Badger fans

[unicheer]

What were everyone's impressions on the Wisconsin fan base? Any harassment before/after the game?
How did they stack up compared to fans at ISU/Iowa games? I always feel like Ames is where I see the most disrespect coming our way. Maybe because they know we can compete with them.

[TH1974]

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Obviously Iowa is the worst.

[Born-a-Panther]

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Obviously Iowa is the worst.

Are you capable of any real conversation or do you just pride yourself on being the most sarcastic poster in the history of fan message boards?

[BCPanther]

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3600 posts and absolutely nothing added...

[DomeIsHome]

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I thought they were very nice/respectful/whatever other word you want to use to say that they didn't harass UNI fans very much before/throughout/after the game (aside from the students).

Like I said in another thread, I definitely didn't get the feel that they were all that into the actual football game. The majority sat throughout the game (I was told this is the norm in Wisconsin), and would only stand for a score, during UNI's last drive, or anytime the band was on the field. Like most "bigger" schools, they were fine with me and my buddy standing up and cheering for UNI except when the game was close in the 4th quarter. Had one tell me after Johnson's second TD, "Don't you guys have your own section over there?" and he pointed to the UNI section, and my buddy said "Yeah but theres not enough room for us" and he didn't have a response to that. Then he said something about how "we shouldn't sell tickets to the enemy." Was the only questionable experience I had, and of course afterwards he talked to us like nothing ever happened and was all "you guys have a great team blah blah blah."

Overall I thought it was a nice town, stadium and atmosphere, just wasn't exactly overwhelming and not nearly what I expected after hearing everything about it.

[ProwlingPanther]

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What were everyone's impressions on the Wisconsin fan base? Any harassment before/after the game?
How did they stack up compared to fans at ISU/Iowa games? I always feel like Ames is where I see the most disrespect coming our way. Maybe because they know we can compete with them.

98% of the fans/people I met in Madison were hospitable and nice. We took a shuttle back to the Radisson after the game and while we were waiting for the bus, we were offered beer, food and shots by some Wisconsin tailgaters. Everyone we met in passing were very impressed with our team and had many compliments. I don't know how they would have treated us had we pulled off the upset. By my overall experience was very pleasant.

[06panther10]

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Obviously Iowa is the worst.

Wow, go away.

[06panther10]

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We had a really good experience. Most of the fans were great, and we were treated well. Madison is really fun, and a great college town. Was surprised at how large it actually was. Great atmosphere in town, and around the stadium. I was actually really underwhelmed at the gameday atmosphere in the stadium. Not loud at all (yes I know they don't care about UNI), fans sat most of the game, and overall just kind of a dull atmosphere considering the fact that it is a top 10 ranked BCS school playing in an 80K seat stadium.

[JayJ79]

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Which poll ranked Wisconsin in the top ten? looks like both the AP and ESPN preseason polls had then at 12

[Barnstormer]

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They pulled off the upset against us, they'll be in the top 10 for sure.

[unicheer]

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I was surprised at how underwhelming the "Jump Around" portion of the game was. That was the biggest tradition I had heard about at Wisconsin, and expected it to be a sight to behold.
I find it to be somewhat of a silly tradition anyway, since they play the same song at probably 90% of other schools, and just because they get into it more than other places, doesn't exactly make it a unique tradition in my mind.
They didn't even play the whole song, just the first verse... didn't even get to the classic line of "I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe, if your girl steps up, I'm smackin' the 'ho. Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs, I got more rhymes than the Bible's got Psalms."... truer words were never written.
Maybe it was because some fans had already left, but overall I was hoping for a little more. Percentage-wise, I definitely would say that the Interlude has more UNI fans than Wisconsin fans doing the Jump Around.

[JayJ79]

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other places have picked up the "Sweet Caroline" thing, does that mean it's no longer Fenway Park tradition?

[unipanthers8907]

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I was at the game, in the press box, so no interactions with fans during the game. But I didnt experience any problems before the game or after. After the game I got lots of compliments on UNI and how well we played. But like others have mentioned, not sure what the reaction would have been had we won the game.

As far as atmosphere, I agree with most of what has been said. Great atmosphere outside the stadium, great tailgating, Madison is a great college town. Inside, it only got "loud" a couple times, both in the 4th quarter when we were driving the ball downfield. The 5th quarter was good as well.

However, as for "Jump Around," I thought it was pretty awesome. Especially since you could feel the press box shaking from the students jumping up and down. It was insane to feel/see that. That was my highlight of the game atmosphere for me.

[TH1974]

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I'm surprised there's any debate.

[JayJ79]

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The pressbox bounces up and down. The ped/bike bridge across University (on the way to and from the northwest lots) bounces up and down.

Methinks the Madison engineers just wish they lived in a bouncy castle. ;op