Barry Alvarez started off his tenure as the Wisconsin football coach with what seemed to be an outrageous comment: “They better get season tickets right now because, before long, they probably won’t be able to.”
At the time, Badger fans probably could have rolled their eyes and expected the same poor play from the football program as always. Wisconsin football was in a bad place. They rarely put a competitive team on the field. They spent the previous three years (1987-1989) in the cellar of the Big Ten. They won only six of the 33 games they played in those three years.