Don't Vote Bret Bielema for Coach of the Year, For Now

After the pathetic 7-38 loss to Penn State today, I am going to stop voting for coach Bret Bielema for the Coach of the Year award. After being knocked off the no.5 spot thanks to the losing effort to Illinois, today's extremely poor performance is just another blow to all Badger fans. Sitting dangerously at no.19, Wisconsin knows damn well that losing to Penn State would have them kicked out of the rankings and also bid their Big Ten conference title hope goodbye considering that they have Michigan and Ohio State coming up in their schedule. Fumbling the ball on the very 1st play of the game at your own 16 yard line is simply inexcusable. When you know your team is without 2 of your biggest offensive threats in WR's Paul Hubbard and Luke Swan, RB PJ Hill should know better that he is the main channel for Wisconsin. And giving away the ball on your 1st touch neither highlights your leadership nor determination to produce results. It's called stabbing yourself in the foot. Ball security is the no.1 priority man! Already without RB Lance Smith's explosive pace as the bail out, the running game was not established, which brought the issue to the passing game. The WR's, Gilreath and Jefferson (both freshmen), did all they could, but all they could was not good enough for Big Ten football. Gilreath caused an interception for not grabbing down the ball thrown by QB Tyler Donovan. Ball came off his hands when he was open and picked up by Penn State's defense. The defense was not picking up the slack from last week, blowing covers and missing tackles and doing what they did best, giving up big plays. The defense is not stepping up, they are not correcting their mistakes which caused them to drop 14 spots in the national rankings. Here's the blunt statement, the defense is not up for it. Not in Big Ten, what more to say to chase for a BCS bowl spot in the post season. The offense would have to rely on inexperienced receivers and sub-par average yard per play of PJ Hill. TE Travis Beckum remains to be the main threat in the passing game, but he's the TE and he wasn't the main target in the loss to Penn State. I guess the coach chose to spread the ball to everyone instead of making TE Travis Beckum to haul down more than 10 catches per game. Hey, here's the deal, you're out of experienced starting receivers. Make TE Travis Beckum catch more than 10 passes because he has a pair of secure hands and the best athletic ability to haul down big play passes. If not, you shall wait for your defense to kick some senses into themselves and your receivers to run better routs and catch the ball when they're open and your RB breaking tackles and make big plays. By the time they all did that, you might be looking at a 8-4 season. Guess which bowl you're gonna end up in?