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Originally Posted by Oh8ch
Anyone have any ideas how teams like Wisky do it?
Can you imagine the uproar and gnashing of teeth if OSU landed only 6 athletes rated 4 stars are better in any given class? Wisky has only landed six in their prior FOUR classes combined.
Yet here they are highly rated nationally and in the Big Ten. And it isn't just the cyclical thing where a large number of seniors come together at the right moment. Wisky only has 5 Seniors among their starting 22.
I wont argue they may be a bit overrated - but they ARE good.
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I would say it is indeed a cyclical type of thing in the sense you never hear about it when they have a bad season and lose 4-6 games. It happens a lot to the second echelon teams. So it seems they are perrenially tough but in realitivly short periods and "tough" could still very well mean a 3-4 loss season in which they would be complemented on their scrapiness or praised for one big upset.
They have their "glory" in small doses but simply cannot maintain it. Even the "glory" for teams like that is a BTT and a BCS Bowl at the very most. Any BCS/Jan 1 Bowl is a good year for them. They have no reasonable shot at a NC, ever.
We've played in 4 BCS games in 5 years with 2 being the NC game and are going into '07 feeling we have something to prove. Its all about perspective.
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Wisky just lost a starting defensive it it seems.
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Breaking News: Cooper Suspended Indefinitely
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Posted Aug 24, 2007
Head coach Bret Bielema suspended fifth-year senior Jamal Cooper for conduct detrimental to the team.
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08-25-2007, 09:18 PM
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Tough to play when your poop's hard...
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Wisky just lost a starting defensive it it seems.
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Cousin It plays for Wisconsin?
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Cousin It plays for Wisconsin?
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Yeah, they started him as a QB, figured if we couldn't see his throat we couldn't choke him I guess, but after we rotated off the schedule for a couple of years they moved him to defense.
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08-26-2007, 01:01 AM
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Wisky just lost a starting defensive it it seems.
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Depends on what type of suspension it is. If it's a Joe Pa special, you're suspended until we can switch the story around (but you'll still have to help pick up rubbish at home games), if it's a Fulmer special, you're suspended, but if we can't find anyone better than you, you're back in, if it's a Lloyd Carr special, you're suspended while we can convince a couple of recruits that there's unlimited playing time at the TE spot at UM. Now, if Barry Alvarez was still your coach, you would get the dreaded "miss the first couple days of practice until this blows over" suspension. Unfortunately for Jamal, he's not getting the Spurrier suspension, where it's obvious that the school is messing up what football is trying to accomplish. My point is that we can expect to see Jamal in Columbus when it counts. Same with Butler from up north (sorry, different thread, same song and dance.)
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08-27-2007, 04:45 PM
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Big Ten Countdown - No. 3 Wisconsin
By Tony Gerdeman
 Predicted Finish 10-2 (6-2)
Two-Cent Overview
The Badgers will be breaking in a new quarterback in Tyler Donovan, but basically all he will be asked to do is hand off, throw to tight end Travis Beckum and throw it deep down the sidelines to his receivers. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. Even though left tackle Joe Thomas is gone, the Badgers grow linemen like grandmas grow rhubarb, so there are candidates to work with. Most of the defense is back for the Badgers, but they will have some replacements up the middle. Elijah Hodge replaces last year's leading tackler Mark Zalewski at middle linebacker, and two new safeties will now patrol the backfield for the Badgers. Both kicking specialists return and both are awards candidates.
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