You want to know why we are sitting at number 24 in the 2027 recruiting rankings while Oregon has five 5-stars again? Let me tell you something. I remember when we did not need a top five class to run the ball down peoples throats. I remember the 1993 Rose Bowl when we lined up and told Michigan we were running the power sweep and they still could not stop us. That was Wisconsin football.
Now we have to fly out to Pasadena to play UCLA and we are supposed to get excited about a trip to the Coliseum to face USC. You know what we lost when we stopped playing Minnesota on the last Saturday of November every year like God intended? We lost the soul of this program. The Axe game meant something because it was the last game, not because the conference schedule makers decided to throw us a bone in week four. I do not care how many stars Oregon has. I care about having an identity. Barry Alvarez built this program on Wisconsin kids, walk ons, and three yards and a cloud of dust. Now we are just anothher team in a 20 team league nobody asked for.