Badgers Football - 2025 Season

Kerb Hohl · Post #61 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 2:04 am

ReasonablySober wrote:Player who didn't play disgruntled on his way out. Shocking.

I didn’t follow enough to know if he was promising in any way.

Just the guess with minimal info is what you’re saying - he wasn’t gonna be in the main rotation so he left/maybe was pushed out.

The only negative thing is that if Fickell is gonna succeed - his young recruits have to shine. This is one of them.

MVP2110 · Post #62 » by **MVP2110** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 6:34 pm

Erik Schmidt flips to Notre Dame

MVP2110 · Post #63 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 1:06 am

Badgers flip CB Cairo Skanes from Miami(OH)

Jonas Duclona to the Portal

midranger · Post #64 » by **midranger** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 2:53 pm

One thing is clear to me.

Paying NIL dollars for marginal upgrades at non premium positions is a huge loser.

Go all in for a QB and a disruptive DL. Otherwise roll with what you got.

MVP2110 · Post #65 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:11 pm

Justin Taylor & Curt Neal into the portal

midranger · Post #66 » by **midranger** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:13 pm

Losing Neal sucks. Just need bodies there

Kerb Hohl · Post #67 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:20 pm

That is certainly the first one that matters. We'll see what they do on the incoming side.

MVP2110 · Post #68 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:33 pm

Yea Neal is a loss. DL is the hardest position to fill for a college team and losing a would be upperclassmen hurts. Even just for depth purposes

Kerb Hohl · Post #69 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:41 pm

Seeing Landyn Locke tweet that he's signing his LOI, which I realize still could be a one year thing for him or he can maybe break it - still surprises me.

MVP2110 · Post #70 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:45 pm

Kerb Hohl wrote:Seeing Landyn Locke tweet that he's signing his LOI, which I realize still could be a one year thing for him or he can maybe break it - still surprises me.

Considering he tore his ACL and didn't get to put much of a senior season on tape he probably didn't have a ton of other opportunities

Kerb Hohl · Post #71 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 3:58 pm

People will burn down Madison if big bro stays around, but my controversial take is that I'd rather have Braedyn Locke as backup vs. what they are likely to bring in behind their main transfer. A backup that can win a handful of B10 games if he's called on for 2-3 is better than rolling with a true freshman you are waiting on or something.

midranger · Post #72 » by **midranger** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 4:27 pm

Barring some miraculous growth in his development/physique, I’mfine with Locke hanging out in Madison if the understanding is he will play only to get us out of a drive/game if our starter has a concussion or something. Or, maybe 1 week for a sprain.

If we have another season ending injury, I’d rather just take lumps with a younger upside guy than take lumps with the senior no upside guy. Either way, the season is lost, as we saw this year.

He just isn’t any good.

MVP2110 · Post #73 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 4:32 pm

WR Cameron Miller decommitted this morning

Kerb Hohl · Post #74 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 4:33 pm

midranger wrote:Barring some miraculous growth in his development/physique, I’mfine with Locke hanging out in Madison if the understanding is he will play only to get us out of a drive/game if our starter has a concussion or something. Or, maybe 1 week for a sprain.

If we have another season ending injury, I’d rather just take lumps with a younger upside guy than take lumps with the senior no upside guy. Either way, the season is lost, as we saw this year.

He just isn’t any good.

I get this angle and it feels good to cut the player you hate.

The issue with "taking your lumps" if there's a > 3 week injury is that those lumps with next year's schedule might amount to a 3 win season and Barry pulls his levers with donors and hits the fire button.

I realize Locke might only get it to 4 or 5 if he has to play 8 weeks against the meat of the schedule again, but it could matter.

midranger · Post #75 » by **midranger** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 4:41 pm

Kerb Hohl wrote:
midranger wrote:Barring some miraculous growth in his development/physique, I’mfine with Locke hanging out in Madison if the understanding is he will play only to get us out of a drive/game if our starter has a concussion or something. Or, maybe 1 week for a sprain.

If we have another season ending injury, I’d rather just take lumps with a younger upside guy than take lumps with the senior no upside guy. Either way, the season is lost, as we saw this year.

He just isn’t any good.

I get this angle and it feels good to cut the player you hate.

The issue with "taking your lumps" if there's a > 3 week injury is that those lumps with next year's schedule might amount to a 3 win season and Barry pulls his levers with donors and hits the fire button.

I just don’t think Locke prevents that.

There’s no Purdue, Rutgers, Northwestern on the schedule next year.

He was **** BRUTAL overall after Purdue and Rutgers.

Kerb Hohl · Post #76 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 4:45 pm

midranger wrote:
Kerb Hohl wrote:
midranger wrote:Barring some miraculous growth in his development/physique, I’mfine with Locke hanging out in Madison if the understanding is he will play only to get us out of a drive/game if our starter has a concussion or something. Or, maybe 1 week for a sprain.

If we have another season ending injury, I’d rather just take lumps with a younger upside guy than take lumps with the senior no upside guy. Either way, the season is lost, as we saw this year.

He just isn’t any good.

I get this angle and it feels good to cut the player you hate.

The issue with "taking your lumps" if there's a > 3 week injury is that those lumps with next year's schedule might amount to a 3 win season and Barry pulls his levers with donors and hits the fire button.

I just don’t think Locke prevents that.

There’s no Purdue, Rutgers, Northwestern on the schedule next year.

He was **** BRUTAL overall after Purdue and Rutgers.

Still probably better than throwing Carter Smith out there, but we don't have to open this wound again. The point is that he was roughly as/slightly less "brutal" as any other B10 starter against those good defenses.

He was good enough to win vs. USC and Nebraska.

MVP2110 · Post #77 » by **MVP2110** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 7:14 pm

Jace Arnold to the Portal. Quite a thinning out of the secondary so far

Post #78 » by **humanrefutation** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 7:30 pm

The OC posting closes today. Insiders are saying it won't be Marion, but that could be a smokescreen from the Badgers.

LUKE23 · Post #79 » by **LUKE23** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 7:49 pm

Why are we not penciling in Mettauer as the starter next year?

https://www.badgernotes.com/p/wisconsin-badgers-qb-mabrey-mettauer-showing-incredibly-growth-development

Kerb Hohl · Post #80 » by **Kerb Hohl** » Tue Dec 3, 2024 7:51 pm

LUKE23 wrote:Why are we not penciling in Mettauer as the starter next year?

https://www.badgernotes.com/p/wisconsin-badgers-qb-mabrey-mettauer-showing-incredibly-growth-development

If he is to be a Big Ten starter as a RS Freshman, where other teams are buying established guys that have 2+ years of good production, don't you think he'd have been ahead of Locke on the depth chart at least?