2023 Wisconsin Season Thread

[847badgerfan]

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Schedule is manageable for the first-year head coach. If they can find a QB and a decent pass rush it could be a really nice season.

[Hawkinole]

A weak nonconference schedule combined with Rutgers, Indiana, and Ohio State in cross-over games. Should go 3-0 nonconference, and 2-1 cross-over, and the remaining schedule with the west is manageable but not fully defeatable. At 5 - 1, without reference to division games, is a big advantage.

[847badgerfan]

They really should win 10 games next year, but I say that every year because that's the expectation for the program. Hopefully CLF can meet or exceed that expectation.

[bayareabadger]

Link to 2022 thread: 2022 Wisconsin Season Thread (cfb51.com)

Schedule is manageable for the first-year head coach. If they can find a QB and a decent pass rush it could be a really nice season.

Well. They found a QB.

Interesting arc in our multiple moves kind of world. He stuck with Oklahoma for three years, until it became very clear that wasn’t gonna happen. Then he made a smart choice to drop down a level, but with a really excellent offensive coach. And now he is trying the highest level again, again with a very smart offensive coach.

We talk a lot about Wisconsin recruiting smart kids, and this guy has some of the best career since I’ve seen. Also six years to play.

[FearlessF]

Luke Fickell’s staff continues to come together at Wisconsin. The Badgers are hiring Minnesota co-defensive coordinator Paul Haynes, On3’s Matt Zenitz reported Wednesday.

Haynes just wrapped up his first season as the Golden Gophers’ co-defensive coordinator after spending the previous two years as cornerbacks coach — a role he also held this past year. Prior to his time in the Twin Cities, Haynes worked as the defensive backs coach at Michigan State from 2017-18 following a four-year stint as Kent State head coach from 2013-17.

He also worked alongside Fickell as the defensive backs coach at Ohio State from 2005-10 before one year as co-defensive coordinator in 2011 when the latter moved up to interim head coach that year. Now, the two will reunite in Madison as Fickell takes over the program.

[MikeDeTiger]

Does Georgia Southern still run the triple option? 

That is not the gimme-game I want to see with one week to prepare.  

[FearlessF]

they threw the ball for over 400 yards vs Nebraska last fall

[Badger1969]

Wisconsin alternate black uniform suggestion.  Personally I think the helmet W should be white and not silver or red with a white shadow around it.

[bayareabadger]

Does Georgia Southern still run the triple option? 

That is not the gimme-game I want to see with one week to prepare. 

They went to a spread when they hired USC's old coach. Threw for 4,250 yards.

It's interesting, they didn't get real body bad mid-majors. Neither GSU nor Buffalo were contenders last year, but their in the range of solid last year, potentially dangerous. 

WSU was just a solid Pac-12 team. Who knows what they bring next year.

[847badgerfan]

[SFBadger96]

And now CJ Williams, too. Not a bad trip to the portal for this new coaching crew.

Braelon Allen on Twitter:
"Not gonna miss those 9 man boxes"

[FearlessF]

he might miss some carries

[847badgerfan]

he might miss some carries

But catch some passes.

[FearlessF]

he'll be ready for the NFL