Barry Alvarez is in New York City to be inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame. It’s the ultimate reward for the extraordinary work he did as University of Wisconsin coach for 16 years.
The musical tributes to University of Wisconsin Rose Bowl berths have come a long way from the Torpedos? 1994 tribute cassette tape “The Big Red Badgers Go To Pasadena” played exclusively on WOLX (94.9 FM). On the heels of the regular-season smash “Teach Me How to Bucky,” Anthony Lamarr Music gives us a catchy rap tune “We?re Smelling Roses.” It includes appearances from UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin, UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone, former Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne and menbers of the UW Marching Band. It includes footage shot inside and around Camp Randall Stadium, on Bascom Hill, State Street Brats and at the UW Memorial Union.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez plans to stop and smell the roses. But first, he had to attend a rather significant event in New York City Tuesday night, where he was to be officially inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.Alvarez was selected as the speaker for the 14-member 2010 class at the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner at the Walforf-Astoria. UW quarterback Scott Tolzien was recognized as one of 16 NFF Scholar-Athletes.
At 9 p.m. CT on Sunday, the University of Wisconsin athletic department website made 5,800 student tickets to the Rose Bowl available for sale. At 9:20, they were gone.
It?s been a very good year for the Big Ten Conference, at least in terms of the payout each member university will receive from the two BCS bowls.
The decision by Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi to hire Northern Illinois coach Jerry Kill as the school?s new head football coach didn?t generate a lot of enthusiasm among Golden Gophers fans.
The intersection of free enterprise and sports is often a relatively happy place. The buying and selling of tickets and merchandise — even at inflated prices — is seen as a necessary trade-off by most fans for the privilege of supporting and watching their favorite team or teams.
The Wisconsin Badgers are going to the Rose Bowl! Wisconsin fans haveanother reason to celebrate! Let the ticket scalping begin!
Kids these days. Guess we can?t blame you for being entrepreneurs in the age of the Great Recession and tuition and fees that have risen faster than the price of gas in the last decade.
The Badger Herald identified more than three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.
Suggestions for changing the system of distributing Rose Bowl tickets to UW students are being offered in the wake of widespread student scalping of the hard-to-get tickets.
Matt Rosenthal is on the worst people on campus list at the University of Wisconsin. It?s a list compiled by the Badger Herald newspaper, which printed names of 38 students selling their Rose Bowl tickets for a profit. ?They don?t know those 38 students motives, they don?t know anything,? said Rosenthal, adding that the fact that there was no name attached to the opinion piece ?was not cool.? Rosenthal said he put his tickets up for sale as a joke, and that there should be more tickets available for students.
Update: The Badger Herald has removed the names of the individuals previously listed here. We don?t have the resources to continue fact-checking and adding the additional 200 or so names that have been submitted to the newspaper since the initial publication of ?The Worst People on Campus.? Because of this, it would be unfair to single out the three dozen people previously listed on this page.
Monday?s list titled ?The Worst People on Campus,? that ran on this opinion page has garnered a tremendous amount of buzz, not only on this campus but across the nation.
MADISON — Suggestions for changing the system of distributing Rose Bowl tickets to UW students are being offered in the wake of widespread student scalping of the hard-to-get tickets. In an open letter to UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez, published in the campus newspaper The Badger Herald, UW graduate Tyler Bye proposed student tickets be picked up by the purchaser in Pasadena at the game venue to reduce the possibility of student scalping.
The UW-Madison Faculty Senate discussed the 2009-?10 annual reports for Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate (PROFS INC.) and the Recreational Sports Board Monday.
I am writing to you as an alumni and also a University of Wisconsin employee. I?ve been living in Madison for the last six years and have been a Badger fan for much longer. I held student season football tickets all four years of college and purchased a student season pack second-hand this year at an inflated price.
University of Wisconsin senior quarterback Scott Tolzien set out to win games, not awards. It turns out he?s doing both.
Tolzien has a 21-4 record as a starter and put his name in school annals alongside the likes of quarterbacks Ron Vander Kelen, Darrell Bevell, Mike Samuel and Brooks Bollinger for leading the Badgers to a Rose Bowl. Also, Tolzien was recognized on Monday as the school?s first winner of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the top senior quarterback in the nation.
The William V. Campbell Trophy, known as the academic Heisman, will be awarded Tuesday night in New York by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. Sixteen finalists who comprise the 52nd national scholar-athlete class already have won $18,000 each in scholarship money, while the winner will receive an extra $7,000.
Note: Wisconsin QB Scott Tolzien is a finalist.
On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin put 5,800 Rose Bowl tickets on sale for students through the school?s athletics department. All the tickets were scooped up in 20 minutes at a face value of $150 apiece. But shortly after the sale concluded, many of the tickets popped up for sale again — some for as much as $400 each — on various web sites, such as Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist.
