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Even with a new head coach manning the sidelines and wholesale changes in player personnel, the philosophy for UW football is a holdover: establish the running game, and create and capitalize on opponents' turnovers.
Flipping a coin can produce two mutually exclusive events: heads or tails. Fielding a potent offense, however, does not exclude the possibility of fielding an equally formidable defense. But when it comes to the strength of Wisconsin's two units, the uneven distribution has been so consistent that it has begun to resemble the result of—what else?—a coin toss. Entering the 2004 season, the Badgers boasted a veteran linebacking corps, Jim Leonhard and the best defensive line in the country. The offense cooperated that same season, buying into the apparent ""take turns"" philosophy as they stumbled without a consistent passing attack or any healthy members in the backfield. In 2005 the trend continued. John Stocco passed with greater proficiency than any other quarterback in UW history, and Brian Calhoun breathed life into a dormant rushing game. Meanwhile, the defense graduated its most significant contributors—politely injuring the young and promising replacements—and made sure never to steal the spotlight from its counterpart. As you might expect, 2006 will be no different. The injuries on the defensive line have healed, the athletic linebackers have experience and the previously questionable secondary is beginning to hit its stride. On the other side of the ball, the offense graduated the majority of its talent last spring and watched injuries plague the new class this fall. Brandon Williams and Jonathan Orr left vacancies at receiver filled by juniors Marcus Randle El and Paul Hubbard. However, Randle El recently suffered a season-ending knee injury while the tight end position became a former linebacker free-for-all when Owen Daniels and Jason Pociask graduated. Andy Crooks and Travis Beckum are the linebackers contending for the spot, but ex-quarterback Sean Lewis is also expected to compete. Every skill position will be earned by an inexperienced player at the college level, which is considerably worse news considering the fact that Stocco's recent knee surgery will likely sideline him for a few games. Therefore, the defense must be ready. Both Jamal Cooper and Matt Shaughnessy—Wisconsin's answer to NFL-bound defensive ends Erasmus James and Jonathan Welsh—suffered ACL injuries that kept them out for the better part of last season, making the bookends of the defensive front one of the most-rotated positions on the field. With the two of them healthy, however, it will likely be one of the positions that head coach Bret Bielema can rely on most for consistent output. Behind them are senior captain and middle linebacker Mark Zalewski, sophomore DeAndre Levy, who will play left outside linebacker, and fellow sophomore Jonathan Casillas, who will patrol the right. Zalewski is on the watch list for several national awards and clearly the leader on defense, but the secondary has grown up due to the emergence of senior Roderick Rogers—who could very well be the team's best all-around player—and the steady development of senior Joe Stellmacher. When asked how much of the team's success is riding on the defense's performance, Bielema had this to say: ""We're going to rely on everybody. We're going to rely on offense, defense and special teams because we're a program that has to have a complete game out of all those phases to have success."" Ben Hubner can be reached for comment at bphubner@wisc.edu.
When an offensive unit loses nine of its contributing players, the next season is always going to be a tremendous challenge. When injuries decimate the unit even further, the hill becomes an extremely tough one to climb. With junior fullback Chris Pressley and junior wideout Marcus Randle El suffering season-ending injuries and senior quarterback John Stocco recovering from knee surgery, the Badger football team certainly has some adversity to work through.
With the Badgers set to begin the 2006 season under first-year head coach Bret Bielema on the road against Bowling Green September 2, many questions remain for an offense returning just 18 lettermen from a year ago.
One of the biggest question marks of the upcoming football season is the health of senior offensive tackle Joe Thomas. Although he is already racking up preseason accolades and awards, many are still wondering whether the 6'8\ tackle will be at 100 percent heading into Wisconsin's opening game against Bowling Green, Sept. 2.
With this year in the books, Badger fans cannot help but look forward to next fall and spring. In doing so, there are so many questions that Badgers fans can ask. The Daily Cardinal broke down the top questions for next year:
Joe Monty, a starting defensive end for the Wisconsin Badgers football team and UW-Madison senior, suffered serious facial injuries after a motor-vehicle accident early Friday. Monty had allegedly been drinking beforehand.
Academics, drug charges hamper UW sophomoresSophomore defensive lineman Gino Cruse Jr. and sophomore defensive back Antonio Freeman will not be returning to the Badgers football team in the fall, according to a press release sent out by UW Athletic Communications Tuesday.
An early display from the Wisconsin football team was in full swing Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium, where the spring workouts concluded with an annual game featuring largely the first team against second team on both sides of the ball.
Nearly the entire offense from last season's dynamic offense is gone, and it showed at times in Saturday's spring game.
This past football season, we were able to celebrate the career of Barry Alvarez. Because the don of Badger football was leaving the sidelines to commit himself to bettering Wisconsin athletics as the athletic director, we knew his heart was in the right place. He wasn't leaving for the dollar signs and prestige of Notre Dame and Touchdown Jesus, just cutting back on his workload and leaving his program in the hands of Bret Bielema.
The Wisconsin football team met under the lights of Camp Randall Wednesday night for one of its last practices of the spring. The team continues to prepare for Saturday's spring game, in which the Badger first-stringers will take the field against the rest of the team.
First-year head coach Bret Bielema watched from the sidelines last year as injuries took a toll on defensive unit he directed.
A plea agreement with the Dane County District Attorney's Office was reached Monday with Marcus Randle El, a sophomore wide receiver for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Three months removed from a victory over Auburn at the Capital One Bowl, the atmosphere surrounding the Badger football team is that of enthusiasm and rejuvenation.
As the Badger basketball season came to an end in Philadelphia last weekend, the team has officially forfeited their winter-long tenure as front-page news. The other major- revenue sport steps back into the headlines this spring with enough new faces to warrant the appropriate title of, well, news.
Only a few months removed from a Captial One Bowl victory in Orlando, FL., the Wisconsin football team is already back to work with the opening day of spring practice beginning Saturday.
Philadelphia—Arizona head coach Lute Olson called it his team's best offensive performance all year. ESPN analyst Dick Vitale would later call it the biggest disappointment of all of Friday's games. Call it what you will, but the Badgers' 94-75 loss to the Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia Friday meant the end of their season.Wildcat senior guard Hassan Adams, who played in his first game after being suspended for a DUI, scored 21 points, and junior guard Mustafa Shakur pitched in with 18 points and nine assists, as Wisconsin dropped its fourth-straight game to end the season and failed to pick up its 20th win for the first time since the 2000-'01 season.
Just four days after the departure of Earl Lane, who was originally hired to coach the Badgers' defensive line before leaving to join Louisiana State, head coach Bret Bielema announced Monday the hiring of 36-year-old Randall McCray to fill the vacancy.
Bret Bielema will make his head coaching debut when Wisconsin opens the 2006 season against Bowling Green at Cleveland Browns Stadium Sept. 2, according to a UW release Thursday disclosing the football schedule through 2010.
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