Don’t know about you, but I subscribe to the theory that the best football teams run 50 percent of the time and pass 50 percent of the time. And the best basketball teams are equal parts perimeter- and interior-oriented.
And the best sports schools in America celebrate both sports on equal terms.
In my four blurry years of University of Wisconsin studentry, I did more than learn to make up words. I also ran the table of ineptitude with four bad basketball teams and four football teams that combined for an almost unimaginably foul record of — are you ready for this? — 9-35 during the 1988-91 seasons.