You Badger fans are always looking back at your one Rose Bowl win like it was some golden era we all should envy. I've been watching Cobber football since the 70s, when we built real teams with Minnesota kids who sayed for four years and played for the love of the game, not a paycheck. You talk about Barry Alvarez building an identity, but you're forgetting he was pulling kids out of our backyard, out of the MIAC's territory, and convincing them that Madison was the only place to be. That wasn't loyalty, that was smart recruiting from a coach who knew where the real heartland football was played. Our Concordia teams under coaches like Jim Christopherson had more genuine brotherhood in a single season than your entire program has had in the last decade. You weep about the portal, but your program has been poaching talent from smaller schools for generations, you just used a scholarship instead of an NIL deal. At least now a kid from a place like Moorhead might get some real value for his talent instead of being told he should just be grateful for the offer. That 1998 team you're so proud of? They were an anomaly in a conference you've always tried to lord over. The game hasn't lost its soul, it's just finally showing you that your program's pride was always built on the same transactional relationships you claim to hate.