Big Cat begs and pleads for Wisconsin administration to fix this broken football team

Do not shoot the messenger. Just listen to what he has to say. On Tuesday's installment of Wake Up Barstool, Dan "Big Cat" Katz discussed the state of the Wisconsin Badgers football program. Big Cat has seen all of the highs and recent lows of this once-proud football team as a most distinguished alumnus. Rather than present problems and offer no solutions, his thoughts on the matter resonate.

The biggest takeaway from Big Cat's opinions on what all has gone wrong at Wisconsin is having the two wrong people in charge of the program in head coach Luke Fickell and athletic director Chris McIntosh. He does not believe they are incompetent, but are no longer fit to lead this program. It does not help that university president Jennifer Mnookin does not seem to have any interest at all.

Katz may have been a tad hyperbolic by comparing Wisconsin to the Titanic, but we are here for it.

"It's an absolute disaster in Madison, Wisconsin. It's a program in absolute hell ... It is the Titanic going down, and they are basically playing the violins on the decks of the Titanic ... These are good people, but, at some point, you have to look in the mirror and say ‘this is not working'. We need to fix it, and part of the fix is they shouldn't be doing these jobs any more, in terms of head coach and being the athletic director..."

What really cut through in this next bit is the idea of it being "a sunk-cost fallacy" at the helm of this.

"You're not cut out for what you're doing right now. This is a sunk-cost fallacy that Wisconsin is going with right now, where they've spent a lot of money on the head coach and they spent a lot of money on rebuilding facilities for the football program. The more money you put into the current iteration, the longer it's going to take to get out of this hole."

Finally, he does not believe throwing a bunch of at the problem is going to solve Wisconsin's issues.

"You throw a bunch of money next year, you maybe scratch together seven wins, but you don't fix the actual structure and who's in charge and who's making these decisions, and then you have another year that's going to bottom out. The longer you keep bottoming out and the longer you keep saying ‘Hey, it's fine, we can just throw money at this,’ the longer you're going to be in irrelevancy."

Here is the entire clip of Big Cat reacting to Fickell getting a vote of confidence on Tuesday's episode.

No matter if Big Cat's message reaches the higher-ups, his thoughts on the matter are spot on in this.

Wisconsin does not seem overly concerned it has killed its football team

After five straight losses, all to Power Four teams, as well as four losses in Big Ten play, when is this going to end? The Badgers have been shut out at home the last two weeks. Should they not score a single point on the road at Oregon, the Badgers will have gone a month without putting anything across the board. A third straight shutout loss should result in Fickell's termination entering the bye.

Sadly, it seems as though this administration does not care. Fickell is allowed to keep his job because McIntosh is not being held accountable for his. Mnookin may be only concerned with academics, but Katz's plea to the administration should not fall on deaf ears. Most people's only connection to the university is through its athletic programs, namely football. It is how you can gather alumni support.

What a winning product does is put a regional school on a national level. More and more people will want to come to Madison and attend Wisconsin. More and more money will come into the program and the school. And guess what? You can have it both ways! Great sports and great academics! What a novel concept?! Big Cat is 100 percent right. More money is not going to fix the problem at hand.

More money makes you more of what you are. For Wisconsin, it is a dysfunctional football program.