The same could have been said of the 49ers after the 2010 season. Harbaugh shows up and comes within a few plays of playing in the Super Bowl in his first season there.
None of this will even matter as the new rising power in Big 10 football will be the University of Minnesota.
We almost got the trifecta this year. We got the Little Brown Jug (Michigan) and Floyd of Rosedale (Iowa) and came close to getting Paul Bunyan’s Axe (Wisconsin).