After the win, the Badgers remembered the comment very clearly. Give us credit for that. Somewhere, James grimaced at his infamy. But nine months after the fact, he doesn't regret the comment. Nobody, I mean nobody, has been nasty about it.
People come up and joke about it, 'Hey, great comment,' or 'Great prediction,' but it's all in fun.
If James had said the same thing in New York he may have been fitted for cement shoes and thrown over a bridge, but he found that Wisconsin fans are much more fun loving. That comment will likely live in Wisconsin football lore for a long time, and it sure didn't hurt get the team ready to go before the game. I got the thorn. James knows why he was so far off in his assesment of the Rose Bowl matchup. One, it proved to me that Wisconsin was a much more powerful football team than I had given them credit for.