Examining Luke Fickell's Impact and Challenges at Wisconsin

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00:00But I haven't read it.

00:04I just saw your article about Luke Fickle and I already went on record saying yesterday

00:10that I think obviously Van Dyke went down and that game was over at that point for them.

00:15They weren't ready for that injury and the aftermath of it and Alabama was just too much

00:22for them in Camp Randall.

00:24I thought Alabama would have been too much for them in Camp Randall with him.

00:27I have never been a Van Dyke fan at Miami.

00:30I'm a huge Kane fan my whole life.

00:32I never liked him but I didn't wish that on him in ACL tear.

00:36He'll play in his 35th college football season I'm sure next year with eligibility.

00:40But my point yesterday was that I think I saw an article.

00:44I believe it was by The Athletic.

00:46They rated all of the college coaches and put them in tiers and they put him in the

00:51second tier which there was only two guys in the top tier like Kirby and Dabo and then

00:56everybody else.

00:58The best of the rest were in tier two and then three four five six seven eight.

01:04They had I think eight tiers and they had this guy Fickle in the second tier and I am

01:09not having it.

01:10I am not having it.

01:12I am not having that he is one of the best coaches in America.

01:15I've seen no sign of that whatsoever.

01:17I am sorry.

01:18I'm not buying it.

01:20No sign at all.

01:21I mean what they did at Cincinnati is no sign.

01:25I've seen Cincinnati win before.

01:28Not like that and and certainly not after like that.

01:32They have not been good since he left.

01:34I think the question really is I don't know how big the tear is that you saw but I think

01:41the question is that will have to be answered and for me what I wrote about is whether that

01:46question needs to be answered now in his second season or whether he's on the typical time

01:53frame that all coaches used to be before you had the transfer portal igniting everybody's

01:59beliefs that we could turn everything around in one year.

02:03I think that's the question is can he get some grace so to speak and he inherited a

02:09program in Wisconsin that was obviously not in going in the right direction or they wouldn't

02:15have moved on from Paul Chris.

02:17There was no reason to move on if he if he was doing a successful job.

02:22Everybody liked Paul Chris.

02:24So it wasn't that they just weren't getting enough good players and winning enough big

02:27games and so that he takes over a program that's not in great shape.

02:32And then the chemistry of the job changed drastically Scott after he took it.

02:39And what I mean by that is that the entry of UCLA and USC and then subsequently Washington

02:46and Oregon led the Big Ten to abandon its East West format.

02:51And when it was East West Wisconsin was the best job in the West.

02:55All they all Wisconsin had to do basically was be Wisconsin a and then not not have anybody

03:02like Iowa Northwestern or someone like that be way more than they ordinarily are.

03:06They couldn't have one of those Cincinnati type years that Cincinnati had in 2019 and

03:1220 or excuse me 20 and 21.

03:14They couldn't have one of those years.

03:15And if that happened Wisconsin was winning the West every time.

03:19Then they changed it.

03:20So now there are no divisions and now the schedule is more balanced.

03:24So Wisconsin which played Michigan Ohio State and Penn State a total of 10 times in the

03:32two division in the nine years of the East West division format.

03:37Those three teams a total of 10 times in the regular season.

03:40Now they could they're going to face multiple games against programs of that level every

03:45year whether it's Ohio State and Penn State or Ohio State and Southern Cal or whatever

03:50it might be in a given year.

03:51They're going to.

03:52It's almost inescapable that they're going to face teams at that level.

03:56And can this Wisconsin the Wisconsin that Luke Fickle invents can they handle that.

04:02And then the second part of this is talent.

04:05The talent that was procured at Cincinnati guys like Sauce Gardner and Brian Cook and

04:10my J. Sanders that all became significant draft picks in the NFL.

04:16Can they do the same thing with different people at Wisconsin because the guys who were

04:21in charge of recruiting then at Cincinnati are now working with the both with the Indianapolis

04:26Colts or they're working at Notre Dame.

04:29They have different people involved now.

04:31Can they be as good.

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