I caught up with Justin Taylor following his first-round playoff victory last night. I only saw the second half of his game because I went to the Marist vs Naperville North game during the first half. Justin looked phenomenal.

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"I have one (visit) at Minnesota this weekend then I am trying to set one up for Wisconsin next weekend"

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Will not play in bowl game.

Is it generally assumed Herbig is leaving after the Bowl game for the NFL or is there still a chance he may stick around for next year?

Jimmy Demetral Team MVP
Presented annually to the player most instrumental to the success of the team, as selected by his teammates and coaches
• Nick Herbig

Offensive Player of the Year
Presented annually to the top player on offense, as selected by the coaching staff
• Chimere Dike

Defensive Player of the Year
Presented annually to the top player on defense, as selected by the coaching staff
• Keeanu Benton

Special Teams Player of the Year
Presented annually to the most valuable player on special teams, as selected by the coaching staff
• Nate Van Zelst

Ivan Williamson Scholastic Award
Presented annually to a player who has been exemplary in the areas of scholarship and sportsmanship
• Jack Eschenbach

Rookie of the Year
Presented to the player who, in his debut season, made a major impact on the success of the team
• Skyler Bell and Ricardo Hallman

Wayne Souza Offensive Impact Award
Presented annually to the offensive player who has contributed to the team's success to the best of their abilities. It is based upon improvement, attitude and willingness to help the program in all areas.
• Braelon Allen and Joe Tippmann

Jay Seiler Defensive Impact Award
Presented annually to the defensive player who has contributed to the team's success to the best of his abilities. It is based upon improvement, attitude and willingness to help the program in all areas.
• John Torchio

Special Teams Impact Player of the Year
Presented to the players whose contributes made significant impacts on the success of the special teams units
• Kamo'i Latu

Tom Wiesner Award
Presented annually to a Wisconsin-born student-athlete whose loyalty, hard work, spirit and dedication are unselfishly directed to the success of the team. The award is given in memory of Wiesner, a Wisconsin football letterwinner (1958-60).
• Brady Schipper

Badger Power Award
Presented annually to the player that consistently performs at a high level in all aspects of the strength and conditioning program. An individual who has a great work ethic coupled with a positive attitude that garners the respect of teammates, is dependable, buys into the program and shows constant improvement.
• Travian Blaylock

Otis Green Manager Award
Presented annually to a student manager whose leadership, dedication and work ethic led to the success of the football program. The award is given in memory of former team manager Kevin "Otis" Green.
• Max Metropulos

His commitment remains completely solid following the coaching change:

"It absolutely does not change my mind. I am a Wisconsin guy through and through."

There is SO much information flying around....Can I ask for a couple of things please?
Actual list of known visitors this weekend.
Actual list of known staff members.
Projected 2 deep for the bowl game.

Thanks, if it's too much with all that is going on, I'd understand. It's just hard to actually know all this actually happening.

This is easily the most fun I've had in years on this board. Everyone is in the same mode, up, down, elated, saying WTH, clicking refresh every 3 minutes....CM is accomplishing what he set out to do and that is generate a great deal of interest in the program, and as the rabid and faithful 5% of us on these types of boards exhibits, interest has been raised. And I'd say hope and excitement for the future. I can't tell you how down I was on the program after the RB loss then the PSU loss. I had no hope this thing was going in the right direction and I think CM probably felt the same way. What's most exciting, exhilarating is that this program is going in a completely different direction than the formulaic "Wisconsin way" which has garnered so much succuss. We and the entire athletic department and football program are going somewhat outside the safe space comfort zone of what BA built. That is terrifying and exciting at the same time. WILL IT WORK? Who knows, but every indication is that it has a fighting chance and everything we are seeing is literally new in the last 30 years (GA wasn't a splash hire and Fickell is...). My only hope is that so much of this excitement isn't shut down at the gates of admission because we could be seeing something really cool here...and might I say without jinxing it, take us to the next level...

Will Coach LF be bringing most of all of his staff with him? Here is his UC staff for this season:

Current OC/QB is Gino Guidugli who played at UC. He was OC this year after Mike Denbrock left to be OC at LSU. Coached at UC since 2017, before that Central Mich.

Current DC is Mike Tressel. He was hired from MSU after Freeman left for ND. Tressel could be a candidate for the UC HC job.

Current special teams coordinator is Kerry Coombs. He was fired as DC at OSU. He is a Cincinnati native.

WR Coach is Mike Brown. 4th Season as WR coach. Played 3 season for the Jaguars.

Co-DC Safeties is Colin Hitschler. 3rd year at UC. Grad assistant before that.

RB Coach is Darren Paige. Second year as RB coach at UC. Coached WRs at Eastern Mich.

OL Coach is Mike Cummings. He's coached OL since 1980s mostly at Central/East/West Michigan.

TE Coach is Nate Letton. First season as TE coach at UC, was grad assistant 2 previous years.

OLB Coach is James Ross III. First year at UC. Was a grad assistant at Mich and played there.

DL Coach is Walter Stewart. First year at UC. Coached DL at Temple previously.

S&C is Brady Collins. Has had the role since 2017.

Director of Recruiting is Pat Lambert.

Director of Recruiting Strategy is Max Stienecker.

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Hermann has emerged from nowhere this fall as a legit D1 kid. Vanderbilt offered today and visits are set up to Iowa and Iowa State.

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What does anyone know about the realignment? I'm hearing some schools are not happy with the traveling they now have to do and size of schools they have to play against? Some teams will have to travel over 2 hours for some games and play against schools that are almost double the size? If true, it almost seems like this could discourage kids from playing football. Not to mention most rivalries and traditions could be finished.

Why did Longo leave North Carolina? - Pay raise? Is Mack close to retiring? - Just close to Luke Fickle?

Where does Jimmy coach next year? - DC at Nebraska? DC at Purdue?

What is Mickey Turner doing? Will he be kept on our recruiting staff?

Bostad - now at Indiana - offered the following prospects from Wisconsin today.

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