What no one is mentioning is that TWO successful head coaches who QUIT at Wisconsin said a big part of the decision was the academic requirements that are even higher than in most of what is a high academics conference. They couldn't recruit players they wanted that others in the conference could. Bielema and his predecessor both said it.
Chryst's predecessor, Gary Andersen, said that, and it's a well-known issue mostly for UW football and bball. However, Bucky still shouldn't lose to Illinois and WSU.
I didn't realize that, but it makes sense. That's always a problem for schools with high academic standards like Vandy, Stanford, Northwestern, etc. There isn't a lot of overlap between people with above average IQ and elite playmaking ability, and the ones who do fit that mold are probably not going to Wisconsin over the few other competitors in that market. It's also why you see so many players in the SEC with majors like "African Studies" and do-nothing classes. My favorite example of this was a rerun I saw a couple years ago from a 1990 Tennessee game, and one of the highlighted players was majoring in "Urban Studies." It's really absurd that we still have sports so closely tied with academic institutions, forcing schools to play the charade of "student athletes."
They aren't the only program in the country with high academic admittance standards. The real problem is the brands they recruit against for those types of kids. Michigan, Notre Dame, etc. I mean, if I'm a HS kid I'm not going to Wisconsin over either of those two schools.
Yes, that would be more indicative of Wisconsin's conservative style that keeps them from maturing into an elite program. And their fans are always ok with being second or third best in the conference.
I’ll never forget our best years with chryst, but most fans recognize we reached our peak with him and we’re trending downward. I personally don’t want a coaching search, I think we’ll do just fine making jim Leonhard HC and finding coordinators who can modernize and recruit
There's lots of great coaches out there. If you don't think you have a chance to pull one you're underselling your program. Unless you think he's just as good as Baylor's HC then ok. I'd give NW a call. They've made it to the B10 championship with far less. He can get the most out of every guy.
Is the Wisconsin fanbase brainwashed to be convinced this is a good move besides Barry alverez and other coaches occasional rose bowl wins they’re a 9 10 win team every year at best they aren’t even close to Ohio state Michigan Penn state and even nebraskas standards
@@alexshirley6096 I disagree apart from their consistent 10 game wins. Wisconsin has a great RB tradition and a consistent solid defense. All they really need is a modern passing offense.
@@alexshirley6096 there’s nothing that can be accomplished at PSU, MSU, and especially fucking Nebraska that can’t be done at wisconsin. 9-3 is a hollow record when you don’t beat any good teams. I’m not expecting a Badger dynasty to come out of this firing, but I do expect a coach who won’t get manhandled by PAC-12 teams and Illinois at home
Josh is spot on, Wisconsin needs to start committing resources to the program if it wants to stay relevant. Leading indicators point to new AD Chris McIntosh being more aggressive in this department; they're finally planning to build a new $300 million practice facility, which is about a decade overdue.
I've read that they have a laughably low recruiting budget. Not sure/confirmed, but I know that they current class is 57th. They have won 9, 10 games a lot in the last 20 years, even 12 twice I believe, but when they have been in a division it has usually been a weak division. Winning that much in spite not even trying all that hard in recruiting and have some higher academic standards is pretty impressive on the other hand, but how long was that sustainable? When UCLA and USC join the B1G things get more serious. No more being coddled in an easy division. Not having a competent passing game won't cut it. I believe that the new AD sees this landscape / sees the future, and this why I was not shocked by this firing. A lot of people are saying they are shocked.
@@andrewmueller9986 Laughable is about right. In 2019 a study was done and it showed Wisconsin ranked dead last in P5 for their recruiting budget, despite their class finishing 29th that year. Other programs caught on and poached their entire recruiting department the next year, and they(read Paul Chryst) decided not to rehire those positions for the next ~18 months, so essentially they decided dead last wasn't low enough. They recently filled those positions again, but this definitely helps explain the 57th ranking.
Honest question, what are the expectations at Wisconsin? What could another coach do that Chryst hasn't done? They aren't gonna beat the teams from the East, and once USC and UCLA come aboard and they get rid of divisions it's gonna get even harder.
As a Wisconsin fan, Josh could not have been more correct on this. No one should've been shocked by this. The first half of Chryst's tenure was great and he should be respected, but we were going downhill at high speeds. Also, either Leonhard proves to be the coach everyone thinks he is or we bring in Leipold, who has big wisconsin ties. Either way the fan base is excited again
I was a junior in h.s. in1968....Badgers never won a game that year. It was like that for decades before B.A. turned it all around. Even then they didn't win in his first year. Three years later it was a different story.
