This is a very critical moment in the game. Watch Edey RUN OVER Chuckie and you know why people say what they do about how he is officiated. Would have been his 4th foul, plus take the three off the board.
AJ Storr went from 9 points and 2 rebounds per game at St John’s to 17 points and 4 rebounds per game at Wisconsin but Greg Gard can’t develop players.
Braelon Allen leaves Wisconsin after 3 yrs for the same job, higher pay.
Badger fans: Congrats!!! Way to go!
Chucky Hepburn leaves Wisconsin after 3 yrs for the same job, higher pay. Badger fans: Why would you do this to us?
I am disappointed in much of the Badger fan base. The team has faced so much difficulty this year and at the first sign of adversity record-wise so many so-called fans bail, scream for a new coach, and bad mouth a good kid who left.
Something else I learned today is that there are hundreds of Badger fans who are so loyal to their employer that they wouldn’t leave if offered hundreds of thousands more dollars for the same job somewhere else.
@Evan_Flood
Give me 10 Chucky Hepburns. What maturity and class he has to face people after the toughest of situations and in the lowest moments. Remember all of his great moments. He can run the Badgers as long as he wants. He will go places.
@coach_GQ
Dear crazy people. Wisconsin played without the entire expected starting defensive line, only 1 of 4 starters in the secondary, no QB or startin TE. take 1/3 of your work team away from you and let me see how your team performs.
@GreggDoyelStar
Still waiting on the proof. Nobody knows why he collapsed. Or maybe you do somehow? So you are using his collapse for your agenda while ripping on others for using it for their agenda?
@jaypo1961
Not sure why anybody would hate on him. Handled a tough situation with total class and appeared to be a great teammate and advocate for Wisconsin.
Jonathan Taylor runs for most yards EVER by RB thru junior season.
ESPN: Tua is hurt
Markus Howard scores 51.
ESPN: Tua is hurt
Bucks win 10 straight.
ESPN: Tua is hurt
@JimPolzinWSJ
Klesmit is Mr Clutch this tourney. Total gutsy, gritty win. Struggled all game offensively but made the plays at the end when they were needed. Chucky’s big three off the Wahl pass was dynamite!
Greg Gard talks about NIL and the transfer portal as well as Chucky and AJ leaving.
“If anybody in your right mind told any of you guys that you could go triple your income by doing a different job, you would do it in a heartbeat.”
#Badgers
@WKOW
@JoeBiden
✔️ Inflation way higher than when you took office.
✔️ Respect for Marriage Act already existed
✔️ Brittney Griner home, horrible criminal released.
✔️ Gas prices way higher than when you took office
✔️ Housing market crashing
While programs who have been shown or highly suspected to have paid recruits (LSU, Kansas, Arizona, others) continue to land 5 star guys w/o penalty, NCAA chooses to penalize Micah Potter for following all the rules properly.
@JimPolzinWSJ
Mac fires Chryst.
Mac doesn’t hire Leonhard.
It’s clear Mac thinks it’s time to modify what Wisconsin is doing by going away from the usual.
Fickell has the potential to be a great hire. He can coach. He can recruit. I want Jimmy at DC.
Thinking about the ending of Badger game. The play Gard ran is exactly what Bo ran all the time. Player was WIDE OPEN as designed. The difference? Bo had seniors taking those shots. Gard’s best option was a sophomore.
@THEbadgermaniac
@Evan_Flood
@JimPolzinWSJ
Colgate played out of their minds and the Badgers still won. Davis came alive just when needed. Davison has to be better next game and hopefully Davis’ ankle isn’t banged up.
@libsoftiktok
@TheAtlantic
Remember who was in charge when the lockdowns started. This isn’t a “one party is guilty and the other is innocent” situation.
@JimPolzinWSJ
Bench is back w/McGee and Blackwell both having HUGE games. Chuckie with incredible D. Gard w/ momentum-changing move to play McGee & Hepburn & Blackwell together. We salute Tyler Wahl.
@tjwahl01
Thank you for your great career!
@JimPolzinWSJ
Total team domination. MAX-imum effort. Owned the boards. Survived the run. Fantastic from the line. Led the whole way. Crowd was awesome. Everything you’d want in a victory over Marquette. Gard with another win over a top 5 team!
Got to spend a bit of time (twice) with Brian Butch (
@Brian_Butch
) at the Fort Myers tip-off. I swear I would have hung out with him non-stop. He is SO much fun to be around. Non-stop fun.
