Badgers’ Del Rio to resign after crash, OWI arrest

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterNov 11, 2024, 12:19 PM ET

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College football reporter; signed up with ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.Former NFL coach Jack Del Rio, the senior advisor to Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell, will resign after he was apprehended early Friday and mentioned for running a car while intoxicated following a crash in Madison, Wisconsin.Del Rio, 61, was detained soon after midnight Friday after a car he was driving struck a street indication, broke a fence and came to a rest in a yard, according to a Madison Authorities occurrence report. Officers were dispatched to the scene, located west of school and Camp Randall Stadium, at 12:35 a.m.Witnesses directed the officers to the motorist, who was walking

far from the area, according to the occurrence report. No injuries were reported.Del Rio “revealed signs of impairment”and confessed to driving the automobile.

He was jailed for novice OWI and released.” He’s going to progress and he’s going to resign and carry on,”Fickell said Monday. “But it’s a tough scenario. Decisions that everybody have to have the ability to take full duty for. So that’s what Jack will do, and we’ll continue to move on. “Wisconsin issued a declaration saying they were aware of the incident and”

take matters like this very seriously.”The former Jaguars and Raiders head coach joined Fickell’s personnel at Wisconsin in August. Del Rio had formerly worked as the Leaders’protective coordinator and had held planner roles with Carolina and Denver.Del Rio played linebacker with 4 NFL groups before starting a training career entirely invested at the professional level until he came to Wisconsin.The Badgers

are coming off a bye week heading into Saturday’s face-off at home against No. 1 Oregon.