{"id":755833,"date":"2026-02-16T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:34:14","slug":"badgers-coach-leaving-for-atlanta-falcons-wtaq-news-talk-97-5-fm-%c2%b7-1360-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/755833\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers coach leaving for Atlanta Falcons | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM \u00b7 1360 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(247NEWSSOURCE\/LEARFIELD) \u2013 The Wisconsin football team is reportedly losing one of its coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Badgers wide receivers coach Jordan Reid will join the Atlanta Falcons as their assistant quarterbacks coach, 247Sports reported.<\/p>\n<p>Reid spent just one season in Madison.<\/p>\n<p>Fickell buyout:\u00a0Two consecutive disappointing seasons have led Badger football fans to demand a coaching change.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn\u2019t happened yet, and one of the reasons is the cost \u2013 25 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is backing head coach Luke Fickell so far, but spending millions to get rid of a coach isn\u2019t unique in modern college football.<\/p>\n<p>WSAW-TV reports that schools shelled out 200 million dollars last year to pay former coaches not to coach.<\/p>\n<p>Only four programs were on the hook for more than 25 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(247NEWSSOURCE\/LEARFIELD) \u2013 The Wisconsin football team is reportedly losing one of its coaches. Badgers wide receivers coach Jordan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-755833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116080100303362566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}