You obviously come on here just to flame. The ridiculous price you were expecting to pay for games, tone of your posts, and the last few have been blatant. Wisconsin fans are no different than MN fans with respect to attendance. Period. The year before your latest hockey title, I was in Madison for the game. There were TONS of empty seats in that place, with a good contingency of Gopher fans already there in place of many Badger fans. The team hadn't been consistently good in a while and therefore there weren't too many people there. Surprise surprise the next year you got hot, won a title, and there were fans in attendance, and I'm sure ALL of them were lifelong diehards. Football was the same in the 80s. It took a winning program to bring fans back in. In 10 years if you were consistently 2-6 in the Big Ten with crappy non-conference games you won or maybe a good one you lost each year, would there still be 80k people in your stadium? Doubt it. Be reasonable - 90% of WI fans grew up in either MN or WI. The same as most of the UofM's student/fan base. Last I checked Minnesotans fill the dome for Vikings, the X for hockey, and the Barn for basketball, why would these same people be any worse football fans than ones that went to Wisconsin? It is solely because your team has had relative success over the last 15 years.
As far as the bands go. Give me a break. Our pregame is WAY better than yours. I saw the Wisc band at the dome 2 times, and have seen it as Camp Randall. Our halftimes can either be lame or awesome (the marching style for halftime is not high step) depending on the music. And during the game, your band RARELY plays music or does anything. There is a lot more canned music played at Camp Randall and the drumline plays less cadences, less dancing by the band, less songs played by the band.
Your band wasn't banned from attending the PSU game because of drinking. It was because of hazing. Get it straight. They were also put on probation 2 years previous for almost the exact same acts - forcing sexual activity on busrides and other hazing stuff. They also are not allowed to stay in MN hotels because of the way they treated them. Our band has a little bit of class when they travel and doesn't have the horrible reputation yours does (go ahead and ask any MSU band member about the WI band).
No, the band doesn't have a ton to do with football. But if you look at the majority of the posts on this message board, they are about football. The game, the atmosphere, the fans, how do we win, etc etc. If we all suck so hard, why do you have an interest in coming to the game? Is it because you want to rub it in our fans' faces if your team happens to win? It sure isn't about sportsmanship and having a good, decent time with opposing fans since all you seem to do is flame.
