Camp seems to be moving along in an unremarkable fasion but the show gets weird. And we have listener questions!

How do the Badgers exceed expectations this year? What's the roadmap to falling short. Rich and Max give their thoughts. Also, Big Ten Media days are going on and there's nothing interesting to talk about there at all.

There is a lot going on with the defense we don't exectly get at this point.

Colten Bartholowem of Badger Extra joins the podcast to give his take from spring.

It's time to predict the future! And to finally get around to answering a listener question that's been around for a month...

The Spring Showcase had a special guest who shares his thoughts on the day.

Tanner Koziol. Kevin Heywood. Is there light in the darkness? The BSAPM makes a return!

Rich and Max talk a little spring practice and then dig into a 3 month old listener question

Rich and Max are basically looking for the same stuff...no idea if this is good or bad.

Rich and Max discuss the Luke Fickell media blitz and talk about what DAnny O'Neil brings to the Badgers

Watching Maryland's offensive line stumble through 11 games was troubling.

It's time to find a new team to root for.

Lots of insane conjecture about the Xavier Lucas situation and discussions of the comings and goings in the transfer portal.

Ryan Andersen from the Dairy Raid joins the podcast to talk through Phil Longo's time in Madison and looks ahead to what Jeff Grimes might mean for the offense in 2025.

More like the Leaden Buckys after 2024, amirite? There was a Ball-Ratzlaff award winner however.

Rich and Max briefly discuss the hire of Jeff Grimes as OC but focus most of their attention on roster management in the transfer portal era.

It's Early signing day and we don't talk about it once. I'm not kidding. You've been warned.

People are in a bad place right now.

We talked about Phil Longo in this epsiode quite a bit for reasons you can probably deduce.

There was a lot of cursing on the TalkAround. It was warranted. Also, we had a guest host this week!

So I guess we have to talk about the QB situation again. But we put it off for as long as we can before we actually do.

No team ever looks good scoring 23 points...or can they?

Have the Badgers truly turned a corner?

Purdue is a dumpster fire if the dumpster was first filled with dog poop

Most people never thought they were winning this game, why are they so upset?

Judging by the TalkAround you want to relive Saturday. You're welcome.

Max is joined by Drew DeArmond to preview the Crimson Tide ahead of this weekend's matchup

Double Woof

Woof

Lucas Rohde, co-host of the Running for the Roses Podcast, joins the show to preview the rest of the Big Ten that Rich and Max weren't able to get to in the off season. He also talks lawn care but has an unfortunate lack of knowledge of hobby horsing.

"Hornibrookian", Phil Longo's Twitter feed, Hobbyhorsing, Fickell's vest, #Oops, comfortability. This year's prop bets have it all! As we say every year, big thanks to Prop Bet Andy ( on Twitter) for putting this together for us. To submit your entry use or head on over to and look for the Prop Bet 2024 post with the link to that google form.…

We promsied we'd only keep Colten 30 minutes to wrap up camp with us and then he stayed an hour. We are bad at keeping time.

Rich and Max look at the Badgers as fall camp leaves Platteville

Rich and Max preview fall camp and share their "5 Things to Watch" over the next month.

It only took us a decade to get around to having a staff member on the podcast. Outside Linebacker and Special Teams coordinator joins the podcast to talk about the Badgers heading into fall camp.

Max is joined by Mike Carmin to preview Purdue in 2024. Max is rolling solo, so naturally the conversation runs long!

Chris Iseman from northjersey.com joins the show to preview what may be a sneaky good Rutgers team this year.

Rich and Max talk recrutiing, Squat Fest, Electronic Arts, Adam Sandler, and independent video games.

Max likes to pretend he isn't an Iowa fan but we all know the truth.

Rich and Max are joined by Connor Morrissette of USCFootball.com to preview the Trojans for 2024

Rich and Max review the 2025 recruiting class as summer official visits come to an end and take a deep dive into Luke Fickell's 4th down decision making and how it compares to what we saw from Paul Chryst in his tenure.

We can't stop talking about spring football. But now we're done. I hope. I think. Eh, who knows.

Rich and Max wrapped up their discussion on spring practice with their defensive depth charts and their pessimist's case from spring. Rich says "scoonch" 3 times in the epsiode and mispronounces a bunch of words. Seems like a good time for a week off from the pod.

Rich and Max present their offensive depth charts based off of 15 practices and each give an optimistic take from what was seen in spring.

With the Badgers at the end of spring practice, Rich and Max start their review of what we saw an heard by revisiting their "5 things to Watch" from when practice began and evaluate what they saw from the team.

Rich and Max discuss the significance of the Badgers portal losses (and one addition) and give their impressons through ten practices.

Rich and Max round up the news of the week from spring practice and share wildly unfounded theories around recent roster movement

Connecticut is the 3rd smallest state but the 4th most densely populated. The State Bird of Connecticut is the American Robin. Did you know the 2 mile wide and 60 mile long stretch of land on the border between Connecticut and New York is referred to as the Oblong? We talked about Connecicut on the show a lot today so figured might as well just ful…

You can probably skip this episode...

Rich welcomes a special guest host to help talk through the February doldrums of college football season