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Wisconsin is behind schedule, but these things take time
When the 2022 coaching carousel came to a close, a pair of Big Ten hires had the scouting and personnel world buzzing: Matt Rhule at Nebraska and Luke Fickell at Wisconsin.
Both coaches were known behind the scenes for their ability to not only identify talent but develop it. During Rhule’s time at Temple and Baylor, he signed nearly two dozen recruits who went on to be selected in the NFL Draft. Only one of them was graded as a five- or four-star prospect coming out of high school. He had a philosophy then that was: If you’re gonna miss, miss fast.
Fickell had just as much success with three-star castoffs at Cincinnati, with future pros like Sauce Gardner and Desmond Ridder helping the Bearcats make back-to-back New Year’s Six bowls and crashing the College Football Playoff, the first Group of Five program to do so.
It’s still very early in both Rhule’s and Fickell’s tenures, but after the first few games of Year 2 for both coaches, Rhule is ahead of schedule in Lincoln with ballyhooed freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola and a havoc-creating front seven, while Fickell is still trying to get things off the ground in Madison. Each team has a similar record but Nebraska (3-1) has looked much more convincing — even though its home loss to Illinois by a touchdown is worse than…
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Author : Andrew Ivins
Publish date : 2024-09-26 04:00:37
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