The Wisconsin football team arrived in town on Saturday ahead of Tuesday’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl.
Luke Fickell will be on the sidelines for his first game as Wisconsin’s head coach on Tuesday night. Little else about his situation for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl would qualify as normal.
“It would be pretty arrogant for me to walk in here and think I can make a better decision in three weeks than what seen over a long period of time,” Fickell said Saturday afternoon from the tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, where Wisconsin’s plane had just landed.“Those guys have got a great grasp on what we’ve got to do to be successful. We’ve sat down and talked about it, but you know what it’s going to be a little bit of a different situation. We’ve got to do what’s best for us.
“These bowl games today, there’s a lot of unknowns,” he said. “A lot of times you’re seeing teams and what they’re going to look like in the years ahead as opposed to what you saw during the whole season. I would imagine we’ll be a little bit that way. Obviously, the quarterback position is one of the unique spots, as well.”
Fickell was hired on Nov. 27 to replace Paul Chryst, who was fired midway through the year after going 67-26 in eight seasons. Defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard served as interim coach. Fickell is coming off a highly successful six-year run at Cincinnati,
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