Recent content by bleedsmaroonandgold

I know its easy to say "of course we struggled against good teams, they are good teams." But I looked back over the schedules, I think we were OSU and Iowas largest margin of victory in B1G play this year, and Oregon's second largest behind a thumping they gave to Rutgers. And this despite the...

For the the inexplicable ones have been Bowling Green, the blown lead collapse against NW, and the utter face plant against Iowa this year. I know every team lays an egg now and again, but I dont recall Fleck pulling off an upset where we were 20+ point dogs (bowling green), having a comeback...

Id echo marginally not markedly improved during his tenure for football. Last three years included two 8-4 regular seasons. If we go over to the football board, im hearing that this would be a pretty successful year if we could get to 8-4. If we were closer in time to 2019, id probably say...

Maybe the problem this year has been the lack of flashing the players watches at opposing fans. I think the modern analytics show that is an underrated aspect of the game.

Long enough to be worried about the Badgers' wing span?

I said almost that exact thing at the time. You cant be "better than your record" forever, at some point you are exactly as good as your record.

This tends to be my view. But the corollary to not apologizing for how we won against weak opponents is that I am also not willing to get too excited about a strong showing in a loss to a good opponent. If a win is a win, then a loss is a loss.

The Robb Smith comparison is spot on. So many people where arguing until they were blue in the face about how the problem was the players he had weren't just good enough. He got fired mid-season and replaced with a better DC, and amazingly those exact same players were much better almost instantly.

That type of error is the kind of thing that leads to conspiracy theories about the booth or league office secretly calling down to the officials to overturn it. If we had been on the other side of that against OSU in overtime, that is exactly what this board would think happened.

I was at the game, did someone watching tv get an explanation of how the PI flag got picked up in overtime? I absolutely agree there was not PI, but that cant be reviewed, right? Dont the refs usually confer if there is a dispute before announcing and marching off the penalty? Seems weird to...

Wisconsin poised to have its best week of the season.

I can't believe how many ADs are duped into the idea that you have to give a coach neverending extensions otherwise it will be used against recruits. Whenever one of our football or basketball coaches gets an extension after a bad season, and someone complains about it on the Gopher Hole, the...

Two things can be true at the same time: Cignetti can be showing that there is no magical ceiling that historical doormats in major conference are constrained by if they hire the right coach and it is more likely that a school hires the next Fickel or Frost than the next Cignetti. I would hope...

Seems like this board has two kinds of people: those who ignore facts to dispute that Fleck is doing a better job than Kill, and those who ignore facts to overstate how much better Fleck is doing than Kill did. Fleck's B1G winning percentage is definitely higher with too big a sample size for...

My post didnt say the defense was the problem, nor did it argue whether the 3 man rush was a good idea or a bad idea (though ive shared my thoughts on that elsewhere). I was just answering the question of what we did that was conservative, and 3 man rush on third and long certainly is.