3 Worst head coach hires in Wisconsin football history

Wisconsin is an all-time winning program with lots of great coaches. What about the ones that were not so great though?

Bucky Badger does push-ups after a Wisconsin touchdown during the second quarter of their game.
Bucky Badger does push-ups after a Wisconsin touchdown during the second quarter of their game. | Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Wisconsin football has a long history, and there have been a good amount of coaches, many of them with good coaching records. It was hard finding coaches even with records under .500 who were not still competitive because a lot of them were but just had a few bad seasons later in thier tenure.

Looking at the overall record of coaches at Wisconsin, this program is a winning program. Wisconsin has a 742-518-53 record. So what about the ones that struggled and didn't have a lot to show? I did pick out three names of head coaches who struggled in their time at Wisconsin.

Here are the coaches that ended up being the worst hires in Wisconsin football history.

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