The poll is closed and probably one day too soon. I screwed up, but as everyone knows you have good weeks and bad weeks. Everyone just needs to relax and give me as much time as I need to turn the site around. To the results!
Yes - 539 - 55%
No - 280 - 28%
Not sure yet - 151 - 15%
The "yes" has won this week. The total number of votes is down significantly this week, so there may be a number of "no" voters who have not taken the time to vote. Shame on them, it's your duty as an American to vote in anything and everything as much as possible.
So, in the gambling world we are a 2.5 point dog. However, we are Adam Rittenberg's upset pick of the week, so we got that going for us. I agree with Adam on this one. We are back at home, it's homecoming week, and Illinois is a flawed team.
The next poll asks which Big Ten team you dislike the most. I want us to viciously and relentlessly destroy every other Big Ten team in every sport, but I truly and deeply loathe Michigan athletics. Everyone has one team that for whatever reason, stands above the rest as an object of disdain. For example, my former freshman roommate hates Purdue. In the comments to this post, please share why a certain team has earned your derision.
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- Artful Badger is a 2nd year law student at UW-Madison. Before that he graduated from the Wisconsin School of Business. He has been a Badger fan since birth and will be one when he dies.
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I've always hated Michigan. All that "Go Blue", "Hail To The Victors" (we all know the alternate lyrics!), and their overall smugness. Bo pissed my off as well, even after he left Michigan, when he went to the Detroit Tigers and fired Ernie Harwell, just one of the greatest baseball play-by-play annouincers of all time. Gary Moeller could have given Bret the Town Drunk a run for his money at over-indulging, and it was always fun watching Lloyd Carr's pained expression when....oh hell, all the time.
On another note, more has to be said about the Badgers lame ass non-conference schedule. Growing up, I remember going to games and seeing the Badgers against the likes of LSU, Oklahoma (with Heismann winner Steve Owens), pre-Big Ten Penn State with Lydell Mitchell, Franco Harris, and Jack Ham (which the Badgers won 29-16), Syracuse (when they were good), UCLA (ditto), Nebraska (Badgers win 21-20), and Colorado. Those games were worth going to. I feel sorry for anybody who is paying to see crap like Cal-Poly, Akron, and any of the other cupcakes this lame-ass bunch has decided to play instead of actually playing someone who matters. But I guess winning IS everything, so let's cancel V Tech! Honestly, I hope they lose to Cal-Poly and in the process Bret the Town Drunk is out looking for work. I can see him on the Beltline now with a sign that says "WILL COACH FOR BOOZE"
It's interesting reading the comments from all the idiots complaining about this site. Sounds to me like the same morons that go to Wrigley field and embrace the "loveable losers" BS, instead of demanding accountability from the front office and ownership. How about hiring Jim Hendry as athletic directer, and bringing in Dusty Baker as a motivational coach? I'm sure all the red polyester "blood clots" would love that! "My team, right or wrong"! Yah right.
I think that the website was so popular last week because of all of the media attention. Every newspaper and radio show was talking about firebretbielema.com !!
Also, someone told me that the Athletic Dept. made every person in the department log into the website to inflate the NO DON'T FIRE BRET votes last week. This week they weren't in such a panic mood, so some did and some didn't. (and from what I understand, some voted to fire him!)
Interesting.
http://www.bigtennetwork.com/sports/football/story.asp?list_id=11&story_id=3174270
They call you a clown.
To be fair, a writer for the Chicago Tribune called me a clown. Newspaper writers hate blogs and they especially hate blogs that question coaches. They have access and professional training so they tell us how to feel. They are also the ones who get to call for a coach's head. When we as fans do these things for ourselves, it frustrates the professionals to no end.
Yeah, well the Chicago Tribune sucks when it comes to sports, the Sun Times is king of sports journalism in that city. Everyone in Chicago knows that.
