2026 Wisconsin Off-season Thread

[SFBadger96]

UW reducing price of season tickets for 2026. Sure, there are only 6 (instead of 7) home games, but there's also a reduced demand thanks to the poor product on the field.

I've largely avoided any of the portal and recruiting news. I don't care. Prove to me that the team is better. That can only happen in the fall.

[847badgerfan]

31 players added, and counting. How do you build a culture doing this?

[FearlessF]

ask Cignetti

[847badgerfan]

I would wager that Cignetti knows all of his players' names, unlike the clown in Madison.

[FearlessF]

Cignetti's Hypesman QB knew all the players names and faces before he got to campus from Cal

Mendoza also memorized all the Hypesman winners names that were in NYC before he got there

[SFBadger96]

Chancellor Mnookin announced that she is leaving Wisconsin at the end of the semester to go to Columbia University. I suspect this will give McIntosh and Fickell even more rope because the new chancellor is unlikely to have much time in grade by the end of the next football season. Great.

[bayareabadger]

Chancellor Mnookin announced that she is leaving Wisconsin at the end of the semester to go to Columbia University. I suspect this will give McIntosh and Fickell even more rope because the new chancellor is unlikely to have much time in grade by the end of the next football season. Great.

The first question is obviously gonna be who this chancellor is and what their vision is.

Like, you can make Mac fire Fickell if it goes sideways. Which is the way you’ll probably have to do it.

Ironically, if the team does better, that potentially puts Mac in a worse spot.

[847badgerfan]

Donna Shalala. 

Please?

[SFBadger96]

At 84, I think she's a little past her prime. But someone like her? Absolutely.

[847badgerfan]

All she has to do is show up and fix football. Hell, make her the AD.

[FearlessF]

about the same age as Dr. Osborne

he seems to still have his wits about him

[FearlessF]

Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell, at his request, was not among the coaches to receive a customary one-year extension from the school's athletic board Wednesday as he focuses on improved results in 2026.

The university awards the extensions to keep coaches' contracts at their original lengths.

Athletic director Chris McIntosh, in a statement to ESPN, said Fickell asked him not to put the extension on the table. Fickell received one-year extensions in 2023 and 2024, with his contract currently running through March 2032.

[847badgerfan]

He knows how hot his seat is.

[FearlessF]

at his request

sure, sure