The Camp: What went right and wrong at Nebraska, listener questions

[@itszhyper]

As a husker fan I’m enjoying every second of this😂😂

[@MarcaMoose]

Same

[@Johnmartins648]

Yeah but you guys still suck lol

[@TJ-bk9vf]

Been a long time since we have gotten something like this to enjoy. I can see why they are pissed. This is there first time experiencing what our average year is.

[@fleafarts3576]

Nebraska isn’t that bad of a team. They swapped in Dana Holgerson who’s literally a Head Coach. He opened up their offense.

[@cur244]

Neb is a mediocre team, not a bad team.

[@Jaackal]

No disrespect but Fickell might be y’all’s Scott Frost. This Wisconsin team looks very similar to the Nebraska teams I’ve watched for the last 6 years

[@TJ-bk9vf]

I hope he’s their Bill Callahan, then I hope they follow it up with a Mike Riley, then a Scott Frost.

[@thegrogan6490]

Man I'm just at a loss. How does D play so well against Oregon and so poorly against Nebraska? Genuinely confused

[@dimitri1515]

Emotional exhaustion. All that effort, but no shot with one of NCAA's worst QBs. Then knowing that QB would still be the starter, I think they just felt hopeless.

[@huskerdevil24]

@@dimitri1515 Locke actually played probably his best game! I mean it was against Tony White's fraudulent defense...

[@dimitri1515]

@@huskerdevil24 and his "best game" was still atrocious. That's how low the bar is for a Badger QB

[@billybob8228]

It boils down to what trestle said in his presser. He doesn't believe they were schematically outmatched. He believes his players need to play better. So instead of changing the scheme to meet the players skill set he would rather lose. So it's an ego thing

[@thegrogan6490]

@@billybob8228 Iowa should have sealed his fate

[@ryan23791]

Fickell is 12-12 now as head coach. Chryst could have done at least that well. Best wins for Fickell as the coach is against a 4-2 Rutgers team last season and a 4-2 Rutgers team this season. That's it.

[@brianh1287]

Yep. Fickell decided to tear down a standing building to start over, rather than building off the still standing foundation that all the prior coaches had built.

[@huskerdevil24]

Mmmmm... Wiscy tears are so delish!

[@magillskillz80]

If Nebraska is mediocre god knows what Wisconsin is. You let Iowa and Nebraska put up 40+ on ya. Offensive power houses 😂

[@cur244]

WI fans admit they're below mediocre.

[@BigHurt1776reborn]

Wisconsin is second in the APR rankings, but there are 77 teams that already have the required 6 wins. There are 82 total bowl spots. There are 15 teams with 5 wins that play this weekend. Two play each other, so the winner of Virginia-Virginia Tech gets spot #78. That means there 4 remaining spots between 13 teams plus one more ahead of Wisconsin in APR. The math is not looking good for extending the bowl streak if the Badgers fall to Minnesota.

[@billybob8228]

Sorry fellas You're just not right about the defensive set. Prior to Aranda Badgers based defense was a 4-3 Aranda and Leonard both ran a 3-4

[@natefehrman3396]

Wilcox, Leonhard, Aranda's base D was 3-4...passing downs they would go to a 2-4-5

[@brianh1287]

Fortunately they were usually smart enough to not run it against power running teams.

[@juandevora4873]

Good luck to you guys beat the golphers and gets y’all bowl!! GBR!!

[@peterubishfitness]

The motto in the offseason was "Tough, Nasty, Disciplined". Well, this team is not physical at all compared to iterations of the teams we've seen in the past. That is the most disappointing part of this whole thing.

[@BigHurt1776reborn]

One more thought - Fickell was not a good coach at all during his first stint at a power conference team (Ohio State 2011). His team went 6-7 if I remember correctly. The prior year, Ohio State was 12-1 under Jim Tressel and the following season they went 12-0 under Urban Meyer. What changed in 2011? It wasn't the talent level, otherwise you would expect Meyer to have at least a couple of losses in his first year. Fickell is probably not qualified for being a head coach at one of the power conference schools.

