Stars Matter: Can Luke Fickell take Wisconsin to the next level?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Temple, The Athletic's sage of Wisconsin athletics, joins Mitch and Ari in discussing Luke Fickell's and Wisconsin's future, which is inextricably tied to its recruiting class, including the program's top-15 transfer portal ranking. Are Fickell and new OC Phil Longo changing Wisconsin altogether or building upon existing traits? How will QB Tanner Mordecai and future Badgers signal-callers benefit from Longo's scheme? Jesse and the guys also talk through whether Fickell will attract more top-end talent at the skill positions, and if the recruitment focus is more national than it has been in years passed? Plus, trivia and mailbag questions.
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Follow Jesse on Twitter: @jessetemple
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Mitch Light, joined, as usual, by Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:52.1 | Ari, today we've got a very, very special guest, a first time guest to Stars Matter. |
| 0:58.0 | Jesse Temple covers the University of Wisconsin. |
| 1:00.7 | Ari, why don't you tell everyone why we've never had Jesse on before? |
| 1:04.5 | Do you know why? |
| 1:05.8 | I've done a million podcasts with Jesse, but I think it's because they weren't recruiting |
| 1:09.8 | at an interesting enough level to talk about it. |
| 1:12.5 | There you go. |
| 1:13.3 | There you go. |
| 1:14.3 | Jesse now covers a team. |
| 1:17.5 | We'll introduce Jesse in a second, but as he just described, always good, never |
| 1:21.7 | great program that never seemed overly interested in recruiting at a high level or doing like, you know, |
| 1:28.1 | being overly aggressive in recruiting. |
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