Over the summer, I was watching Secret Base’s brilliant docu-series “History of the Minnesota Vikings” when something that caught my eye (I highly, highly recommend checking out the whole series if you have the time — it’s worth your while). About 15 minutes into Episode Five, Jon Bois tells the story of former Vikings coach Dennis Green, who made a pit stop at Northwestern before rising to the NFL ranks. If you don’t have the opportunity to check out 90 seconds from the hyperlink above, the gist of the section is this: on the heels of a 34-game losing streak spanning multiple seasons in the early eighties, in 1982 Dennis Green led Northwestern to a 3-8 record and as Bois perfectly puts it, “[The voters] said, ‘Wait, you won three games at Northwestern?
Making the Big Ten Coach of the Year case for David Braun
