The downfall of Wisconsin is fun for everyone (outside of the Badgers, of course).
I feel compelled to write about Wisconsin’s downfall. This isn’t the Wisconsin I occasionally hate watched since the early Alvarez years. This isn’t the Bielema Badgers. This isn’t Paul Chryst’s Badgers. You know…4 years ago they beat Iowa 27-7 in Madison and it felt like it was 40-7. Hell, this isn’t even the Gary Andersen Badgers, who beat Iowa in both 2013 and 2014.
So I could write about how weird it is watching that. I could write about their sudden collapse as a program. This is a wise tale for anyone in the Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota-Illinois-Michigan State phylum of Big Ten programs. Be careful what you wish for. I guess we’d know what this looks like on the basketball side of the ledger. If you try going up a level, fine, but don’t you dare lose your identity as a program in the process. Do that, and you look like Camp Randall yesterday – void of fans, whoever attended in red in open revolt, more Iowa fans than Wisconsin fans in the stadium at the end of the game. And all of this happening in 2 1/2 seasons…