Wisky band...

[hgarmorer]

sounds like the kind of a band I would join (if I could play)
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/27015464/

[badger]

Another link. (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/04/sports/FBC-U.S-Band-Suspended.php)

The fans of Wisconsin do not just jump around, they also are permanently set to "NSFW" when you play videos of them off Youtube:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hQmDMM3ErzQ&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hQmDMM3ErzQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
For those of you not at work, you may have noticed that it sounded like the drums were kind of participating in that chat a little.

It doesn't matter if the band is allowed to play or not, the students will just pretend the band is playing (need I mention all these videos are NSFW?)

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-IIx2-Gjw8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-IIx2-Gjw8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Don't wear a non-red shirt in the student section. You're asking for trouble.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fVdoA0zIm0c&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fVdoA0zIm0c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

In case they aren't already...

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ISDZGwhnnAs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ISDZGwhnnAs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

So yeah, if you think the problems are just the band, they really extend to the entire student section, which UW has absolutely no control over.

[CK Sooner]

That is what ends up happening when your football team blows.

Make up chants and **** in the stands.

:D

[Lott's Bandana]

n00bs, act like ya been there.

Oh...wait.

[MichiganSooner]

Another link with more details.

http://www.madison.com/tct/top5/307818

[A-M]

From what the articles had to say, it sounds like the band director doesn't have the balls to punish only the "couple of hands" of band members so he just takes it out on all of them. Why punish the 300 for what a couple of dozen kids did? Will be interesting to see what the investigation shows when its all said and done.

[badger]

In regards to the director, think of Joe Paterno and Penn State. The university respects JoePa for his longetivity, his legend, and all he's accomplished, but what does that mean to some teenagers that weren't even born when he started at the university? Why do they care what his record was over 38 years, 50 years, 1000 years?

Thus, Penn State's players took advantage of the situation and get into legal trouble, academic trouble and were out of control. This is exactly what is happening under a 38-year director at UW-Madtown, where teenagers don't care about honoring a legendary director's legacy - they care about "let's get wasted," and "let's haze these freshmen chicks into fulfilling our sexual fantasies."

However, like I said, it's not all on the band - it's the entire student section that's out of control in Madison. They need to start getting in hundreds of security and start arrest people that aren't following stricter conduct codes. This is campus that thinks it's their free speech right to bomb an ROTC building to protest a war - they won't think twice about shouting obscenities on national television, even if it hurts their chances of getting on ESPN, FSN, whatever in the future.