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11 reasons Luke Fickell needs to be fired and Chris McIntosh will ignore them all

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Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has decided he wants to run Luke Fickell back out there in 2026, regardless of what the evidence tells him. In fact, he's clearly speaking from his heart and not his brain when he talks about Luke Fickell. The idea for this list came out of what he said about Fickell yesterday in an interview with Jesse Temple.

McIntosh said this about Fickell: "He has the vision and fire to do it. The same things that made Luke Fickell a unanimously great hire in 2022 remain. He's a winner, program builder, and developer of talent, and he understands the Big Ten.