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I’ve had to wait over 24-hours after rewatching the game to write this. I have all the emotions going as a fan right now.
Nobody summed up Saturday’s 37-0 loss at Camp Randall Stadium to Iowa better than the man who served it up. “I’m dumbfounded,” Fickell said in his opening remarks during his post-game presser.
I, for one, am also dumbfounded at how Wisconsin could be this inept 32 games into the Luke Fickell era. Wisconsin is currently 2-4 overall and 0-3 in Big Ten play and are on pace for their worst season since they went 1-10 in Barry Alvarez’s first season in 1990.
This was not a rebuild that Fickell took over compared to what Barry Alvarez inherited from Don Morton’s 6-27 three year tenure. Yet, Fickell is 15-17 (.469) in his tenure in Madison.
Chris McIntosh fired Paul Chryst mid-season in 2022 after a home loss to Illinois. A “down” year for Chryst was when they went 8-5 in 2018. Chryst was the third winningest coach in program history at the time of his firing, compiling a 67-26 (.720) record.
For those of you that know me, I’ve been extremely vocal from the start about how bad of a decision it was to fire Chryst.
Oh how glorious a 72% winning percentage or an 8-5 season would look now in Madison compared to this trash heap festering under Fickell, who’s not recruiting well, either.
Wisconsin’s remaining schedule:
- vs #1 Ohio State
- @ #8 Oregon
- vs Washington
- @ #3 Indiana
- vs Illinois
- @ Minnesota
To keep my language as PG as I possibly can in this post….The Badgers are going to get curb stomped in at least four (possibly five or all six) of those games if Fickell remains as head coach.
For the people that were telling me – whether it be in person or on social media – I’m going use a Paul Chryst line and reword it a bit and say “home run hire my f’kn ass!”
I wish Luke Fickell had some pride and put his letter of resignation in, but he doesn’t care. Resignation is the only honorable thing left. He has the appearance of not wanting to be in Madison any longer from his body language, his coaching, taking the headset off with several minutes left in the game. He has quit on the team and needs to be fired, because keeping him in the position that he’s in now can do further damage to the program which is quite frankly a high bar.
Christian Alliegro – probably the best UW player on defense – after the game said “we don’t have an identity.”
There is no more damning statement that a player could make about the status of a head coach after two and half years into his tenure than we don’t have an identity. Might as well of just said “Fire Luke Fickell.”
I usually don’t like to rub things in people’s faces, but for all of you who kept saying how wrong I was about saying firing Chryst was a bad decision and that Luke Fickell was going to get it done…..YOU’RE WRONG!!!!
I didn’t renew my tickets after Chryst was fired. But I feel AWFUL for the people that keep spending several hundreds of dollars to go to each home game in the Fickell era to support this program.
Fickell has to go. There’s no two ways around it. We owe it to the fans, to the alumni, to the boosters, and to the kids in that locker room.
Kids will probably de-commit when Fickell gets fired/resigns and I don’t give a F. As much as I want the in-state kids to stay and go to Wisconsin, can we really look these kids in the eyes and say he should go to UW under this staff? I can’t. Go be happy somewhere.
Luke Fickell is an unmitigated disaster who has quit on this program and needs to be fired immediately. I guarantee boosters will come out of the woodwork to help buy him out who haven’t been wanting to spend money on the program the past three years.
Rock bottom is here. But hang in there, Badgers fans. Better days will be coming once Luke Fickell is gone.
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