TroyD92 wrote:Kerb Hohl wrote:paulpressey25 wrote:
Barry and I approve of this post.
It all comes back to where you want the program to be. If you want to try and contend for a national title, you emphasize a modern offense. See where it ends up. Might not work. And if you want a 9-3 team that blows out crap programs but will only be ranked between #10-20 you go back to Barry’s world.
I think part of the issue is teams will pay top notch linemen and take them away from us.
Then on the other side, our top notch line + modest skill position players can’t beat the **** out of Purdue’s unpolished sophomore lineman anymore, because Purdue has an All-Mountain West senior transfer in his place nowadays.
We also play a way tougher schedule now.
I think the 9-3 path is dead. I was the 9-3 team appreciator for decades. Can’t do it anymore, at least not consistently.
Like I said earlier - I don’t think I’m going to see many more highly competitive Badger teams in my lifetime…no matter which route they try.
Then CFB will just die. If consistently good teams like Wisconsin have no chance than who really does besides the 8-10 teams that spend millions a year.
We can occasionally contend when we happen to land a transfer QB that explodes once in a decade, but correct - consistent success is now out the window.
MLB and premier league do well with imbalanced spending, I guess. Nobody will care that Wisconsin is an afterthought when they get like 8 marquee playoff games between Texas, OSU, LSU, whatever to close the year.
