Do Wisconsin alums take their children to these games? Their students are disgusting, and the cheers were outrageous.
One person can stop this nonsense: Bielma (sp?). He needs to start a campaign to clean up that cesspool. Students may very well listen.
As I've mentioned a number of times before, cheers like that are a long standing tradition at UW dating back in my personal experience to the 60's and likely a lot farther back. The object is to bring down the other team not raise up your own. It's a "slight" difference in perspective.
If I had to analyze it--wekl might be able to do it better being from within the state rather than an adjoining one--it springs from an inferiority complex from being surrounded by more prestigious and well known institutions. At the state level, compared to Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan, uh, to put it bluntly, Wisconsin really is a poor sister in many ways being largely rural and not so cosmopolitan as they are.
TCU, of course, has been surrounded by "bigger, more important" institutions in much the same way. And that has had its effects on the psyche, no doubt. But to my mind, the primary TCU reaction has been to fight
within our community working on ourselves rather than taking the tearing-down-of-others route that a significant number of UW-types seem to prefer. Especially the students. We tend not to say that Texas Tech is worthless, exactly :tongue: , rather that we're at least as good and maybe better and let's settle it on the field. [Note: Stating that Baylor is worthless on the field is not a putdown, it's an observation.] And to push back forcefully when anyone just tosses off a clueless statement of TCU inferiority based on ignorance. But these are different and more positive reactions to the same sort of situation to my mind, at least.
That's when I thought I needed to leave!
