Each of our Big Ten writers was asked to pick a Big Ten football "person of the year" for the 2015 season. Today on the Big Ten blog, each writer will lay out the case for his choice.
Joel Stave was confused and emotionally hurting, trying to grasp how a two-year starting quarterback could no longer do the one thing he had always done better than anyone he knew: throw a football.
It was Sept. 2, 2014, and one of the most bizarre days in recent Wisconsin football history was winding down.