Do you believe they'll be in the game in the fourth quarter, Jesse? Or where do you think this sits as we get later into the day on Sunday?

I believe, Wally, I believe Wisconsin has a couple of, I don't even know if I want to call it tricks up its sleeve, and maybe it's just because I was hanging out with Barry Alvarez at Coach's Cabana on Tuesday night.

The offense is different than it was in 1994, but the scheme and the blueprint to staying competitive in this game is very much the same.

Shorten the game.

Run the football.

That's the identity that they want to establish.

They bring in a transfer quarterback who ran for 1,000 yards last year with the Sunbelt Conference Player of the Year at Old Minion, Colton Josephs.

How important would that be if those teams both either have to play in three or have to go on the road and play for three?

What do they do?

Yeah, so this is an exciting enterprise that we have pulled community partners together.

And the piece that you're talking about, the project you're talking about, is an activity or a program called the Youth Hub.

And it's going to be located in downtown Eugene on 7th, just across from the Holt Center.

And the idea is let's pull together youth-serving organizations in the community.

We all are engaged in serving youth, but we all have kind of unique strengths and different elements of service delivery that are our own.

And so if we were to pull those together into kind of a unified front, Could we help more youth and could we provide youth the greater opportunity to be able to come to one spot and not have to feel like they're navigating a large community or disparate resources that are in different sides of town? So there is a physical proximity that's a goal for us.

And I don't know, is it possible that it could become its very own standalone organization at some point? Kind of what is your, I don't know, three to five year vision for the youth hub?

And

therefore, how big Thursday night's comeback in the ninth inning was at the stroke of midnight central time? Those were massive wins that the Brewers just got in L.A.

The Brewers, the Dodgers, the Braves, and the Cubs are four of the five best teams in Major League Baseball right now.

Of the National League teams, two of those are going to have to play in a wild card series.

Any advantage that the Brewers can have over either of those opponents is monumental with how close they are in the standings with like seven weeks to go in the regular season.

So that win yesterday to win and clinch the season series against the Dodgers was massive.

And I hope everybody knows, like, that should have felt like a game in October yesterday.

When the fourth quarter starts and jump around starts playing in that stadium, Is it going to be just the Notre Dame fans happy, or is this going to be a game that has legs still, that the Badgers are going to be in this game in a position to win? How do you think week one goes?

The next two years, 2026, 2027, are as manageable of a schedule, or as manageable of schedules that Wisconsin is ever going to get, that any team is ever going to get in an 18-team Big Ten

TenThis year, you have to prove to Wisconsin fans, to the rest of the Big Ten, to everyone nationwide, that you are back.

You are moving in the right direction.

This is the year you show that Wisconsin is becoming what we expected Wisconsin to become under Luke Fickell, and I think eight wins is the absolute bare minimum threshold to prove that this season.

I wanna see, from what I'm watching at practice, I wanna see nine or 10 wins this year.

I know that is a [laughs] that's a tall task.

You have a, you still have to deal with USC.

Do you guys believe, barring any injury, that Ryan Hopkins will be a starting quarterback at the University of Wisconsin?

Jesse, how are we doing?

Uh, hi, Wally.

Good to talk to you again.

It feels like it's been forever.

So I hope you had a nice week away.

Uh, And we've been working hard getting ready for the Wildey and Tausch 10th anniversary celebration presented by Steinhafel.

It's on Saturday morning.

How do you say it?

If the injuries don't happen, are they better this year? Are you in the camp kind of like Charlie where you think that this could be that turn of the page for the program? Do you think there's still more work to do?

It will be nearly impossible to be as bad as they were last year.

Guys, there were 136 FBS college football teams last year.

The Badgers offense ranked 135th.

Thank God for UMass.

Otherwise, we would have been the worst offense in FBS college football down to our fourth-string quarterback, who you could have convinced me was the custodian at Camp Randall, and I would have believed you going into the season.

It's almost impossible for them to be as bad this year.

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And at this point, if I told you they were only going to make one move, they weren't going to be able to do a couple band-aids in different holes, is there one thing, whether a player or a position, that you're like, you know what, by the end of July, we need to have this if we are being serious about trying to win a World Series?

I still think back-end bullpen.

I'm going to stay on that train.

I've been told otherwise by other people when I've debated this.

I was filling in with Ben Brust, hosting Kyle and Brust earlier this week.

Some of the other fellow team heads that love talking ball.

They say they've got to go get a bat or they've got to go get a third baseman.

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How do you, are you worried about that at all? How do you think about, um, how to stay within platform guidelines, but still market your toy on social media?

Well, there was one video that did use the term foot job in it, but aside from that, none of my videos have actually used the phrase foot job.

Feet stuff is a good fallback.

I'm usually not, in my personal life, somebody when I'm talking to my friends and whatever, we usually don't get in deep conversations about sex, but obviously because... you know, I invented this thing, like you got to show your friends and like your family and everybody that you know.

So like, you know, it is, it is like something new to me, I guess, talking more openly about sex with, you know, people that I know closely just, just because of this.

But, you know, in general, I think, you know, I like the phrase feet stuff and I've been using that.

My Instagram account actually did get banned.

I don't know.

play? What's your approach when the World Cup comes around?

Not fired up at all.

Really? No.

I don't want to say I'm out on the World Cup because I enjoy when there's a unique series of sporting events that are on.

I think soccer is one of the sports that benefits A lot like at times NASCAR can or golf on Thursdays and Fridays where it's popular because it's on at a time where no other sports are.

Yeah.

So think about the Winter Olympics, the Summer Olympics.

Should Packers fans really feel like the kicking problem is over, or is this just the next guy in a line of guys that have been great in stretches and then woeful in others?