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NorthKCHawk
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Fickle is a good coach. Not sure he is the best fit for Wisky, but apparently Wisky is willing to take on Fickle's personality. The figurative death of Alvarez's legacy. This seems like an overreach as I cannot imagine anyone else was scheming to steal Fickle away.
Oh, I see that it was really just a 1-year extension. He was hired to a 7-year contract back in 2022, and it's been extended 1 year each of the 2 seasons he's been coach, so he continues on a 7-year contract.
Paul Chryst never had a losing BTen season during his 7-year tenure as Wisky coach. A 43-18 Big Ten record. In his second year, Fickle had a 3-6 Big Ten record, and Wisconsin's 22 years without a losing record ended, as did their Bowl streak. And he gets a $7.5 million extension. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
Paul Chryst never had a losing BTen season during his 7-year tenure as Wisky coach. A 43-18 Big Ten record. In his second year, Fickle had a 3-6 Big Ten record, and Wisconsin's 22 years without a losing record ended, as did their Bowl streak. And he gets a $7.5 million extension. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
HuckFinn
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You are right. I got caught up in the damn headline. Thanks for the details. My WI buddies will not be thrilled, I can promise you.
But those same guys wanted Greg G. fired last season.
Their must be more to the story on Chryst getting fired cause I'm still confused as to why they did that.
NorthKCHawk
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Its the classic Nebraska/Solich or Iowa/Davis perception that the coach is really good, but would never get you to "the next level" type decision. So far, it has not paid dividends. I also think that Wisky could suffer the same way Iowa has/will with the demise of the West and expansion of the conference to the West Coach. Both teams seem destined for a permanent place in the middle of the pack.
Yeah it feels that way. And besides the whole BIG West disintegrating they also decided to just blow up their entire culture and style of play that they'd been known for forever. To me that would always take awhile to get established. Between what Neb did and now Wisky it's a cautionary tail for Iowa. Culture is no joke. It's impossible to tangibly understand how much it matters. But without it good luck establishing or sustaining anything.
JoeyLabasForPresident
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I think it's hard too, because being perennially "pretty good" is a great spot of a major Midwestern R1 research university. I doubt there's institutional interest in getting the funding necessary to be much more than that. Whole lot of money being average to above average in the Big Ten. Sort of a net neutral for the fans, though. I'll be really interested to see how the next ~5 seasons go for both the Hawks and the clowns.
trj
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This is Greg Gard vs. Fran McCraffrey. As much as we like to shit on GG, he did come to the conclusion that he can’t continue to grind out games 60-57. We all know what he did, he changed up his staff, and decided to take a more offensive approach, and we see the results.
What if Fran decided to flip the script, instead of trying to outscore people 90-85, we lock people up and win 75-70. Fran is too old and stubborn to do it, but what if he did, we would lose our minds.
What if Fran decided to flip the script, instead of trying to outscore people 90-85, we lock people up and win 75-70. Fran is too old and stubborn to do it, but what if he did, we would lose our minds.
Northside Hawk
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When we beat the Badgers last November it was the worst physical mismatch in the series since we had Shonn Greene in our backfield (and Beilema was told to quit passing out on State street or else)
It was a thing of beauty!
It was a thing of beauty!
