Danny O'Brien of Wisconsin Badgers Elections Can Win The Big Ten Title?

Route Danny O'Brien of the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin, a detour to Australia, where the defender headed for the winter session, to keep him on the way to graduate this spring, after three years in college.
At the end of early, O'Brien enjoy the rules NCAA, which allows graduates to be eligible immediately if they go to graduate school at another location. Thus, after starting 17 games over two seasons at Maryland, O'Brien will have the right of the remaining two years in Wisconsin, where he will compete for jobs in 2012 from a camp in August
After a whirlwind two-month recruitment process, O'Brien, who was born in the area of ​​Minneapolis, will follow in the footsteps of North Carolina transfer Russell Wilson, which led to the Badgers Rose Bowl in his only season right on Madison.
It was evident from mid-2011 O'Brien strongly consider switching to the off-season, but he had to take alternate routes to try and finish sooner. In an effort to reduce costs, the program paid for the Maryland football in the winter session classes only for players that are absolutely necessary in the school, according to a person in the program who has knowledge of the situation. Thus, the family paid for O'Brien to take a course in Australia, which would help towards his business degree.
"He was supposed to go to Australia to make this possible," Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said in a telephone interview.
Bielema said he did not promise to O'Brien to start this fall. Badgers have been to two healthy defenders in practice this spring, Joel Wood and Joe Brennan, and highly touted incoming freshman Bart Houston is still rehabbing from arm surgery this fall.
One solution to the O'Brien Bielema took a weekend trip O'Brien 48 hours in Madison with his parents. Bielema, stipulated in 2013 that the depth map can be represented by nine seniors on offense and eight senior on defense, which makes them contenders for the title of the Bowl Championship Series Badgers.
As he studied the basic O'Brien, Bielema was impressed by the fact that O'Brien did on the field, especially during the season, redshirt freshman in 2010, where he was named ACC rookie of the year. O'Brien passed for 2,438 yards and 22 touchdown in 10 starts.
But to Bielema, that distinguishes the majority were mature O'Brien as a man and his ability to persist through adversity with a positive attitude. Since August, O'Brien's shop in the middle of the season in 2011, had a broken arm at the end of the season, and coach Randy Edsall listened to doubt their commitment to the program of the Maryland football when O'Brien decided in February to transfer.
In public comments, O'Brien nothing but complimentary of Maryland football and the coaching staff to take the high road through it all.
"He never said nothing bad at all, what's going on," said Bielema. "He took it as an experience. If you have a child who has the opportunity, as a defender, you face the program, and he really understands. He is a kid who has great vision and ability to see the big picture."
Todd Willert, who led O'Brien High School in Kernersville, North Carolina, said: "He smiled every bit of adversity He smiles, takes it and goes from there.".
During the recruitment process, Bielema was based on Willert, for mentor O'Brien. Bielema then met with several of his assistants, who had a relationship with the coaches who worked for former coach Ralph Friedgen of Maryland and Edsall. Bielema also been found in the person's business school in Maryland.
"People out there will do anything for him," said Bielema. "He was highly recommended."
One of the longstanding goals O'Brien played in the NFL. Bielema O'Brien said that last season there were 14 recruits in the NFL lists Wisconsin, it represents the largest number in the country. And he said that this season, he expects that up to 16 on the list of NFL.
During a visit to Wisconsin, O'Brien Willert and simply said: "Coach, you should see the size of the offensive lineman in Wisconsin!"
O'Brien also visited Mississippi and Pennsylvania, and is highly regarded as the Vanderbilt, whose head coach, James Franklin, recruited O'Brien, Maryland, where he was offensive coordinator of the school. After O'Brien decided to move in Maryland filed a charge of falsification of the ACC, alleging that Franklin had been in contact with incorrect O'Brien last season. Franklin denied the allegations.
"Danny is very, very hungry to get back to where he was to the success of the 2010 season," said Willert. "There are children in the sports world who deserve good things. Danny And one of them."
Terrapins Note: Maryland, announced on Wednesday that a reserve defensive Avery Graham decided to leave the football program. Graham, who was a redshirt junior in the autumn, will be given his unconditional release if he decides to transfer to another school.