2019 Wisconsin Season Thread

[OrangeAfroMan]

I'm not even sure he'll be the starter.  

[Cincydawg]

All these transfers makes one's head spin.  I bet most of us foresee a time when transferring will be without penalty.

[847badgerfan]

Hornibrook to FSU. Good for him.

Was really hoping he'd join his brother. There was more than smoke to that story. Ah well. FSU has a starting QB, but they don't have UW's OL or TB. It will be interesting, for sure.

[Hawkinole]

Hornibrook is on an official visit at... Florida State. This makes absolutely no sense to me. His father and brother are with him too. I wonder if the brother will follow him to wherever he ends up?

I have to agree. If Hornibrook wants to play, he should not go to FSU. I don't think there is a QB position available for him. They need some help on the O-Line, but I don't think he'll make the grade at O-Line. 
As stated earlier, he has a wealth of experience, and his best bet was graduate assistant coach to avoid further head injury. If he had to play about the best he could do is Northwestern; they may have a position open at QB and I think he plays their style of offense; otherwise a non-power 5 school.

[bayareabadger]

I have to agree. If Hornibrook wants to play, he should not go to FSU. I don't think there is a QB position available for him. They need some help on the O-Line, but I don't think he'll make the grade at O-Line.
As stated earlier, he has a wealth of experience, and his best bet was graduate assistant coach to avoid further head injury. If he had to play about the best he could do is Northwestern; they may have a position open at QB and I think he plays their style of offense; otherwise a non-power 5 school.

NW has a five-star transfer who was recruited over by Clemson. 

[847badgerfan]

I think AH is going to start at FSU. I also think he was told by the UW medical team that he would not play again, in a Badger uniform, which is why he made this move. I wish him the best. Good kid and good student.

[MarqHusker]

I know we all know that spring games are boring gussied up practices and mostly nonsense, but some of my Badger pals are hacked off that PC called off the spring game.   He really doesn't like any extraneous fluff, does he?  This isn't even a paranoid Bill Snyder, somebody might see a formation or an injured player take.

[847badgerfan]

Doesn't bother me. There were never any more than maybe 5K people in the building anyway. Now, those same 5K can go, for free, to see the open practice. I was more disturbed by the demise of the Mendota Gridiron Club, to be honest.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've only attended one or two spring games, but maybe I've watched 10 of them on tv. It's enough of a bummer when the scrimmage part is cancelled (i.e., just a practice), but cancelling the whole thing is significantly more crummy. Michigan has a couple experiences with this during my time. RR's first year he almost did that. The stadium was being renovated, so there was a good explanation, but the backlash was so severe, they moved it to a local high school instead. I think it was before the 2016 season that we faced something similar (new turf or something) and moved it to Ford Field in Detroit. And then last year the whole thing was actually cancelled due to weather. All of those sucked to varying degrees, with last year being the worst and the Ford Field year being least bad (it was a full scrimmage, it was televised). 

[847badgerfan]

Meh. The UW spring "game" has been nothing but a glorified open practice since Lee Evans tore up his knee on a terrible April day in 2002.

[847badgerfan]

We're not going to get too much out of spring ball this year, until next week. That's when the practices (some) open up to the media. I think, for now anyway, it's that PC doesn't want a circus around what the QB's are doing. They did offer a glimpse, at least.








https://twitter.com/BadgerFootball/status/1110665520733392903

[847badgerfan]

A few position changes. Griffin Grady to OLB. Seth Currans to ILB. Isaac Guerendo to RB. Aaron Vopal to OL. Word is also that there will be a couple more losses to injury retirements. Not sure who at this point, but there are some credible people out there posting such info.



No Spring roster has been released yet. Maybe next week?

[Anonymous Coward]

Meh. The UW spring "game" has been nothing but a glorified open practice since Lee Evans tore up his knee on a terrible April day in 2002.

How do you feel about that? Bad injury and I get the coaches being spooked but it also seems superstitious and not evidence-based. Regular intensity padded drills can be even more violent than a game ("practice harder than you play," or at least equally hard). So canceling the scrimmage might not limit injury risk at all. Unless of course the practice is forfeited as something like a light jog (unlike a spring game), while also neglecting to install new stuff (like all spring games). In other words, since we're obviously not canceling regular season games when injuries spook us, and since the NCAA allots limited camp practices, dialing back any of them seems counter-productive. And of course it is also unpopular to fans.

[ELA]

I honestly don't care much.  Growing up, I liked going, when college football wasn't a 365 day a year thing, it was like an oasis of football in the offseason, like the first magazine to hit shelves.  Now?  Meh.  It's just something else in a crowded offseason.