This season Booker Stanley would have been a fifth-year senior on the UW football team and likely would have been in coach Bret Bielema’s plans. But the world of big-time college football, where Badgers fans flock to Camp Randall Stadium on Saturdays in the fall, doesn’t exist any longer for Stanley.
Today, Stanley, 23, sits in a Dane County Jail cell, convicted of three felonies, including the sexual assault of a former girlfriend. The only football he sees is on a jailhouse television.