Corn Flakes: Shouts of Disdain!

That needs to become a meme around here.

For some reason I’m surprised, although I’m not sure why. The character of the UW student body was on full display last spring when they practically burned down their own capital over a political issue that did not involve them.

Students will be students (ours does things I don’t like, but for comparison, those things include: “home of the Huskers” at the end of the SSB, about 25% of the students booing Washington this year, and random cursing when things went bad).

I realize that the adult Badger fans (mostly) were better behaved, but the failure of the university to reign in its clearly out of control students is a damning reflection of the culture of that university and the culture of Madison as well. This is a school that is not used to winning and has not learned how to win with class. Sadly, this will probably be the high point for our treatment by them. Just wait until we start beating them…

If shouting obscenities is a tradition, there must of been long standing periods of time where boredom was rampant. And boredom usually equates losing in sports atmospheres.

Husker Nation has seen worse. No matter how hard they try, it will never be as bad as Boulder. Treating guests like trash was an art form there.

“Monday, pretty much everybody is clueless,” Cooper said. “Every week the game plan changes. Sometimes positions change.”

That doesn’t sound good. What do Nebby fans think when they see players coming out and saying things like this?

At the end of the day, we were in position [at Wisconsin], we just didn’t make a play

-Pelini
Another Question for Neb fans: Is this the coach covering his own ass?

As a Hawk fan, I’m not trying to dance on a grave or anything like that, just curious what your reactions are to these two statements.

I’m sorry, but Bo’s repeated insistence on blaming the players is not only getting old, but it goes against his own “Don’t point the finger, point the thumb” mentality.

Sure, the players need experience and some work. But come on….you can’t keep blaming the defense that was on the f**king field for 85% of the game and probably gassed. How about taking some ownership as a coaching staff (Beck and crew). and work on developing a system that the guys can at least count on week to week.

You think Madison is bad? Wait until you go to Columbus. Their behavior shocked and outraged Texas fans.

have had reputations for boorish behavior since time immemorial. I am guessing it’s primarily because they are massive schools with massive student populations, so Wisconsin’s full stadium at 85K is going to be comprised of more students that run the entire gambit of lucidity versus Nebraska’s.

I am considerably more concerned when Nebraska actually wins some of these road games. Adding “pissed off” to the mix isn’t going to help.

First of all, anything that says “eat shit” or “fuck you” on a shirt or in the student section is between students, and has nothing to do with your fans.

I was inside the stadium, and the 2 Husker fans in the section (not nearly the amount of Husker fans inside the stadium as expected) didn’t participate in any traditions. Jump around is for everyone, singing build me up buttercup is for anyone, don’t just stand/sit there and pout.

Going off of that point, I heard that in many of the biggest Badger bars, Husker fans went in and chanted the seemingly only chant you have over and over. Think about it, you are going into a BADGER bar, people don’t want to watch the game with you, especially when most Husker fans I encountered were extremely critical of B1G football and a few even dared to suggest that they would rather be in Austin, Norman.

This is a direct quote from ESPN podcaster/writer Ivan Maisel:

“My burning question, its not really burning except I’ve been thinking about it ever since I left Madison very late Saturday, early morning Sunday is there a better football weekend than Madison, Wisconsin? I would be hard pressed to find a fan base that has a better time and experience in the stadium that is better, than what you find at Camp Ra…ndall. A gritty, grubby tradition laden old stadium like Camp Randall, a campus town institution and meal better than state street brats… and there was such a great college football atmosphere. And then you get into the stadium and its such a grand looking place and the fans are excited, and then you get into the second half with Jump Around and then they sing to Build Me Up Buttercup, they sing to Sweet Caroline, then they have the 5th Quarter after beating the tar out of Nebraska, it was everything I like about college football and I found it this week in Madison.”

Too bad you couldn’t enjoy it because you were too sour after getting absolutely pummeled. Try not to take it personally.

For whoever drank in either memorial or south union, Husker fans got discounts that even some badger alumni don’t get (unless they have a union membership). How about that?

just to visit friends, and it just so happened that it was the weekend of the big game. Keep in mind im from Minnesota, so i have no close affiliation with either team. I never saw anyone pick fights or even a single fight, and I was down on state street (where all the hostility would happen if there was some) and everyone that i encountered, were really nice people. Sure, you’re going to have hardcore drunks fans of both teams, but i myself didn’t see it at all. I may have been a little drunk, but I typically don’t blackout easily. But I can say this, whatever this guy was writing about, was false, just from what I saw. My little 2 cents, good luck on the year, and try not to beat the Gophers too badly :)