The Badger Herald posted an opinion piece headlined: “The Worst People on Campus.” The Herald then lists the names of 35 students. What did these people do?
They bought student tickets to the Rose Bowl through the university — and now are trying to sell them for a profit at Facebook Marketplace.
When Scott Tolzien signed a national letter of intent to play at Wisconsin, his inclusion in the 2006 freshman class was not heralded as a recruiting coup.
Tolzien?s signing turned out to be a steal and one of the critical factors in UW?s resurgence over the last two seasons. The fifth-year senior from Rolling Meadows, Ill., Monday was named the winner of the 2010 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. The award is given annually to the nation?s top senior college quarterback by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation Inc. and Transamerica.
Editors at The Badger Herald got mad when they saw people they believed to be students reselling Rose Bowl tickets on Facebook.On Monday, they got even.The Badger Herald, one of two student papers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, printed 38 names they said they saw advertising tickets on Facebook Marketplace.
It was the equivalent of a scarlet letter with a capital “W.” On Sunday night, UW-Madison student newspaper The Badger Herald posted the names of 35 students, calling them, “The Worst People on Campus.” The students, according to the Herald, had committed the cardinal sin of trying to sell coveted Rose Bowl tickets online for a profit.
His induction tonight into the College Football Hall of Fame couldn?t come at a better time.
The Badger Herald is pissed off, and taking names. Well, listing names. The names of UW students who snapped up coveted Rose Bowl tickets, and are attempting to scalp them. As strong proponents of public shaming, we stand with you, Badger Herald.
Scott Tolzien was born 13 years after Johnny Unitas retired from pro football, but from now on, Tolzien will be forever connected to the quarterback with the crew cut and high-top black shoes.
With official word coming Sunday that the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl, Doug Walters can now seek out more official memorabilia — and maybe even a trip to Pasadena, Calif.
On Sunday night, the University of Wisconsin-Madison put 5,800 student-tickets up for sale after the Wisconsin Badgers football team was invited to the Rose Bowl. Unsurprisingly, the Wisconsin students bought their allotment of bowl tickets in less than 20 minutes. Why wouldn?t they? The Badgers haven?t been to the Rose Bowl since 2000, and what half-frozen Wisconsinite wouldn?t want to take a mini-vacation to Pasadena during winter break?
The Badger Herald identified over three dozen student ticket scalpers as “The Worst People on Campus” in an editorial intended to blast the practice of profiting from possession of Rose Bowl tickets from the UW?s limited allotment.
Controversy on campus! A UW-student newspaper publicly calls out dozens of classmates.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper Badger Herald is ripping students trying to sell their Rose Bowl tickets online.
Today the Badger Herald posted the names of 30 students who bought low-price (in relative terms) student tickets for the Rose Bowl and then put them for sale at inflated prices online. It?s a practice that has been around forever, but has taken off at especially vicious rates since sites like Facebook began offering places for students to reach thousands of potential buyers very quickly. It?s always been controversial, but in my memory, never widely-publicized in the student press.
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison student newspaper Badger Herald is ripping students trying to sell their Rose Bowl tickets online. The paper published a list of students trying to sell their tickets to the Badgers? New Year?s Day game, calling them “The Worst People on Campus.”
The list, published as an opinion piece on Sunday, called out more than 30 students who had put their tickets up for sale on Facebook Marketplace within two hours of the tickets selling out on uwbadgers.com. The paper said some of the tickets, which were $150 face value, were posted for more than $400.
Fans have anticipated the announcement since Wisconsin beat Northwestern 70-23 Nov. 27, but now they know for sure: The Badgers are going to the Rose Bowl.
One wait is over. Now comes 26 more days of anticipation.
Despite winning a share of its first Big Ten title since 1999 last Saturday, the Wisconsin football team had to wait for the unveiling of the final BCS standings to make its appearance in the Rose Bowl official. UW will take on No. 3 TCU.
Watch out for scams on your Rose Bowl ticket or travel package, warns the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. “Fraudulent tickets appear on a number of websites, including Craigslist, and in classified ads,” said Janet Jenkins, administrator of the Division of Trade and Consumer Protection.
For the second straight year, TCU is unbeaten, untied ? and unable to play for the national championship. In fact, on paper, here?s how it could turn out ? TCU 43.3, Wisconsin 43.3. That?s right, the Horned Frogs and the Badgers tied for fourth in the country in scoring this season and, down the stretch, their offenses were ridiculously efficient.
There was much to celebrate Friday night at the Kohl Center, but people left wanting more from the University of Wisconsin football team. The Badgers and some of their biggest fans gathered to revel in a Big Ten Conference title and an anticipated berth in the Rose Bowl.
