Mailbag: How realistic is a Barry Alvarez-like turnaround for Luke Fickell?
Luke Fickell enters a pivotal Year 4 at Wisconsin, but how realistic is a Barry Alvarez-style turnaround in today's college football landscape?
One of the hardest things to evaluate in modern college football is whether history still matters.
Wisconsin football’s most decorated head coach needed time before building a nationally relevant program. Luke Fickell now enters the same stage of his tenure, where the program either begins to turn the corner or difficult questions become impossible to avoid. The problem? College football has changed dramatically since Barry Alvarez arrived in 1990.
Which brings us to today’s mailbag question:
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that Luke Fickell follows a Barry Alvarez-like trajectory at Wisconsin? Alvarez struggled plenty in his first three seasons before the program completely turned the corner.
-JumpAround88
