Wisconsin fans and arrogance.

[Muhoops85]

So the Georgia Tech  band just fired up the Budweiser song.  The morons around me dressed in Wisconzin red all surmised that the reason was to get the Wisconsin fans in the building on their side. 

I felt compelled to engage this group to tell them thai i would bet my next paycheck on the fact that abzolutely no one in the GT band has any idea that Wisconsin even plays that song, then i asked them if they even went to school there.  All I heard was crickets.  It did not help them that tbeir final four team was being smoked by Cornell.

[MUSF]

I think, many times, it is ignorance not arrogance.  This is what happens when there is one big state school that gets all the athletic support.  Most UW fans grew up in Wisconsin and haven't spent a lot of time outside of the state or at other major colleges.  They tend to see UW as the end all be all.  They truly believe that they invented a lot of standard college traditions.  They also seem genuinely shocked that someone could not like UW athletics.  I get this all the time from friends of mine that fit this description. 

[Sir Lawrence]

So the Georgia Tech  band just fired up the Budweiser song.  The morons around me dressed in Wisconzin red all surmised that the reason was to get the Wisconsin fans in the building on their side. 

I felt compelled to engage this group to tell them thai i would bet my next paycheck on the fact that abzolutely no one in the GT band has any idea that Wisconsin even plays that song, then i asked them if they even went to school there.  All I heard was crickets.  It did not help them that tbeir final four team was being smoked by Cornell.

I would take that bet.  They did the same thing on Friday night, and I don't doubt for one second that the reason they did it was to get the morons on their feet. 

I concur with the rest of your post. 

[Eye]

I think, many times, it is ignorance not arrogance.  This is what happens when there is one big state school that gets all the athletic support.  Most UW fans grew up in Wisconsin and haven't spent a lot of time outside of the state or at other major colleges.  They tend to see UW as the end all be all.  They truly believe that they invented a lot of standard college traditions.  They also seem genuinely shocked that someone could not like UW athletics.  I get this all the time from friends of mine that fit this description. 

I don't think there are enough zeroes available after the +1 to explain the accuracy of this post.

[only a warrior]

Yup, but they made it farther than we did this year....  Big East turning into the Big Least... thank goodness for Cuse and Huggy Bear at this point.  God, I can't believe I just typed that

[SacWarrior]

Yup, but they made it farther than we did this year....  Big East turning into the Big Least... thank goodness for Cuse and Huggy Bear at this point.  God, I can't believe I just typed that

I'm sorry but I have a hard time believing that a 4 point win over Wofford and a beatdown by Revenge of the Nerds is "making it farther" than losing on a buzzer beater to a legitimate tourney team (I'm not saying Cornell isn't one either  btw).

But whatever, they did get one more round than us, congratulations. I'm sure they'll get a "You got farther than Marquette" plaque that Jason Bohannon and Trevon Hughes can look back on their college careers and remember as their greatest moments.

Also, the Big East still as their two best teams out there. I believe both of those teams will make it to the FF and have a good shot at the NC.

[muballer10]

I'm sorry but I have a hard time believing that a 4 point win over Wofford and a beatdown by Revenge of the Nerds is "making it farther" than losing on a buzzer beater to a legitimate tourney team (I'm not saying Cornell isn't one either  btw).

But whatever, they did get one more round than us, congratulations. I'm sure they'll get a "You got farther than Marquette" plaque that Jason Bohannon and Trevon Hughes can look back on their college careers and remember as their greatest moments.

Also, the Big East still as their two best teams out there. I believe both of those teams will make it to the FF and have a good shot at the NC.

hmmm....and what type of plaque is Lazar hanging up to show for his four years? They did better than us this year, and in this tournament, stop being so bitter.


Also, the Big 10 still has thei top 3 left, and OSU/MSU are all but guaranteed to have one of the other in the final four.

[esotericmindguy]

Big Ten might have 3 in, but Purdue is just awful....Duke will beat them by 20.

[muballer10]

They lost their best player and are in the sweet 16. I would take that.

[MKEblue]

One interesting side note today from inside the BC. I was standing next to a Badger fan who was with her friend who was an MU fan, and the Badger fan was trying to figure out some sort of bet they had and this involved some simple math that, of course, the Badger fan had trouble with. The best part of this was when the badger fan turned to me, she knew i was a MU fan from earlier small talk, and said "well obviously I didnt go to Marquette", as she continued to struggle with her simple math problem. Made my day!

