Fresno St at Wisconsin

[Ayt]

Wasn't easy.

[MickeyDavis]

I'm a Badger fan but I almost want a tanking year so we get a decent coach.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

Just a reminder, TCF Bank Stadium opens tonight at 6! Should be a good game, Air Force is pretty good.

[PkrsBcksGphsMqt]

I'm a Badger fan but I almost want a tanking year so we get a decent coach.

That's how Minnesota felt about Mason and the biggest come back in bowl history finally got Mason ousted.

[Aaron It Out]

OT but in NCAA 10 O'Brien Schofield is not only a junior but they also made him white lol. They messed up there.

I didn't watch the game due to being at work, but I'm kind of glad I didn't.

[Bernman]

Bielema reported in the post game presser that 42 players had contracted the flu virus over the week, and probabilities are some were of the Swine Flu variety. Most tested cases on the UW campus right now are the Swine Flu.

With the degradation of the team's health, I think everybody should be pretty optimistic as it pertains to this season. The team beat a giant killing mid major in Fresno State in spite of being thoroughly decimated by a serious illness. They showed a tremendous will to win that Badger teams of recent hadn't possessed under much more favorable circumstances.

Individually you could see how Henry, Watt, Carimi, etc.; were shells of themselves. Those are key players. Tolzien had flu symptoms also, but it didn't seem to effect his performance

I agree that Bielema is a bit of a meathead and his teams are undisciplined, which may cost us a game this season, but the forecast is a perfect out of conference record, 5-6 wins in conference, and a trip to a January 1st bowl. A much needed turnaround for a program that was sliding back down crap mountain. Turn the frowns upside down, ladies.

[MikeIsGood]

Some quick thoughts...

I generally agree with Bern. It would be nice for the O-line to get healthy and start providing better blocking for the rest of the offense. Would help, for starters, if we had our starting C. The passing game has been pretty solid when Tolzien isn't being pressured immediately, and even under pressure he made some nice throws and took some hard hits against FSU, but it'd be nice to see more consistency in the running game. As far as the D, while I didn't look at the numbers yet or re-watch the game, it appears to me that the running D in general is fine. The passing D is something that we'll need to overcome. I think of the four O or D units combined, it appears to be the weakest thus far.

Obviously Henry is not playing to his previous level, let alone playing at all. He's clearly struggling with sickness. Hopefully it doesn't last long, and the same goes for the rest of the team. I'm glad OB is okay. He was making big plays today, both at the line and in the backfield. I expect that to continue this season. And I think our young LBs are showing promise.

[xTitan]

flu excuse aside, this is not a very good football team, if Pat Hill was not one of the most over-rated coaches ever, Fresno walks in this game. This is probably the worst o-line sine BA came to UW, 2 mid majors stopped your ground attack and 2 huge, slow tackles will get owned by any pass rusher with decent quickness. The UW defense is terrible in 2 main areas, the DB's can't cover at all and that is with giving Hanry a break because of the flu.....I have not seen so many corners just run in circles and so far off receivers...slow and lacking skill, talent. I can't also remember a game where I did not hear a defensive tackles name called 1 time, the DT's are garbage, slow, get no penetration, make no plays....no push up the middle at all. Maybe I have just so soured on BB, but the coaching appears to be sub par week after week, the timeout when fresno was going to get a delay penalty, the second down call when UW was trying to un out the clock....the soft zones. I could also touch on recruiting, just about every recruit signed for 2010 was being recruited by mid majors....even the latest recruit was a dog fight with ......Florida Atlantic.

[MickeyDavis]

The only thing that saves this season is the Big Ten is incredibly weak and we don't play Penn St.

[midranger]

Just to echo some sentiments.

The O-Line has been terrible. The flu is a nice excuse, but they looked bad last week too. No holes, allowing a push up the middle, and speed rushes from the edges. Bad all-around. I will say though, having your 3rd string center playing is a bad situation.

The D-Backs are worthless. Most times they aren't even in the picture. When they are, they have their heads facing away from the play. Just junk there.

We are again the worst tackling team in the nation. How many whiffs and arm tackles do we throw on every play? It's like we need the 5th guy to make the tackle because the first 4 have the sole goal of slowing the guy down a bit.

Bielema is just a bad coach. Typical Bielema was that end-around on 2nd down when we're trying to kill the clock. Just run Clay into the middle three times and hope for 10 yards. He had picked up 6 on first down. If he just comes up with 4 more yards in two downs, we kill the clock and win the game in regulation. Instead, he runs that disasterous end-around where no one knew what the hell was happening and we lose the 6 right back. We have to punt, and boom we're almost losing.

[Badgerlander]

I'm still hoarse from being at the game. For some reason they used Maragos as the number 3 corner in man coverage most of the game. He couldn't run with anyone. He did make some nice plays including the OT interception when they used a linebacker underneath and he could sit back in over coverage. Apparently we were really worried about their running game because we only did that a handful of times. Our O-line got eaten alive, and we were having trouble tackling anything past the line of scrimmage. Clay looks slow thru the holes and runs very high. Graham is a stud, unfortunately he is going to have to stay in and block. I wasn't expecting much out of the team this year, but maybe we can score enough to stay in some games if we can keep the QB vertical long enough.