BuckAround: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast
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Episode 388 - Week 4: Penn State
Episode 387 - Week 3: Eastern Michigan
Episode 386 - Week 2: Western Illinois
Episode 385 - Week 1: Notre Dame
Episode 384 - Season Preview 2026: Max has CoJo Fever
Episode 383 - The Familiar Unfamiliarity of the Defense
Episode 382 - Is the Offense Going to be any Good?
Episode 381 - Luke Fickell has Entered his YOLO Era
Episode 380 - Four Questions
Episode 379 - Wrapping up Spring with Colten Bartholomew
Episode 378 - The Knowns and Unknowns of Spring Practice
Episode 377 - The Show Actually Ends on a Positive Note!
Rich and Max give their thoughts on the first ⅓ of Spring Practice and talk about the string of recent commitments for the Badgers.
Episode 376 - The Image of the Fickells Doing a Softball Interview in Their Cavernous Dining Room Feels a Little on the Nose Doesn't it?
Don't let sports make you mad
Episode 375 - OK, now we can talk about Colton Joseph
Rich and Max take a look at Colton Joseph's 2025 season at Old Dominion and talk about how he fits in with Wisconsin for 2026
Episode 374 - We're too Busy to Talk about Colton Joseph
Rich and Max discuss the roster post-portal. They talk about it so much they push off breaking down Colton Joseph for next time.
Episode 373 - Listener Potpourri 2026 Edition
Rich and Max find 5 different ways to say Luke Fickell has a lot to prove this year.
Episode 372 - The Only Way to Talk About the Transfer Portal is with Pivot Tables
Rich and Max talk about the roster turnover in the transfer portal.
Episode 371 - This Episode is Going to be Boring
Early portal talk, coaching conjecture, and partially informed discussions of NIL. This episode has it all!
Episode 370 - It's Luke Fickell's Learning Journey and We're All on it with Him (Week 14: Minnesota & NSD Recap)
Late show this week but Rich and Max cover the Minnesota game (quickly!) and talk about Luke Fickell's roster building vision elucidated at his National Signing Day Press Conference.
Episode 369 - Week 13: Illinois
Rich and Max discuss the Badgers 27-10 win over Illinois. Max is happy. Rich wants to temper your expectations.
Episode 368 - Week 12: Indiana
Rich and Max discuss the 31-7 loss to Indiana and Max gets really angry at the end.
Episode 367 - Week 11: Washington
Lots of talk of field storming and cave crickets. A stupid game deserves a really stupid show.
Episode 366 - Week 9: Oregon
Rich is joined by special guest Jim Polzin to discuss the latest Badger loss and give his thoughts on the state of the program, NIL, and why football is different than basketball.
Episode 365 - Week 8: Ohio State
Rich and Max basically record the same show as last week except they talk about a letter from Chris McIntosh
Episode 364 - Week 7: Iowa
Let's just play your voicemails and vent some rage
Episode 363 - It Would Be Kinda Cool if They Won (AKA Week 6: Michigan)
It's time for media beefs and cannibal rats on Russian ghost ships.
Episode 362 - YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN!!! (Actually No...No You Really Don't)
Rich and Max talk about the state of the 2-2 Badgers during the bye week. Optimism wouldn't be a word to use to describe this episode.
Episode 361 - Week 4: Maryland
Max is joined by a special guest host to discuss what may be the beginning of the end of the Luke Fickell era.
Episode 360 - Week 3: Alabama
Rich and Max discuss the Badger's 38-14 loss in Tuscaloosa. It wasn't fun.
Episode 359 - Week 2: MTSU
Rich and Max discuss the Badgers 2nd win of the season with fewer cat comparisons.
Episode 358 - Week 1: Miami (OH)
Rich and Max discuss the 17-0 win over Miami of Ohio. And we learn a lot about Rich's pets.
Episode 357 - Game Week Potpourri
Rich and Max get ready for Miami of Ohio and discuss spices. Max does not like Rosemary
Episode 356 - Highly Caffeinated
Rich and Max recorded in the morning. You may need to set this one at 1x speed to account for the coffee.
Episode 355 - Rich Really Needs his Microphone Stand
Camp seems to be moving along in an unremarkable fasion but the show gets weird. And we have listener questions!
Episode 354 - Do Conference Media Days Actually Matter?
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.
Episode 353 - Defensive Depth Charts: 2025 Edition
There is a lot going on with the defense we don't exectly get at this point.
Episode 352 - Wrapping up Spring with Colten Bartholomew
Colten Bartholowem of Badger Extra joins the podcast to give his take from spring.
Episode 351 - Let's Talk Offensive Depth Charts
It's time to predict the future! And to finally get around to answering a listener question that's been around for a month...
Episode 350 - Max Attends the Not-The-Launch
The Spring Showcase had a special guest who shares his thoughts on the day.
Episode 349 - Good News Would Be Nice
Tanner Koziol. Kevin Heywood. Is there light in the darkness? The BSAPM makes a return!
Episode 348 - You Only Love Us For Our Pivot Tables
Rich and Max talk a little spring practice and then dig into a 3 month old listener question
Episode 347 - 2025 Spring Practice Preview
Rich and Max are basically looking for the same stuff...no idea if this is good or bad.
Episode 346 - Jack Coan: The Toyota Camry of Quarterbacks
Rich and Max discuss the Luke Fickell media blitz and talk about what DAnny O'Neil brings to the Badgers
Episode 345 - Way Too Much Billy Edwards Talk
Watching Maryland's offensive line stumble through 11 games was troubling.
Episode 344 - Max Stienecker and the End of Badger Football
It's time to find a new team to root for.
Episode 343 - Portal Subtractions, Portal Additions
Lots of insane conjecture about the Xavier Lucas situation and discussions of the comings and goings in the transfer portal.
Episode 342 - WTF Happened to the Air Raid with The Dairy Raid
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.
Episode 341 - Golden Buckys 2025 Edition
More like the Leaden Buckys after 2024, amirite? There was a Ball-Ratzlaff award winner however.
Episode 340 - Let's Talk Portal Strategy
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.
Episode 339 - Early Signing Day Extravaganza!!!
It's Early signing day and we don't talk about it once. I'm not kidding. You've been warned.