When Luke Fickell took over the Wisconsin football program in January of 2023, he brought with him a very talented recruiting staff that immediately started recruiting at a level that Badger fans hadn’t seen for a while under former head coach, Paul Chryst.
Now, that’s not to say Chryst couldn’t recruit. He and his staff brought in some of the top classes in recent memory, including the 2021 class which is the highest-ranked class in Wisconsin football history during the internet recruiting rankings era. But he followed that up with the No. 44 class in a year that the state of Wisconsin had multiple 4-star recruits and ended up with just one.