One-on-one with Luke Fickell: How does Wisconsin's coach view Badgers recruiting now?

“There’s going to be 18 to 22 high school kids,” Fickell said of his recruiting classes. “So how many of them each year are going to be from the state? I think that it’s always going to be about finding the right ones. And within your state, the right ones are far more important than what Rivals ranks as the best ones. … The greatest thing we can do for ourselves and for the kids is to recruit the hell out of the right ones.

Fickell told reporters in January before an alumni event in Milwaukee that he “probably didn’t get that exact mix” he initially mapped out to blend the new with the old because none of his 10 full-time assistants had ties to the state, as several coaches at Wisconsin did previously. Fickell was asked whether that made a difference in recruiting the state in his first full cycle.

Fickell doesn’t want to succumb to the notion that he should offer someone simply because they are from the state but said there are enough legitimately talented players in a given year to help Wisconsin win a championship. According to the 247Sports database, Fickell averaged 10 1/2 commitments from the state of Ohio per recruiting class at Cincinnati from 2017 to 2022. But that state also has far more FBS-level talent, which is spread around multiple in-state programs, unlike Wisconsin.

But this recruiting cycle has been eye-opening for Fickell. Of the 14 publicly committed prospects in Wisconsin’s 2024 class, only four fall into that 350-mile radius: Jensen, Gauthier, Stec and wide receiverWisconsin has three committed prospects from Pennsylvania in a class for the first time since 2002 thanks to the recruiting efforts of safeties coach Colin Hitschler, a Philadelphia native.

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