[@MitchCraft12]

Remember watching Ferg and Fume at TE

[@Con27277]

The loss is one thing (I expected it), but to give up 45 is something different. This team is bad in all three phases of the game

[@Muppy_Braun]

I think the defense didn’t have 1 TFL against Nebraska . No impact plays. An NFL player makes splash plays against that level of competition. There’s talent there but there’s no junkyard dog in them. Soft.

[@IT_NCO]

Good game kids

[@dimitri1515]

Only one team had a million dollar QB......and they won. Oh, and remember who we wanted to be our number one receiver out of the portal? Ya, he had an N on his helmet.

[@billybob8228]

I think if we lose to Minnesota everyone should run fickle out of town. If he quits he owes Wisconsin money and and at this point I think he should pay us back

[@markforster3224]

Will Wisconsin ever get a kicker consistent on extra points & field goals??????

[@stephenolds]

Huskers are freakin hungry! We've been to the top of the mountain 5 times. It's been really rough for a long time though, but the fan base and sellouts remain GBR!!

[@husker126]

Good game guys. Go beat Minnesota and get your bowl

[@nrhurley117]

No. They can stay home.

[@ryankearney4315]

Nah man lmao

[@petepiranio]

Tressell’s game plan was horrible. We kept running the 4-2-5 and NE was coming in with heavy packages and two TE. You are going to get pushed around if they can easily double team DT’s or get to second level b/c they have the numbers on the line of scrimmage.

[@nicklamz]

It’s a 2-4-5

[@dimitri1515]

@@nicklamz Well, we needed 5 men on the line three big dudes and two edge rushers.

[@donsterful]

Mediocre or worse? News flash: Nebraska spanked that Wisconsin ass....deal with it.

[@ryan23791]

Ruhle is in year two... just FYI. Nebraska went 5-7 in 2023 under Ruhle.

[@badgerbill336]

And got a legacy qb by having his uncle coach

[@unbiasedboxingtalk8984]

Rhule wasn't able to bring one guy coming from the NFL, fickell could​@@badgerbill336

[@samp7019]

Haarburg couldve gotten us 6 wins ​@badgerbill336

[@natefehrman3396]

I think if Mike Vrabel (good buddy of Fickell's) is interested in being the DC, I say go ahead and fire Tressel

[@JakeIannarino]

Vrabel would be exciting.

[@billybob8228]

You're not handing off to Melvin Gordon, there's not a snowballs chance in hell Walker gets you in position for a field goal with that 17 seconds left. And Fickells answer was just dumb. Dude needs to learn to same more by saying less.

[@jtillison]

Would things be this bad under Leonard? How can teams like Colorado and Indiana turn it aound in two years and Fickle can’t? PORTAL!

[@Johnmartins648]

Indiana is a fluke. If they played our schedule I really dont think they do much better than us this year.

[@travisdavisVXX]

GBR

[@keithwinter1692]

😂

[@devourmentoffetus]

No need to jump on you for saying Nebraska is mediocre, just as long as you are completely aware that Wisconsin is also mediocre. The battle of the mediocre didn't go your way, sorry.

[@414badger]

I don’t think anyone is disputing that. Great point though thank you for making it

[@devourmentoffetus]

@414badger pretty sure the sexually frustrated little fella was at a loss for words that a mediocre team could produce a mediocre result. I like to donate my time to special needs causes hence my reply

[@cur244]

WI is below mediocre.

[@jakobh8499]

locke lost the game in the first quater not capitalizing on red zone drives how do you think he had a good game? can we please get someone who knows football to talk about this team jesus

[@jakobh8499]

this podcast has become so embarrassing on one hand they say expectations aren't that high and Zach is sitting here hoping fickle leaves. its year 2 the team is hampered by Chryst 7th year guys taking reps from the younger cats. the Chryst stank is still covering this team. you guys have admitted that they aren't a blue blood why are you expecting him to turn the team around like they are? how do you cover a sport but not understand the sport? unless Eric Hovde wants to drop 100 million on the program you're gonna have to wait for fickle to develop his guys this team is already more athletic than any chryst team and that's a start.

[@67526]

Fickell is bad coach