Barf Bielema (B.B.),
Illinois...Ill of noise...break it down with me real slow..."slow motion with me"...the typical 18 year old that you are used to..."yeah, you like it like that, she working that...slow motion with you Barf, slow motion with you Barf"...unfortunately, your sunshine-less behind on the football field every Saturday this year in the fall has led to a slow motion football team...my new young assemptotic motivation is hopeful motivation for you to get your act together and motivate your team as if you are similarly for the nightlife, as you know may not know Bret, defense is the best sense of a woman, unfortunately your defense is nonsense contrarily. I recommend protection, 2 in the backfield, if you know what I mean. (wink wink1)
Now that we have protection, I recommend hitting something over the middle, a hot route, something you think about...thinking is obviously something you have not thought about because if you thought about your repercussions, you would not be the man that this is written about...Best wishes Barf.
stupid online FAGS. you dont know shit about football. that is why we are beating ILL today like a red-headed stepchild and you bloggers are a bunch of nameless, faceless hypocritical asspounders.
Fuck you.
I always used to brag that at least UW fans were not like fickle fans from Philly or other shit towns...thanks for bringing the "Badger-nation" down to the level of those assholes you attention-seeking little bitch. Numerous injuries to both lines and some poor QB play lead to a few bad losses and opened the door for this joke of a site. Well, good luck with your 15 minutes of "fame"...
If you are actually selling your season tickets after Bret is retained for another year (the old "words" vs. "actions" issue that cowards like you always have difficulty with), feel free to let me know.
This website is a joke. You're a bandwagon fan, and I am embarrassed to call you a fellow Badger. I have always considered Wisconsin fans to be loyal supporters, but your misplaced dissent at the first sign of trouble has me wondering. If you would like to support "our" team with constructive support and criticism, by all means do. But until you stop bitching and moaning about the football team you are privileged to watch and trying to brag about this pathetic blogger.com site, I will continue to refer to you as a ridiculous ass clown. Badgers won today, time to get a job. On Wisconsin Bitches.
I've been a badger fan for many, many years. This blog embarrasses me. Not because of it's theme, but because I fear you may represent to others a Wisconsin student, or alumni. Please clean up your atrocious grammar lapses, punctuation miscues, and check out a thesauras for adjectives more befitting a college graduate, or college student, than "lame-ass". I bet you have spell check on your computer, as well. Do you understand how to avoid a dangling participle? Did you never have a high school English teacher talk to you about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Really, if you're going to denegrate a college coach, behind the cloak of the internet, at least try to sound as if you have some affiliation with one of the best universities in the country. I sent 5 kids through the Wisconsin system; I know they are capable of composing a diatribe without sounding like a 12 year old. What happened to you?
I would like to thank ESPN, FOX and the Boston Red Sox for ruining sports for the next century. Why is it that every fan base for any college or professional team must be described as: X nation? I grew up in the Chicagoland area and I never once heard the fan base for the White Sox, Bulls, Bears or Blackhawks (all 10 or so of us in the 1990s) referred to as a nation.
Stop calling the fan base for the UW Badgers a "nation."
There is no reason why there should not be a dissenting voice against the coach of the football team. I've heard plenty of stories on the few times I've returned to Madison about Brett Bielema's dalliances in the local bars--such a great example for his players. I remember a certain basketball coach at Iowa State getting into hot water for similar behavior (but he made the mistake of having photographic evidence).
Privileged? I don't think paying $40 (is it really $40 for student section tickets?) to watch a rather mediocre team is a privilege. I always thought my education at Madison was a privilege.
Not sure if I left any dangling participles in my "lame-***" comments. Yes, I am a fair weather fan too, according to the criteria listed by the "faithful." Blind faith does not apply to athletics.
The best part about a Wisconsin education is the ability to think for one's self.
People will froth at the mouth at the mention of the president, but we are all supposed to remain in lock-step when it comes to the football team. So why can't anyone have a dissenting opinion about the football team or the university?
I said misplaced dissent dipshit.
Misplaced dissent? I guess I've had misplaced dissent for nearly six years when it comes to the Wisconsin Badgers.
The coaches change, the players names change, but the Badgers always manage to underwhelm, and that's never going to change.
When the Badgers underachieve, I keep thinking of one moment as an undergraduate that I will never forget. I was walking to class on Randall Ave, heading up to where the old rail road tracks when I noticed two linemen packed on one moped that struggled to maintain forward momentum. Needless to say I beat the moped up the incline and to the next stop sign at Spring Street.
Cute Story.
To discuss the original post, The team i absolutely loathe in the big ten is Wisconsin. All this bucky badger crap is garbage, Ohio State has Wisconsins number in basically every sport. Not to mention losing to Davidson in the sweet 16. Kudos Badgers, good thing you lost cause kansas would have DESTROYED you. OH WELL
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