Wisconsin AD Addresses ‘Hearth Fickell’ Chants: ‘Time for Me to Specific My Help’

“They’ve each proper to be sad.”

These had been the phrases of Wisconsin senior linebacker Aaron Witt following the Badgers’ 27-10 house loss to unraked Maryland on Saturday. The Badgers had been outplayed by Maryland in each side of the sport and trailed 20-0 at halftime because the Camp Randall Stadium crowd chanted “Hearth Fickell!”

The scholar part was just about empty halfway by means of the fourth quarter.

“I grew up a fan. Numerous my household are followers. They are not joyful about it both,” Witt mentioned following the sport. “The frustration is unquestionably warranted. However that frustration can be within the locker room. My message to the followers could be we’ll try to get this proper. We’ll present up and work.”

With the loss, Wisconsin (2-2, 0-1) dropped to 15-15 in Luke Fickell’s teaching tenure and has misplaced its final six video games in opposition to Energy-4 opponents. With a difficult convention schedule forward, this system could possibly be at risk of lacking a bowl recreation for the second straight season for the primary time since a stretch that lasted from 1985 to 1992.

Following the loss, Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh voiced his assist for Fickell and the Badgers.

“When you could have youngsters which have given all of it and are confronted with, as a program, adversity like this, I believe it is a time for our individuals to return collectively,” McIntosh informed each the Wisconsin State Journal. “I believe it is a time for me to precise my assist.”

Head coach Luke Fickell of the Wisconsin Badgers and head coach Mike Locksley of the Maryland Terrapins discuss earlier than the sport at Camp Randall Stadium. (Photograph by John Fisher/Getty Photos)

Fickell, who holds a 78-40 document as a head coach with stops at Ohio State, Cincinnati and now, Wisconsin, is underneath contract by means of the 2031 season.

“I do not assume there’s anybody within the constructing that thinks that the place we’re at this second in time proper now, that is what Wisconsin soccer is,” McIntosh added.

That was felt on Saturday, because the Badgers’ solely factors got here on Nathanial Vakos’ 33-yard subject aim within the third quarter and Hunter Simmons’ 13-yard landing move to Lance Mason with 28 seconds remaining. Vakos additionally had a 38-yard try blocked and despatched a 51-yarder large proper.

“We didn’t do a ok job on any section of the sport,” Fickell mentioned.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

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