tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13964636423659915462024-03-18T04:48:33.004-05:00Badger PreviewSchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-60097216298339537102021-03-18T12:50:00.001-05:002021-03-18T13:09:50.137-05:00NCAA Tournament: 1st & 2nd Rounds It feels like March Madness is a double pandemic turning point, right? A year ago we were riding high, winning the B1G, ready to probably win a National Championship. And then BAM, COVID absolutely ravages the entire world and the first main sports casualty is the tourney. Here we are a year later and vaccines are flying off the shelf while you're filling out your brackets. Now, it is Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-68775649954565105602019-10-25T12:55:00.000-05:002019-10-25T13:25:58.269-05:00at #3 Ohio StateIt is POSSIBLE my arrogance got the best of me. I won't deny that. This wasn't the first time I looked at the schedule and decided very early that this was the kind of Saturday I could ease into. We went to Superdawg and I treated myself to a Whoopercheesie WITH a bonus Superdawg. LIVING. Of course, I was checking on my phone the entire time and at no point did I actually think that would happen.Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-59099359813240433482019-10-11T14:27:00.002-05:002019-10-11T15:06:54.636-05:00Michigan StateHas anyone figured out the age at which you actually care about homecoming? I am prepared to announce it is not anything under 34, because not the once have I cared at all that OMG IT’S HOMECOMING! Just doesn’t resonate with me. I’m a longstanding member of Team #NormalMadisonWeekend when it comes to picking your pilgrimage weekend in the fall. I think that makes me old in that I hate overly Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-83335256993550753842019-09-27T11:47:00.000-05:002019-09-27T11:48:27.413-05:00Northwestern
You're looking LIVE at Scott Bell's mentions:
I hold no actual ill will towards Scotty B. Let's make that as obvious as it needs to be. He's just a Michigan dork tossing out fart projections into the Twitter wind. No way he actually expected a mini viral moment of shame with this projection de la basura.
And it was a TRASH evaluation. Wisconsin dominated Michigan in literallySchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-15493719907736802422019-09-20T09:48:00.000-05:002019-09-20T09:48:49.618-05:00#11 Michigan
OOOOOO we got a big one this weekend. A double top-15 matchup against an annoying conference opponent at Camp Randall in September? Unheard of. Preposterous. Incredulous.
Unfortunately - and I hate to do this - there's some bad news: we're going to lose. That's not my prediction, that's not what Vegas thinks, and that's not an opinion. It's a fact:
There it is. SCIENCE. Michigan clearly Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-32168280130330283922019-09-06T10:09:00.000-05:002019-09-06T13:16:41.216-05:00Central Michigan
Not much else you can ask for. I mean, sure, Coan could've hit those bombs to Q. Nelson could've been out of the game when it was blowout city. Taylor could've had 300 more rushing yards to really feed the Heisman campaign.
But a 49-0 win on the road against an actual opponent is a damn near perfect season opener. Summer is hanging around to its final breath, football is fully upon us, and Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-4281308496417671552019-08-30T12:19:00.000-05:002019-08-30T12:19:24.020-05:00at South Florida
THE GAMEDAY DANCING DMITRI GIF IS HERE AND THAT ONLY MEANS ONE THING: Badger footbaw is back. Who do we have to pay to guarantee we have Friday night season openers for the next decade? I LOVE it. Gimme the Friday night party over the 11 am hangover special any day.
And quite the curious season we have in front of us. I think everyone feels confident this team is better than whatever the Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-70675366860823580212018-12-26T17:41:00.000-06:002018-12-26T17:41:14.760-06:00Pinstripe Bowl vs. Miami Presented by Will's Northwoods Inn
You read that right, amigo. This week we are partnering with Will's to get you ready for the NEW ERA PINSTRIPE BOWL. Wooo, New Era Pinstripe Bowl after the most disappointing season in recent memory! Woooooo!
