Really gets me? Seeing Oregon sitting at the top of the 2027 recruiting rankings with five 5-star kids while we are grinding at No. 24. But that is not even what bothers me most. What bothers me is that we used to play Michigan and Ohio State every single year. Those were the games that built this program. The 1993 team went into the Horseshoe and knocked off the Buckeyes when nobody gave us a chance. Now we get USC and UCLA and god knows who else on the schedule. Conference realignment destroyed everything that made the Big Ten special. We traded the history of the Paul Bunyan Axe and the Heartland Trophy for TV money and coast-to-coast travle. I will never understand how we let the sport we loved get turned into a business transaction.