2025 Wisconsin Season Thread

[MrNubbz]

All of those places = Ohio, yes?

hell hath no fury like a lover scorned

[Mdot21]

Between Fickell being able to do nothing well and the way Harbaugh turned things around, it’s a reminder that a lot of things are possible.

yeah but Harbaugh had the track record of major turnarounds from his time at UofSD turning them around to back to back 11-1 seasons, taking over the worst program in the P5 in Stanford and flipping it from 1-11 to 12-1, and then in the NFL with the 49ers taking them from 6-10 to 13-3, 12,4, 12-4 and 3 straight NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl- and he was basically going 10-2 every year in the regular season but losing to Ohio State and then losing in the AssMunchers Dildo Who Gives a Fuck Cheeze-It bowl game.

he was at Michigan for 5 seasons before the bullshit COVID year and was like 10-3 every year except for 2017 when they lost a ton to graduation/NFL and had an 8-5 down year. that was his down year. the other 4 years were basically very Lloyd Carr-ish- yeah let's win 10 games but then lose to Ohio State- awesome.

he really only had one DISASTROUS year but that was the fluky COVID 6-game season with Joe Milton as his QB. that was a complete outlier in his entire head coaching track record, not the norm.

[SFBadger96]

Yeah--a lot of things to be said about Harbaugh, including heavy doses of the cheating scandal, but the guy could coach football. And he did everywhere that he went.

There seems to be an undercurrent around the Wisconsin football program that it, including the Athletic Department and its best donors, doesn't really want to spend the money associated with being a top-tier program. That feels like the thing that is keeping Fickell in place. Now, apparently Wisconsin is doing fine on the NIL side of things--in the top 25 or 30 programs, or so I hear. So that's not the big problem. But willingness to spend other money on the program seems to be low.

Or McIntosh really thinks that Fickell deserves more time. But what has Fickell done that has suggested that?