Brian Kersten

[The Brewer Nation @BrewerNation]

I love baseball.

Please, owners, don't steal this from the next generation. Your franchises are worth so much financially already to you.

The teams, the players, the moments are all worth so much intrinsically to all the fans.

To both sides: Just negotiate in good faith now.

[Waunakee Community School District @WaunakeeCSD]

We are hiring! Join our #WaunakeeWAY team to be a crossing guard. Join us: https://t.co/2Qaf8lpTOg

[Waunakee Community School District @WaunakeeCSD]

Don't miss our 2026 Kids Expo. This is a great resource to get connected to Waunakee and our school community! See you there. #WaunakeeWAY

[Nick Osen @TheRealNickOsen]

BREAKING: WISCONSIN lands priority center target Brock Barrows

https://t.co/YcVuLyiEw0

[Wisconsin Recruiting @BuckyRecruiting]

BANG LFG WELCOME BROCK

[Brian Kersten @BAKWaunakee]

Nice shout out to Waunakee Warrior alumnus McCoy Smith

Wisconsin quietly brought back a position fans haven't seen under Luke Fickell #Wisconsin #Americanfootball #Collegefootball #Collegesports
https://t.co/DzHjtZfDgy

[Ryan Lutz @ryan_lutz34]

I had a fun time competing in the @KohlsKicking NSC last weekend. In KO’s, I had big balls of 73 4.01 and 73 3.95 with an camp average of 109.03. In FG’s, I charted 23 points and ended charting strong making my last 4 57 yarders.
@KohlsHighlights @WaunakeeFBRecr @MJ_NFLDraft

[Rob Hernandez @RobHernandezGLF]

Here is what they are up against at the 125th @WSGAGolf State Am

[Rob Hernandez @RobHernandezGLF]

A reminder that all of our live updates from the 125th @wsgagolf Wisconsin State Amateur can be found here: https://t.co/IKgTyZe62d

[Waunakee Community School District @WaunakeeCSD]

We would love to grow our #WaunakeeWAY middle school volleyball program! Join us!

[Alex Strouf @alex_strouf]

A #Brewers Fun Fact:

-Last year on July 21st, following their 100th game, Milwaukee overtook the MLB’s best record (60-40).

-Tonight, July 20th, following their 100th game, Milwaukee overtook the MLB’s best record (63-37).

Pretty, pretty good! #ThisIsMyCrew

[Rob Hernandez @RobHernandezGLF]

Stopped out to see my home for the next four days … West Bend CC, site of the 125th @WSGAGolf Wisconsin State Amateur. The steam shovel in the logo is a nod to the means used to build the course that Langford & Moreau designed in the late 1920s. @Wisdotgolf

[Nick Osen @TheRealNickOsen]

Four-star composite LB commit #Badgers

[Mike Heller @HellerSports]

I like this... you might too?
#Brewers

[Ryan Lutz @ryan_lutz34]

Got down to Gatlinburg a bit early and was able to get some kicks up to prepare for the @KohlsKicking National Scholarship Camp! Here is a field goal from 56 yards and a double field goal.
@KohlsHighlights @CoachCKohls @WaunakeeFBRecr

[Cale Britt @Cale_britt6]

Very Blessed to be in this position…. Can’t thank my family, coaches, teammates, trainers, and every school that believed in me enough…
With that being said I am committing to Wisconsin 🦡
#ONWISCONSIN 🖤❤️

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

We think they liked it 😂

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

Where past meets present.

More about the details behind the design ⬇️

[Corey Bennett (BadgerNews) @BadgerNewsNet]

🦡I took some time to research & draft what I'm calling the exhaustive "wait a minute, did Wisconsin actually make a good athletic director hire?" list. 🦡

Consider me pro Eichorst for the following reasons:

1. For the past eight years he has been Chris Del Conte's second-in-command at Texas, and Texas has navigated the NIL and revenue-share era better than anyone in the country. Wisconsin hired the guy who ran the business of football at Texas in 2026, which is an objectively more applicable description for the actual job in front of him than 'the guy who didn't save the [still] shit Nebraska football program".

2. Texas promoted him during that run. Retention and elevation under one of the most respected ADs in the business is performance evidence.

3. Del Conte has credited him with helping steer Texas's budget and operations through the SEC transition — meaning he has already executed the kind of conference-upheaval management the next decade of Big Ten life will demand.

4. He is a lawyer in an era when the AD job has become a legal job: House settlement compliance, revenue-share contracts, cap management, employment questions, collective bargaining issues, etc.

5. Eichorst was second-in-command under Alvarez from 2006 to 2011. During that time, UW had one of the best-run departments in the country: financially self-sustaining, competitively elite across sports, and and really strong football and basketball programs.

6. He's a native Badger. He knows the institution, the donors, the culture, and the state. He should be able to work Wisconsin politics at a high level.

7. At Miami, he inherited the Nevin Shapiro scandal and was credited with a steady, cooperative, professional handling of one of an incredibly ugly NCAA case. Proven crisis management leadership is valuable.

8. Related to 7, he was poached by Nebraska from Miami. He was a hot commodity at the time Nebraska hired him. So much so that Neraska made him the 5th highest paid AD in the country with a $2 million early exit penalty in the contract.

9. Oh, and about his time at Nebraska — the main reason some Badger fans are underwhelmed. The fact is that his tenure at Nebraska was perfectly respectable, and Husker fans would be wise to want him back. His four full football seasons: 33-19 with three winning Big Ten coferenece game records. The nine seasons since: 38-56 with zero winning conference records. Away from football, Nebraska won three team national championships and ten Big Ten titles. Off the field, Eichort created what Nebraska billed as college athletics' first in-house analytics department, signed an 11-year, $128M adidas megadeal at nearly triple the prior contract's value, and kept the department fully self-sustaining while committing $5M a year of athletics profits to scholarships for regular students. Nebraska still makes that payment today, part of a financial model its current AD says has to be protected. Eichorst did a nice job at a middling institution.

10. He served in NCAA national governance during a period of massive rule upheaval — giving him relationships and firsthand inights into the NCAA rulemaking process.

11. It's the defining job of his career in his home state. The incentives are perfectly aligned with a long, motivated run.

Hoping to get some time to flesh this out a little bit more into a BadgerNews editorial.

#OnWisconsin