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Tigers win.

Tigers win.

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Your chances to win passes to join us tomorrow morning coming up in just a little bit. But right now it's time to go behind enemy lines with the Michiganinsider.com's Alejandro Zaniga. As he previews Wisconsin from someone from, well, Wisconsin. So we'll get to the first part of behind enemy lines right now with Alejandro Ziniga from the Michigan Insider.com now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA.

Our guest for this week's episode of Behind Enemy Lines is Nick Osen, who covers the Wisconsin Badgers for Badger 24-7, part of our 24-7 sports network.

Nick, let's go ahead and dive right into the question.

Everyone outside of Madison is thinking about this Wisconsin program under Luke Fickle.

Michigan hasn't seen them since 2021.

Obviously, started paying closer attention to them this year, knowing that this matchup was coming up.

And I was watching that Maryland game a couple weeks ago.

And A, it was a 27 to 10 loss but B you just saw the reaction from the crowd from the folks at camp

Randall it seems like whatever Luke fickle had planned for Wisconsin hasn't necessarily

panned out in year three. Where is he in this tenure? What's he

trying to build? And why hasn't it necessarily worked out to the level that I think most people

expected when the hot commodity out of Cincinnati was hired out in Madison?

Yeah, Alejandro, thank you so much for having me.

So, you know, I think that I would point to, I guess, that last part first, maybe why it

hasn't worked out or, you know, been as smooth as people kind of thought.

I think that a lot of it goes back to that original OC hire in Phil Longgo. That is not fully on Longgo or anything. Fickle would never say that. I'm not saying that. But basically, I think it was realized pretty quickly. Even there's some, you know, buzz out there that it was realized even late in year one, that that just wasn't kind of the perfect match here. I mean, as you know, obviously, I know that you've had some ties to Madison and you're

well-versed in your Big Ten football, man, as a compliment, you know, Wisconsin has gotten,

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