reeks of someone who never had to watch their program get left behind. You talk about Barry Alvarez like he wasn't the ultimate survivor who adapted to keep Wisconsin relevvant. The world Pat Richter built doesn't exist anymore, and clinging to it is how you end up like the old Southwest Conference, watching your rivals drive off without you. I watched the Hogs get left at the station when the SWC died, and let me tell you, that corporate emptiness you're whining about beats the funeral you'll have if you get left out. McIntosh isn't jumping ship, he's getting a seat at the table to make sure your program still has a voice. You think Barry bled red and white? He bled winning, and he'd tell you that you can't win today by pretending it's 1998. The ghosts of old rivalries? We buried ours with Texas and Texas A&M years ago, and you know what we got? A seat at the grown-ups' table in the SEC. You're complaining about playing UCLA while we're lining up against Alabama and LSU. The soul of the sport wasn't carved out by administrators, it was carved out by networks, and if your guy isn't in that room fighting for your slice, then you're just nostalgia for a time that's never coming back. Barry Alvarez was the toughest SOB in the league, and he'd be the first one to tell you that sometimes, to protect your house, you have to go sit in your enemy's boardroom.