[BrewCity83]

They may have "made it farther" this year, but at least we didn't get out a$$es handed to us by an Ivy League school.

[buckchuckler]

So the Georgia Tech  band just fired up the Budweiser song. 

Count me ignorant here, what is the Budweiser song?  And why would a state team from Wisconsin be associated with Bud?

[MUBBau]

Georgia Tech did the same thing 3 years ago when both teams were playing in Chicago at the United Center. It got all the badger fans fired up although that wasn't enough because UNLV still beat GT and then beat the Badgers 2 days later.

[ultimate]

Count me ignorant here, what is the Budweiser song?  And why would a state team from Wisconsin be associated with Bud?

The Budweiser songs ends with "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all!"
UW plays the song and changes the words to "When you say Wisconsin, you've said it all".

As I'm sure most of us expected it looks like muhoops85 can keep his paycheck.
According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets): It is a "tradition for the band to play the "When You Say Budweiser" after the third quarter of football and during the second-to-last official timeout of every basketball game".

[MUDPT]

The GA Tech fans around us were doing some type of dance/ song during that song with all of the Wisconsin fans standing and clapping.

[MerrittsMustache]

The Budweiser songs ends with "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all!"
UW plays the song and changes the words to "When you say Wisconsin, you've said it all".

As I'm sure most of us expected it looks like muhoops85 can keep his paycheck.
According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets): It is a "tradition for the band to play the "When You Say Budweiser" after the third quarter of football and during the second-to-last official timeout of every basketball game".

Nice work, ultimate!

I actually had Bucky fans sitting near me say that the GT band played that song because they thought Wisco was hosting the games, after being told that was unlikely, one guy then said that they were probably playing it to rub it in Marquette's faces. At which point, I said to them..."Let me get this straight. You believe that the Georgia Tech band has some sort of beef with Marquette so in order to get back at them, they decided to play the Budweiser song during their team's NCAA Tournament games in Milwaukee?" His stone-faced response: "Looks that way."

I can't even imagine what would have happened if they played "Jump Around" after that  

[Warriors4ever]

That Wisconsin fan obviously thinks that the entire country knows that they use the Budweiser song for cheering purposes.

[monkeyman34]

The Wisconsin band, I believe, was paid to do that song for Budweiser.  I doubt GT played it because it had anything to do with Wisconsin, as their own fans were bobbing up and down to the song (as posted earlier, it's part of GT tradition) but it's not like Wisconsin really ripped it off either, as they were the ones who played it for the Budweiser commercial (again, I'm not 100% sure on this, but pretty darn sure)

[MUfan12]

Not band or Bud song related... But did anyone else love the fact that Saint Bo couldn't figure out a way to stop a team that basically ran the same offense he does?

I sure did.

[rocky_warrior]

I would take that bet.  They did the same thing on Friday night, and I don't doubt for one second that the reason they did it was to get the morons on their feet. 

Glad you weren't actually able to take the bet, eh?   

[Sir Lawrence]

Glad you weren't actually able to take the bet, eh?   

Yeah, between this and my office NCAA pool, it's a good thing I'm not in Vegas this week.  I do share Muhoops85's disdain for the ignorant UW fans.  Guess I was a bit ignorant too. 

[2TimeWarrior]

I actually had Bucky fans sitting near me say that the GT band played that song because they thought Wisco was hosting the games,

Apparently the "MU" logo on all four corners of the Court was clear enough?!

[StillAWarrior]

For what it's worth, the pep band at my high school in southwest Colorado played the Budweiser song at games in the mid-80's.  I guess we were copying UW.

[Warriors4ever]

Not to mention the Marquette University, host on the banner along the court.
Obviously the guy has a low opinion of the intelligence of Georgia Tech fans not shared by the rest of us. 

[BrewCity83]

Not band or Bud song related... But did anyone else love the fact that Saint Bo couldn't figure out a way to stop a team that basically ran the same offense he does?

I sure did.

I loved that, too.  You would think that all BoBo would have had to do is look at how any Big11Ten team defended his team all season.  That should have worked to keep the Ivy Leaguers at least in the 50's.