Wisconsin 2018 Season Thread

[Anonymous Coward]

I just saw that Wisconsin is 126th in standard down sack rate (101st in overall sack rate). What's the path forward? Are you confident or shaky it'll be fully fixed this year?

[847badgerfan]

I think it can be fixed. From my view, many of the sacks are not on the OL but rather the QB holding the ball too long and the RB's missing their blocks. Those are fixable things. Most the OL seem to grade out very well, including this guy.

[bayareabadger]

I think it can be fixed. From my view, many of the sacks are not on the OL but rather the QB holding the ball too long and the RB's missing their blocks. Those are fixable things. Most the OL seem to grade out very well, including this guy.

Right tackle needs to start playing a bit better. Edge blocking was BAD in spots vs BYU.

[847badgerfan]

I agree with that. Edwards probably has the highest upside of them all. He played really well last year so I think he can still be a force.



Any word on Nueville? I have not seen an updated injury list.

[847badgerfan]

Damn. TE Zander Neuville is now out for the year. Injured a knee in practice. So that's that.


He is a redshirt senior, so maybe his only option would be to apply for a medical redshirt if he chooses to continue to play football. Not sure how those work these days but I know it seemed arbitrary in the past. Not sure if he's even eligible. I guess I'll look it up.

[ELA]

Damn. TE Zander Neuville is now out for the year. Injured a knee in practice. So that's that.


He is a redshirt senior, so maybe his only option would be to apply for a medical redshirt if he chooses to continue to play football. Not sure how those work these days but I know it seemed arbitrary in the past. Not sure if he's even eligible. I guess I'll look it up.

Assuming he played in 5 games, I would think he'd be done.  It was always fairly arbitrary, but I think that the games limit kills it pretty concretely.  The arbitrariness in the past was when a guy had two seasons that were under the threshold, and the first was clearly a planned redshirt year, but later claimed to be injury based.

[847badgerfan]

He only played in 3 games this season. Missed week one.

[FearlessF]

new 4-game redshirt rule applies I would think

[847badgerfan]

new 4-game redshirt rule applies I would think

He redshirted as a freshman, so that's out.

[ELA]

He redshirted as a freshman, so that's out.

Unless they can argue he was injured, which is why he did.  MSU had that work with Ed Davis, who didn't injure himself during his redshirt year until like November.

[Anonymous Coward]

Unless they can argue he was injured, which is why he did.  MSU had that work with Ed Davis, who didn't injure himself during his redshirt year until like November.

I think it's possible that MSU has had more luck with getting 6th years than is normal. Not claiming impropriety. Just noting that it may be a bad predictor of success elsewhere. 

[ELA]

I think it's possible that MSU has had more luck with getting 6th years than is normal. Not claiming impropriety. Just noting that it may be a bad predictor of success elsewhere.

Because everyone knows college football is better when MSU is good.
The Ed Davis thing turned out not to matter, as I don't even think he was cleared until a few weeks into the season, and then was so slow he was useless, on a bad team.