BuckAround: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast

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

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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 (@akschaaf on Twitter) for putting this together for us. To submit your entry use this link or head on over to www.patreon.com/buckaround 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 fully embrace the theme in the episode description.

You can probably skip this episode...

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

Let'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.

Rich 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!

The Badgers lost their ace recruiter. It's unlikely they will be able to recruit enough players to field a team.

Rich and Max wrap up the 2023 season with the Gold Bucky Awards, the most coveted awards in the Badger Football pod-o-sphere.

We discuss the spring game preview that was the Reliaquest Bowl

Evan Flood joined the pod after a 5 year(!) hiatus. We've got all the details on Luke Fickell's first full recruting class at Wisconsin

No, really. Not at all. You've been warned.

We lied to you and we apologize but honestly it will probably happen again. Oh yeah, we talked about the transfer portal.

The Axe is back and Max went to the Iron Bowl!

The Badgers won! This feels weird.

We know typing this is a waste of time. You don't have to yell at us. But we know you're going to yell at us anyways. So yes, we know you are angry. We're sorry we aren't as angry as you but you're allowed to be angry and that's fine. If you don't want to be angry maybe you can take up a hobby. We hear painting can be a nice release of tension. Or birdwatching. We hear watching birds make nests or do whatever it is that birds do that birdwatchers like to watch can be quite relaxing. So maybe try that. Just please stop yelling at us because we're not yelling like you are. It's not our thing. Having us yell isn't helping anyone.

It's time to talk about our feelings.

Rich and Max review the Badgers' 24-10 loss to Ohio State and talk about why they aren't all that mad about it.

Rich and Max discuss the Badgers 4th quarter comeback against Illinois. Topics include the Orange Bowl mascot and bullying.

Max decided to drunk dial the show after a crushing defeat to Iowa

This was one of hte most boring football games in years. We know you want to hear more about it.

Rich and Max play a new game called Red Flag/Green Flag and you're not a true fan of the podcast unless you listen while recovering from childbirth.

Colten Bartholomew is illustrious. Don't let him tell you otherwise.

The Badgers beat a Big Tenn opponent on the road by 21 points but it does not feel like a blowout. Why is that?

Rich and Max look at where the Badgers stand at the end of non-conference play.

Rich and Max review the Badgers' loss to Washington State and explain why the bad maybe wasn't as bad and the good wasn't as good as you thought.

Rich and Max review the Badgers 38-17 victory over Buffalo. They talk about Tanner Mordecai's debut and their thoughts on the defense.

Rich and Max give their reactions to the Week 1 Depth Chart and pose questions to each other to get their sense for where their mind is with the Badgers as they prepare for Buffalo. Rich also forgets the name of just about every player he mentions on the pod.

Mike'l Sever joins the podcast to give a preview of Nebraska in 2023.

Cue that Andy Williams song! It's that time of year where your hosts demonstrate their incisive knowledge of Badger football and awe you with their accurate predictions. Just kidding! It's 80 minutes of them debating the social media habits of Mike Lucas and whether or not the Badgers have a Patrick Manley finalist on the roster. Enjoy. Big shout out to Andy Schaaf for coming on the show and making this a great time. Submit your entries by Septermber 2 right here

Scott Dochterman joins the show to preview Iowa abnd explain what that very weird Brian Ferentz contract really means about power dynamics in Iowa athletics.