@JimPolzinWSJ
Klesmit super clutch. Crowl and Chucky really dominant. Respectable bench help. Got some D when it was needed most but must play better D next game. That McGhee guy was unreal. And the crowd was into it!
@JimPolzinWSJ
Oh well. Good luck getting to the NCAA tournament now Badgers. What a complete meltdown and choke job this was. Second half disaster. No leadership. No bench. No offense.
Hey Badger fans, when you see what has happened to FSU, USC, maybe LSU, recently Miami (Fla), Nebraska, UCLA, and other power programs, you’ve got to really respect the consistent success of Wisconsin football. Wow!
@Aperson99067940
Saw Queen in concert with Adam Lambert. Expected it to be meh because no Freddie, but I was wow’d as were the other three that I was with. Highly recommended. They honored Freddie well while doing their thing as well.
@JimPolzinWSJ
Never showed up. Klesmit had a spurt. Crowl had some decent stats. But nobody played well. Turnover nightmare. Some guys were absolutely terrible. Hard to believe.
Some Badger fans: Be patient w/Fickell
OK. 2024 schedule:
Alabama
At USC
Penn State
Oregon
At Iowa
Same fans: Be patient.
OK. 2025 schedule:
At Alabama
At Michigan
At Oregon
Ohio State
Iowa
Washington
Same fans: Be patient…
#Badgers
@JimPolzinWSJ
Three quarters of futility followed by what everybody thought this team could be all year. Hats off to Locke, Rucci, and all who didn’t give up.
@PierreKory
This book is a MUST READ. It is incredible what I leaned about our vaccine program and how the existing vaccine trials were run (manipulated).
How can Wisconsin's QBs be this bad? This is a serious question. Can't handle the snap. Can't hand off. Can't see pressure. Can't avoid the rush. Can't pass. What did I miss?
@JimPolzinWSJ
Gard legit could be getting into trouble future-wise.
D terrible. Bench disappearing. Crowl regressing like Reuvers. Chuckie cursed by Izzo’s words of praise. Lose to Rutgers and it’s very bad news for their tourney seed.
@jaypo1961
Gard and the team has had to deal with stuff in the last five years that you wouldn’t want people to have to deal with in a lifetime. Amazing courage and resilience.
@JimPolzinWSJ
What a great run! Klesmit, Chucky, Wahl and Blackwell all very banged up and took them to the wire. Get some rest and hope for a Friday game so they get an extra day of rest and make an NCAA run. Proud of this team.
@jessetemple
Well that was pretty cool to see my post and Chucky’s Dad’s response in the article! By the way, it is Crystal clear why Chucky is so cool when you follow his Dad (
@coach_GQ
). The Apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
In a straightforward cover letter, dated Dec. 4, 1989 and typed on Notre Dame football stationary, Barry Alvarez formally applied to become the
@BadgerFootball
coach.
"I pride myself on my ability to teach, motivate, recruit and get along with people in general,'' he wrote:
@binder_tom
Chucky had higher totals for rebounds, assists, steals, FG%, and FT%, and a lower turnover %, but yeah you go and focus on how many points our point guard produced. Further, Tom Izzo compare him to his best point guard ever.
@JimPolzinWSJ
Rebounding was fantastic. Crowl was even better. Wahl superb. Jordan Davis with some great minutes. Hope Davison isn’t too banged up - was limping quite a bit at the end.
@JimPolzinWSJ
The inside guys (Crowl, Wahl, Gilmore) NEED to develop an outside or at least mid-range game. They were left wide open constantly and were no threat to score. That would be a huge difference-maker for next year.
@JimPolzinWSJ
- D was SPECTACULAR x 1000
- Special teams still horrible.
- Offense still horrible.
- 3rd quarter still horrible.
- Mistakes still frequent.
- Mertz: just when we started to believe
- Allen clearly hurting.
- Team not very good.
@JimPolzinWSJ
@DanWetzel
My take is that if anybody in the real world did that, they’d be canned. I could never survive in the real world doing that to anybody. It would have been same day walk me out the door.
@dave_heller
Better get a QB starter out of the portal. That’s a must. Find a star OC and special teams coach as well. Fix the offensive line. And completely revamp recruiting. Talk Herbig into coming back. Other than that, we should be good.