2022 Wisconsin Season Thread

[847badgerfan]

Jim Leonhard will coach through the bowl game and then move on

https://twitter.com/jimleonhard?lang=en

sorry not sure how to dump Twitter pages here

thought that Fickle would try to keep Jim at least

He did try.

[MrNubbz]

Class exit

[847badgerfan]

Reflection is interesting.

Top 15 team. B1G West favorite. Head coach fired. 

Beloved former player named interim. Shit offense still. 

Best available head coach hired, allegedly. Beloved former player gone. Former 5* QB gone, along with many others. 

6-6. Bowl game against oSu. 

Soon to be 6-7, I imagine?

I hope Luke Fickel knows what he's doing.

[Honestbuckeye]

Reflection is interesting.

Top 15 team. B1G West favorite. Head coach fired.

Beloved former player named interim. Shit offense still.

Best available head coach hired, allegedly. Beloved former player gone. Former 5* QB gone, along with many others.

6-6. Bowl game against oSu.

Soon to be 6-7, I imagine?

I hope Luke Fickel knows what he's doing.

He does.  Wisconsin style has proven successful through the years. Fickle Will only adjust it one notch. He is a very strong defensive mind and an offense he’ll want true balance. So a very strong run game but the ability to pass and move the ball downfield quickly, with at least a relatively mobile quarterback. 

[Mdot21]

this seems like a big time hire for Fickell to be his OC....


https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1600611064227381249?s=20&t=ypPYh_O9ZfFLRnl6idHnFw

[ELA]

Feels like a hard pivot, but probably an overdue one.  The Athletic college football podcast was debating the Mel.Tucker contract, and their recruiting guy shut it down, and said they have killed college football as anything other than a national title sport, but unlike basketball, there is way less randomness.  Mel Tucker may fail, but he's gunning for it.  Dantonio may have kept churning out 8-4 seasons, but 8-4 might as well be 4-8 with the current narrative.  So you might as well shoot for the moon, because the downside isn't worse than the worst case scenario.  Wisconsin is realizing the same.  They could just go 9-3 forever, lose in the CCG, and wind up in a random Alamo Bowl.  Or go for broke, and if it doesn't work, who cares, you missed an Alamo Bowl

[847badgerfan]

this seems like a big time hire for Fickell to be his OC....


https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1600611064227381249?s=20&t=ypPYh_O9ZfFLRnl6idHnFw

Huge hire.

[SFBadger96]

I'm trying to figure out what this bowl game is going to look like? Spring scrimmage? New coach with no time to install the offense, starting players missing all over the place on both sides of the ball (for both teams).

If ever bowl games were meant as a reward for the players, this feels like that. Go to Phoenix. See the sights. Get some swag. Play a meaningless football game. Don't get hurt. No seriously, Braelon, no injuries. Maybe the freshman QB gets the start, but he has to know that Fickell is going to try to bring someone more senior in through the portal. (Get to know your new coaches a little while the intermingled outgoing and incoming coaching staffs awkwardly try to be nice to each other and avoid stepping on any toes so probably put together a really vanilla game plan.)

Gonna be weird.

[847badgerfan]

UW has never gone through anything like this. Weird, for sure.

[FearlessF]

welcome to the carousel 

[WhiskeyM]

Huge hire.

Hold up a minute, are you ok with Wisconsin playing girly football now??

Longo is someone that Purdue would hire.

😝

[847badgerfan]

Nah. He's still gonna emphasize the power run game because he has to. The OL kids from the state say so.

[FearlessF]

unfortunately, the O-line in-state kids aren't in charge

[bayareabadger]

Huge hire.

I’m somewhat middling on this hire. It tends to be hard to run a good defense alongside that scheme. And I have seen in a couple spots that he is extremely abrasive to work with.

on the other hand, yards and points and yards and points