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?
 

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