Badgers buy 3 billboards by Target Center to highlight Twin City Badgers

[BleedGopher]

Go Gophers!!

 

[Pompous Elitist]

Well kids, if the average citizen didn’t know you were a traitor before…

 

[highwayman]

Not a "takeover," Scooter.

Well, you DO need to go somewhere to find a job.

 

[DinkytownDelight]

Thanks for supporting our economy!

 

[MplsGopher]

Three of those things are not like the others ….

 

[STPGopher]

Well kids, if the average citizen didn’t know you were a traitor before…

I think the U should seize the moment by highlighting that Minneapolis is where opportunities are.

Edit: Thanks to U of M alumni of course.

 

[STPGopher]

Well kids, if the average citizen didn’t know you were a traitor before…

Part II:

Remember, this is how Gophers "get down!":

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

It's a nice troll. They get to tweak Minnesota with no real risk of reprisal since no one is going to recruit heavily in Madison or see any billboards purchased in Dane County.

 

[DelawareGopher]

I hate this but it’s a good troll.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

They probably should have hired someone who understood the market a little better. I don't think the typical kid who will see the signs of Brad Davison and Nate Reuvers in DT Mpls is going to feel like those signs talk to him.

They probably should have put these up near the Raising Cane's and Jo Anne's Fabric off 35 in Lakeville.

 

[Out State Gopher]

Cub foods having a special on eggs?

 

[#2Gopher]

Ignore em, why give the scums attention? In addition I would hope that the current players feel kind of dumb about it. While they may have chosen Wisconsin, but I don't think they approve of putting billboards up like this.

 

[Golden Deuce]

Wisco,

 

[hello-world]

I doubt they even see this as a “troll”. It’s an obvious thing for them to do. Nobody would think twice if these went up in Chicago.

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

I doubt they even see this as a “troll”. It’s an obvious thing for them to do. Nobody would think twice if these went up in Chicago.

They most definitely see this as a troll. That isn't the only reason that they see it as a benefit, but it absolutely plays a part. And they have already done something similar in Chicago.

Luke Fickell, Wisconsin trolls Illinois teams with Chicago billboards

 

[Spaulding!No!]

It's a nice troll. They get to tweak Minnesota with no real risk of reprisal since no one is going to recruit heavily in Madison or see any billboards purchased in Dane County.

Put one right on John Nolen Drive!

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

They desperate.

 

[Unregistered User]

They most definitely see this as a troll. That isn't the only reason that they see it as a benefit, but it absolutely plays a part. And they have already done something similar in Chicago.

Luke Fickell, Wisconsin trolls Illinois teams with Chicago billboards

Just because wisportsheroics calls it a troll, doesn't make it a troll.

It's advertising.

 

[2nd Degree Gopher]

Just because wisportsheroics calls it a troll, doesn't make it a troll.

It's advertising.

And just because someone on GopherHole says it isn't a troll doesn't mean that it's not. Do you know anyone in the athletic department there? Ask them. They delight in the trolling part of it and have back to the "Minnesota is in state recruiting" days. It's not the only reason that they do it, but they do love that aspect of it.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

It was a troll but who cares? That's part of what makes college sports fun.

 

[Tommyboy]

We should place some billboards in Wisconsin.

 

[pk2]

Any trolling the skunks do will always be a weak effort when compared to the top-notch, best-ever troll job:

Playing “Jump Around” at Huntington Bank Stadium after beating them.

 

[STPGopher]

They most definitely see this as a troll. That isn't the only reason that they see it as a benefit, but it absolutely plays a part. And they have already done something similar in Chicago.

Luke Fickell, Wisconsin trolls Illinois teams with Chicago billboards

Well, in Illinois case, Bielema started this type of trolling while coaching at Wisconsin.