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Game Thread Ohio State 20, Wisconsin 17 (Oct. 4)

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Article published Saturday, October 4, 2008
It's Big Ten retro for Bucks, Badgers

MADISON, Wis. - There's no smoke and no mirrors involved when Wisconsin plays football. The Badgers don't waste time with misdirection, and the only diversion they take from the Woody Hayes approach of "three yards and a cloud of dust" is that they don't want three, they want five.

And the dust is hard to come by in this era of synthetic playing surfaces, but the methodology lives on.

The Badgers are not going to send five receivers hither and yon and try to divide and conquer. They are not going to burn the midnight oil seeking to devise gadget plays and beat you with trickeration.

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Dispatch

Badgers tight end likely to miss game

Saturday, October 4, 2008 3:32 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Tight end Garrett Graham, whom Wisconsin had hoped would be healthy enough to play against Ohio State, doesn't appear to be.
Graham was held out of practice Wednesday and Thursday and was seen wearing a walking boot on his injured right foot after practice Thursday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
"He's basically got a borderline fracture that was old and got aggravated in the Fresno (State) game," coach Bret Bielema said.

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Dispatch

Rob Oller commentary: Buckeyes defense must prove toughness

Saturday, October 4, 2008 3:00 AM
By Rob Oller


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




Legend has it that when Wisconsin coaches went looking for starting linemen, they would visit the wheat fields in search of farm boys pushing plows.
The coach would ask, "Which way to Madison?" and if the recruit pointed the way with raised plow still in hand, the Badgers would sign him on the spot. They were looking for brawny lads with attitude, not svelte-and-nimble pass blockers.
In Wisconsin, a spread offense means eating bread with margarine instead of butter. That preference for power over panache continues today, and if Ohio State wants to leave Madison with its pride intact, the Buckeyes better strap it up. Because Wisconsin will.
"They know full well that Wisconsin is going to come right at them," Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said of his defense.

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College football
Badgers cling to Woody's mantra
Expect three yards and a cloud of dust tonight
Saturday, October 4, 2008 3:31 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


When the defeated British army marched out of Yorktown, Va., to surrender in 1781, legend has it their band played When the World Turned Upside Down.
It would have been appropriate, befitting the turn of events that had the ragtag Americans defeating the mighty British Empire.
A few centuries later, the Wisconsin football team -- another squad of redcoats -- represents just how much the Big Ten's world has been turned upside down.
While just about every other team in the conference has turned at least partly to a spread offense, the stubborn Badgers remain entrenched in their 20th-century burrows. They practice old-fashioned Big Ten football, the kind being relegated to history.

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College football notebook: Wisconsin band suspended, won't play tonight

The University of Wisconsin marching band has been suspended indefinitely while allegations of hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct are investigated.
The band won't play tonight during a nationally televised football game between the No. 18 Badgers and No. 14 Ohio State in Camp Randall Stadium.
The university made the announcement at a hastily called news conference last night, saying the behavior is consistent with conduct that put the band on probation in 2006.
Mike Leckrone, band director since 1969, said he made the decision and it was the first time in his tenure the entire band has ever been suspended and prevented from playing at a game.
Leckrone said he informed the 300 band members at 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
"My feeling was I hit them between the eyes with a sledgehammer," he said.
No details were immediately released about the behavior, only that it involved inappropriate alcohol use, hazing and sexualized behavior. Leckrone said it involved only a small number of band members, but it was significant enough to warrant the suspension.
It's the latest in a series of high-profile problems for the band.
In 2000, the university established a written code of conduct for the band.
In February 2007, the marching band's assistant director, Michael Lorenz, resigned after an internal report criticized his treatment of a female colleague during a rowdy band trip to Michigan in 2006.
Reports of band members' hazing, alcohol use and inappropriate sexual behavior prompted the university to put the band on probation after the trip.
Then-Chancellor John Wiley, in an October 2006 letter to Leckrone, called band members' behavior "boorish to patently dangerous and unlawful."
At that time, seminude band members were alleged to have danced suggestively and there were reports of women being forced to kiss other women to be allowed to enter bathrooms on a bus.
The university said in a statement that the latest allegations were consistent with the 2006 behavior.

Entire article: BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : College football notebook: Wisconsin band suspended, won't play tonight
 
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As it was my old HS fight song I was looking forward to hearing On Wisconsin at halftime (only at halftime of course). But hey I'll take the trade off. Honestly, some of the worst fan behavior I've always heard came from the band, you know if you can't be on the field be an ass kinda thing.
 
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Bernini;1280398; said:
One week before they were the toast of the conference for snagging the Big Ten's only decent OOC win.
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They were? Amongst whom--the Madison media? I know that in Columbus, Wisconsin wasn't the toast of anything. Fresno State wasn't the quality OOC win that you apparently think it was. Then again, considering Wisconsin's recent OOC slates the past few years, scheduling Fresno State probably seems like you guys scheduled the New England Patriots.
 
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heisman;1280618; said:
Just saw this on ESPNews. Never heard of a band getting suspended before. Probably not much effect on the game however.
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The Stanford band has been suspended more than once for their behavior both on and off the field.
 
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