Hot take: Paul Chryst should move to Nebraska and provide them with stability and a boost in recruitment in transfers from Wisconsin. Also he's a solid coach who can help provide stability.
Nebraska is a much better program than Wisconsin at least historically they at least have the championships to have standards Wisconsin is a solid 10 or 9 win season with an occasional rose bowl appearance they would kill to have nebraskas championships and history
Chryst made 5 mil. A new south end zone project has just opened. A new practice facility is in the works. No amount of money will make this bad team better this year. Donors got tired of Coach Mumblemouth.
I just think Liepold is too old for what Wisconsin is looking for. Leonard is going to get the opportunity and if he can lead this team to a better situation then what Chryst did he should be the favorite for the job.
At least schools like nebraska tennessee Georgia tech and Colorado can make bad moves like this because they at least have national championships in the past 20-30 years and a storied history to make reckless decisions like this but Wisconsin this is a panic move because before Barry Alverez they were awful before and they are a 10-3 at best each year with occasional luck if Jim leonhard success this will be seen as a great move but if he doesn’t this is Wisconsin’s Frank solich moment and it may take 20-30 years to recover
Ur a casual, you don’t know what happens behind the scenes, if teams want to win championships tomorrow all they need to do is make that football budget unlimited, where did you get 30 years from? This isn’t the 1960s, rebuilds can take 2-3 years now.
I doubt Leipold wants to make another change, plus KU will probably .make it worth it to stay Jim Leonhard has the intangibles and will be a success as HC. Wisconsin wants to be in the upper side 8f the BigTen, I doubt they will be able to get 100 five star players in the roster.
@@ZONEPRESSLLC by that, I meant player recruitment too. NIL deals have to come from somewhere. They're going to have to upgrade their facilities and staff structure to be considered by those recruits
@@brianwilkinson356 They can't even field a baseball team after all those bowl games. Too busy giving football money to their social causes. Insane. Their program will always be the same and Badger fans are ok with being second rate.
Paul Chryst's career at Wisconsin is a tale of two half's, the first half he accomplished everything you could have wished for from a guy replacing Bret Bielema and then after the Covid 2020 year it went downhill and got worse every year. I don't think that I was just because Wisconsin was losing game but that they were losing games week after week with no signs of improvement or fixing their issues that just drained all the life out of the Wisconsin fan base.
With all due respect, Leipold has one successful season (the current one) in a power five league. Matt Campbell has a better track record. Also, i think. Wisconsin is not the type of place where you can get rid of coaches and not go through a bad rebuild. They do not recruit in that manner. They need someone they know or someone who has won in a Power 5 league. My choice would be Leonhard. If they dont hire him on a permanent basis he will get a head coaching job somewhere else, probably this year.
I don't follow Wisconsin, but after hearing the list of what "they don't have," could it possibly be Paul just ran out of gas attempting to keep up with the big boys and tired of hitting a brick wall? I know my 'Noles have an AD who's all in to getting Coach Norvell whatever he needs to make us a national contender. Just a thought.
Delusions of grandeur. Even the supposedly great Barry Alvarez lost 4 or more games in 7 of his last 11 years, finished .500 or worse in conference 5 of those years and won 69.5% of his games in those last 11 years. Chryst won 72% overall,, by comparison Chryst lost 4 or more only 3 times in 7+ season, was .500 or worse in conference only once at exactly .500 in the covid year, even over the last 4+ years he won 63.5% of his games and played in a B10 title game and 3-1 in his last 4 bowls.
James, Barry Coached when there was no weak azz west division with 6 easy wins per year and 3 cupcake warmup games. When Barry coached OSU, PSU and Mich were on the schedule each year.
If you had seen how bad Wisconsin was in 1990, you would know why everyone appreciated what Barry did. Alverez turned a 0-11 team into a Rose Bowl and Big Ten championship team in 4 years and basically built the program to nearly elite status for many years. The whole university also changed since he was hired and made it even better as AD.
Really hoping they get Lance Leipold, I've been a fan since he was at Whitewater. As a Wisconsin fan I would prefer that he doesn't end up at Nebraska lol
So stupid. I remember when Mason had Minnesota winning eight plus games a year. They fired him because they were really good but not great. Minnesota was horrible for a while after that. Solich and Stoops had Nebraska winning a lot, but not competing for national championships. They were fired. Look at Nebraska now. Wisconsin was the top dog in the West. That wasn't enough. Now we'll see. However, Wisconsin has to realize that they are not Ohio State. The cupboards are not, nor will they ever be, overflowing with four and five star recruits. Occasionally competing with Ohio State, PSU, and Michigan should be enough. Developing players so that they have an amazing team once every few years and a solid team in off years is what Wisconsin is. Quit trying to be something you're not.
