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Saw that Bill Connelly dropped his previews and I just had to laugh. All these numbers and projections and not one word about what actually wins football games in the Big Ten. I remember sitting in Camp Randall in 1998 watching Ron Dayne run over Michigan State for 215 yards in a driving November rain. That was toughness. That was grit. Not some fancy formula that tells you how many yards per play someone averaged against air. This new AD talking about bringing Texas swagger to Madison makes me sick. We don't need swagger from Austin. We need offensive linemen who want to bury someone in the fourth quarter. We need running backs who get stronger as the game goes on. Barry Alvarez built this program on hay bales and Wisconsin winters, not on watever they're selling down in the Lone Star State. Fall camp is starting and I keep hearing about Notre Dame's fancy uniforms for Lambeau. You know what matters more than throwback jerseys? Whether our front seven can punch them in the mouth for four quarters. That's what built this program. That's what will keep us alive against the Irish at Lambeau Field. You can keep your projections. Give me a team that wants to earn every yard the hard way.

You want to talk about option football? I will tell you about option football. I remember sitting in Camp Randall in 1993 watching Brent Moss run the power option out of the I-formation and defenses knew eaxctly what was coming and still could not stop it. That was real football. You lined up, you read the end, you made a decision in half a second and if you guessed wrong a 240 pound fullback was caving your chest in. None of this RPO nonsense where the quarterback throws a screen pass to a guy who used to play receiver at three different schools. The option built this program. Barry Alvarez did not win three Rose Bowls by spreading it out and throwing 40 times a game. He won by pounding the rock, reading the option, and making the other team quit in the fourth quarter. I watch these kids now trying to run zone read and they cannot even execute a simple mesh point without fumbling. Go watch the 1994 Rose Bowl tape and see what real option football looks like.

You want to know what built this program? It wasn't Texas swagger. It wasn't NIL collectives. It was walk-ons. I remembr sitting in Camp Randall in the early 90s watching Barry Alvarez take kids who had zero other scholarship offers and turn them into Badgers. Guys who grew up in Wisconsin, who bled red because they had no other choice. They earned every single snap. Now Shawn Eichorst comes in from Texas talking about bringing that "swagger" here. I respect the man's resume but he needs to understand something. Our identity was never about buying talent. It was about developing it. Remember when we used to have 15 to 20 walk-ons on every roster? Kids from small towns who would run through a brick wall for a chance to wear the W. That's how we won three Rose Bowls in the 90s. That's how we beat Ohio State in 2010. That's how we built a program that lasted. The portal and NIL have killed that. Now every kid with a pulse thinks they deserve a scholarship and a car deal. The walk-on culture is dying and nobody in the administration seems to care. I guarantee you Barry is rolling over in his grave watching us try to copy what Texas does instead of doubling down on what made us special. We are Wisconsin. We develop. We don't import.

Fall camp is here and all I can think about is sitting in the old Camp Randall student section back in '81 when the stands actually shook. You kids have no idea what that place felt like on a crisp November afternoon when we were grinding out drives against Michigan State. Now they want to put new video boards everywhere and make it a TV studio.

Just saw Phil Steele release his Big Ten rankings and I swear that man still uses the same formula from 1998. He has us in the middle of the pack again and I cannot figure out if that is disrespect or just the reality of where we are right now. I remember when Steele would have us top three in the conference every year during the Alvarez years because he actually watched the film instead of just looking at recruiting stars.

Notre Dame rolling out special jerseys for a game at Lambeau Field and I just have to laugh. We used to play them in the old days when it meant something real, when the Big Ten was the Big Ten and you did not need a gimmick uniform to sell tickets. Now we have our new AD trying to bring Texas swagger to Madison and we are playing a Shamrock Series game in our own state like we are the visiting team. I remember when we did not need all this pageantry because the football spoke for itself under...

