Feels like a hard pivot, but probably an overdue one. The Athletic college football podcast was debating the Mel.Tucker contract, and their recruiting guy shut it down, and said they have killed college football as anything other than a national title sport, but unlike basketball, there is way less randomness. Mel Tucker may fail, but he's gunning for it. Dantonio may have kept churning out 8-4 seasons, but 8-4 might as well be 4-8 with the current narrative. So you might as well shoot for the moon, because the downside isn't worse than the worst case scenario. Wisconsin is realizing the same. They could just go 9-3 forever, lose in the CCG, and wind up in a random Alamo Bowl. Or go for broke, and if it doesn't work, who cares, you missed an Alamo Bowl