Former Badger is the hottest coach in FBS and Wisconsin fans are clamoring for him

Wisconsin football is in a terrible place. Not just the 2-6 record, but the school seems tied to a coach who has only been taking the Badger program further and further into a hole. All the while, a former Badger player is coaching a bad football school to amazing new heights in his first season. Jason Eck has the New Mexico Lobos bowling after beating UNLV on Saturday, and Wisconsin fans want to bring him home.

If you get on social media and start searching for Jason Eck, you'll see the comment sections and quote posts flooded with Wisconsin fans clamoring for Eck to be the next Wisconsin football coach.

Jason Eck would have to be tempted by a Wisconsin coaching offer

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It would be the most tempting offer for Eck of all the programs that may come calling this offseason. Why? Because he is a former player and loves Wisconsin. There will be heavy competition in this next coaching cycle, which is part of the reason Chris McIntosh may be thinking he should hold fast to Fickell for at least another year. However, the best option may end up being poached by another program.

Eck played for the Wisconsin Badgers in the late 1990s and was a Graduate Assistant for Wisconsin from 1999 to 2001. He then was all over the place as he rose through the coaching ranks from Idaho to Ball State to Montana State, mostly as an offensive line coach. He finally got a chance to be a head coach for Idaho from 2022 to 2024, where he went 26-13 over three seasons, getting them into the FCS Tournament each year.

New Mexico swooped in and grabbed this successful coach at Idaho, and in one season, he's turned the Lobos around and gotten them to a bowl game. He's going to be a hot name in the offseason, and it would be silly for Wisconsin not to make a play.