FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[colinsteinke]

Whitewater just posted the 2026 roster.  What a program in disarray. 7 Running Backs.  5 Freshman - 2 seniors.  Why do so many players drop from the team?  DB's 10 Freshman - 3 sophomores - 3 Juniors - 2 seniors.
DLine same thing: 9 Freshman - 4 Sophomores - 2 Juniors - 3 Seniors.  Don't know if it's the culture of the team or poor recruiting.  Some of the Freshman have loads of talent.  Matthew Williams should be a receiver but is a DB.  Big test against River Falls week 5.  Hope they're ready.

UW LAX's roster makeup is similar in terms of percentages. So is UWRF's. UWW might be carrying a few more freshman, but it's not like UWW's roster is vastly different.

Matthew Williams is a 5'10" 163 pound freshman. DB sounds like it's a better fit right now. He played DB in high school.

You have some odd thoughts, I'll say that.

Once this (https://etchglow.github.io/index.html) gets updated, maybe there will be some insight into whether we lost players to transfer or they just decided that, as they got older, they didn't want to play anymore, couldn't do to injury or any other reason other than "UWW being in disarray."

They might not be North Central, but they're not UWSP. Come on.

[AndrewB]

Whitewater just posted the 2026 roster.  What a program in disarray. 7 Running Backs.  5 Freshman - 2 seniors.  Why do so many players drop from the team?  DB's 10 Freshman - 3 sophomores - 3 Juniors - 2 seniors.
DLine same thing: 9 Freshman - 4 Sophomores - 2 Juniors - 3 Seniors.  Don't know if it's the culture of the team or poor recruiting.  Some of the Freshman have loads of talent.  Matthew Williams should be a receiver but is a DB.  Big test against River Falls week 5.  Hope they're ready.

UW LAX's roster makeup is similar in terms of percentages So is UWRF's. UWW might be carrying a few more freshman, but it's not like UWW's roster is vastly different.

Matthew Williams is a 5'10" 163 pound freshman. DB sounds like it's a better fit right now. He played DB in high school.

You have some odd thoughts, I'll say that.

Once this gets updated, maybe there will be some insight into whether we lost players to transfer or they just decided that, as they got older, they didn't want to play anymore, couldn't do to injury or any other reason other than "UWW being in disarray."

They might not be North Central, but they're not UWSP. Come on.

La Crosse has 24 seniors on the team.
Whitewater has 11.

That's not close.

[colinsteinke]

Whitewater just posted the 2026 roster.  What a program in disarray. 7 Running Backs.  5 Freshman - 2 seniors.  Why do so many players drop from the team?  DB's 10 Freshman - 3 sophomores - 3 Juniors - 2 seniors.
DLine same thing: 9 Freshman - 4 Sophomores - 2 Juniors - 3 Seniors.  Don't know if it's the culture of the team or poor recruiting.  Some of the Freshman have loads of talent.  Matthew Williams should be a receiver but is a DB.  Big test against River Falls week 5.  Hope they're ready.

UW LAX's roster makeup is similar in terms of percentages So is UWRF's. UWW might be carrying a few more freshman, but it's not like UWW's roster is vastly different.

Matthew Williams is a 5'10" 163 pound freshman. DB sounds like it's a better fit right now. He played DB in high school.

You have some odd thoughts, I'll say that.

Once this gets updated, maybe there will be some insight into whether we lost players to transfer or they just decided that, as they got older, they didn't want to play anymore, couldn't do to injury or any other reason other than "UWW being in disarray."

They might not be North Central, but they're not UWSP. Come on.

La Crosse has 24 seniors on the team.
Whitewater has 11.

That's not close.

Whitewater is returning 88% of its offensive production from last year. LaX is returning 67%. Both are lower on defense, but LaX is even lower still, returning under 50% of its production from last year on that side of the ball. So what if they have more seniors?

