2025 Wisconsin Season Thread

[bayareabadger]

https://twitter.com/TheRealRedShed/status/1980324966798385532

This will look much more funny if they end up firing him.

[GopherRock]

https://twitter.com/TheRealRedShed/status/1980324966798385532

Translation: The AD needs to be fired and replaced before Fickell is fired and replaced.

[SFBadger96]

3 facking series and a Super Bowl??? I'm still pissed the Indians lost the '54 series to Say-Hey over the shoulder grab at the Polo Grounds.After setting an Modern day record of 111 wins in a season then getting broomed in 4 - I was there in another life,Packers beat the Browns for one of their NFL titles

 I'm sad the Buckeyes don't play the Badgers again until 2028

I would trade a Badger national championship in football for the Giants and Packers not winning another in my lifetime. In a heartbeat.

You're on the other side of that. The Buckeyes are always good, always in the mix, and have several national titles--and have a great shot at another this year. But outside of the Lebron years with the Cavs, Cleveland's professional sports have suffered. I realize most of the world cares more about professional sports. I do not. (One of the reasons I'm here.)

And I agree that the lack of Badger/Buckeye games is a drag.

[847badgerfan]

Translation: The AD needs to be fired and replaced before Fickell is fired and replaced.

Exactly.

[Hawkinole]

Translation: I, Chris McIntosh, have convinced the school's administration that the problem is not the coach, who has been unable to define what he wants this football program to look like in the last three years, and who has led the program to historically poor results, getting worse with each season that he is at the helm. Particularly given that I fired the second most successful coach of the last century to hire the present guy, it is very important to me that you, the students, alumni, fans, and most importantly boosters--and the administration--understand that I will stick by this failure for at least a while longer. In honor of that, we are committed to blaming the program's investment during these admittedly turbulent times in college sports. It is not Coach Fickell's fault--nor is it mine (even though I run the department that I now claim has not adequately invested in the program). So write off this failure of a season, don't look too closely at the 2-10 record.

Please keep coming to the games and enjoy the Fifth Quarter, as if you were living in the 1970s and 80s when it was the only drawing card we had. The tailgates remain fun--and a good place to talk about how terrible the program is (you've already paid for the tickets, might as well make use of them). Please don't boo the players, it isn't their fault [that's true, this is on the coaching staff and administration]. And please understand that rather than making the obvious choice to fire this head coach, I've convinced everyone to instead spend that approximately [edit] $2M a year that we would save by canning this disaster (we would need that to pay the next coach, anyway), on buying players on the open market. I'm sure they will want to come to Wisconsin to participate in the great turnaround that we have in the works. Trust me, it's going to be amazing...

...

or I'm out of a job.


And guess what, next season's schedule looks a lot easier, so please don't be too upset when Notre Dame humiliates us at Lambeau Field--none of you care about that, right? Lambeau isn't a big deal in the Wisconsin sports fans' minds? And when USC humiliates us at home, and Iowa humiliates us--again--in Iowa City, and Penn State humiliates us in Happy Valley.  We have legitimate 50/50 shots hosting Michigan State and Rutgers, and away at Maryland (please let it be in October), and UCLA (please let it be in September), and Purdue. Which all means that the game for Paul Bunyan's Axe will be the most exciting in a while because we might have a shot to make it back to .500 and a bowl! How exciting will that be!?! You see, progress! That will prove that this was a good decision all along.

[Brutus Buckeye]

That play wasn't even called. He just went out there and did it.

Who needs a coach?

Was that really Wisconsin's longest run of the season? 

[MrNubbz]

I realize most of the world cares more about professional sports. I do not. (One of the reasons I'm here.)

I haven't watched a whole or even a half of an NFL Game.Don't plan on it either until CFB is thru which is just much more riveting and in fact original.Some of the best games I've taken in I had no rooting interest but on the edge of my seat any way....when i'm not raking leaves.But Radio play by play is almost always better than the rubes on the tube. And a great way to get the yard work done and keeping up with CFB.Oh and get a few cold ones for carbo loading also,win-win-win 🍺

[SFBadger96]

High level summary of the Fickell press conference yesterday: this Saturday's game is a glorified scrimmage; he doesn't believe they have a shot against Oregon. Obviously he didn't quite say that, but he didn't give any reason that he thinks the result will be different this week.

Stunning.

Also, he's right: Oregon can throw the ball and Wisconsin can't defend the pass, so...good luck. Oh, and Oregon has a top 10 defense, facing Wisconsin with a bottom 10 offense. So that's fun.

[847badgerfan]

Turns out to be the perfect weekend to visit the grand kids.

[medinabuckeye1]

And I agree that the lack of Badger/Buckeye games is a drag.

The Buckeyes and Badgers should have been scheduled to play on November 8 this year and held a memorial for the men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald fifty years earlier on November 10, 1975.  I say this because the bulk of the crewmen were from Ohio and Wisconsin. 

[ELA]

A bunch of MSU and UW commits are visiting each other over the next few weeks.  I'm not sure if they are waiting to see which program sticks with the coach who has been recruiting them, or which program moves on from their shitty coach