Jackson Acker listed at FB
Walk-on Travis Allen listed at OL; thought he would come in as TE
Cade Yacamelli listed as a safety.

Looking at the coaching grades given (Fickell at a B- is near criminal). I'm curious who you feel will succeed in bringing their team to the CFP the fastest?

Fickell
Sanders
Rhule or
Smeagol?

.@RivalsNick hands out his grades for the new Power Five coaching staffs for how well they put together their 2023 recruiting class in limited time:

https://n.rivals.com/news/how-new-power-five-coaching-staffs-fared-with-their-recruiting-classes

How do you think his coaches greeted him on the sideline? But the kid’s got heart I guess…
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I talked with a person that is part of another Big Ten football team program. We talked about a number of things. The interesting topic was upgrading of facilities. He said don’t waste the money on huge upgrades as that won’t attract the kids, it will be the NIL money they want.

i know they are. Talking of replacing the McClain Center but is that going to really impact recruiting? If all things are equal, it won’t hurt. Money is king though. I think he was right…

.@Rivals_Clint spotlights five programs that were the biggest surprises on signing day:

https://n.rivals.com/news/early-signing-period-five-teams-that-were-the-biggest-surprises

Clint Cosgrove is joined by Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell to break down the Badgers' 2023 recruiting class👇

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Jon any news? Pretty quiet

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Have got a lot of questions about it and this is what I've gathered today.

Armstrong is looking at three schools: Wisconsin, N.C. State and Oklahoma State. No decision is in yet. Badgers are working very hard to add him to the spring roster. Not something that will affect Evers if they land him.

Talked to someone who said it was "50/50" he ends up at Wisconsin. Not sure how that plays out with three schools, but I'm not a math major... Regardless, my feeling is that the staff thinks it could go either way. Armstrong is keeping things close to the vest.

Greg Biggins from 247 put a prediction for Lincoln Keinholz to Washington

Welcome to National Signing Day!

Should be a pretty straight-forward morning for the Badgers. We expect the 12 current commits to sign before 1 PM today. The big one to watch is Amare Snowden, who is set to commit/sign around noon. I will check in with some sources this morning to see where they think Josh Gregory is headed.

We get Luke Fickell today at 1 PM - Raul and I will cover that availability. No assistant coaches, however. I believe Fickell will also do a video with our Rivals national team today.

I will continue to post updates in this thread. Should be a fun day!

This might of been my favorite part of today. I appreciate the fact we are getting after it in recruiting. Listening to PJ whine was great and I don't care if we are being aggressive in telling someone's to not go to Minnesota and come here ... Maybe not in those words. This is big boy football... Thoughts?

Yes, I am a twin.

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This is the most California way to go about approving the move. UCLA can join the B1G, but must pay UC Berkeley due to the harm caused to UC with the move to the tune of $2-$10 million a year.