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Inside Wisconsin
I normally don't do this as these things don't need to be in the public airwarys and none of this stuff impacts my ability to pay my own bills and I don't give a shit about clout. But since people will want to know what is going on, here it is.
I have relatives that are alumni and bosters of UW Madison as several went to UW Madison for college and I know many people who went to UW Madison throughout the years. So there are ways to get information.
First things first, I don't know which rich alumni boster will be willing to pay Coach #2ndChoice's buyout cost. If Wisconsin continues to lose game after game this season, and that will likely happen, I don't know how they are going to finance a firing. Reason being, they already bled money from the bosters known to give to the school and athletics for their recent facility improvement efforts (Ted Kelner financed that) and that was north of $30M. So you would be going back to them and asking for another $20/5M just to fire a coach, then you have the cost of hiring a new coach and there is no large NIL operations going on at UW football either. Sure you have rev share but so do other schools. The resources and money are not currently and UW Madison was one of the lowest football spenders in the big ten in the latest reporting.
There are many alumni of UW Madison that want the AD fired. Right now there is no indication that the chancellor is considering firing him. So, will #2ndChoice eventually get fired and the AD makes another hire? The chancellor's focus isn't on athletics right now as she is dealing with other things with the university.
Many of the alumni consider the AD a meathead, arrogant, his firings and hires have been controversial, forcing one of the sports to drive north to Lodi for a practice facility, the WBB lawsuit, removing the Hall of Fame items, the way he has delegated responsbilities with his staff.
The problem that Wisconsin has is that their fans aren't demanding football excellence like fanbases similar to Ohio State and others. Their fans will simply leave and not show up. This season they have already hit record low attendance since the hiring of Barry Alvarez (1992 season for the attendnace record) and then last week when the stadium was most empty by the time the game was done.
There's no urgency, no major pressure, mainly alumni who want people fired but nobody really going in there demanding firings, etc.
Yes there are conversations among boosters for who they would like to target for their next head coach - one of them in the ACC and another at the G5 level. So we will have to wait and see what happens. Do the losses keep coming? If so, who comes up with the money? Who gets fired and who doesn't? Right now, as of tonight, there isn't much out there to indicate anything happening tomorrow.
