College football is creeping up on the sporting world. Only 51 days, or seven Saturdays, separate us from Wisconsin’s September 2 opener against Buffalo.
One of the first milestones towards that schedule beginning is Big Ten Media Days. Well, that event will take place two weeks from now on July 26-27.
At Media Days last year, a big deal was made of the conference returning all 14 coaches from the previous year. This year could not be a bigger contrast, with Wisconsin, Nebraska, Purdue and now Northwestern set to enter the event with a new face leading the program.
Each school always brings several player representatives with them to Indianapolis. Wisconsin’s last year were Graham Mertz, Nick Herbig and Keeanu Benton.
Wisconsin football announced this year’s representatives on Twitter yesterday. They will be RB Braelon Allen, QB Tanner Mordecai and LB Maema Njongmeta.
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— Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) July 12, 2023
Having a transfer entering his first year with the program in that situation is an interesting dynamic. Maybe my thoughts go to the pre-portal era, but it always felt like four-year vets at the school were the ones to attend.
I guess none of that really matters since Rutgers brought its punter Adam Korsak last year. And nobody is better prepared to answer the onslaught of questions about Wisconsin’s new offense than its signal-caller Mordecai.