Wisky Fans calling it like they see it.....

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Kitzmann57 said:
Has anyone seen the message boards on Bucky today, after losing to Mich? Just wondering what their tone is?
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Here is the real deal on WI football. When they are winning, they get a lot of in-state support from people in the surrounding area that will cheer for anything associated with the state. This is critical because a huge percentage of the WI students are not from the area and immediately leave after graduation.

When the other state sports are doing well like the Packers and Brewers then interest in the Badgers drops very low because again, there is very little actual tie to the school via attending it.

This is the spiral that the Badgers are in now - the state has other things to cheer for and the Badgers start to take a distant 3rd place at least as long as the Brewers are still alive. I suspect you will start to see more and more empty seats at Camp Randall like it was prior to Alarvez. They are a victim of their own past success as until they start to replicate that again, general WI fan interest will not return.

So, while the message boards may be vocal - the only way anything gets down at WI is if the general non-WI attending fans demand action and - as I said above - they are turning a blind eye as there are better options to cheer for in the state at the moment. I could see WI entering another couple decade descent into mediocrity.
 











saintpauljeff said:
I still think they’ll give all the Gophers can handle at the end of the year
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Almost always how rivalry games start to go. Think much of it depends on relative health of the teams. Team will be different with Edward’s playing if he does again at some point this year
 








MNVCGUY said:
Blanked by Iowa 37-0....and their next two games - Ohio State and Oregon.....couldn't happen to a better program. :)
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Will be very interesting to see who delivers a bigger beat-down. I’ll be watching.
 

Goldmember said:
Will be very interesting to see who delivers a bigger beat-down. I’ll be watching.
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I think Oregon probably will deliver the bigger beatdown only because Day is less likely to try and run it up in general. Plus Lanning is going to be motivated to win big in order to try and offset the loss to Indiana with blowout wins.

I honestly wonder what they are going to look like by the time they get to our game....

Ohio State
Oregon
Washington
Indiana
Illinois

It would be tough to put together a much tougher 5 game stretch leading up to our game. 3 top 10 opponents for a team that is already running out their #3 QB and facing the prospects of a winless conference season.

And good lord.....can you imagine what Cignetti is going to try and do to them? He may try and hang 100 on them.
 

MNVCGUY said:
I think Oregon probably will deliver the bigger beatdown only because Day is less likely to try and run it up in general. Plus Lanning is going to be motivated to win big in order to try and offset the loss to Indiana with blowout wins.

I honestly wonder what they are going to look like by the time they get to our game....

Ohio State
Oregon
Washington
Indiana
Illinois

It would be tough to put together a much tougher 5 game stretch leading up to our game. 3 top 10 opponents for a team that is already running out their #3 QB and facing the prospects of a winless conference season.

And good lord.....can you imagine what Cignetti is going to try and do to them? He may try and hang 100 on them.
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Payback for 83-20 back in 2010 when Bert ran up the score?
 

csom_1991 said:
Here is the real deal on WI football. When they are winning, they get a lot of in-state support from people in the surrounding area that will cheer for anything associated with the state. This is critical because a huge percentage of the WI students are not from the area and immediately leave after graduation.

When the other state sports are doing well like the Packers and Brewers then interest in the Badgers drops very low because again, there is very little actual tie to the school via attending it.

This is the spiral that the Badgers are in now - the state has other things to cheer for and the Badgers start to take a distant 3rd place at least as long as the Brewers are still alive. I suspect you will start to see more and more empty seats at Camp Randall like it was prior to Alarvez. They are a victim of their own past success as until they start to replicate that again, general WI fan interest will not return.

So, while the message boards may be vocal - the only way anything gets down at WI is if the general non-WI attending fans demand action and - as I said above - they are turning a blind eye as there are better options to cheer for in the state at the moment. I could see WI entering another couple decade descent into mediocrity.
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I have a business partner who has skunk season tickets. Neither she or her husband went to Madison but two of her three kids did. And they loved the atmosphere on campus and make the trip to Madison for "home" games from Mankato. I wonder how long they'll hang on to their tickets with the current state of skunk football?
 

swede2 said:
I have a business partner who has skunk season tickets. Neither she or her husband went to Madison but two of her three kids did. And they loved the atmosphere on campus and make the trip to Madison for "home" games from Mankato. I wonder how long they'll hang on to their tickets with the current state of skunk football?
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If an atmosphere of vomit and intoxication is your thing go for it. Be careful where you step and check who you step over. You have to see if they are still breathing.
 


swede2 said:
I have a business partner who has skunk season tickets. Neither she or her husband went to Madison but two of her three kids did. And they loved the atmosphere on campus and make the trip to Madison for "home" games from Mankato. I wonder how long they'll hang on to their tickets with the current state of skunk football?
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Their stadium will be half empty within the next 3 years if this current state of play continues. For these people, did they like Wisconsin before their kids attended? I am curious as half the people I know (I am from Green Bay) actually still cheer for the Badgers after their kids got rejected there.
 


swede2 said:
I have a business partner who has skunk season tickets. Neither she or her husband went to Madison but two of her three kids did. And they loved the atmosphere on campus and make the trip to Madison for "home" games from Mankato. I wonder how long they'll hang on to their tickets with the current state of skunk football?
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Reminds me of an experience with a guy I work with. He's actually a Minnesota grad, but attended school during the Stoll/Salem years and never really developed any fandom. Over the years that I have known him, I invited him to a few games when I had an extra ticket. He always declined citing some scheduling conflict. No problem, not everybody loves college football.

Then, over a period of about six years, his two kids both attended wisconsin. All of the sudden, he was a huge college football fan. Loved going to games in Madison and was eager to stop by my office to chat about college football in general and specifically every Badger win and every Gopher loss. They loved gameday in Mad-town. He and his wife kept up the trips to Madison for games for a year or two after the kids were done with school, but then that stopped a couple of years ago. So now , every once in a while, I am the one who sticks my head into his office and says "Did you see the Badgers on Saturday?"
 

maroonfive said:
If an atmosphere of vomit and intoxication is your thing go for it. Be careful where you step and check who you step over. You have to see if they are still breathing.
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In all my years attending mn and wisc football games the only scuffles that I've seen between fans were between two wisc fans ;)

There's a weird vibe about the drinking there, some is fine, but other drinking is like "bad drinking" like "drinking to not feel feelings" kinda thing.
 

So I have a senior at Wisconsin. Her choice, I couldn't stop it. She was in gold, in the student section for the Gophers vs Purdue on Saturday. I'll take what I can get. Hopefully she spends her undergrad career at Wisconsin with only one win over the Gophers.

The one that really irritates me is my sister-in-law. She is a UofM grad and is married to an Illinois grad. They live in Wisconsin and for some reason because they live there she seems to think it is her duty to cheer on the skunks every weekend. She doesn't know the difference between a quarterback and a cornerback so she is exactly the kind of person to fall for this nonsense but it still bugs me.
 

I think Wisconsin is a mess. And I like it. But I have a question to ask. How would our team look if we lost our starting quarterback? Would we have a better record than Wisconsin? I hate Wisconsin and Iowa. But I must admit I don't think we would look very good this year without Drake.
 

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