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Luke Fickell — Wisconsin, November 2022
Wisconsin 2023–The Cincinnati Group-of-Five superstar whose Wisconsin tenure has not produced the early returns the Madison committee paid for.
Year-1: 7-6 · Year-2: 5-7 · two years of disappointing returns
Fickell's November 2022 hire from Cincinnati — the 13-1 Group-of-Five Playoff team of 2021 — was the most celebrated Big Ten hire of the cycle. Two years later (7-6 and 5-7) the criticism has hardened; the air-raid implementation under Phil Longo has not yet produced the offensive identity Madison expected. The hire's ranking here is generous — the Group-of-Five credentials and the underlying recruiting work earn a top-25 placement that on-field results have not yet vindicated. Provisional.
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