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    Teddy Greenstein: Jonathan Taylor is fulfilling Wisconsin's legacy of great RBs. Could he finish as best of the bunch?

    by Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune Sep 19, 2019 3 minutes

    Melvin Gordon was ticked. Annoyed enough, at the very least, to share a disparaging comment from an Auburn player before the Outback Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015.

    Gordon had rushed for an insane 2,336 yards entering the game. Yet one of the Tigers belittled him during a bowl-week event, saying: "You play in that (inferior) league. Anybody can have as many yards as you have."

    Gordon relayed that comment to Barry Alvarez, the godfather of modern Wisconsin football. Wisconsin's athletic director coached the Badgers in the Outback after Gary Andersen left for Oregon

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