2024 -25 College Football and College Football Playoff Thread

[Jockey]

I think Fickell realizes that there is more to recruiting that signing fat white boys from Wisconsin.

[MU82]

child kidnapper

Did he take the child to Comet Ping Pong, or did he eat the child right there on the spot?

[The Sultan]

Want some fun reading, go over to Buckyville and read all Badger Mopes pissing all over the hire and their AD cause their favorite son Leonard did not get hired.

Crazy good hire - man are they mopes, you will see "the Wisconsin Way" thrown about enough times to make you vomit. 

That is entertaining. Potroykus was played like a fiddle.

[Uncle Rico]

That is entertaining. Potroykus was played like a fiddle.

It's not like Fickell is bringing some new fangled offense that whips the ball all over the field.  He will probably have an OC that uses the QB's legs, though, so I get the great fear they might have one of those QBs

Best case scenario is this divides the fanbase and alum and Fickell gets the RichRod treatment at Michigan and never gets traction

[Pakuni]

Deion to Colorado?

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-colorado-offered-deion-sanders-162453108.html

[GB Warrior]

How is Fickell going to bring talent from Cincy unless UW lowers its admissions standards?

[PointWarrior]

They are already trotting this out on the board - cause the Badger football team is full of Mensa members. 

How is Fickell going to bring talent from Cincy unless UW lowers its admissions standards?

[tower912]

Fickell/Cincinnati's prize QB recruit just went something like 21-23 for 252 while adding 149 rushing in the state championship game.   Skeptical he will follow to Wisconsin.

[Uncle Rico]

How is Fickell going to bring talent from Cincy unless UW lowers its admissions standards?

It's the great tragedy of our times.  The Wisconsin Way fighting the horrors of lower academic standards at their rivals.

[GB Warrior]

Fickell/Cincinnati's prize QB recruit just went something like 21-23 for 252 while adding 149 rushing in the state championship game.   Skeptical he will follow to Wisconsin.

Especially when you see his wonderlic

[tower912]

Trapped yourself into an unfair assumption.  Nice.  Google Brady Drogosh.

[JWags85]

I like this absurd expectation that Leonhard is returning as DC

[4everwarriors]

He gowne, hey?

[PointWarrior]

He is needed to carry on "the Wisconsin Way"

I like this absurd expectation that Leonhard is returning as DC

[Herman Cain]

Badgers seem to be making a quality hire .

Now they have to spend the necessary NIL to compete.

[Jockey]

Badgers seem to be making a quality hire .

Now they have to spend the necessary NIL to compete.

The bigger problem is that they haven't wanted to spend money on recruiting. That has to change. They need at least 4-6 new hires for recruiting.

[cheebs09]

The bigger problem is that they haven't wanted to spend money on recruiting. That has to change. They need at least 4-6 new hires for recruiting.

This seems like a great hire for UW, but a weird jump for Fickell. I assume he fleshed these types of questions out. It just feels like he could have held out for a better job.

[JWags85]

The bigger problem is that they haven't wanted to spend money on recruiting. That has to change. They need at least 4-6 new hires for recruiting.

I think Fickell realizes that there is more to recruiting that signing fat white boys from Wisconsin.

Agree with both of these points.  This is also the interesting "risk" IMO with Fickell.  He's a very good coach and smart enough to know the "Wisconsin Way" and roster mentality is outdated and not working.  But his rep was always as a great defensive mind, not an ace recruiter.

Add to that, the vast majority of his career as an assistant was at OSU, where you picked and chose stud recruits.  Then he went to Cincinnati and assembled rosters made up largely of local Ohio kids, where he had 30 years of experience living, playing, and coaching in the state.

At Wisconsin, he'll have neither of those.  I don't think it will be easy or likely to just go back to Ohio and poach kids there from OSU, UM, MSU, not to mention a soon to be Big12 UC.  So he'll have to create something new.  The recruiting hires need to be home runs, cause he won't inherit a roster suited to him

[MU82]

Who'll be better in 2025 - Wisconsin under Fikell or Nebraska under Rhule?

[Uncle Rico]

Who'll be better in 2025 - Wisconsin under Fikell or Nebraska under Rhule?

Cincinnati under Jim Leonhard

[lawdog77]

Who'll be better in 2025 - Wisconsin under Fikell or Nebraska under Rhule?

Colorado under Deion

[The Sultan]

Heard from a friend yesterday who is somewhat connected into the UW program that McIntosh was concerned about a lack of "organization" around the program under Chryst. That everything from recruiting, to game day planning to game management was a little chaotic, as opposed to the relatively tight ships run by both Alavarez and Beleima. And that none of this had gotten better under Leonhard, which is why he really wanted an experienced coach in that role.

And now you have another Auburn coaching search going off the rails...

[MUBurrow]

And now you have another Auburn coaching search going off the rails...

One cool thing amidst that insanity is the job that Cadillac Williams has done as the interim guy and the credit he's (rightfully) getting.

[Herman Cain]

Lane Kiffin pulled a Buzz, hinted at Auburn and then got an extension with enhanced compensation.

[JWags85]

Lane Kiffin pulled a Buzz, hinted at Auburn and then got an extension with enhanced compensation.

I don't think Kiffin pulled a Buzz.  He didn't use one of his national mouthpieces like Buzz.  He lit up the people reporting it on Twitter almost immediately.