The world has turned and left the Wisconsin Badgers here… Heading into their second bye of the season, the Badgers are 2-6 on the season, 0-5 in Big Ten play, and have not beaten a Power Four team in over a calendar year. Just because this team was able to get into the end zone a single time vs. a top-tier team does not recuse the Badgers from being the worst Big Ten program by a long shot.
So here we are in the midst of another week and another Power Four head coach skipping the line to be fired before Luke Fickell’s inevitable day of reckoning. With Brian Kelly out at LSU, this actually does more harm than good when it comes to the overall likelihood of Fickell’s eventual termination. Yes, Kelly is now available to conceivably replace Fickell in Madison, but people are still piling on him.
The reason LSU’s decision to pull the plug on Kelly’s fake cajun experiment gone awry is so bad for Wisconsin is multi-pronged. First, another better job than Wisconsin has now become available. Two, it may prevent the right candidate from actively pursuing Wisconsin, should it open up. And three, this might soften the blow to the increasingly tired fan base that Wisconsin will give Fickell one more year…