What sucks for OSU fans -- it will be three times in a row after this year.
In the 4 seasons after Urban left, the average Florida recruiting class was ranked 6/7 in the nation, with two of those classes being top 5. This excuse is ridiculous. OSU has still been elite after him. It isn't like he chose to leave Florida in shambles while OSU was in good shape, Florida is just a shitty program.
In Fickel we trust. If he can get a CFP team at Cincinnati, he can certainly do it at Wisconsin.
If Wisconsin plays a G5 schedule -- he definitely can. The problem is -- they have to face a 9 game schedule of P5 conference games, then has to beat the B1G East champ.
Just another piece of the puzzle. I, too, think that Wisky has a recruiting issue but that can be fixed, hopefully still keep the better in-state guys at home. We may have struck out with Mertz, but maybe next time we don't. Yes, Top 10 recruiting classes are needed to compete, but Wisconsin is positioned to start landing a string of them.
You're acting as if Gardner was the only good player on the team. For starters, it was his teammate that won the Thorpe Award in his final year. From 2000-2020, Cincy put 7 guys in the draft in the first 3 rounds. In the past three drafts, they've had 6 of them. He built that team from the bottom up with largely no-name recruits and the results were amazing. They obviously lost their CFP game, but it took Bama until the 4th quarter to finally put that game away. I know Wisconsin doesn't crush it in recruiting, but they do much better than Cincinnati. I think he has them back in the CCG by next season and possibly in the CFP in the next 5 years if he stays.
I'd like a shot at that this coming CFP!
Isn't this kind of interesting ... the SEC is getting ripped for playing 8 games, but anyone that wants to get into the CFP is going to play 4 or 5 of UGA, Bama, Texas, OU, UTjr, Auburn, UF or LSU, and then likely play UGA or Bama in the SECCG.
I don't care if they had #1 classes those seasons, UF and FSU were left shit shows by those two.
Does Wisconsin recruit better than Cincy? Yes. Wisconsin also plays a light years more difficult schedule than Cincy played the year they went to the CFP.
Problem is there is usually only 3-4 spots available in the top 10. Seems the frickin' SEC takes up 6-7 spots.
No doubt. A ton of teams will be making the 12 team CFP. But a ton of teams making the 12 team CFP will have zero chance to win a national title. They can't even find 4 teams worthy of a title shot. Now there will be 8 more teams added to it.
Winning a title is what I was talking about. With the watered down CFP we will soon have, they will have tons of teams going to the CFP who have no shot at actually winning the title.
And that just doesn't make any sense. Feel free to actually explain the "shit show" he left, but it isn't Urban's fault that Florida has been perpetually shitty at finding a good HC since he left.
Saying Fickell "hit the lottery" is very ignorant. That doesn't just happen by luck, he's just a very good coach. Also SOS in 2021 is irrelevant when it's made up in recruiting and the portal, two things that will be stepped up considerably for Fickell at Wisconsin.