You truly don’t realize how bad Wisconsin has been receding in strength sense 2017….. After that 2019 loss in the rose ball against OSU Wisco just didn’t look the same.
Wisconsin has lost the last 8 games to Ohio State, most of them embarrassingly. But what has changed is that the Badgers are losing to Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern. The offense is so predictable and can't get the job done anymore. The only reason they were winning any games was because of the defense and they are very young this year and making many mistakes on the fly. It was time for a change.
Minnesota got pretty good under Fleck. Illinois is vastly improved. Northwestern has its years. Wisconsin should be the premier team in the B1G West though. I am not arguing that. However, the nature of the B1G West is that it is super competitive. None of the teams really out recruit the others by much. So you have to consider that with less of a talent gap, there are going to be close games, unexpected losses, and bad years where things just don't click. A .720 winning percentage is pretty impressive under those circumstances. I don't have an argument about the boring offense other than that's what's worked in Madison since Alvarez. Until Wisconsin can recruit QBs and star receivers that's what they have to do. Wisconsin gets and developes plenty of great offensive linemen and running backs. If that's what they have, then what's wrong with utilizing them?
With NIL, there is no more “don’t be something ur not” you can buy a championships now, just like osu has for the past 30 years now, don’t mention the sanduskies in the same sentence as michigan,osu,Wisconsin. They should be in the mac after that story
Classic case of an AD having very little idea about how leading a football team works. Leonhard is the shiny new toy who draws up a neat blitz that sacks the QB on a 3rd & 5, but there is a major difference between doing that and being in charge of players, coaches, and other program people, many of whom think they know better than you do. Leonhard is assuredly a brilliant football mind and a high character individual, but this job he’s walking into is an entirety different situation than anything he’s ever encountered before. Leipold needs to be the first person they talk to on the phone the second they’re able to, because I have my doubts about whether Leonhard is truly up for this.
Justified, yes, but the timing, no. You gaining anything by firing him now unless you're worried about recruiting. You still got same coaching staff rest of year. You need an offensive coach. Modern offense
They are trying to see if Leonard can be the guy. The next 7-8 games will essentially be his coaching interview and if they aren’t impressed they will make a run for lance Leopold.
They need to leave the Kansas coach alone. It’s been a long time since the Jayhawks have been relevant in football and I would like them to stay relevant.
Leonhard will do fine. He knows ball, whether he can break kneecaps and be in charge of adults is another question and will be the deciding factor for what’s next. Wisconsin made the mistake of choosing the shiny new toy Graham Mertz over Jack Coan last season and it cost them a B1G Championship appearance, now they’re doing it again with the head coach. I’d say the AD is banking too hard on Leonhard being the Christ figure for the program. Business and real life don’t work that way.
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What no one is mentioning is that TWO successful head coaches who QUIT at Wisconsin said a big part of the decision was the academic requirements that are even higher than in most of what is a high academics conference. They couldn't recruit players they wanted that others in the conference could. Bielema and his predecessor both said it.
Chryst's predecessor, Gary Andersen, said that, and it's a well-known issue mostly for UW football and bball. However, Bucky still shouldn't lose to Illinois and WSU.
I didn't realize that, but it makes sense. That's always a problem for schools with high academic standards like Vandy, Stanford, Northwestern, etc. There isn't a lot of overlap between people with above average IQ and elite playmaking ability, and the ones who do fit that mold are probably not going to Wisconsin over the few other competitors in that market. It's also why you see so many players in the SEC with majors like "African Studies" and do-nothing classes.
My favorite example of this was a rerun I saw a couple years ago from a 1990 Tennessee game, and one of the highlighted players was majoring in "Urban Studies." It's really absurd that we still have sports so closely tied with academic institutions, forcing schools to play the charade of "student athletes."
They aren't the only program in the country with high academic admittance standards. The real problem is the brands they recruit against for those types of kids. Michigan, Notre Dame, etc. I mean, if I'm a HS kid I'm not going to Wisconsin over either of those two schools.
Luke Fickell was a good hire
I did not see this coming. Figured Wisconsin would let him ride out the season
Yes, that would be more indicative of Wisconsin's conservative style that keeps them from maturing into an elite program. And their fans are always ok with being second or third best in the conference.
