Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has caught the ire of Wisconsin fans for how he's handled the football program under Luke Fickell. From the initial coaching contract that tied the university's hands, it is unwilling to cut the cord when Fickell seems to be making the football team worse, not better. Now, he's promised Fickell will be back next year. Yet, the dumbest thing any athletic director may have ever said came out of McIntosh today about Fickell.
"I think the priority for me is to continue to build the program in a way that puts us in a position to achieve those expectations.