Can you root for Wisconsin football?

[geps]

The Crosstown shootout in Cincinnati is tonight and the question has come up that Xavier even with it's unadulterated(or so I'm told) hatred of UC basketball is allowed to root for UC in football. Do you not hate the school in it's entirety and not cherry pick certain sports?

With the cross state shootout behind us I pose the question do we root for Wisky football? Does St Joe's root for Villanova football?

Am I off base about this?

[Warrior of Law]

I don't see why not.  Tom Crean and Barry Alvarez got along famously.

[Skatastrophy]

A good week in college football includes UW@Madison and Notre Dame losing.

[MUfan12]

A good week in college football includes UW@Madison and Notre Dame losing.

Amen brother.

[ecompt]

I would root for the Taliban against UW in any sport.

[warthog-driver]

Can you root for Wisconsin football?

No

[tower912]

Not anymore.   Once upon a time, to me they were a complete non-entity.   And I still have no real animosity toward the team.    Their fans actions are the source of my antipathy toward the team.    Unwarranted arrogance offends me.   This is why I am enjoying the struggles of Michigan and Notre Dame so much.   Arrogant douches getting their comeuppance pleases me.    So, no, never again shall I root for a UW anything.   

[MU Avenue]

I would root for the Taliban against UW in any sport.

You are not one of those who compares certain others to Hitler or describes people of certain political stripes at Nazis or socialists, are you?

Your comment -- "I would root for the Taliban against UW in any sport." -- has left me wondering.

[mu_hilltopper]

You can't root for UW in any sport.  You can't wear red.  You can't name your dog Bo, unless he has fleas.

[Freeport Warrior]

Grew up rooting for them in football. Still do. Will probably go to their bowl game because I'll be in the area. Graduated from MU. Obviously, I'm in the minority and not a true MU fan.

[MUfan12]

Grew up rooting for them in football. Still do. Will probably go to their bowl game because I'll be in the area. Graduated from MU. Obviously, I'm in the minority and not a true MU fan.

Just as long as you realize that. Half the battle. 

[IAmMarquette]

My hatred for UW basketball has tainted my perception of all things red. As a result, I have no allegiances in college FB. Wisconsin football means no more to me than does any other school.

[spartan3186]

You can't root for UW in any sport.  You can't wear red.  You can't name your dog Bo, unless he has fleas.

+1, I only own one piece of red clothing and this is only because I have a red shirt I have to wear at trade shows.

[HoopsMalone]

Not anymore.   Once upon a time, to me they were a complete non-entity.   And I still have no real animosity toward the team.    Their fans actions are the source of my antipathy toward the team.    Unwarranted arrogance offends me.   This is why I am enjoying the struggles of Michigan and Notre Dame so much.   Arrogant douches getting their comeuppance pleases me.    So, no, never again shall I root for a UW anything.  

The thing is, Wisconsin fans think that they are in the same league as historically great teams like Michigan and Notre Dame.  At least Michigan and Notre Dame fans have something that they can point to as a time when their schools were good. Wisconsin football is not even in the ballpark of being an elite football program and their fans embarrass themselves thinking that they are.  The perception that they have of their school's reputation academically and athletically is a joke.  My roomate is from California and since he has moved to the midwest has noticed that Wisconsin alums are the most unfoundedly arrogant public school alums he has ever seen.

[muarmy81]

No

[warthog-driver]

Unwarranted arrogance offends me.   This is why I am enjoying the struggles of Michigan so much.   Arrogant douches getting their comeuppance pleases me. 

Uh, not all of us Michigan alums are "arrogant douches..."

[akmarq]

Better dead than red knows no bounds.  Plus, the success of the football team can only help the basketball team through more AD revenue, etc.  

[connie]

Yes.  Hockey too.  Don't see it as an issue.  As for additional revenue,  Why not really make a point and stop paying your taxes.

[chapman]

No way.  Not sure how someone could even say they hate UW basketball if they like the football team.  Maybe indifference would be the worst.

Unwarranted arrogance offends me.   This is why I am enjoying the struggles of Michigan and Notre Dame so much.   Arrogant douches getting their comeuppance pleases me.    So, no, never again shall I root for a UW anything.   

For football affiliation I'm still hanging in there with Michigan.  What is amusing and kind of annoying as a UM football fan (maybe Notre Dame fans find similar feelings with all the hatred/attention paid to a losing team), is that UW, along with four or five another Big Ten teams, pretends that Michigan is its "rival".  When you're on campus you can see they get more excited to play Michigan than anyone else despite being just another Big Ten opponent to Michigan.  Kind of sad when the fans of a team like Iowa rush the field after squeaking by a bad team they should have beaten by four touchdowns, and MSU fans who seem to think their season was a success at 6-6 despite the preason expectation of competing for a BCS game just because they won their Super Bowl against UM.  So as far as the unwarranted arrogance, there definitely is some, but it's annoying to be labeled an arrogant fan because you don't see your team as a "rival" to teams not named Ohio State.

[HoopsMalone]

No way.  Not sure how someone could even say they hate UW basketball if they like the football team.  Maybe indifference would be the worst.

For football affiliation I'm still hanging in there with Michigan.  What is amusing and kind of annoying as a UM football fan (maybe Notre Dame fans find similar feelings with all the hatred/attention paid to a losing team), is that UW, along with four or five another Big Ten teams, pretends that Michigan is its "rival".  When you're on campus you can see they get more excited to play Michigan than anyone else despite being just another Big Ten opponent to Michigan.  Kind of sad when the fans of a team like Iowa rush the field after squeaking by a bad team they should have beaten by four touchdowns, and MSU fans who seem to think their season was a success at 6-6 despite the preason expectation of competing for a BCS game just because they won their Super Bowl against UM.  So as far as the unwarranted arrogance, there definitely is some, but it's annoying to be labeled an arrogant fan because you don't see your team as a "rival" to teams not named Ohio State.

Michigan fans are actually some of the best fans in the country.  They love their football team.  I have never felt like anyone from Michigan was an arrogant douche about their team.

Unlike the middle level Big Ten teams, Michigan (unlike UW) actually has a standard to be proud of and can point to a time in the last 15 years when they were actually national champions.  They have one of the best football programs of all time, and the middle tier Big Ten schools should be proud to beat them.  Since MU does not have a team, I have sort of adopted Iowa as my team because I like the way they play.  I know a lot of people from Iowa, and they never talk about Michigan being a rival.  They do, however, rush the field for every single win that they get, even Illinois.

Speaking of Iowa though, I have a friend who went to Iowa and worked with a UW alum.  This UW alum talked about their football team as in the elite of the Big Ten as compared to Iowa.  In reality, both are in the same league and if I was picking a program, I would probably give the edge to Iowa.  So their unfounded arrogance is not just for when they play MU in basketball.

[Nukem2]

nm

[jficke13]

i hate college football, but i don't like UW winning for one reason: more $ into their athletic department.

[Big Daddy Z]

Yes both Badgers & Irish in Football!!!

[GGGG]

Grew up rooting for them in football. Still do. Will probably go to their bowl game because I'll be in the area. Graduated from MU. Obviously, I'm in the minority and not a true MU fan.

Ditto.

[GGGG]

The thing is, Wisconsin fans think that they are in the same league as historically great teams like Michigan and Notre Dame.  

No they don't.  Not even close.