Remember that?
The last year in Wisconsin football feels like about a decade. Lost in the hire of Luke Fickell, offensive transition under Phil Longo, transfer portal mania, Jim Leonhard going to Illinois and more, there was a two-day period last season when it looked like star running back Braelon Allen was transferring.
The rumors started on a Michigan message board and exploded from there, and got as far as to the point Allen needed to spend an entire postgame press conference shooting the rumors down.
Well, our friend Isaiah Hole at WolverinesWire got to the bottom of it at Big Ten Media Days last week.
“I was just confused by it because I wasn’t sure where that even sprouted up from, but I try not to pay too much mind to it,” Allen said. “It’s kind of annoying, just because we had played at Iowa. We lost and like, my whole postgame press conference was about these transfer rumors. And like, I don’t even know where you guys got this from. And we just lost like, I’m trying to get on the bus and go home.
“So it was weird. But obviously, I always wanted to be at Wisconsin. And I just had to make sure that when the season was over I had to make sure that it was going to be the right decision for me.”
For further context, here is the full answer:
If you forget, Allen had a creative way of telling Wisconsin fans the rumors were false last year. Nevertheless, I’m sure Wisconsin fans are encouraged Allen says transferring to Michigan was never a consideration.