An unlikely rival for Vanderbilt in recruiting: Wisconsin
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:27 am
Luke Fickell, the former Cincinnati coach who took the job at Wisconsin, is off to a great start with recruiting for the Badgers. This week he got commitments from two recruits Vandy very much would like to have had...
Hank Weber of Brentwood Academy is one of the top DL recruits in the midstate. Ryan Cory, an OL from Pittsburgh, had an official visit planned for later this month to Vanderbilt. Both of them committed to the Badgers this week shortly after making on-campus visits last weekend to Madison. Cory has canceled his Vanderbilt visit. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
“I went into that Wisconsin visit not thinking of committing as a possibility,” Cory said. “I was stern about taking the three official visits. But getting to see everything at Wisconsin, it was just so perfect. I can’t explain it, other than it felt like a perfect fit. So I decided not to take the other two visits.”
Cory said Wisconsin recruited him the hardest of any schools.
“They didn’t recruit me the longest,” he said. “They offered me only after last season, but I have not been in contact with coaches more than with them. It was constant and it wasn’t just one person. It was pretty much a chunk of their staff.”
Not sure how he's doing it, but Fickell is already getting it done at Wisconsin. He lured air-raid master Phil Longo away from North Carolina as his offensive coordinator. I think he's going to revive that program pretty quickly.
Hank Weber of Brentwood Academy is one of the top DL recruits in the midstate. Ryan Cory, an OL from Pittsburgh, had an official visit planned for later this month to Vanderbilt. Both of them committed to the Badgers this week shortly after making on-campus visits last weekend to Madison. Cory has canceled his Vanderbilt visit. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
“I went into that Wisconsin visit not thinking of committing as a possibility,” Cory said. “I was stern about taking the three official visits. But getting to see everything at Wisconsin, it was just so perfect. I can’t explain it, other than it felt like a perfect fit. So I decided not to take the other two visits.”
Cory said Wisconsin recruited him the hardest of any schools.
“They didn’t recruit me the longest,” he said. “They offered me only after last season, but I have not been in contact with coaches more than with them. It was constant and it wasn’t just one person. It was pretty much a chunk of their staff.”
Not sure how he's doing it, but Fickell is already getting it done at Wisconsin. He lured air-raid master Phil Longo away from North Carolina as his offensive coordinator. I think he's going to revive that program pretty quickly.