[AndrewB]

Whitewater just posted the 2026 roster.  What a program in disarray. 7 Running Backs.  5 Freshman - 2 seniors.  Why do so many players drop from the team?  DB's 10 Freshman - 3 sophomores - 3 Juniors - 2 seniors.
DLine same thing: 9 Freshman - 4 Sophomores - 2 Juniors - 3 Seniors.  Don't know if it's the culture of the team or poor recruiting.  Some of the Freshman have loads of talent.  Matthew Williams should be a receiver but is a DB.  Big test against River Falls week 5.  Hope they're ready.

UW LAX's roster makeup is similar in terms of percentages So is UWRF's. UWW might be carrying a few more freshman, but it's not like UWW's roster is vastly different.

Matthew Williams is a 5'10" 163 pound freshman. DB sounds like it's a better fit right now. He played DB in high school.

You have some odd thoughts, I'll say that.

Once this gets updated, maybe there will be some insight into whether we lost players to transfer or they just decided that, as they got older, they didn't want to play anymore, couldn't do to injury or any other reason other than "UWW being in disarray."

They might not be North Central, but they're not UWSP. Come on.

La Crosse has 24 seniors on the team.
Whitewater has 11.

That's not close.

Whitewater is returning 88% of its offensive production from last year. LaX is returning 67%. Both are lower on defense, but LaX is even lower still, returning under 50% of its production from last year on that side of the ball. So what if they have more seniors?

Way to move the goalposts.  Changing the subject when it doesn't fit with your statement.  Retention within a program matters.  Especially when it's in the WIAC and one of the more famous programs in D3.

[Mitch Hall]

Eagles at the Johnnies should be a doozy.

[colinsteinke]

Whitewater just posted the 2026 roster.  What a program in disarray. 7 Running Backs.  5 Freshman - 2 seniors.  Why do so many players drop from the team?  DB's 10 Freshman - 3 sophomores - 3 Juniors - 2 seniors.
DLine same thing: 9 Freshman - 4 Sophomores - 2 Juniors - 3 Seniors.  Don't know if it's the culture of the team or poor recruiting.  Some of the Freshman have loads of talent.  Matthew Williams should be a receiver but is a DB.  Big test against River Falls week 5.  Hope they're ready.

UW LAX's roster makeup is similar in terms of percentages So is UWRF's. UWW might be carrying a few more freshman, but it's not like UWW's roster is vastly different.

Matthew Williams is a 5'10" 163 pound freshman. DB sounds like it's a better fit right now. He played DB in high school.

You have some odd thoughts, I'll say that.

Once this gets updated, maybe there will be some insight into whether we lost players to transfer or they just decided that, as they got older, they didn't want to play anymore, couldn't do to injury or any other reason other than "UWW being in disarray."

They might not be North Central, but they're not UWSP. Come on.

La Crosse has 24 seniors on the team.
Whitewater has 11.

That's not close.

Whitewater is returning 88% of its offensive production from last year. LaX is returning 67%. Both are lower on defense, but LaX is even lower still, returning under 50% of its production from last year on that side of the ball. So what if they have more seniors?

Way to move the goalposts.  Changing the subject when it doesn't fit with your statement.  Retention within a program matters.  Especially when it's in the WIAC and one of the more famous programs in D3.

Retention of production matters. It doesn't really matter if you retain a bunch of seniors who don't see the field in the name of retention.

Leipold would not have cared if he had seniors or freshman as long as he had players who wanted to get better every day and helped the program win.

Whatever you think the marker of a good program is seems to be off base. There could be any number of reasons they're low on seniors this year. But if they're good, and young, doesn't that signal a healthy program built for the future?

[AndrewB]

Please don't compare Coach Rindahl with Coach Leipold.  It's like comparing Coach Lombardi with Coach Forrest Gregg.

[AndrewB]

UW Oshkosh just listed the 2026 roster.  Demir Ashiru leads the team off with number 0.  If it's anything like last years game against Linfield, expect both Ashiru and Korth (number 1) in the backfield. 

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