Falcons experience in Madison

[BigAppleBucky]

I warned this board about that.

The UW administration has tried unsuccesfully for years to curb that.

Each season the President or Chancellor has sent out a message requesting it stop. Last year Barry Alvarez put out a missive throughout the campus on gameday. It abated, but did not cease.

The whole Big Ten ad campaign (if you watched the game, no doubt you saw it) is directed at sportmanship.

It would be impossible to kick out 20,000 kids from the game 'cause they're chanting ES-FU.

With video camera controls, the students have been reined in quite a bit.

The problem is that the Wisconsin football tradition had been so poor for so many years that the fans (and the band) had to make their own fun - the action on the field didn't hold enough interest.

Even with ten winning seasons out of the last twelve, the students remain wild. That "tradition" seems to be too entrenched.

[TG1996]

The whole Big Ten ad campaign (if you watched the game, no doubt you saw it) is directed at sportmanship.

I actually saw it on the TV in the tailgate lot right after the game (during the UM-NIU game). When Barry got up there and said something about "sportsmanship", I had to laugh, thinking of all the fine cheers the students came up with.

I still think it was silly that the few times the band actually DID play (fight song aside), it was met with some obscene cheer. Maybe you can't toss 20,000 kids, but you sure as hell can toss the band if they play "inciteful" songs.