I will die on this hill: the transfer portal has turned fall camp into a glorified tryout for mercenaries and I miss when a scholarship meant something more than a temporary lease agreement. You watch these kids show up for camp and half of them have one foot in the portal before the first two-a-day even ends. I remember when Barry Alvarez would take a kid from Waukesha who had zero stars next to his name, put him through four years of Camp Randall winters, and by his senior year that kid was pancaking defensive ends in the fourth quarter against Michigan State. That is not a fairy tale. That is how we built the 1993 Rose Bowl team. That is how we built the 1998 squad that punched Ohio State in the mouth. You cannot build that kind of grit when every spring you are wondering if your left tackle is going to bolt for a $200,000 NIL bag from some school he cannot even find on a map. I look at our depth chart right now and I do not even recognize half the names. We have kids from three different programs in the offensive line room alone. How are you supposed to develop chemistry when the guy next to you was at Purdue six months ago? The 2005 team that went to the Capital One Bowl had linemen who had been eating dinner together for three years. They knew each others' families. They did not need a transfer portal to find playing time. They earned it in the weight room at 5:30 in the morning when it was 12 degrees outside and the snow was piled up on Monroe Street. The worst part is that the portal has destroyed the walk-on program. That used to be our identity. Every kid in Wisconsin grew up knowing that if you worked hard enough at Arrowhead or Homestead or River Falls, you could walk on at Madison and maybe, just maybe, earn a scholarship by your junior year. Now those kids are being pushed out for portal transfers who have no loyalty to the program and no connection to the state. I remember when Jim Leonhard walked on. I remember when Mark Tauscher walked on. Those guys did not transfer anyywhere. They bled red and white until they had to be dragged off the field. And do not get me started on the NIL angle. You have 18-year-old kids making more money than my first house cost and they are still entering the portal because they want a better deal somewhere else. I remember when a scholarship was the deal. That was the reward. You got your education paid for and you got to play for the University of Wisconsin. Now these kids are treating it like free agency and we are all supposed to pretend that is healthy for the sport. I will be at Camp Randall this fall watching our new transfers try to figure out how to run the power sweep in 20 mile per hour wind off Lake Mendota. And I will be thinking about the 1994 team that would have laughed at half these kids for not being tough enough to earn their spot.

You watch these kids in fall camp and half of them are already looking at the portal before the first scrimmage even ends. I remember when a scholarship to Wisconsin meant you bled red and white for four years, not until a better NIL offer showed up on your phone. The 1994 Rose Bowl team had walk-ons from Wisconsin Rapids who would have laughed at the idea of transferring for a few thousand dollars. The portal and NIL turned college football into professional free agency and I hate it.

Shawn Eichorst wants to bring Texas swagger to Madison? I remember when we didn't need swagger from Austin because Barry Alvarez was building it right here with Wisconsin kids and walk-ons who wanted to run the ball down your throat. That 1993 Rose Bowl team had more toughness in one offensive lineman than all the "swagger" in the state of Texas. Eichorst better remember what got us to the Big Ten title games in the first place, and it wasn't模仿ing what they do down south.

Just saw that we're heading to South Bend for a late Wednesday night game this fall and it got me thinking about the old rivalry days. I remember when we used to open against teams that meant something, not these fabricated matchups the TV networks cook up. The 1998 season opener against the Irish at Camp Randall, that was real football. Ron Dayne running through that defense like they were standing still, 33 carries for 183 yards and we beat them 17-13. The student section was shaking the whole stadium, you could feel the ground tremble under the bleachers. Now we're going to Notre Dame Stadium on a Wednesday night like we're some MAC school playing for exposure. I understand the money is good and the TV slots are what they are, but back when Barry Alvarez was building this program, we earned our respect by beating teams like Ohio State and Michigan in the Big Ten, not by chasing prime time slots against independent schools. The whole conference realignment mess has turned our schdule into a circus. We used to have the Big Ten title game in Indianapolis under the lights, that was our stage. Now we're traveling to South Bend on a school night because the networks say so. The kids on this team probably do not even remember when the Wisconsin-Notre Dame series was a legitimate rivalry that meant something to both programs. They just see it as another paycheck game. I will be watching from my living room like always, but it will not feel the same as those Saturday afternoons when the band was playing and the crowd was singing Varsity and you knew you were watching something real.

Fall camp starting and I see ESPN has us ranked 24th in the 2027 class, right behind Minnesota. That used to mean something when Barry Alvarez was pulling kids from small towns nobody ever heard of and turning them into All-Big Ten linemen. Now it is all about who has the biggest NIL bag and which five-star is willing to take a discount to play for a program that actually develops talent. I remember when we did not need to worry about recruiting rankings because we knew what we were building. The 1993 Rose Bowl team had exactly zero five-star recruits on the entire roster. Zero. And we ran the ball down the throats of UCLA in Pasadena because we had a system and we stuck to it. These kids today would transfer the second they lost a spring battle. We sit here in 2026 with a new athletic director coming back from Nebraska and I just do not know what identity we are trying to sell anymore. You cannot recruit like Ohio State and you cannot portal your way to relevance overnight. The o...