Listen, I'm with you: it's not easy getting excited about playing Miami AGAIN in a mid-week random name bowl game. But this is the last hurrah for Badger football this year, and it IS aSchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-80976575483536491632018-11-16T10:55:00.000-06:002018-11-16T10:55:48.799-06:00at PurdueAt this point it's clear the Badgers and the Packers are in a race to see who can disappoint their fans more, and we are all losing in this competition. I don't know what else to say. There are some great individual players on both teams, but combined the teams themselves are just mediocre. Greatly frustrating in all directions.
So let's not dig any deeper. Instead, SANDWICH POWER RANKINGS:
1Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-69148005149507247562018-11-09T09:55:00.000-06:002018-11-09T11:12:59.428-06:00at #20 Penn StateVoting and family obligations kept me away from a TV on Saturday, and it looked like I didn't miss much. That's fine. Well, Hornibrook getting another concussion is certainly awful, but I don't think it matters who plays quarterback this year. This team simply isn't very good, and they're going to have to scrap and claw their way to a solid bowl game to salvage this season.
The edge is off, Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-8687258870733846742018-11-02T09:12:00.001-05:002018-11-02T10:42:22.543-05:00RutgersHey you! Possibly random person on the internet that I've never met that's reading this! Hear me out for a second as we take a week off from reeling in the Coan Hypemobile and wondering if we beat Northwestern with a healthy Hornibrook. There's something else we need to talk about this week: voting.
That's right - I'm getting RISQUÉ POLITICAL on this here pseudo-sports blog thingy. But I'm not Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-3068414289196614262018-10-26T11:20:00.002-05:002018-10-26T11:20:51.302-05:00at NorthwesternThought I ran out of spin zones last week? BREAKING SPIN ZONE NEWS: it's possible Horn Dawg has been playing with a concussion ALL YEAR. In your FACE 'Hornibrook sucks' take! If you ask me, this is the only way to explain his up and (very) down play this season.
And while an injury is never something we want to see, I will say that I am MILDLY curious about the Jack Coan Show. After the first Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-88755432075178906412018-10-19T11:45:00.003-05:002018-10-19T11:45:46.690-05:00IllinoisIf the 500 message grouptext I had with my friends debating whether or not Hornibrook is objectively terrible is any indication, this is going to be a HARD spin zone this week. There's no way of describing that game other than calling it what it was: a complete and utter failure. Hornibrook? What the hell was that. Chryst? 3rd and 3 from their 40 and you pass and then punt because WHY. Penalty Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-15000148565653097012018-10-12T09:44:00.000-05:002018-10-12T09:44:29.578-05:00at #12 MichiganOhhhh LAWD do we have a big one this weekend. Labeling a game as a MUST WIN is frequently an exercise in stupidity, but stick with me as I deem this trip to the Big House a MUST WIN for both teams. That's right, we are talking simultaneous double jeopardy threat level purple must win showdown. The winner of this game has a chance to rack up enough quality wins by running the table to sneak into Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-42473634616666202092018-10-05T11:31:00.002-05:002018-10-05T11:31:41.195-05:00NebraskaI feel like we buried Iowa YEARS ago. YEARS AGO. What even happened in that game? I remember Horn Dawg slinging for the win and pretty much nothing else. I'm okay with that. The key is that we bounced back from the BYU debacle and steadied the ship. Equally important is that Ohio State is positioned to run the table and give us that small, small chance of beating them in Indy to backdoor into theSchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-19264709144997947982018-09-20T14:58:00.001-05:002018-09-20T15:00:08.624-05:00at IowaIt's exhale time. Let it out. All that obnoxious pressure of going unbeaten is out the window. And if we the internet nerd fans feel that pressure release, one can only imagine the tension dropping in the locker room as well. So let's address some facts:
The BYU game sucked
We got out-muscled, outplayed, and out-coached
That loss was NOT on Gaglianone
That loss was NOT on Hornibrook
This is Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-48611060846227861282018-09-13T17:02:00.001-05:002018-09-13T17:02:27.970-05:00BYUNothing says early season college football quite like overreacting on Twitter to a slow start and calling for your QB to get benched and thrown into the sea. I'll never understand how people can be so quick to turn (although I guess a lot of these people just hate Hornibrook regardless of how he plays), but I can't stress enough that we all need to have some patience. At no point in time were we Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-85870894431271887712018-09-06T18:01:00.000-05:002018-09-06T18:01:51.617-05:00New MexicoYou want my honest opinion? That was a perfectly boring season opener. Second half was a total snoozefest. And this is NOT a complaint. I'm fine with that. What do you really want to see in non-conference games against scrubs? Minimal injuries, young players making plays, and a comfortable cruise to the finish line. CHECK CHECK CHECK.
