Big Ten Football: Conference Award Roundup

The Big Ten conference announced its season awards for coaching, offense, and defense.  So lets see how Badger football did.

This week the Big Ten conference rolled out its awards and Wisconsin football earned some accolades. But some individual honors went to other teams and players.

So we’ll run down the list and see how the Wisconsin Badgers fared overall.  We’ll not where we disagree and where we don’t.

The Big Ten conference awards are a nice recognition for the team and individual players.  Of course, there are some disadvantage for a team like Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Badgers Football

Namely, it’s not a team built around the individual brilliance of one specific talent.  The exception perhaps being Jonathan Taylor on offense.

Yet even without Taylor the Badgers have a number of RB behind a solid OL.  They can try a healthy Bradrick Shaw, clearly have something in Garrett Groshek, and might yet get value from the pair of Pitt transfers.

But on defense especially, the Badgers get so many contributions that you can’t really ascribe the success to one player.  Instead, Wisconsin flows to the football and functions as a unit.  Sure, LB get the stats but there is so much talent there no one player is going to dominate the box score.

They’ve proven all season that no individual talent is irreplaceable.  Instead, when injuries strike it can dig into the depth chart and still shut down opposing offenses.  That of course makes them even harder to prepare for.  Just controlling one guy at one spot does you no good.

So scroll through this post and let us know on Twitter or Facebook what you think of how the Big Ten coaches and media voted on awards.