I do not care what the 2027 recruiting rankings say on ESPN right now. I do not care if Oregon and Ohio State are stacking five-stars like they are collecting baseball cards. You want to know how we built this program in the 1990s? Barry Alvarez walked into a farmhouse in Platteville and offered a scholarship to a kid who split firewood before practice and ran the 40 in 4.8 on a dirt road. That kid became a thre-year starter and we won three Rose Bowls. Now we are chasing 17-year-olds who want a bag before they have even taken a snap under the lights. Shawn Eichorst is coming back as AD and I hope he remembers what made Wisconsin football Wisconsin football. It was not the fancy uniforms or the recruiting stars. It was tough kids from Wisconsin who wanted to hit somebody. That is how you win. That is the only way you win in this state.

ESPN spent mmonths putting together that best players by jersey number list and I guarantee you they had some intern scrolling through Wikipedia instead of watching actual film. You look at the numbers that matter to us, the ones in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and I bet they glossed right over the guys who built this program. I remember when we had a left guard in the early 90s who would pull around the edge and bury some poor linebacker from Illinois into the turf, and that kind of toughness is what made us who we are. You cannot measure grit with a highlight reel or a recruiting star rating. You measure it by watching a kid from Waukesha or Green Bay show up for two-a-days in August and refuse to quit when the heat is cooking and your legs are gone. Fall camp is starting and I see the same pattern every year now. Everyone wants to talk about the 7-on-7 stuff and the passing game concepts and what our skill guys look like in shorts. Nobody wants to talk about the third-and-two rep in the team period where our fullback has to lead through the hole and the linebacker is reading it and it is just a collision. That is where games are won and lost. That is what we used to hang our hat on. I remember the 1993 season when we went to the Rose Bowl and you knew every single Saturday that we were gonna be the tougher team in the fourth quarter. The other team would be sucking wind and we would just keep pounding. That identity is not flashy and it does not get you on SportsCenter but it wins games. We have Notre Dame coming up in South Bend on a Monday evening and I am telling you right now that game is gonna tell us everything about whether this staff understands what made this program great. You cannot go into that environment and try to finesse your way to a win. You have to line up and hit them in the mouth. You have to run the ball and control the clock and make their crowd go quiet. That is how Barry built this thing and that is how we need to play if we want to be relevant again. I just hope the kids we have in camp right now understand that legacy.

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.

I remember when walk-ons were the backbone of this program, kids from Tomahawk or Rice Lake who would show up unannounced with a dream and earn a scholarship by their junior year. Now we are sitting at No. 24 in the recruiting rankings and I cannot help but wonder where the next Jim Leonhard or J.J. Watt is gonna come from when every kid with a pulse is shopping their NIL before they ever step foot on campus. The walk-on culture built this program under Coach Alvarez and I am afraid we are...

I remember when Camp Randall Stadium actually felt like a fortress, not a museum piece with luxury boxes blocking the view from the old student section. Back in the 80s, you could feel the whole place shake when we got a stop on third down, the band playing "On Wisconsin" so loud it rattled your bones. Now they have all these new video boards and club seats, but the soul of that place is gone. You cannot tell me the atmospere was better when they tore down the old bleachers and put in all th...

You scroll through ESPN's recruiting rankings and we are sitting there at No. 24, right behind Minnesota. I remember when fall camp meant you had a two-deep full of kids from Wisconsin who had been coming to Camp Randall since they were 10 years old. Now we are scraping the bo...

Shawn Eichorst. That name brings back memories of the early 2010s, and not the good kind. I understand he is a Wisconsin guy, born and raised, but we are bringing him back after Nebraska fired him almost a decade ago? This is the guy we trust to navigate this mess of conference realignment and NIL? I remember when the Big Ten was the Big Ten, ten schools, you played for the roses, and the AD's job was to make sure the band had new uniforms and the turf was mowed. Now we need a guy who can play corporate chess with tv contracts and the portal and Eichorst is the answer? Feels like we are running in place while the rest of the sport leaves us behind.

Portal loyalty is dead. Kids leave the second they lose a spring battle.

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