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Excellent. I'm 0-3 now on overly confident, positive Badger predictions in 3 critical games. My work here is done. :cool: This has to kill their tournament hopes now barring a miracle BT tournament run, right? Right? Right?

Not so fast, my friend! Wiscy can still finish 10-10 with 2 victories this week. All they have to do is outplay an overrated Purdue team in the final minute here and they are in the tournament. And there is zero chance they will lose to the Gophers, right? Completely zero. Wiscy will be...

I was playing games with my son after dinner and just loosely following on my phone. I am very grateful now that my parents just happened to tape the game tonight because my mom "had a good feeling about this one." :)

Don't anyone get their hopes up thinking Wiscy is going to miss the tournament this year. All the Badgers have to do is outplay a mediocre Michigan team here in the last 2 minutes here, beat a giant cupcake on the road, and they are guaranteed a 10-10 conference record. And they will probably...

Ah, just to clarify....are we talking guitars now or shooting guards and wide receivers? :LOL:

I was never implying or meant to imply they shouldn't let him out. Just pointing to the fact that Evans was probably the primary reason for any sort of optimism for next year. Interesting that you single out my post but say nothing about the others who are actually posting "screw the kid, make...

If they let Evans out of his LOI, Johnson is a dead man walking for sure (if he wasn't already before this.) Can somebody show me ANY coach from ANY power conference in the last 40 years who was (1-19) in conference play in his second season at a school and then went on to become an exceptional...

My family often refers to me as "the cooler." So why not make the occasional bold, overly-confident, positive statement about Wisconsin and see what happens? It's all just in fun. :sneaky:

I'll be shocked if Wisconsin doesn't make the tournament - NET be damned. They have a pretty doable schedule left. Two cupcake games on the road still plus an Iowa team they already beat in Iowa. (And when can you count on Fran for anything?) Beat Michigan one out of two and they are at .500...

Pretty shocking news. Especially given that Hugh just recently signed an extension and has more top-tier recruits committed to come play for him in the future years. Here's my take - the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good: I honestly think that Hugh's coaching style/philosophy would have...

My "worst Badger champion" post was definitely tongue in cheek. Some here are taking it too seriously. If the Gophers somehow won the Big Ten next year and a Badger fan, say, deemed them the worst Big Ten champion in history (jokingly or not even), it wouldn't bother me one bit. Not as long...

I never said anything about Wisconsin not being a very good team. Their road victories prove their merit enough. But, if you are basing everything solely on wins and losses, are the Gophers necessarily better than all teams with fewer victories and worse than all teams that have more? Doesn't...

Okay, is this the worst Wisconsin team to ever win a Big Ten title? They are only #24 on Pomeroy and T-Rank and they are behind 3 or 4 other Big Ten teams in the stats. Obviously, they earned it by winning a lot of close games, but come on! Seems like the best Badger teams always finish in...

I think recruiting, much more than coaching right now, will be the key to whether Johnson still has a job here in 4 years or not. No coach in America could get this roster to 20 wins. If Coach K had this roster, he'd have already scheduled back surgery and asked the NCAA to expunge the losses...

There hasn't been anything released yet about Michigan's two postponed games. I have this gut feeling that most of whatever games that are postponed won't be made up. Hope I'm wrong. And then it will be like last year where Michigan was the conference champion despite not playing 3 games and...

I watched some of the Under Armour high school All-American volleyball match today. Okay, okay....I taped the match and only watched the parts where Wucherer and/or Booth were on the court. While I know it is only one match, my impressions were this: Wucherer will most likely start for the...

How is where the players come from relevant at all? ALL of the better teams in the Big Ten recruit nationally. Do you know how many players starting on Wisconsin’s team this last season were from Wisconsin? Zero. Do you think John Cook panics if his recruiting class includes no players from...

This sums things up pretty well. I've seen many posters on here and Volleytalk complain that the Gopher roster isn't deep enough. Yet there are only 12(?) scholarships available each season for a roster that is often 16 to 18 players. Let's see....ideally you'd like to have a backup for each...

What advantage and how exactly did he "lose it?" Wisconsin wasn't some gutter program beforehand. I'm not clear how Hugh is somehow at fault for Wisconsin becoming an elite program with a really good coaching hire. How was he supposed to stop it? Recruiting has to be the worst part of...

I don't think it's as simple as you are making it out to be. Retention of a few superb talents? Who besides Barnes was a huge loss for the Gophers? And slow movement downward in the standings? There was some definite forum pants-pissing at the start of this season after the Gophers started...