How Wisky missed out on Bo

This would be his first-person view of Ned Flanders.

Is that Pizza the Hutts cousin?

I agree.

You forgot great American.

John U. Bacon is, like those that write our laws, the  lobbyists, tossing in a lot of pork in this particular article by his attempt to manipulate the reader into thinking that WI would have had the same degree of success as UM did under Bo.

It is, no doubt or counter-argument existing, a fact that Bo was the greatest coach in modern UM football history and if not for Yost's unparralled success when the game was in its infancy, perhaps the greatest of all time, given the additional national powers and the many programs not above bending -HELL, IGNORING COMPLETELY - NCAA rules when Bo was at the helm in A.A. Think Clemson, OU, AL as the prei-eminent masters of this practice during the period referenced, with acknowlegement to SMU for completely destroying a program for all further time. However, they never really were a perennial national power during Bo's years.  

This is not a knock against Bo. If he had done other than winning here, it would have been no one's fault but his own. The fact that he inherited the greatest number of future AAs at the time of his hiring than any other five year period in UM history is perhaps more of a testament to his genius in developing and motivating players. Although UM had a nice 8-2 record the prior year, the comparisons between he and Bump's overall records, respectively, indicate why Bo is held in such highly deserved iconic classification to the Michigan faithful .

Now back to task. Yes, UW would have won far more games with Bo at the helm and would have risen to national prominence. However, because Bo and Barry would have built the programs in similar fashion; big powerful Olmen and running backs, and in Bo's case, a qb as likely to beat you with his feet than on play-action passes, it's obvious their success would have come much quicker than it ultimately did. But at UW, Bo's first two, perhaps three years, may have put him in a situation closer to RR's than to LC's, and Mos.'  He would have virtually inherited a team of those that had been raised in a culture of losing, a situation as bad as coaching a team full of first year players.

Bacon does, and I enjoy telling the story also, points out WI's miscues here in regard to their overall sports programs, but one cannot conclude, based on Bo's record here and dismissing all the tangibles that existed in that state at the time, that the success would have been as rapid and as lasting as it was at UM.  As one who became a UM fan during Bo's first year here, I would think WI's program would have more closely resembled IA's under Hayden to get a feel for what he could have accomplished there. Such was UM's and OSU's stranglehold over the talent in the conference during that particular era. Bo, like Ara did at NW, would have been able to give any conference team credibility and success, but w/o the perfect three way marriage between Bo, Canham and the Privilege of Michigan, as Bo liked to call it, no other program in the conference could have supplanted Woody's lock on conference supremacy during the '70s.  

Either you've forgotten that Michigan is playing Wisconsin tomorrow (the two relevant schools to this article about Bo), or you're being intentionally obtuse. Either way, I pity you.