Badgers Football - Transfer SZN

BUCKnation · Post #481 » by **BUCKnation** » Sat May 17, 2025 11:49 pm

Huh, I thought we had one of the higher rated portals a month or two ago

Post #482 » by **ReasonablySober** » Sun May 18, 2025 12:40 am

MVP2110 wrote:
ReasonablySober wrote:
MVP2110 wrote:ESPN not a fan of the Badgers offseason

Knocking them for not bringing in a transfer RB seems odd though

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45027154/ranking-offseason-college-football-power-4-teams-2025#b1g

If you're going back to a run heavy system but relying on a bunch of backups from last year I think it invites criticism.

Maybe? I get not wanting to recruit over Dupree & Jones though, reportedly both look awesome and recruiting over them might have caused them to transfer

I think it's fine that they didn't add an upperclassman to the room. Dupree and Jones look good enough to me.

Kerb Hohl · Post #483 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Mon May 19, 2025 3:01 pm

I'm a bit torn, but it's because sometimes my "next guy up" meter for college is always too skeptical.

Dupree and Jones look fine. I guess the idea is Yacamelli is a good RB that always was underused.

Because the thing is - great, Dupree and Jones are good recruiting star guys. Dupree looked solid last year. But he didn't look like Jonathan Taylor. Other great teams are going to buy up upperclassmen that are frankly better than those guys might be right now. If you have sophomores out there, they better be really **** good. I'm not sure these guys are.

On the other hand, the transfer market for a team like Wisconsin is somebody like Walker - who is just a "solid, will get you those 4 yards" most of the time guy. So I doubt it would get much better.