You're shiiting me.He'd look good in maroon and gold!
Source: Wisconsin QB Van Dyke entering portal
Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Tyler Van Dyke is entering the NCAA transfer portal, a source told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Monday afternoon.www.espn.com
The younger Locke brother (Landyn) has now de-committed from wisconsin. He lasted a little less than two weeks.
No not only you, all of us.
They've picked up two portal qb's already (Billy Edwards from Maryland and Danny O'Neill from San Diego State).
Not sure it's a disaster as much as it's expected, to bring in new QB's, when you have a new OC. Both QB's could end up better than our QB's. We will find out in 9 months.
Not sure I’d call it a great season, they only won like three games I think. He did okay for a true freshman.
Throwing 6 ints. and playing for a team that gave up 30 points a game is probably not his fault. WI is ahead of us with experienced QB's going into 2025. Hope the rest of our roster build is better than their's.
Little surprised ONeill would leave a starting gig to be a back up but badgers will be fine at QB, not elite but you can certainly worse in this league. We picked Edwards last year when he was at Maryland
Supposedly he wanted to play closer to home. Yeah they’ll be fine, but it just feels like a base hit or maybe a double, not a home run. Doesn’t feel like a “those who stay will be champions” type acquisition.
Edwards is pretty mediocre. Has NFL talent at WR and showed a massive regression from what they’d had before. He was good against meh defenses and bad against good ones. His efficiency is not much over what they had last year. That said experience helps. Don’t think there’s much margin for Fickell but does seem like a guy more fit to the spread offense so maybe they’re still going dairy raid
So has wr C J Williams and cb Max Lofy. Love it! Between their schedule next year and all of the losses, maybe the eventual bucky downfall that many of us have predicted for the last 10 years will finally happen - fingers crossed!
If that were to happen, Fickell would be gone. And Bert would be tempted to leave Illinois.
Bert left Wisconsin for a reason. I wonder if he’d want to coach there again.
I bet he'd love to coach at Iowa.
Didn’t basically the entire wr room also leave? Along with a bunch of contributors on the defense?
Remember when everyone every year hypes how good and deep their qb room is? Fickell has always played this spread style. They may run more percentage wise, but kids also don’t want to sit. If you’re going to portal shop heavily every year, a lot of guys won’t sit and wait to compete again and again in todays age.
They did have quite a few guys leave yes. It will be a very different looking team personnelle wise next year
Good point. You reap what you sow.
That’s a good observation. Although we don’t know the all the reasons why someone transfers, playing time and extra money are a strong motivators.
I honestly put it at 50-50 Fickell is there for the axe game
He don’t like current staff, not all of them do that are from previous staff.
Seems like there is/was some disconnect among the players and coaches in the secondary there. Lots of transfers from that group.
This is nuts! I mean everyone wanted Chryst gone, then they go out and get Fickell. I thought wow! What a hire! I mean he took Cincinnati to a near playoff year (and thought they should have) and then the playoffs the next year…and looked like they belonged! They hung with a damn good Bama team for a bit. As someone brilliantly pointed out in a mother thread maybe he’s Frost 2.0, can get the best talent in the smaller conference but can’t translate to the big conference? I mean on paper both schools have recruited better than the Gophers but it hasn’t translated (and hopefully never does!). Was Cryst their Bo Pellini moment where they don’t know what they got until it’s gone?
