Bucky vs. Out of Confrence Cupcake game thread

[Captain Erv]

To say that was less than impressive would not do justice.

[xTitan]

not a BCS game team and definitely not a BCS QB...never liked Tolzein as much as some, poor athelete, average arm, holds the ball to long in the pocket, and turns it over way to much.

[Bernman]

It was an extremely disappointing performance, and has always been suspected this team has problems in the secondary. Brinkley especially is slow in foot and mind, while Valai has big hit on the brain and it leads to bad angles. There is no Wisconsinite walk-on at one of safety positions like in the past ala Leonhard, Doering, Stellmacher, Maragos, etc.; to bring stability and provide direction. That's typically when we've had our very best defenses.

However, I don't know how much projectability can be done to future opponents this season when there were so many injuries and correctable mistakes.

Visa vie the injuries, people do realize this team was without Borland, Toon, Taylor (for a half plus), Gilreath (for a half), Oglesby (for part of the game), and Gilbert (for most of the game), right? That's going to massively change the team's ability to prevent teams from getting into the secondary in both the run and pass. Also, it's going to effect the passing offense. The Badgers are rarely the type of team to overcome significant loss of personnel because they don't get many can't miss recruits. They hope some surprise the pundits but the rest are just filler.

Visa vie the mistakes, this time it was 3 fumbles inside the red zone to derail touchdown drives. A similar problem arose against Wofford early on last season but it was cleared up to a major extent throughout the season. It only ended up being their downfall against the toughest opponents like OSU.

[chuckleslove]

Gilreath released from the hospital, very good news.

[MikeIsGood]

I don't even know where to begin, so I don't think I will right now. I haven't read this thread but I'm guessing it's all been summed up already.

That was beyond disappointing, and in many ways.