The Badgers had a rotten, terrible, no-good loss to Iowa, and the fallout from it is ongoing. Wisconsin under Luke Fickell has zero answers for Iowa, and this one may have been the worst of all. Last year's 37-0 loss at least had better excuses (like a third-string quarterback). This year, there simply was no reason it needed to be that uncompetitive for Wisconsin.
There's a lot of blame to pass around, but Sebastian Cheeks looked around the room at his teammates and saw a group that didn't come ready to play. He even took some of that on himself to be a better leader in getting them ready, but it was pretty damning that a Wisconsin Badger team couldn't get up for a rivalry game. Or even just a simple conversation win. It's almost like the Badgers all read the press clipping this week, decided they could waltz through Iowa, and found out that's not going to work.
Cheeks said, "I didn't see it in some of the guys' faces today. We weren't ready in any of the phases today, at all." There's a real problem here, and Cheeks is hitting the nail on the head. Cheeks said the problem was effort, belief... or, as he called it, "heart." Cheeks told reporters, "This was about heart. Guys have t...