As expected, the University of Wisconsin football team will face TCU in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. “It?s our championship game,” Badgers coach Bret Bielema said Sunday evening. The Badgers (11-1) beat out Ohio State in the final Bowl Championship Series standings to earn the Big Ten Conference?s berth to Pasadena, while the Horned Frogs (12-0) were unable to play their way into the BCS championship game.
Looking for a Rose Bowl ticket? If you?re not a season ticket-holder or donor at the University of Wisconsin, you?re on your own. The Badgers have sold out their entire, unspecified allotment for the Jan. 1 matchup with TCU through a reserve sale to those groups. Those who have applied will receive an e-mail regarding the status of their request no later than Monday.
University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema says he?s not much of a dreamer. Yet, standing on the Rose Bowl field last season, Bielema had the foresight to believe the Badgers were close to making it to that game. It?s a story Bielema shared with his seniors for the first time a week ago. He flew out to Pasadena, Calif., for the induction of UW athletic director Barry Alvarez into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, catching a red-eye flight after the Badgers? victory in the Champs Sports Bowl following last season.
So, what did we learn from University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema?s tour of the ESPN talk shows on Thursday?
For the second straight year, TCU is unbeaten, untied ? and unable to play for the national championship.
The BCS Standings were revealed Sunday night confirming Wisconsin will face TCU in the Rose Bowl. The Badgers remained at #5 in the BCS rankings. Since they stayed ahead of Ohio State and Michigan State, they win the Big Ten tiebreaker and will represent the conference in the Rose Bowl.Badger fans can now truly smell those roses.
The Badgers aren?t officially in the Rose Bowl yet, but that?s likely to change Sunday night. And as you might expect, retailers are gearing up for what they hope will be a rush on Badger bowl merchandise.
The BCS Standings were revealed Sunday night confirming Wisconsin will face TCU in the Rose Bowl.
Wisconsin has had an unprecedented run of postseason success. Now the fourth-ranked Badgers get to play in the Big Ten?s marquee game against undefeated No. 3 TCU in the Rose Bowl.
While many are celebrating Sunday?s official Rose Bowl announcement, workers at one Madison company are simply too busy to party.
Watch out for scams on your Rose Bowl ticket or travel package, warns the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. (And no, it?s still not official that the Badgers will go, but many fans are already buying travel packages).
AUSTIN, Texas ? University of Wisconsin senior swimmer Maggie Meyer broke her own school record in the 100-yard backstroke at the Texas Invitational on Thursday, earning an automatic berth to the NCAA championships in March.
Andy Baggot has covered a lot of UW teams and has reversed his skeptism of Bret Bielema in part because of the admirable qualities Bielema’s senior players are showing.
The Wisconsin Badgers aren?t officially Rose Bowl-bound yet, but that?s not stopping people from making travel plans to Pasadena.
Noted: UW-Madison football fans aren?t the only ones cheering at the Badgers? probable Rose Bowl berth. It also means a potential windfall in sales tax revenue for Dane County, as fans buy the latest in Badger fashion.
After initial doubts, this local scribe is coming around on the fifth-year UW football coach. The moment took place weeks ago, long before anyone knew for certain that a special season was truly at hand for the University of Wisconsin football team.
Minutes after Wisconsin had ended its Big Ten football title drought at 10 years on Saturday, UW coach Bret Bielema delivered a message to the players who will be back next season: They don?t need to wait 10 more years to win another title.
Asked this week whether there was enough young talent on the roster to build on the success enjoyed in 2010, Bielema noted there was.
If there?s anybody who knows what the Michigan State players and coaches are feeling this week, it?s University of Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema. The Badgers went 11-1 in the regular season in 2006 ? Bielema?s first year at the helm ? and were kept out of the Bowl Championship Series games by a rule that doesn?t allow more than two teams from one conference.
To say that Kirk DeCremer was intense as a football player would be an understatement.”I?d always been taught that it?s full-go,” he says. “You get on the field and you turn that on.” Until in the blink of an eye, it was over. The former Verona athlete?s promising career was stopped cold heading into his sophomore season in 2008 when he herniated two discs in his back – the same two that had popped out roughly 16 months earlier in his first year at UW, when he redshirted.
It?s still not official, but Badger fans are already making plans to attend the Rose Bowl. The University of Wisconsin Alumni Association is offering tour packages to Pasadena, including lodging, charter air service, game-day transportation, exclusive souvenirs and more.
Badgers fans have had to wait 11 long years since the last time the University of Wisconsin football team went to the Rose Bowl. Now with another bid so tantalizingly close, die-hards are making plans for a trip to Pasadena ? even though it?s, well, not quite official.