@@ZONEPRESSLLCno that’s not true, that’s just propaganda
@@pvworkings7327It's very true. I grew up there and the attitude is " oh, we are ok with second or third.
I’ll never forget our best years with chryst, but most fans recognize we reached our peak with him and we’re trending downward. I personally don’t want a coaching search, I think we’ll do just fine making jim Leonhard HC and finding coordinators who can modernize and recruit
Maybe. Or you could get what we got when we hired a consensus "great offensive mind." Just on the other side of the ball.
There's lots of great coaches out there. If you don't think you have a chance to pull one you're underselling your program. Unless you think he's just as good as Baylor's HC then ok. I'd give NW a call. They've made it to the B10 championship with far less. He can get the most out of every guy.
Is the Wisconsin fanbase brainwashed to be convinced this is a good move besides Barry alverez and other coaches occasional rose bowl wins they’re a 9 10 win team every year at best they aren’t even close to Ohio state Michigan Penn state and even nebraskas standards
@@alexshirley6096 I disagree apart from their consistent 10 game wins. Wisconsin has a great RB tradition and a consistent solid defense. All they really need is a modern passing offense.
@@alexshirley6096 there’s nothing that can be accomplished at PSU, MSU, and especially fucking Nebraska that can’t be done at wisconsin. 9-3 is a hollow record when you don’t beat any good teams. I’m not expecting a Badger dynasty to come out of this firing, but I do expect a coach who won’t get manhandled by PAC-12 teams and Illinois at home
Some of the Players weren't happy about this. So there is a lot of turmoil.
Josh is spot on, Wisconsin needs to start committing resources to the program if it wants to stay relevant. Leading indicators point to new AD Chris McIntosh being more aggressive in this department; they're finally planning to build a new $300 million practice facility, which is about a decade overdue.
I've read that they have a laughably low recruiting budget. Not sure/confirmed, but I know that they current class is 57th.
They have won 9, 10 games a lot in the last 20 years, even 12 twice I believe, but when they have been in a division it has usually been a weak division. Winning that much in spite not even trying all that hard in recruiting and have some higher academic standards is pretty impressive on the other hand, but how long was that sustainable?
When UCLA and USC join the B1G things get more serious. No more being coddled in an easy division. Not having a competent passing game won't cut it. I believe that the new AD sees this landscape / sees the future, and this why I was not shocked by this firing. A lot of people are saying they are shocked.
@@andrewmueller9986 Laughable is about right. In 2019 a study was done and it showed Wisconsin ranked dead last in P5 for their recruiting budget, despite their class finishing 29th that year. Other programs caught on and poached their entire recruiting department the next year, and they(read Paul Chryst) decided not to rehire those positions for the next ~18 months, so essentially they decided dead last wasn't low enough. They recently filled those positions again, but this definitely helps explain the 57th ranking.
@@andrewmueller9986 You should read Jesse Temple article today that came out today on Paul Chryst. He covers Wisconsin athletes for the The Athletic.
Leipold would be a game changer for Wisconsin in the Big Ten west!
They are riding with Leonhard it looks like
Honest question, what are the expectations at Wisconsin? What could another coach do that Chryst hasn't done? They aren't gonna beat the teams from the East, and once USC and UCLA come aboard and they get rid of divisions it's gonna get even harder.
Expectations for Wisconsin are national championships
As a Wisconsin fan, Josh could not have been more correct on this. No one should've been shocked by this. The first half of Chryst's tenure was great and he should be respected, but we were going downhill at high speeds.
Also, either Leonhard proves to be the coach everyone thinks he is or we bring in Leipold, who has big wisconsin ties. Either way the fan base is excited again
I was a junior in h.s. in1968....Badgers never won a game that year. It was like that for decades before B.A. turned it all around. Even then they didn't win in his first year. Three years later it was a different story.
Hot take: Paul Chryst should move to Nebraska and provide them with stability and a boost in recruitment in transfers from Wisconsin.
Also he's a solid coach who can help provide stability.
Nebraska is a much better program than Wisconsin at least historically they at least have the championships to have standards Wisconsin is a solid 10 or 9 win season with an occasional rose bowl appearance they would kill to have nebraskas championships and history
@@alexshirley6096 But still right now Nebraska is a job not many want and a program that needs stability and a winning culture
@@alexshirley6096Matt rhule is a energetic Paul Cryst
Chryst made 5 mil. A new south end zone project has just opened. A new practice facility is in the works. No amount of money will make this bad team better this year. Donors got tired of Coach Mumblemouth.
