6 maps showing Wisconsin football's recruiting efforts

Fickell, who said at his November 2022 induction press conference that he prefers developing high school players rather than relying on the transfer portal, said the combined 2023 and 2024 classes would be better than scholarship transfers (27 players). Signed many scholarship players. His time in Madison.

BadgerExtra created a map showing where Wisconsin, led by Fickell, former coach Paul Chryst and interim coach Jim Leonhardt, was targeting players. We investigated both his 247Sports (2024 and 2025) and Rivals (2024 and 2025) and then via social media whether the recruit announced an offer that matched the outlet's list. I tried to verify.

The map above shows total Wisconsin offers announced from recruits who are part of the 2024 and 2025 classes. More than 220 recruits in the 2024 class have announced offers from Wisconsin, which is a significant increase over the 137 offers in 247Sports' database of 2023 offers. Approximately 220 players in the 2025 class have also announced offers so far, and that number is expected to grow.

The two maps above break down the number of offers announced during each of the three coaches' respective tenures, broken down by class. The vast majority of offers in 2024 and 2025 came from Fickell's staff, but the program under Christ and Leonhardt also made offers to some recruits who continued to be targeted by Fickell's staff. Expanded.

• 2024 signees Mabry Mettauer (Texas), Grant Steck (Illinois), Anel Raffaele (Hawaii), Omilio Agard (Pennsylvania) and Gideon Ituka (Maryland) were originally signed during Chryst's tenure. I was offered.

• 2024 signee Rob Booker II (Waunakee) and 2025 signees Cooper Catalano (Germantown) and Remington Moss (Virginia) were originally offered during Leonhardt's tenure.

BadgerExtra reviewed a total of 34 offers between the 2024 and 2025 classes during Leonhardt's eight weeks as interim coach, 25 of which were to 2024 freshmen.

The map above shows the scholarship players who signed or verbally committed to the Badgers during the Christian Era. It begins with the 2015 class, which originally started under former coach Gary Andersen, and continues through the 2023 class of players, who verbally committed to firing Chryst in early October 2022. People later decline and sign elsewhere.

Now let's compare Chryst's signees and the aforementioned 2023 commitments to Wisconsin's map of offers announced by recruits in 2024 and 2025 during Fickell's tenure. Fickell said during his inaugural news conference as Wisconsin's coach that the 300-mile radius will be the core of the program's recruiting efforts. He continued: “After that, I'd like to branch out into other areas and look at the history of what was really good here.”

BadgerExtra compared the 2024 and 2025 offers to the 247Sports database of offered players by state from the 2015 to 2023 classes. Fickell's staff's sizeable offers for 2024 and 2025 are consistent with the well-known areas in which Wisconsin has previously signed recruits.

The most prominent areas offered by Fickell's staff are:

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• The area within a 300-mile radius of Cincinnati includes the Chicagoland area, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, and western Pennsylvania.

• Corridor of Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey

• Regular recruiting hotbeds in Florida, Northwest Georgia, and Texas

States with notable increases in offers announced by Fickell's staff over the past two cycles include:

• Florida State increased to highest number since class of 2018

• Indiana has eight 2025 offers, the most in the 2015 class.

• At Penn State, Chryst and Fickell are recruiting in 2024, and Fickell's staff has double-digit offers for the 2025 class.

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• New Jersey Class of 2025

• Tennessee announces double-digit offers from 2025 recruits

In December, Fickell credited former assistant defensive coordinator and safeties coach Colin Hitchler for training East, but Hitchler left for Alabama earlier this year. The question remains how the company's recruiting strategy will change without him.

The map above shows where Wisconsin has signed or received commitments from scholarship recruiters for the classes of 2024 and 2025. The program has signed 22 players for the 2024 class and currently has seven verbally committed for the 2025 class. Three major recruiting outlets rate Wisconsin as a top-25 class for the 2024 cycle, and the Badgers are in the top-25 2025 recruiting class on both 247Sports and Rivals after two recent signings. ing.

Here are the states where Wisconsin has been the most successful.