2019 Badger Football - Rose Bowl Lead Up

Kerb Hohl · Post #81 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:47 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
midranger wrote:Should try to avoid concussions, interception, and banging teammate's girlfriends at next stop.

Story behind this one?

I think it’s a silly twitter/other board rumor that as far as I know is not true (but I have zero inside knowledge myself).

Lippo · Post #82 » by **Lippo** » Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:13 am

WOooooooot
L8trs Horni

tski1972 · Post #83 » by **tski1972** » Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:05 am

Kerb Hohl wrote:
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:
midranger wrote:Should try to avoid concussions, interception, and banging teammate's girlfriends at next stop.

Story behind this one?

I think it’s a silly twitter/other board rumor that as far as I know is not true (but I have zero inside knowledge myself).

No one going for the Horny-brook joke?

DrWood · Post #84 » by **DrWood** » Tue Mar 5, 2019 9:19 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:I was expecting that he wouldn't be back. But I really figured it would be due to concussions + the writing on the wall with either/both of Coan and Mertz.

I was not expecting him to try to transfer and play elsewhere. That is...really something. That is one decision that you can make.

I agree with HR, though - wish him the best in health and play.

Coan isn't good. Mertz is good, but a freshman. Have they promised him the job? Did Horni see that Mertz is better than him?

Lippo · Post #85 » by **Lippo** » Wed Mar 6, 2019 12:43 am

DrWood wrote:
MikeIsGood wrote:I was expecting that he wouldn't be back. But I really figured it would be due to concussions + the writing on the wall with either/both of Coan and Mertz.

I was not expecting him to try to transfer and play elsewhere. That is...really something. That is one decision that you can make.

I agree with HR, though - wish him the best in health and play.

Coan isn't good. Mertz is good, but a freshman. Have they promised him the job? Did Horni see that Mertz is better than him?

Horns a bad football player, he’s not an idiot, yes he saw that

Kerb Hohl · Post #86 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Fri Mar 8, 2019 5:36 pm

Hornibrook visiting Florida State today. I think FSU lost like all of their QBs to transfer recently so I guess having a viable senior option there might make sense.

Kerb Hohl · Post #87 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:14 pm

Good for him for finding a high major with a major QB need. He can be a decent QB in the right place.

Behind that OL at FSU he may die if he starts.

Lippo · Post #88 » by **Lippo** » Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:38 am

Is it too late to get Florida State on our schedule this year?

Post #89 » by **humanrefutation** » Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:00 pm

What's the sense on the team's defensive recruiting and development? I've had this sneaking suspicion that both Wilcox and now Leonhard have benefited tremendously from the foundation laid by Aranda's recruiting and coaching work, and now that he's been gone for a few years and his guys have pretty much finished their college careers, you'll really start seeing how good of a recruiter and coach Jimmy Leonhard actually is.

Kerb Hohl · Post #90 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Apr 2, 2019 1:41 pm

humanrefutation wrote:What's the sense on the team's defensive recruiting and development? I've had this sneaking suspicion that both Wilcox and now Leonhard have benefited tremendously from the foundation laid by Aranda's recruiting and coaching work, and now that he's been gone for a few years and his guys have pretty much finished their college careers, you'll really start seeing how good of a recruiter and coach Jimmy Leonhard actually is.

We'll see this year. Wilcox has a very good defense already already at Cal (though I had read there was some harassment type stuff with him? So maybe it will be short-lived).

The verdict is somewhat out on Leonhard as I'd agree you need to see something a few years after the last regimes left, but I think similarly to Gard, it's hard to completely fudge your way through being that good even with a good recruiting/coaching work foundation being laid down. If you're truly a **** coach, your defense will suck even with really good players.

Aranda was only there from 2013-2015. I'm assuming he only recruited parts of the 2014 and 2015 class. They had some stalwarts in those such as Edwards, Sagapolu, most of the secondary (Dixon, Tindal, Jamerson), though.

Back to the original point - we'll see over the next year or two. They have a lot of talent that they've recruited in there. The entire secondary was forced into action last year as true freshmen/RS frosh and maybe a soph or two. The biggest concern that I have is the defensive line with injuries and depth. Jack Sanborn should be a stud at LB. Orr should be good (trimmed way down) in his final year. I am pretty certain that the secondary will have 3-4 solid (or better) players emerge. I'm not sure if we'll get another stud OLB in there until I see it...and we had like 6 of them between 2012 and 2017.

Schedule may kill them this year, regardless. Might have a nice 9-3 or 10-2 caliber team that goes 7-5. Thems the breaks, of course. It's not like we're in the SEC West every year.

Post #91 » by **MickeyDavis** » Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:43 pm

Read on Twitter

MAC1987 · Post #92 » by **MAC1987** » Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:15 am

MickeyDavis wrote:

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Extending plays will hopefully be his strength. That's exactly what we've needed since Wilson.

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MikeIsGood · Post #93 » by **MikeIsGood** » Tue Jun 4, 2019 9:16 pm

Great article on Mertz and his recruitment.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/26888718/graham-mertz-wisconsin-most-hyped-qb-russell-wilson

Post #94 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Jun 5, 2019 2:51 am

Great article. I'm incredibly curious to see how Wisconsin handles him this year, and the next.

Kerb Hohl · Post #95 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Wed Jun 5, 2019 3:56 pm

I knew there were WI ties but didn't realize his mom was from Green Bay. There we go, keep the Wisconsin expats reproducing 5-star QBs and we've finally got our pipeline of talented QBs.

Post #96 » by **ReasonablySober** » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:44 pm

Just landed 2020 OLB/pass rusher **** recruit Nick Herbig. I think he's the 102nd ranked player in his class.

Kerb Hohl · Post #97 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:06 pm

They've had some universally liked recruiting classes of late. The early recruiting window seems to allow them to lock guys up early and not let them go.

There's a sour taste in the mouth from last year and this year has the potential to be "solid/good team but 7-5 with painful losses" type of path given a brutal crossover schedule so it'll be interesting to see the tone of Chryst and the program if it goes that way...because if you're just looking at recruiting, they're doing about as well as one can expect them to and "better" than successful periods in the past 20-30 years.

Kerb Hohl · Post #98 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:16 pm

A lot of solid commits seem to be rolling in this week for 2020 and a few for 2021. Just got a QB for 2021 from CA.

Post #99 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:22 pm

Read on Twitter

LOL so all those linebacker commits didn't sit well with the kid apparently.

Post #100 » by **MickeyDavis** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:44 pm

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