I keep seeing Minnesota fans say how ‘unimpressive’ Wisconsin looked.
And I’ll agree - it was a disjointed effort.
That being said it was game 1 of the Luke Fickell era.
The Gophers arguably looked worse and it’s year 6 of the PJ Fleck era.
more venting from a guy who takes every potshot he can at UW.
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plan on competing for playoff spots, they need a heated field. Yes it stinks to tear up a 2 year old turf. But there's not another option as the landscape of CFB has changed. Its a sunk cost - and its in
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are ripping out 2-year-old artificial turf field at Camp Randall Stadium & replacing it with heated field that will allow them to host playoff games. (Insert your own joke here.) Cost estimated at $5.5 million. Does money grow on trees on Monroe Street?
With new rankings, Wisconsin now has the most blue chips they’ve ever recruited in a class. Also hitting 50% on the blue chip ratio. Don’t believe they’ve ever done that in a cycle
A couple of thoughts;
- I was very wrong about this season.
- Fickell is still the same guy every AD was salivating over 6 months ago. I liked the hire then and one season of bad football doesn’t change that for me.
- it’s far too early too know what Locke is or isn’t. Few QBs
I had another awesome weekend at Wisconsin! I can’t thank the staff enough for making it so good! Really enjoyed my time there. They have a special group of people in Madison.
The billboard in Times Square was put up by the
@VarsityCltv
. In a release, the Collective said it wanted to give the 27 new
#Badgers
- recruits & transfers - their “15 minutes of fame.” The Collective is also putting up billboards in the hometowns of the six early enrollees.
The
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would have 9-10 wins this year if this version of Mordecai was playing all year long.
He's been incredible in this game. Just throwing lasers all over the field.
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fans remember, its very early in the bsk season - don't overreact too much to the upcoming Tennessee game.
Unless Wisconsin wins of course. In that case, buy your final four tickets.
I’m pretty convinced the ‘24 class is gonna be a bedrock class for this program.
It’s early - but I think all of:
Heywood
Lucas
Lafaele
Heiberger
Mandell
Jones
Dupree
Johnson
Are potential stars
Still enjoying the afterglow of the GRITTIEST
#Badgers
basketball win in a long time.
Banged up team, underdogs, entire front court fouls out.
This team held the rope and didn’t fold.
Major major kudos!!
Better or worse than last year Badgers football
QB - better
RB - worse
WR - better
TE - worse
OL - better
DL - worse
OLB - worse
ILB - better
CB - better
S - better
K - better
P - worse
Depth - better
Coaching - better
I have a hard time comping John Blackwell to someone.
He's so in control of his offensive game, never takes a bad shot, shoot great from deep, draws fouls at an elite level.
He's a true freshman.
He's a problem for the Big Ten.
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Or.. people who listen to your show and interact with you on twitter likely share your views - hence they listen and follow you - and the people who don't share your views likely don't
you are polling people who tend to agree with you. In other words confirmation bias.
Gard defenders were out today. They were loud, they were condescending, but one thing is certain: they are in the factual minority.
A sample size of 1300+ Badgers fans revealed that more than 67% of fans want Gard gone, and a better coach hired. Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don’t
Sometimes I think back to that '14-'15
#Badgers
basketball team....
and wonder if it was during the NIL era....
could Wisconsin have been able to afford that roster???
I hate when the season ends, love my
#badgers
.
They were not locked in when the game started today. Thats on the coaches and the players.
No excuse for that.
Also hats off to JMU - they played hard and deserved all of that.
The last time there was an
@EASPORTSCollege
game the top rated
#Badgers
were
10 - Melvin Gordon 86
9 - Peniel Jean 86
8 - Jacob Pederson 87
7 - Ethan Hemer 87
6 - Drew Meyer 88
5 - Kyle French 88
4 - Dez Southward 88
3 - James White 89
2 - Chris Borland 91
1 - Abbrederis 93
Michigan cheated and screwed other big ten programs for years.
