nowhereman

It's not the crowd's responsibility to have the team fired-up and focused, Bo. It's yours. It's your job to have them ready before they step on the field.

Need to quote this. Truth.

Up-down-up-down-up-down: The psychology of this team week-to-week.

This isn't the Heroes Game trophy, it's the Innocents Society - PLS trophy. It's exchanged between the two organizations. It's akin to the Missouri Bell, which was never an "official" trophy. The official Heroes trophy has yet to be revealed.

On that note, I'd bet more people in the national media think of Nebraska as NU rather than Northwestern. The Big 10 media obviously doesn't see it that way. Well we're talking about the BTN as the OP stated. In most of the midwest, which the BTN is primarily designed to serve (though it has a national audience) NU is Northwestern. I really didn't become familiar with the "NU" abbreviation until I started reading this board last year. But hey I understand your frustration. You guys are a much better program with more history. Maybe if you put it on your helmets or uniforms it would change. They did. From 1967-69. Which was also a year before Northwestern debuted "NU" on their helmets. We were there first. We were there first, but they donned 'NU' on their helmets for a longer period of time. I can't believe people are seriously trying to come up with legitimate ways to make sure we are or they aren't NU. It's just time-killing chatter continued from the off-season when some NWU fans were (playfully) asserting they were the "real" NU. Don't get so offended by it.

He was there. Yup. He was wearing a Kenny Bell wig, though.

On that note, I'd bet more people in the national media think of Nebraska as NU rather than Northwestern. The Big 10 media obviously doesn't see it that way. Well we're talking about the BTN as the OP stated. In most of the midwest, which the BTN is primarily designed to serve (though it has a national audience) NU is Northwestern. I really didn't become familiar with the "NU" abbreviation until I started reading this board last year. But hey I understand your frustration. You guys are a much better program with more history. Maybe if you put it on your helmets or uniforms it would change. They did. From 1967-69. Which was also a year before Northwestern debuted "NU" on their helmets. We were there first.

Yes, it's the same guy with the bloody jumpsuit who was staring-down the camera as it panned over the student section during the Fresno State game. He's getting himself lots of camera time this year, and I think it's pretty hilarious.

I don't care what other posters here think about his grammar, Fonzie could speak Klingon and I would be fine with it.

Aaron Green needs to learn to run north-south. He loses way too many yards trying to juke defenders.

Don't let up now, D! Still much time left and we don't need to give them life.

Nooo Andrew Green. This is NOT the time to implode, defense!

It's my understanding they did - and it got worse. I read that Martinez worked with a QB coach when he was home in California during the offseason. The coaching apparently didn't "take" and his motion looks worse to me than last year.

We need to pray that Cousins doesn't get his head together in the second half. MSU defense is good, but NU's offense is just terrible today.

Here comes the wave of bone-headed mistakes by NU. Halftime can't come soon enough.

Honestly, against great defenses Martinez is more of a liability.

NU offense sputtering. I'm not liking that at all. I don't trust our defense to win with a 10-point lead.

Dang it! Punch that in! Can't leave points on the field like that.

I like turtles. I could care less about what Tom Osbourne has to say about Wisconsin students or how "revolting" people think the ES-FU chant is. The 15,000 students at Camp Randall make it what it is. A fantastic home-field environment. But don't take my word for it, just look to your local husker beat reporters who came away very impressed by the atmosphere. Or this board, where people urged others to stand up and cheer to be like Wisconsin fans at Camp Randall. You take the good with the bad, and as far as the Camp Randall crowd goes, the good is oh so very good. No you don't have to "take the good with the bad." You don't have to be an abusive, violent idiot to cheer for your team. Your inability to acknowledge, or perhaps understand this, makes you a truly contemptuous human being. My god, you're actually proud of the extreme behavior, aren't you? Screaming obscenities at children and elderly people. I hope you're a rare minority. Otherwise, there's something dark and sick happening in Wisconsin. Extreme behavior? You're naive to think that a.) this only happens in Wisconsin and b.) that some people don't do this at Nebraska. And maybe when you looked up contemptuous in the dictionary you should have swung by V and looked up violent as well. I don't know that a few people yelling at Tom Osbourne and elderly people he was with is tantamount to say, an angry mob in 1950s Arkansas. It was more than just Tom Osborne. Check the letters written to your own local papers from fans who had terrible experiences. The stories are plentiful from other Nebraska fans returning from the game. It wasn't isolated. That means there's a cultural problem. Your dismissal of the issue and refusal to condemn those among your fan base taking it too far make you part of the problem. Only peer pressure from other Badger fans will fix it, but that would take humility and introspect - clearly not a strong suit in your part of the country.

I like turtles. I could care less about what Tom Osbourne has to say about Wisconsin students or how "revolting" people think the ES-FU chant is. The 15,000 students at Camp Randall make it what it is. A fantastic home-field environment. But don't take my word for it, just look to your local husker beat reporters who came away very impressed by the atmosphere. Or this board, where people urged others to stand up and cheer to be like Wisconsin fans at Camp Randall. You take the good with the bad, and as far as the Camp Randall crowd goes, the good is oh so very good. No you don't have to "take the good with the bad." You don't have to be an abusive, violent idiot to cheer for your team. Your inability to acknowledge, or perhaps understand this, makes you a truly contemptuous human being. My god, you're actually proud of the extreme behavior, aren't you? Screaming obscenities at children and elderly people. I hope you're a rare minority. Otherwise, there's something dark and sick happening in Wisconsin.

yes but at least we don't do that to ourselves on the field. like say when you're ranked 8th and playing on a national stage, and then get embarrassed with a 31 point loss and the opposing quarterback that guts your secondary, doesn't even attempt a pass in the 4th quarter. So the Wisconsin fans - the subject of the letter and this thread - were the ones playing the game? You're deflecting. And you're not very good at it.

He did differentiate between rank-and-file Badger fans and the students. Most of the trouble seemed to be coming from alcohol-fueled students. I've heard quite a few mentions from UW fans that the student body has a large percentage of east-coast transplants, particularly the Philadelphia area. This would explain a lot. People who grow-up in an idiotic pro-sports culture will tend to become idiotic fans themselves.

Man, we really needed this going into a bye week. Perfect timing.

This could be a HUGE turning point for the better. Bo needs to get his house in order now. The players proved they have the will and intensity to win. Fix the holes and we can start feeling hopeful again.

Well, to be fair, he thought the paper towel dispenser was laughing at him.