Tom Oates: Badgers' ugly loss to Gophers a fitting end to a disappointing season

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per Oates:

It was always something with the Badgers this season, which is surprising because under coach Paul Chryst they have been a team that improves during the season. Whether it was due to a shortage of depth and experience or the coaching staff's reticence to take chances with such a mistake-prone team, the expected improvement never came.

Things never got fixed and UW never put together a complete game in 12 tries.

"There's no doubt we haven't made it easier on ourselves," Chryst said. "I think our margin of error this year is much less. ... I think as a coach you've got to own it. We have got to do a better job of coaching and making sure the kids understand it and help them because playing this league you're going to play teams that are tough to beat. Then when you also have to beat yourself, it's that much (harder) and you have to be a great team to overcome both those. We're not right now."

They've proven that over and over again this season.

https://madison.com/wsj/sports/coll...8933c43fe.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Go Gophers!!
 


Pretty amazing to start the year as a national title contender and end up 7-5, losing the Axe for the first time in 15 years. Hopefully this is the beginning of their downfall.
 

Ugly? It was a thing of beauty. Watching the skunks downfall is a dream come true.
 

Ugly? It was a thing of beauty. Watching the skunks downfall is a dream come true.

Hopefully this game marks the definitive change of two programs headed in opposite directions.
 





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