Saturday, October 11, 2008
Good point, I'll grab the flexall 454
My roomate just told me, "Start stretching, we try out on Monday." Wow, and he just followed that up, "The only good thing, every game we win from now on will be an upset." The 2008-2009 Badgers! At least the band is currently the shame of the campus. I love the band, as they provide a key ingredient to every game, but all the stuff I've heard about the hazing is absurd. I could start a fire Leckrone site, but I'll stick to the more important issue, the employment of Bret Bielema. Fire Bret Bielema.
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Read about you guys online. good for you for doing something rather than just sitting around bitching!
I wonder if there is another Jimmy Leonhard on this campus...then again, when the team's best player is a walk-on....that is not a good thing.
How is this doing more than just sitting around bitching? Dude just made some shitty website and is complaining about losing 3 games. He should be glad he wasn't around before 1993...
Just a month or two I was going to secure firebielema.com and it was available. I chose not to just to avoid creating trouble for myself. I think UW might have reserved it now though. Shows how arrogant they are at the UW that they didn't even register these addresses.
Bret, made millions without proving a thing, he needs a little hotseat action. Bad community relations, bad media relations, insult players, and canceling VA Tech...that was the limit. He and Barry should just blabber on how hard it is to get someone to come play at Camp Randall. Let's see we make 4 million off a game, you get 500K, plus if you are any good, you are not welcome, and if you want a home game, no way. Shame on UW. Bielema has no chance of surviving as coach, regardless of this website. Money speaks, and it will stop flowing in so fast with performance that is about to drop further off the cliff, regardless of the remainder of this season.
PS. I was here before 1993, and this has the tell tale signs of Morton era. Losing, and no hope.
Please don't let UW fire Bielema! At least not until he has the chance to bring the program down for a few more years. Sure he's a jackass, but actually fun to watch in games like saturday night, which I'm sure we'll get to see more of in the years to come.
I hate to be the first to say this but there have always been rumors of Bielema's off the field antics in bars ... with UW students ... women ... etc. Just sayin.
How about some perspective?
Alvarez went 20-7-3 in 2.5 seasons from 1993-1995.
Alvarez went 24-6 in 2.5 seasons from 1998-2000.
Bielema has gone 24-8 in 2.5 seasons.
To be fair, Alvarez won 3 Rose Bowls in those "5" seasons.
But Alvarez also threw up some doozies as well. His teams went 4-5-2 (1995) and 5-7 (2001). I'm of course leaving out his first 3 years.
In his productive years Alvarez had 6 3-game losing streaks.
Come off the ledge, please.
Am I embarassed as a Badger fan, sure. But I might argue the team is only one game worse than they SHOULD be right now.
The loss that still drives me crazy is Michigan.
Ohio State was a good game they could have won, but the Buckeyes are a good team.
Penn State was disgusting because of the score, but losing to the Nittany Lions is not a "fire the coach" type of loss. Jesus, that could be their best team in 43 years under Joe Pa, and even if it's not they just got moved up 3 spots to number 3 after beating us.
All you Alvarez lovers out there please take off your Rose-colored glasses and admit that EVERY YEAR you knew his teams were going to blow a game they should have won. I still think the 2 loses to Michigan St and Iowa in 2004 are worse than what's going on now (oh yeah a loss to Georgia made it 3 straight for Alvy that year for one of his 6 3-gamers).
Now Bielema's team has blown a game or two they should have won. He's still faring well when compared to Alvarez's best.
So again, please come in off of the ledge.
Did you guys forget Bret Bielema beat # 21 Fresno State on the road? not to mention wisconsin is the only big ten team to beat a ranked non conference team this year
Might as well get ready for try-outs. Bret brought Evridge with him from K STATE and HE wasn't the answer. Now maybe Scherer - if he has a good week of practice?
Oh come one. PLEEEEASE don't tell me that the hopes of a once proud program hinge upon ONE GOOD WEEK of practice??!?!?!?!?
So what did happen in the hazing? The papers have been inscrutably quiet.
I met and shook Bielema's hand this past summer. I was surprised at how soft it was. Is there any truth to the rumors about his "lifestyle choice"? My partner is convinced he is on "our team"!
With 2:30 left in the MSU game and Wisconsin had the ball, why didn't Bielema attempt a field goal, or go for the 4th and 10, since they were on the MSU's 35 yardline. Instead Bielema's team gets penalized for something (10 yds.) then makes another bonehead unsportmanlike comment (another 5 yds.), and gives up the ball. This "defensive poster call" instead of an aggressive offensice call, is what typifies Bret. He cannot make good calls, esp. in the last 5 minutes of games. This is the 3rd game (Mich. OSU, and now MSU) that we have lost in the last 2 minutes. It is not about enough talent, it is about bad play call. BRING BACK BARRY...
IMO if we keep Brett around we're looking to fall back to the Morton years. I read somewhere (which i haven't verified) that his last 2 recruiting classing were ranked around 40th in the nation. How do you build a top 10 program with top 40 talent.
Outside of that his play-calling, time-management and overall coaching are horrible. Does everyone forget that he had Sherer spike the ball on first down at the end of the half when we still had 2 timeouts? I'm not saying that garuntees a TD but we gave away a play.
He also cost us 20 yards in penalties on one of MSU's 64 yd TD drives.
At the end of the game, he lets the clock run down to 12 seconds and then takes a timeout as MSU is rushing to get their FG team on the field. To top it off he then takes our remaining t.o. to freeze the kicker. If he takes the T.O. with over 20 seconds left and saved the other we would have had at least had a very slim chance to get get into FG range to win the game. He took that away.
Lets not forget that when we were trying to run out the clock we ran out of bounds twice ... with the 40 second play clock that was 1:30 of clock time we didn't use and also would've prevented MSU from having any time at the end of the game.
It all just comes down to bad, bad, bad coaching. Couple this with ineffective recruiting and our glory years are gone.
The reason why it's important to fire Bielema is because his players lack the fundamentals. They tackle poorly, block poorly, catch poorly. That speaks to me about the coaching more than the players. I'm sure those guys are good athletes, but they've been allowed to be lazy, to keep doing things their way, and the fundamentals are missing.
I wish I had a dollar for every attempted arm tackle, bump tackle, tackle above the waist, etc. The Badgers look like good high school players, but not like disciplined college-level players.
Also, losing games we should have won is on the coaches. And it happens every year! The players are over-confident, the players don't give 100%. That's on the coaches, because the coaches don't learn from their mistakes. So Wisconsin doesn't have a prayer of ever making it beyond the Rose Bowl. That's the best they can do and they'll never be a nationally competitive team. Sorry.
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