You watch these highlight reels now and it is all shotgun spread, RPO reads, and 50 throws a game. That is fine for the video game generation but you want to see real football? Go watch the 1993 tape against Michigan when we ran the option out of the I-formation and dared the Wolverines to stop it. Barry Alvarez understood that the option is about toughness and discipline, not just scheme. Every snap the quarterback reads the end man and the fullback is running downhill. That is Wisconsin football. That is what made Camp Randall a nightmare for visitors. You cannot simulate that violence in practice and you cannot defend it if your defensive end cheats. I miss watching the mesh point and the crowd holding its breath waiting for the pitch. The option offense was poetry in shoulder pads and we abandoned it for this finesse nonsense.