I just think Liepold is too old for what Wisconsin is looking for. Leonard is going to get the opportunity and if he can lead this team to a better situation then what Chryst did he should be the favorite for the job.
At least schools like nebraska tennessee Georgia tech and Colorado can make bad moves like this because they at least have national championships in the past 20-30 years and a storied history to make reckless decisions like this but Wisconsin this is a panic move because before Barry Alverez they were awful before and they are a 10-3 at best each year with occasional luck if Jim leonhard success this will be seen as a great move but if he doesn’t this is Wisconsin’s Frank solich moment and it may take 20-30 years to recover
Ur a casual, you don’t know what happens behind the scenes, if teams want to win championships tomorrow all they need to do is make that football budget unlimited, where did you get 30 years from? This isn’t the 1960s, rebuilds can take 2-3 years now.
Boosters will not stand for losing because they have to pay for the program and the players both...
Chryst would be a head coach real soon he will be great coach for Colorado.
Totally
The coaching carousel is going to be fun to watch this year.
This is a surprise…..
I doubt Leipold wants to make another change, plus KU will probably .make it worth it to stay Jim Leonhard has the intangibles and will be a success as HC. Wisconsin wants to be in the upper side 8f the BigTen, I doubt they will be able to get 100 five star players in the roster.
Money plus entitlement destroys everything.
They are going to have to invest into their football program 💯
That's not going to bring in 4 and 5 star athletes. Let's be real.
@@ZONEPRESSLLC by that, I meant player recruitment too. NIL deals have to come from somewhere. They're going to have to upgrade their facilities and staff structure to be considered by those recruits
@@brianwilkinson356 They can't even field a baseball team after all those bowl games. Too busy giving football money to their social causes. Insane. Their program will always be the same and Badger fans are ok with being second rate.
@@ZONEPRESSLLC You seem pretty pessimistic about Wisconsin’s chances to get a decent coach in all your comments…. You a FIB or a Minnesotan?
@@e.e.lawson6153 The reason is because I went there and I know the attitude....very well.
Todd Monken would be a good hire
Too old
Who the heck is Paulina Tryst?
Michigan death penalty coming soon
Paul Chryst's career at Wisconsin is a tale of two half's, the first half he accomplished everything you could have wished for from a guy replacing Bret Bielema and then after the Covid 2020 year it went downhill and got worse every year. I don't think that I was just because Wisconsin was losing game but that they were losing games week after week with no signs of improvement or fixing their issues that just drained all the life out of the Wisconsin fan base.
With all due respect, Leipold has one successful season (the current one) in a power five league. Matt Campbell has a better track record. Also, i think. Wisconsin is not the type of place where you can get rid of coaches and not go through a bad rebuild. They do not recruit in that manner. They need someone they know or someone who has won in a Power 5 league. My choice would be Leonhard. If they dont hire him on a permanent basis he will get a head coaching job somewhere else, probably this year.
LL has 5 natties at a lower level.
Illinois is 4-1 now, Bielema has already turned the program around
Nope
I don't follow Wisconsin, but after hearing the list of what "they don't have," could it possibly be Paul just ran out of gas attempting to keep up with the big boys and tired of hitting a brick wall? I know my 'Noles have an AD who's all in to getting Coach Norvell whatever he needs to make us a national contender. Just a thought.
They have all of those things, Josh is talking out of his ass.
lol, Great athletes aren't going to Wisconsin when they can go to the great schools in the south. Stop.
Delusions of grandeur. Even the supposedly great Barry Alvarez lost 4 or more games in 7 of his last 11 years, finished .500 or worse in conference 5 of those years and won 69.5% of his games in those last 11 years. Chryst won 72% overall,, by comparison Chryst lost 4 or more only 3 times in 7+ season, was .500 or worse in conference only once at exactly .500 in the covid year, even over the last 4+ years he won 63.5% of his games and played in a B10 title game and 3-1 in his last 4 bowls.
James, Barry Coached when there was no weak azz west division with 6 easy wins per year and 3 cupcake warmup games. When Barry coached OSU, PSU and Mich were on the schedule each year.
If you had seen how bad Wisconsin was in 1990, you would know why everyone appreciated what Barry did. Alverez turned a 0-11 team into a Rose Bowl and Big Ten championship team in 4 years and basically built the program to nearly elite status for many years. The whole university also changed since he was hired and made it even better as AD.
most of pc's wins came against teams they were supposed to beat. PC is 26-22 against winning teams.