Plus, we have more important things to discuss:
Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-82001947371210940092018-08-31T08:45:00.000-05:002018-08-31T09:02:21.870-05:00Western Kentucky
Me on gameday
Congratulations, people. We've made it. If you're reading this, it means you are alive and you have survived until GAMEDAY. I dare you to find a better word. Gameday represents all that is wonderful in life. And when that gameday is of the season opening variety, on a Friday night, on a holiday weekend... you get the kind of gameday that you want to bottle up and bury Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-60791539330987449082018-08-24T12:03:00.000-05:002018-08-30T15:03:03.407-05:002018 Season PreviewThe hype is SEVERELY PALPABLE. Sports Illustrated cover, national writers picking UW to go undefeated, 54 All-Americans... you name it, we hype it. Offensive line? So good and experienced that Joe Thomas retired just to come back and take notes. Running back? The UW Athletic Department has already booked hotel and airfare to New York in early December. Quarterback? Ask Miami what happens when theSchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-82383271245079511562017-12-28T18:53:00.000-06:002017-12-28T18:53:12.644-06:00Orange Bowl vs. #11 MiamiBoy that B1G Championship game really sucked the wind out of our sails, didn't it? WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS? BLAH
So all the idiot talking heads and hot take generators can go on pretending like they knew what they were talking about. We can all pretend like they were right and Wisconsin really was just the product of an easy schedule. But the reality is most definitely somewhere in betweenSchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-1149879179965972172017-11-30T23:59:00.001-06:002017-11-30T23:59:35.021-06:00B1G Championship vs. #8 Ohio State
In honor of #GKBWeek we need YOU, our fans, to tweet @ESPNMadison with #59-0 as a friendly reminder of the last Big Ten title meeting. Let it begin... pic.twitter.com/YidpOBXT1i
— ESPN Cleveland (@ESPNCleveland) November 27, 2017
Now, I don't think anyone out there needs a little something extra to get fired up for Saturday. Seek help if you are having a hard time NOT controlling your Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-2929912058318997382017-11-16T22:51:00.002-06:002017-11-17T13:32:10.149-06:00#19 Michigan
Up to #5, merely another indicator that we control our own DESTINY. And that destiny is staring the obnoxious Michigan entity square in its eyes. We all knew the schedule this year was backloaded: Iowa, Michigan, and a potential B1G Championship game would give us our 3 toughest opponents in our final 4 weeks. All the handwringing just goes to show that when it comes to college football Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-79920768934252317982017-11-09T22:19:00.001-06:002017-11-10T12:21:20.800-06:00#25 Iowa
Another week, another batch of STRONG HOT TAKES wondering 'will an undefeated B1G champion Wisconsin get shut out of the Playoff? CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT'. That's all it is: clickbait. You must have a brain the size of a marble to think 13-0 Wisconsin, fresh off wins over ranked Iowa, solid Michigan, and a top 10ish opponent in the championship game, is getting left out. IT'S NOT HAPPENING. WAKESchwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1396463642365991546.post-20537918955990630992017-11-02T18:03:00.003-05:002017-11-03T10:51:35.520-05:00at Indiana
Surprise, surprise: 8-0 Wisconsin is 9th in the Playoff rankings, behind a bunch of one-loss teams. THIS IS NOT SURPRISING. Stay the damn course, win like you've never won before, and everything will fall into place. It is known, Khaleesi.
There are too many damn things to stress about in life, and our ranking in early November is not on that list.
No time to dwell any further. Let's get on Schwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487887639217595585noreply@blogger.com2