MADISON, Wis. — While Badger fans cheered on the football team Saturday, the student section in Camp Randall was less crowded at kickoff than the rest of the stadium.
Many fans start tailgating early before the game, but students tend to keep on partying through the beginning of the game and miss kickoff, which has university officials concerned.
“We think, partially, it’s a fashionably late thing, but we also believe that they’re valuing the drinking rather than being at the game early and supporting the team,” said Kipp Cox, assistant dean of students in charge of student advocacy and judicial affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.