2025 Wisconsin Season Thread

[MrNubbz]

He's lost the locker room.

I think he's an O$U plant, to wreck the Wisconsin program.

So Paul Chryst was an attempt at hari-kari?

[SFBadger96]

Watched the post-game press conference. Yikes. Some interesting things in there. Sounds like Billy Edwards doesn’t want to play right now (likely because he thinks he will get killed behind that line). Sounds like the Longo thing was—as 847Badge said—all about a personality clash, not Xs and Os.

Fickell is lost. Did he get a raw hand with the injuries to the o-line and QB? Sure, but other programs have done more with less. The remainder of this season is going to be brutal no matter who is on the sidelines.

[Mdot21]

kind of crazy to me that Wisconsin AD didn't put a bullet in him and slap him on a rocket and fire him into the sun yesterday morning.

how can you allow this guy to just continue to go through the motions and have embarrassing losses every week? he's lost the locker room- just like Franklin did at Penn State. Once that happens- coach ain't getting those guys back. Time to fire him.

[MrNubbz]

Fickell is lost. 

That's not true, everyone is telling him where to go

[SFBadger96]

A Fickell apologist would say that it wasn't his fault the quarterback had a ball batted and picked on the second drive. And it wasn't his fault the quarterback made such a poor choice on the very next drive, setting up Iowa for a 17-0 lead at the beginning of the 2nd quarter. Wisconsin was never going to score that many against Iowa. It was over then--after three offensive "drives" and two back-breaking turnovers. Then Wisconsin managed a 3-and-out on offense, and with a semblance of a chance to spark something after an interception, two plays later, the quarterback throws a backward pass over his receivers head, resulting in a field goal. 20-0. If the game wasn't already over, it was then.

But at least they were wearing the appropriate jerseys for that performance.

[847badgerfan]

Those jerseys can burn, right along with the T.E.A.M. vest.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Or save his skin by pulling off the improbable

That would be something. One of his best Bearcat teams lost to OSU 42-0.

[847badgerfan]

[SFBadger96]

Watched both press conferences. Saturday he was a wreck. Today he was a professional who knew he had to face the media and had time to think about everything before hand (and said that he had little in the way of updates because they didn't do their usual practice yesterday--they did something else instead). When asked about his future, he said that wasn't his to worry about.

He gets paid 80% of his remaining salary whenever he gets bought out, and that's about $25M over the next four years. He'll be ok.

[847badgerfan]

Today he sounded like a man who knows he's gone. He's not very smart, but he's not dumb.

[bayareabadger]

Watched the post-game press conference. Yikes. Some interesting things in there. Sounds like Billy Edwards doesn’t want to play right now (likely because he thinks he will get killed behind that line). Sounds like the Longo thing was—as 847Badge said—all about a personality clash, not Xs and Os.

Fickell is lost. Did he get a raw hand with the injuries to the o-line and QB? Sure, but other programs have done more with less. The remainder of this season is going to be brutal no matter who is on the sidelines.

I’m guessing Edwards would like to try for another year with the NCAA. 

And MFer keeps fielding defenses that can’t tackle. Without that, an O-line that can block or a QB that can throw very well, it’s a bad spot. 

[SFBadger96]

I’m guessing Edwards would like to try for another year with the NCAA.

And MFer keeps fielding defenses that can’t tackle. Without that, an O-line that can block or a QB that can throw very well, it’s a bad spot.

That's what I though after listening to Fickell's comments from Saturday. If this kid is a legit #1 at a B1G school, then he might have a shot at the league, even if it's just carrying a clipboard. And if that's the case, why spend your last season of eligibility getting killed behind an offensive line that can't protect you, ruining your stats and reputation?

[847badgerfan]

[FearlessF]

what bothered me was that they weren't trying to score on the last possession