Exploring Wisconsin's Struggle in Modern College Football

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00:00Getting 31 and a half points. Look at the total. Now, this total tells me, Joe, it's like 41-0 Oregon.

00:06Is that what this is telling me? How is it 44 and a half in an Oregon game?

00:10Wisconsin is that bad? Their 1920s offense bad?

00:13They got shut out three weeks in a row, Donnie. I mean, their offense is terrible.

00:18I will say this. I was on this team last year in Camp Randall, 16 and a half point underdogs.

00:23They actually covered. It was one of their better efforts and Oregon, one of their worst performances on the road.

00:29Oregon won 16-13 and didn't cover as a 16 and a half point road favorite.

00:34Now they're catching basically 32 points.

00:37The only way Wisconsin could win this game from the spread perspective, not outright.

00:41Run the football, slow the game down, get them into long third downs, and hope that you can make a play.

00:49But Luke Fickle, for me, is dead man walking.

00:52He could have written his ticket anywhere, and now the guy can't even win a big game in Madison and Camp Randall.

00:58I would reluctantly take the points, but again, this game is not going to make my card.

01:03Look, when Barry Alvarez was at Wisconsin, he made no bones about it.

01:06He said, you know, we can't really compete maybe with the Michigans or the Ohio States or the world.

01:11Darren Bevel days and Brent Moss.

01:13We're going to find our level, which means we're going to go and find the best running backs in the country,

01:18the biggest, nastiest offensive line.

01:19They don't play like that anymore.

01:20But that's what I'm saying.

01:21Hear me out on this.

01:22It's like, that was your M.O., and then all of a sudden, sometimes you get too big for your britches.

01:26It was, hey, you know what?

01:27We should be on the same plane as Ohio State.

01:29We can win national championships.

01:30Let's go and get a modernized offense.

01:32How'd that work out for Wisconsin?

01:33No, the problem is, is that Luke Fickle brings in Phil Longo from Ole Miss at the time.

01:38Yeah.

01:39And no, and they,

01:40The dairy rate, Joe, come on.

01:41Yeah, but the problem was, they didn't have the personnel to run that offense, number one, Donnie.

01:45And then all of a sudden, when Longo left for North Carolina, or vice versa, when he left Sam Houston State now,

01:53basically this offense is a one- or a two-man route.

01:56You can't win in today's college football when you can't run the football.

02:00Come on, Army and Navy can do a one-man route.

02:01But they have a two-man route.

02:03How are you going to put up points?

02:04Max protect, Joe.

02:05Come on.

02:06Max protect.

02:06Come on, Donnie.

02:07What kills me is that how Luke Fickle allowed this to happen, he was supposedly a great head coach.

02:15You're not going to win in the Big Ten with a two-guy route and no quarterback play.

02:20They bring in Billy Edwards from Maryland, Danny O'Neal from San Diego State.

02:26Both are terrible.

02:27Edwards was hurt.

02:28And now they're on their third quarterback.

02:30The offensive line is weak, and they haven't recruited.

02:33So you tell me, where are they going?

02:35They got to get Chris Chambers.

02:36They got to get Chris Chambers.

02:37Chris Chambers.

02:38They got to get a wide receiver.

02:39Come on, man.

02:39We can believe in him right now.

02:40Dante Feast, Cephas, remember him?

02:41Who was the kid from Buffalo, though?

02:42That was him.

02:43Cephas.

02:43Lee.

02:44Oh, stop.

02:45Lee DeRamus.

02:47Do you know where he went to high school?

02:48Here we go.

02:49Jersey?

02:49Edgewood High School.

02:50There you go.

02:50New Jersey.

02:51Let's move on to the next one, Joe.

02:52Oklahoma State.

02:53Their weekly appearance on Rat Packers.

02:55Every week, they're supposed to get smashed.

02:57Joe, Oklahoma.

02:58Where did we get this?

02:59Oklahoma State used to factor into the Big 12 championships, maybe a college football

03:03playoff, maybe even make a late run at a possible national championship.

03:06He used to be in the picture with two to three games left.

03:09They're getting 38.5 points from Texas Tech.

03:11They're going to get smoked today.

03:12Oh, my goodness.

03:13Smoked.

03:15After Arizona State won that game, what was crazy is I was on Arizona State.

03:19Yeah.

03:19Right?

03:19I was catching anywhere from 6.5 to basically 8.5, 9.5 in the game.

03:24They had the lead for the whole game.

03:27In the final two minutes, Hammond had the lead, and then in 30 seconds, Sam Leavitt went

03:33the length of the field, and they win it outright.

03:36But at the end of the day, David Bradley and that front seven are going to abuse the

03:40Oak State offensive line.

03:42What did they lose to Oregon earlier in the year?

03:4469-3?

03:45Yeah.

03:45Could look something like that today.

03:47By the way, you remember Lee Evans?

03:48How about that?

03:49Lee Evans.

03:49But wasn't Lee DeRamus the guy?

03:52He did go there, too.

03:52Yeah.

03:53Same guy.

03:53There we go.

03:54Ripping it down the list.

03:55Same guy.

03:56No big deal at this point, Joe.

03:57Minnesota and Iowa.

03:57Does anybody score?

03:58I'm just going to ask you that.

03:59Does anybody score?

03:59Yes.

04:007-3.

04:00What's the overrun in the first half?

04:0210?

04:02It's 39.5 in this game, right?

04:05I mean, Grinowski.

04:06But I will say, Lindsey and that offense for Minnesota are sustaining drives.

04:10Give me the 8.5 with P.J. Fleck.

04:12I'll row it today.

04:13Rowing the boat here.

04:14By the way, Virginia and UNC.

04:16Rowing, you know, Mike Lombardi.

04:18The South's oldest rivalry.

04:19Not the deep South.

04:20South's oldest rivalry.

04:22I'll take the points with Belichick.

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