After 2 years, which team/fanbase do you dislike most in the Big Ten
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Always a husker
Special Teams Player
Why no hate for Michigan State? Year after year they produce the dirtiest team in the B1G. If I had to rank the B1G teams I hate the most it would go like this...
1. Iowa (But they don't really count.)
2. Michigan State
3. Michigan
4. Northwestern
5. Wisconsin
6. Ohio State
7. Penn State
8. Illinois
9. Minnesota
10. Indiana
11. Purdue
1. Iowa (But they don't really count.)
2. Michigan State
3. Michigan
4. Northwestern
5. Wisconsin
6. Ohio State
7. Penn State
8. Illinois
9. Minnesota
10. Indiana
11. Purdue
SandhillshuskerW
Special Teams Player
I liked this post, except for sounding like you are putting all Husker fans in one category. I would say that there are Husker fans and then there are Husker "Fair Weather Fans". "True" Husker fans support the team through anything. "Fair Weather Fans" are the first ones to criticize the team but are then the first ones jumping up and down and screaming "WE WON" when we win a big game. +1 for you on the post as a whole though!
Scarlet Overkill
All-Conference
This. Absolutely detest Bielema, long before the Huskers joined the B1G. The word, "douche", comes to mind. Conversely, Fitzgerald oozes class, IMO.
JJ Husker
Assistant Coach
I think it depends on the nature of the criticism. I don't think there are but maybe a handful of "fairweather" fans ion this board. Sure there are some negative Nellies but I feel most all really want to see the team succeed and nobody likes losing. That's not fairweather, that is passionate.
zoobadger
Walk-on
In my experience Badger fans totally respect Nebraska. First of all, the architecht of our program, Barry Alvarez learned everything he knows under Bob Devaney and has successfully implemented the same model at Wisconsin.
Second, as you point out, you guys are all about hard-nosed football. Run the ball, play good defense, focus on the fundamentals, and it's about winning: not style points.
But there are dumbasses in every fan-base, and Wisconsin has their fair share.
DrunkOffPunch
Starter
For me it's Michigan. I absolutely hated how cocky their team was last year. Then probably Ohio State. Urban Meyer is a despicable person. My friend heard when he was at Florida Percy Harvin got caught with possession of drugs so he'd go to practice in a boot so Meyer could keep what was really happening down low. Apparently he had favorites and they would routinely sit out of practice. What a joke of a coach. Also, I was at the Wisconsin game last year in the student section. The whole student section chanted 'bad guy' when you sat down. I thought it was funny. Some people around us were annoying but one guy offered me nachos like 10 times so after saying no thank you over and over I took some. They weren't poisoned. Some girls next to us even invited us to a party. I really enjoyed UW. Have a friend that goes there and his roommate was a bartender and made us drinks. I thought it was a great experience for an away game.
Stu
Special Teams Player
Flat Water
Four-Star Recruit
Iowa so far, because their fans have ***** envy. Geesh!
BIGREDIOWAN
Mods
Iowa..............zero doubt in my mind, I hate them!
I concur with those who dislike Iowa.
I DO respect them as a program, and they have had a good decade. But their best decade only equals our worst decade in 50 years, and you would think, listening or reading, that they matched Tom's 90's success. Really, all they did was match Callahan's tenure and Bo's early years.
They are building a rivalry that seems too close to Colorado in the early 90's and I hope it does not end up being so nasty.
Aside from them, I don't really have a disliked fan base. And even Iowa, for me, is taken with a grain of salt. There is a lot of "little brother" in the fans. For years, as we won MNC's, they kept saying, "Well, you're lucky you don't play Iowa, or the Big Ten. We would tear you apart." Then we had a 2 game series and won both. Then we joined the B1G and won both.
Not sure if they still have excuses or are more grounded.
Nebraska is not quite yet back to that elite status, that airy mountain top, but we are closer than Iowa was, even in their heyday.
I think that bugs the hell out of some of them.
Not all. Most are decent and respectful and could easily be Nebraskans. I hate seeing some of the vitriol, on both sides, over something as simple as which side of the river we live on.
Best wishes,
Flood
I DO respect them as a program, and they have had a good decade. But their best decade only equals our worst decade in 50 years, and you would think, listening or reading, that they matched Tom's 90's success. Really, all they did was match Callahan's tenure and Bo's early years.
They are building a rivalry that seems too close to Colorado in the early 90's and I hope it does not end up being so nasty.
Aside from them, I don't really have a disliked fan base. And even Iowa, for me, is taken with a grain of salt. There is a lot of "little brother" in the fans. For years, as we won MNC's, they kept saying, "Well, you're lucky you don't play Iowa, or the Big Ten. We would tear you apart." Then we had a 2 game series and won both. Then we joined the B1G and won both.
Not sure if they still have excuses or are more grounded.
Nebraska is not quite yet back to that elite status, that airy mountain top, but we are closer than Iowa was, even in their heyday.
I think that bugs the hell out of some of them.
Not all. Most are decent and respectful and could easily be Nebraskans. I hate seeing some of the vitriol, on both sides, over something as simple as which side of the river we live on.
Best wishes,
Flood
Blackshirt316
Starter
The way I look at it is that Wisconsin fans behave how Nebraska fans would be if Devaney followed Osborne instead of the other way around.