BuckAround is the original podcast focused exclusively on Wisconsin football. An outgrowth of the popular blog founded in 2012, the BuckAround podcast is for the Badger fan who can never get enough Bucky!
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Episode 352 - Wrapping up Spring with Colten Bartholomew
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44:51Colten Bartholowem of Badger Extra joins the podcast to give his take from spring.
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Episode 351 - Let's Talk Offensive Depth Charts
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45:39It's time to predict the future! And to finally get around to answering a listener question that's been around for a month...
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Episode 350 - Max Attends the Not-The-Launch
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52:29The Spring Showcase had a special guest who shares his thoughts on the day.
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Tanner Koziol. Kevin Heywood. Is there light in the darkness? The BSAPM makes a return!
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Episode 348 - You Only Love Us For Our Pivot Tables
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59:41Rich and Max talk a little spring practice and then dig into a 3 month old listener question
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Episode 347 - 2025 Spring Practice Preview
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37:46Rich and Max are basically looking for the same stuff...no idea if this is good or bad.
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Episode 346 - Jack Coan: The Toyota Camry of Quarterbacks
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1:04:36Rich and Max discuss the Luke Fickell media blitz and talk about what DAnny O'Neil brings to the Badgers
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Episode 345 - Way Too Much Billy Edwards Talk
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46:52Watching Maryland's offensive line stumble through 11 games was troubling.
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Episode 344 - Max Stienecker and the End of Badger Football
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45:13It's time to find a new team to root for.
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Episode 343 - Portal Subtractions, Portal Additions
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1:07:31Lots of insane conjecture about the Xavier Lucas situation and discussions of the comings and goings in the transfer portal.
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Episode 342 - WTF Happened to the Air Raid with The Dairy Raid
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40:54Ryan 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.
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More like the Leaden Buckys after 2024, amirite? There was a Ball-Ratzlaff award winner however.
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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.
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Episode 339 - Early Signing Day Extravaganza!!!
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45:27It's Early signing day and we don't talk about it once. I'm not kidding. You've been warned.
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People are in a bad place right now.
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We talked about Phil Longo in this epsiode quite a bit for reasons you can probably deduce.
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There was a lot of cursing on the TalkAround. It was warranted. Also, we had a guest host this week!
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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.
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No team ever looks good scoring 23 points...or can they?
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Have the Badgers truly turned a corner?
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Purdue is a dumpster fire if the dumpster was first filled with dog poop
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Most people never thought they were winning this game, why are they so upset?
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Judging by the TalkAround you want to relive Saturday. You're welcome.
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Max is joined by Drew DeArmond to preview the Crimson Tide ahead of this weekend's matchup
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Double Woof
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Episode 327 - Week 1: Western Michigan
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1:05:26Woof
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Episode 326 - B1G Picture: Basically Everyone Else
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1:00:12Lucas 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.
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Episode 325 - Prop Bets: 2024 Edition
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1:16:57"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.…
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Episode 324 - Fall Camp Wrap Up with Colten Bartholomew
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1:04:03We 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.
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Rich and Max look at the Badgers as fall camp leaves Platteville
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Episode 322 - Just How Wrong can Rich be about Max Lofy?
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54:21Rich and Max preview fall camp and share their "5 Things to Watch" over the next month.
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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.
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Max is joined by Mike Carmin to preview Purdue in 2024. Max is rolling solo, so naturally the conversation runs long!
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Chris Iseman from northjersey.com joins the show to preview what may be a sneaky good Rutgers team this year.
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Episode 318 - The Best College Football Content On The Internet....in July
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34:43Rich and Max talk recrutiing, Squat Fest, Electronic Arts, Adam Sandler, and independent video games.
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Max likes to pretend he isn't an Iowa fan but we all know the truth.
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Rich and Max are joined by Connor Morrissette of USCFootball.com to preview the Trojans for 2024
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Episode 315 - 4th Down Decision Making and Graham Mertz Ennui
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53:09Rich 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.
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Episode 314 - OK so NOW We're Done With Spring. We Mean it This Time
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42:15We can't stop talking about spring football. But now we're done. I hope. I think. Eh, who knows.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 311 - Wrapping up Spring Vol. 1: Revisiting "5 Things"
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40:13With 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.
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Episode 310 - Staring Down the Back Half of Spring
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58:11Rich and Max discuss the significance of the Badgers portal losses (and one addition) and give their impressons through ten practices.
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Episode 309 - Conspiracy, Conjecture, and Self Doubt
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45:54Rich and Max round up the news of the week from spring practice and share wildly unfounded theories around recent roster movement
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Episode 308 - Spring Practice Preview: 2024 Edition
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58:01Connecticut 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…
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Episode 307 - Why did We Record this Right Before New Rosters Dropped
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33:05You can probably skip this episode...
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Episode 306 - It's late February So We Talked About Marty Schottenheimer
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42:26Rich welcomes a special guest host to help talk through the February doldrums of college football season
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Episode 305 - Dear God, We're Still Talking About Assistant Coach Salaries
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55:59Let's party like it's 2012 all over again! SHOW NOTE: We're off next week, the podcast will not the week of February 26.
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Episode 304 - Testing the Oops Hypothesis: Analyzing the History of In-State Recruiting
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1:08:36Rich and Max examine Badger recruiting trends in the state of Wisconsin since 2003. Sorry, no witty description this week. This is very serious business. And none of you read this anyways. You just come here, listen to us talk, and don't even bother reading these delicately crafted episode descriptions. Prove me wrong!…
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Episode 303 - Colin Hitschler and the End of Badger Football
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53:49The Badgers lost their ace recruiter. It's unlikely they will be able to recruit enough players to field a team.
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