2025 Wisconsin Season Thread

[847badgerfan]

NBC loves this innocent mix-up as they continue to end up with dogshit games.    They televised M'land at UW.

Fox has the M-W game. CDB had the MD-W game.

[847badgerfan]

in a group text with some childhood friends.    Two are UW alum.  they continuously argue over the means of UW alum.  One guy loves talking about how giant the world of UW alum coast to coast is and that they have the bankroll for X, Y, and Z.  Fickle buyout is drop in bucket.... the other guy says, 'yeah, we have all of these alum, but they are all chintzy, frugal and cheap, easily outspent by peers.'

as a non UW alum but native of WI, i see both sides of it.  yes, some well heeled alum, but WI people love to squirrel their money away.    I generally believe rah rah fans, royally overestimate the school spiritedness of its alum.

There is big alumni money in Wisconsin, as you say. Most of them don't care about football.

[847badgerfan]

And there's this:


https://twitter.com/Genetics56/status/1970287619301867726

[FearlessF]

The fourth season of Luke Fickell in Madison is not playing out how anyone would have thought just a few years ago. Wisconsin sports a 2-2 record with both wins coming against Group of Five opponents, while losing to Alabama and Maryland. Even worse, the fan base appears fed up as “Fire Fickell” rained down on Saturday inside Camp Randall during the Big Ten opener.

Not everybody associated with the Badgers likes hearing the chants, though. Legendary head coach and athletic director Barry Alvarez eviscerated Wisconsin fans for being “spoiled” during his radio show on Monday. Alvarez wants everyone to get behind the team, saying there is plenty of football left to be played.

“I think it’s embarrassing,” Alvarez said via ESPN Madison. “I think it’s terrible, despicable. They’re spoiled rotten. Here’s a team that you’ve got young players trying to come on, they’re competing, they’re going to have a chance to get better, and you flip on them. We’re early in the season and you flip on them…

[847badgerfan]

The fourth season of Luke Fickell in Madison is not playing out how anyone would have thought just a few years ago. Wisconsin sports a 2-2 record with both wins coming against Group of Five opponents, while losing to Alabama and Maryland. Even worse, the fan base appears fed up as “Fire Fickell” rained down on Saturday inside Camp Randall during the Big Ten opener.

Not everybody associated with the Badgers likes hearing the chants, though. Legendary head coach and athletic director Barry Alvarez eviscerated Wisconsin fans for being “spoiled” during his radio show on Monday. Alvarez wants everyone to get behind the team, saying there is plenty of football left to be played.

“I think it’s embarrassing,” Alvarez said via ESPN Madison. “I think it’s terrible, despicable. They’re spoiled rotten. Here’s a team that you’ve got young players trying to come on, they’re competing, they’re going to have a chance to get better, and you flip on them. We’re early in the season and you flip on them…

He's in his third season but it feels like 10.

"Journalists" really suck these days.

[FearlessF]

agreed

[Mdot21]

And there's this:


https://twitter.com/Genetics56/status/1970287619301867726

that's crazy to me. would never think that Wisconsin would have the least spending increase on football in the entire B1G. wow.

[847badgerfan]

The money is just not there. As I've said many times, Wisconsin has a lot of very wealthy alumni. They just don't much care about sports.

What Alvarez did is just not possible today.

I blame this asshole swimmer:

[Brutus Buckeye]

Yeah, you guys are married to Fickel. Take the buyout money, and upgrade the roster. 

[847badgerfan]

What good is a roster with zero identity? 

We don't even know what the staff wants the team to be. The players don't even know.

Fickell has alienated boosters, former players and fans.

HUGE mistake, top to bottom, in and out.

The program is toast.

[Brutus Buckeye]

It's not the Xs and Os, badge. It's the Jimmys and Joes. 

[Mdot21]

It's not the Xs and Os, badge. It's the Jimmys and Joes.

very true but dem jimmy and joe's still need a leader steering the ship. fickell looks lost at sea right now.

[847badgerfan]

Fickell decided to not name captains this year. He chose to have a leadership committee - whatever the F that means. Democracies don't work.

[FearlessF]

very curious to me how guys like Fickell & Frost can be so good one place and so F'ing bad at another place