And I’m supposed to root for them because they are a big ten team?
Where was all that ‘big ten brotherhood’ on the Wolverines side when they were screwing other B10 teams?
Screw them.
#wolverines
#michigan
Important to remember you aren’t replacing Chucky, Wahl, Storr with Tonje, Camren and Amos.
You are replacing Chucky, Wahl and Storr with:
Tonje, Camren, Amos, Freitag and sophomore year growth from Blackwell and Winter.
At least that’s the hope.
If I were a guy prone to overreactions after one
#Badgers
practice ....
- Bryson Green is going to be HIM
- Will Pauling is going to catch 65+ passes
- Sauce Gardner is 'discount' Amare Snowden
I built a Badgers website about a decade ago, did it all with Adobe GoLive.
I was in so deep, I would actually rank my excitement level for upcoming games.
I make no apologies for who I am.
Refs were bad tonight for the
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However;
- don't turn the ball over
- play better defense
- start the game with energy
All of these things have nothing to do with Refs.
Hot take.
The real reason Jayden Daniels opted out of the Bowl Game is he knows what happened the last time he played the
#badgers
.
He's preserving his draft stock. 😈😈
A couple things on the the Alex Grinch hire...
- he's coming in a safeties coach, not a DC
- experience at OK, USC, OSU and more
- Some incredibly sharp CFB minds have hired him (Fickell, Riley, Leach, Pinkle)
I feel pretty solid about it.
#badgers
#grinch
If Jim Leonhard wants a guy, and Bobby April also wanted that guy, and Luke Fickell wants him and Mike Tressell wants him --- you know he's a big time talent and major player.
Anelu Lafaele checks all of those boxes. Would be a huge get for the
#badgers
@LafaeleAnelu
Was thinking about Mordecai in terms of recent former
#Badgers
qbs and where my confidence in him resides.
(non-RW list)
I'm probably here
Tolzien
Mordecai
Coan
Stave
Hornibrook
Mertz
Houston
The QB room to start last season
Mertz
Burkett
Hill
Howe
Wolf
The QB room to start next season
Mordecai
Evers
Locke
Wolf
LaCrue
Howe
Burkett
WILD.
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#wisconsin
#fickell
Best RBs in College Football since 2000
1 Reggie Bush (USC)
2 Ezekiel Elliott (Ohio St)
3 Saquon Barkley (PSU)
4 Derrick Henry (Alabama)
5 Adrian Peterson (OU)
6 Leonard Fournette (LSU)
7 Dalvin Cook (FSU)
8 Jonathan Taylor (Wisco)
9 Myles Gaskin (UW)
10 Royce Freeman (Oregon)
Wisconsin offensive lineman Nolan Rucci has entered the transfer portal,
@mzenitz
and I have learned for
@247Sports
.
He ranked as a five-star recruit in the 2021 class.
Tanner Mordecai should get a ton of credit this game for his ball security.
Handling a snap like this while still executing the hand off is winning football.
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Looking at the upcoming schedules --- one thing really sticks out.
Wisconsin really BLEW a big window with consistently easy schedules. We are gonna look back in 5 years and wonder how we didn't win the West every other year.
Keep seeing people just talk about the 'UW system and RBs blah blah' trying to discount what Taylor and Gordon did.
If you watched those two and thought 'oh, thats just the UW system producing , any RB could do that'... you need to turn in your CFB fan card.
Ranking all of the most recent programs entering the Big Ten according to which schools 'feel' most Big Ten to me.
1. Neb
2. Washington
3. UCLA
4. USC
5. Oregon
6. Maryland
7. Intentional blank space
8. Rutgers
Life comes at you fast.
Two weeks ago I was picturing a 9 man rotation that looked like this:
Hepburn (😭)
Kles
Fiddler (😩)
Angel (☹️)
Crowl
Freitag
Blackwell
Winter
McGhee
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I feel like I spent half of my time last year on football shows pleading for IG to get more touches.
It was criminal how underused he was at Wisconsin.