As I mentioned before, brown is down does not pertain to doe shooting. It's the mentality of many many hunters. Wisconsin has seen more trophy bucks since the induction of EAB than any other time in history, including back when it was either choice. Hunters chose buck tags and chose to shoot small bucks. It would still be that way for at least 1/2 of our hunting population.
I'm not advocating that people must only trophy hunt. I'm saying that sometimes when the DNR took control of the harvest, some very positive things, like a respectible buck:doe ratio and an overall improvement in age class representation took place almost immediately.