This reeks of the kind of overthinking that ruined the old Big East. The idea that some administrator jumping ship to a conference office is a "power play" that puts a coach on the hot seat is nonsense. Coaches get judged by wins and losses, period. Luke Fickell will be fine or he won't based on what happens on the field, not in some boardroom. I've seen real instability, like when we lost Jackie Sherrill to Texas A&M, that was a crisis. This is just a guy taking a different job. As for it being an opportunity for us, we shouldn't need Wisconsin to be shaky to win the West. That's a loser's mentality. The good teams, like our '76 squad or the '04 team that went to the Fiesta Bowl, they went into hostile places and took wins because they were better, not because the other AD quit. This obsession with "poaching croots" and sensing panic is what's wrong today. Kids used to commit to a program for the tradition, for the helmet. Now everybody's looking for the first sign of trouble to bail. That's the portal and NIL talking, not real football. The Big Ten isn't playing chess, they're just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic of realignment. We need to worry about building our own team the right way, like Walt Harris did, not salivating over some perceived weakness 500 miles away. If we're good enough, we'll beat them regardless of who their accountant is.