Right before a February conditioning session, Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst approached walk-on safety Collin Wilder. At first the Houston transfer, who took a chance on coming to UW and paying his way to play football, thought nothing about it.
Next thing you know, he found out he is on scholarship.
“We were about to do a running workout, and coach Chryst just came up to me and said, ‘Come see me in my office after this,’” Wilder told B5Q on Friday after Wisconsin’s last practice. “I thought he’d just wanted to check on me or something like that.