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haydensly said:
I watched this, wow. You almost have to feel sorry for Fickell. He can't sit up there and say he has no answers but he has no answers. It will be really tough to keep that team together for the rest of the season.
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I think that team has been lost since last year. Fickle knows he’s done. Everything he’s saying there is a show for his players but I don’t blame him. He sold himself to Wisconsin and the players and he failed.

There’s 2 sides to every contract and if Wisconsin signed it that’s on them. Fickle knows he’s done and he’ll have a whole bunch of really big checks coming his way for sitting at home. He’ll be fine for the rest of his life.
 


NCHawker said:
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Post Game Live: Luke Fickell Recaps Iowa

Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell addresses the media following Wisconsin's Big Ten matchup with Iowa.
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I think he hit the right notes. He looked stunned, more than anything. Just stunned.

I always wonder if they say stuff during these things that are directly aimed at staff or the team. Something they would understand that we wouldn't. Almost like private code. An inside joke, except it's a shot across the bow instead of a joke.
 


dagdaj said:
I think he hit the right notes. He looked stunned, more than anything. Just stunned.

I always wonder if they say stuff during these things that are directly aimed at staff or the team. Something they would understand that we wouldn't. Almost like private code. An inside joke, except it's a shot across the bow instead of a joke.
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Watched the whole press conference. Honestly felt bad for him. Key phrase was that he has, in his view, never been in a situation like this. He is right. He as a whisper away from the head job at Ohio St. He took Cincy to a higher level. He attempted to bring air raid to WI. Seemed like a plan. Yes, he better move on. His choice or not.
 








I don't think he helped much in his presser earlier in the week. Made mention how Iowa had bullied them in all aspects of the game last year and that was not going to happen this year. He gave Iowa a chance to say "Hold my beer." I bet they wish they wouldn't have given Paul Chryst such a hard time, or they should have hired Jim Leonard.
 


HawkPowerlifter said:
I don't think he helped much in his presser earlier in the week. Made mention how Iowa had bullied them in all aspects of the game last year and that was not going to happen this year. He gave Iowa a chance to say "Hold my beer." I bet they wish they wouldn't have given Paul Chryst such a hard time, or they should have hired Jim Leonard.
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Yah. I never played football. I dunno if there's any truth to the bulletin board material thing. I think there's gotta be some truth to it. But also, no real practical effect. Also, it seems rare to me. At least rare enough that it rises to the point where it's discussed outside the locker room or that a marginally invested fan like me is aware of. I basically come here. Most of the stuff I click on outside of here is usually about recruits or injury news. I don't get into the weeds on week to week game stuff. It doesn't often burble up to the point of me being aware of it.

But I did see it. And thought "Gee, that seems a weirdly specific shot across the bow and aimed at Ferentz and his staff."

Some rather ephemeral things we fans have wondered about (strength, conditioning, recruiting of real athletes) for awhile now. I mean, you don't have to reach far for criticism of Iowa football. All you have to do is say "offense/passing game" and the only rational response from Iowa would be "well, yeah, but we're always good on defense and special teams....complimentary football!!!"

I clicked on a followup (so algorithm comes in to play if I was aware of Fickell's comments in the first place)....allegedly Kirk's response was "We've heard that before, Luke." 100% sure it was fake/clickbait. But my thought is, such an oddly specific shot that Fickell took struck enough nerve to generate some clickbait/ragebait.
 


dagdaj said:
Yah. I never played football. I dunno if there's any truth to the bulletin board material thing. I think there's gotta be some truth to it. But also, no real practical effect. Also, it seems rare to me. At least rare enough that it rises to the point where it's discussed outside the locker room or that a marginally invested fan like me is aware of. I basically come here. Most of the stuff I click on outside of here is usually about recruits or injury news. I don't get into the weeds on week to week game stuff. It doesn't often burble up to the point of me being aware of it.

But I did see it. And thought "Gee, that seems a weirdly specific shot across the bow and aimed at Ferentz and his staff."

Some rather ephemeral things we fans have wondered about (strength, conditioning, recruiting of real athletes) for awhile now. I mean, you don't have to reach far for criticism of Iowa football. All you have to do is say "offense/passing game" and the only rational response from Iowa would be "well, yeah, but we're always good on defense and special teams....complimentary football!!!"

I clicked on a followup (so algorithm comes in to play if I was aware of Fickell's comments in the first place)....allegedly Kirk's response was "We've heard that before, Luke." 100% sure it was fake/clickbait. But my thought is, such an oddly specific shot that Fickell took struck enough nerve to generate some clickbait/ragebait.
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You can do the motivational stuff but you don't go public with it. You don't tell media that your team has been sweating over this thing all year, doing 42 pushups and reps all year, blah blah blah. 'Cause all it does is make you look like a gigantic dumbass if it doesn't work. If you do that stuff, you come out public with it after you whoop their ass, not before.
 


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