@@hx1234 Alvarez from 2001- the end of his initial stint went 13-17 vs Big 5 schools .500 or better
Really hoping they get Lance Leipold, I've been a fan since he was at Whitewater. As a Wisconsin fan I would prefer that he doesn't end up at Nebraska lol
Coming from a Husker fan, I agree from the opposite perspective and think he would do very well at either place.
No, he was at whitewater and not Wisconsin for a reason, if was actually good they’d snag him 30 years ago
So stupid. I remember when Mason had Minnesota winning eight plus games a year. They fired him because they were really good but not great. Minnesota was horrible for a while after that. Solich and Stoops had Nebraska winning a lot, but not competing for national championships. They were fired. Look at Nebraska now. Wisconsin was the top dog in the West. That wasn't enough. Now we'll see. However, Wisconsin has to realize that they are not Ohio State. The cupboards are not, nor will they ever be, overflowing with four and five star recruits. Occasionally competing with Ohio State, PSU, and Michigan should be enough. Developing players so that they have an amazing team once every few years and a solid team in off years is what Wisconsin is. Quit trying to be something you're not.
You truly don’t realize how bad Wisconsin has been receding in strength sense 2017….. After that 2019 loss in the rose ball against OSU Wisco just didn’t look the same.
Wisconsin has lost the last 8 games to Ohio State, most of them embarrassingly. But what has changed is that the Badgers are losing to Minnesota, Illinois, and Northwestern. The offense is so predictable and can't get the job done anymore. The only reason they were winning any games was because of the defense and they are very young this year and making many mistakes on the fly. It was time for a change.
Minnesota got pretty good under Fleck. Illinois is vastly improved. Northwestern has its years. Wisconsin should be the premier team in the B1G West though. I am not arguing that. However, the nature of the B1G West is that it is super competitive. None of the teams really out recruit the others by much. So you have to consider that with less of a talent gap, there are going to be close games, unexpected losses, and bad years where things just don't click. A .720 winning percentage is pretty impressive under those circumstances. I don't have an argument about the boring offense other than that's what's worked in Madison since Alvarez. Until Wisconsin can recruit QBs and star receivers that's what they have to do. Wisconsin gets and developes plenty of great offensive linemen and running backs. If that's what they have, then what's wrong with utilizing them?
With NIL, there is no more “don’t be something ur not” you can buy a championships now, just like osu has for the past 30 years now, don’t mention the sanduskies in the same sentence as michigan,osu,Wisconsin. They should be in the mac after that story
Classic case of an AD having very little idea about how leading a football team works. Leonhard is the shiny new toy who draws up a neat blitz that sacks the QB on a 3rd & 5, but there is a major difference between doing that and being in charge of players, coaches, and other program people, many of whom think they know better than you do. Leonhard is assuredly a brilliant football mind and a high character individual, but this job he’s walking into is an entirety different situation than anything he’s ever encountered before. Leipold needs to be the first person they talk to on the phone the second they’re able to, because I have my doubts about whether Leonhard is truly up for this.
Sending Bo Pelini vibes to Madison.
Justified, yes, but the timing, no. You gaining anything by firing him now unless you're worried about recruiting. You still got same coaching staff rest of year. You need an offensive coach. Modern offense
They are trying to see if Leonard can be the guy. The next 7-8 games will essentially be his coaching interview and if they aren’t impressed they will make a run for lance Leopold.
Chryst this was an overdue firing...
They need to leave the Kansas coach alone. It’s been a long time since the Jayhawks have been relevant in football and I would like them to stay relevant.
Coach Liepold is from Wisconsin. He was a candidate when Chryst was hired. He does have Kansas playing very well.
It's cold out there on the coaching market. If Wisconsin doesn't land Lance, they're gonna be in trouble
They are already in trouble - average athletes don't make a coach successful in today's game.
Matt Campbell isn’t a bad option either honestly. I don’t know if he’s the right fit though.
Leonhard will do fine. He knows ball, whether he can break kneecaps and be in charge of adults is another question and will be the deciding factor for what’s next. Wisconsin made the mistake of choosing the shiny new toy Graham Mertz over Jack Coan last season and it cost them a B1G Championship appearance, now they’re doing it again with the head coach. I’d say the AD is banking too hard on Leonhard being the Christ figure for the program. Business and real life don’t work that way.
Nope