He will not be the starter next season. Jack Coan will.
https://247sports.com/Player/Jack-Coan-81368/high-school-141092
I'm not sure if this a Badge knows or Badge hopes/thinks. If you don't want to put that all out there, maybe shoot me a PM?
I'm of two minds about Alex. He's fascinating because this year, he's done some things EXTREMELY well, and some quite poorly. His picks are a problem, his sacks tend to be massive and more frequent than you'd like (though not to an unreal level) and when he looks bad, it's bad.
But he's also put in a lot of high-leverage situations, and has been pretty good. Before OSU, Wisconsin ran the ball the 7th most in non-passing downs (1st and 10, 2nd and 3, 3rd and 1) and ran the 87th-most on passing downs. So UW often has him throwing when opponents know the throw is coming. Despite that, the Badger offense gets it done in throwing spots. When UW throws, it stayed ahead of the chains or moved them (before last night) 46.8 percent of the time, 16th best in the land. Against OSU, that percent was 44, better than the national average of 40, against a sold defense on that front. UW finished the year third in 3rd-down conversions, and wasn't all that great running on third-and-short. Could a ton of that be Fumagalli being amazing? Yep, But Alex was throwing those passes, and he was short some good guys on the outside (UW was not very explosive through the air, probably some on him, some on WRs).
I thought his yards per attempt might be instructive, but it dropped the last two games to 20th nationally. UW's good, non-Russell Wilson QBs (Stocco and Tolzien) were in the low teens or top-10 when Scott hit 73 percent of his passes. That said, when those two were Alex's age, Stocco was a hot mess and Tolzien was behind Evridge and Sherer, and would've been behind Phillips were he not redshirting.
That's not to say I lack faith in Coan. Kid was a better recruit than Alex. Kid was good enough (or Lyles was not good enough) he didn't redshirt. I hope the staff is so excited about him, he'll be a starter, and that he lives up to it. But I went through years of hearing Donovan was better than Stocco. Then when we got Donovan, he was no junior/senior Stocco, though he wasn't as bad as I thought in the moment. But as Donovan started, there were rumblings Evridge was actually killing it in practice. We know how that ended.
In short, I think Alex was somewhat volatile, but I liked his upside in his current environment. If that can continue without Fum and he can keep progressing, that'd be peachy. And if Coan can top someone that entrenched, it means he's shown a lot.
