Paul Chryst is out at Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Badgers got off to a slow start in 2022. The Badgers are currently 2-3. The team was blown out in embarrassing fashion by Illinois on Saturday. The week prior, the Badgers suffered a 52-21 loss to Ohio State on prime-time national television. Those recent developments gave rumors of possible replacements for head coach Paul Chryst.
According to Adam Rittenberg with ESPN, Chryst is out as the Badgers’ head coach. Jim Leonhard will be the interim coach while the school looks for a permanent replacement.
SOURCE: Paul Chryst is out as #Wisconsin coach. Jim Leonhard will be the team's interim coach. Announcement will be coming shortly.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) October 2, 2022
Chryst had a 67-26 record at Wisconsin. He is record was 43-18 in conference play. Chryst led the Badgers to three divisional championships and twice won Big Ten coach of the year. The team struggled to achieve the same success after the Badgers’ appearance in the Rose Bowl for the 2019 season.
The team went 4-3 in the 2020 season and 9-4 last season. The start of this season has been a disaster for the program. Chryst had been criticized for not developing a quarterback that could compete for a Big 10 championship.
Leonhard has been the Badgers‘ defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach since 2017. He will prepare the team to play Northwestern next week.
Chryst’s buyout is speculated to be around $16 million.
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It’s about time Chryst was let go. He didn’t want to modernize the offense. He wanted to continue to run 1970-80 type of offense. All the great running backs Wisconsin has had and really where did it get them? Some good bowls and not so good. Barry Alvarez worked hard to turn things around and we didn’t need Chryst to continually tack the program backwards
Hhe should of been fired along time ago. He had no fire or get up and go!