When reserve center Joe Hedstrom announced on Tuesday that he was entering the transfer portal it seemed to touch a nerve with some Wisconsin Badgers fans. The barely-used big man, who appeared in nine games and played 16 total minutes this past season, became a bellwether for the downfall of the entire program throughout the Tuesday afternoon discourse.
There were people on Twitter and in the comments here saying that we, as a blog, wouldn’t criticize Greg Gard or the program so we wouldn’t lose access (which, lol on all accounts), that Gard couldn’t recruit and, basically, that the Badgers might as well just close up shop and not play basketball anymore ever again.