BADGERS EXPOSED EARLY

last week, it was the laughable boise state broncos who spit the bit when they finally put a real team on their schedule and this week, the mighty wisconsin badgers also realized how dangerous it is to play REAL teams at the start of the football season.

in the first month of every season, the badgers traditionally schedule teams like the university of las vegas, the citadel, north dakota state and the hadley school for the blind and beat their chests when they're 4-0 heading into their league opener. then they muscle the slow farm boy teams of the mediocre big ten and ALWAYS end up with double digit wins and a nice bowl bid BUT when they meet REAL teams on the bowl circuit, more often than not, they are embarrassed by lesser ranked teams as evidenced by losing 4 of their last 5 bowl games despite being favored in three of the four losses.

FOR YEARS, the university of wisconsin has avoided entering into contracts to play home & home series against traditionally powerful opponents such as LSU, FLORIDA STATE & OKLAHOMA. instead, they signed contracts with DIVISION II teams like north dakota state & northern iowa which only added to the disdain across the nation for the badger football program and that animosity is well deserved.  the FRONT PAGE headline in the new orleans paper said it best when the university turned down LSU's offer. "BADGERS OR CHICKENS?"

the new playoff system in 2014 will put an end to their scheduling nonsense and i truly believe that it will also mark the end of wisconsin as a football "power" unless they're content to be totally ignored by the panel who will seed the teams for the playoffs. come to think of it, that wouldn't surprise me at all if the badgers intentionally avoided the championship spotlight and continued to schedule little schools and avoid the potential humiliation of playing REAL teams.

maybe biose state and wisconsin could form a new league.........