Talk:Wisconsin Badgers football

message: I was actually at Camp Randall the day Ron Dayne broke the rushing record and they unveiled his name and number on the upper deck.  I'm almost positive that they retired the number that day.  Why would they honor him in that matter otherwise.  I've got some people checking into it, but a change may be in order.
:No change is in order.  Dayne's number isn't retired.  See the Official UW Football 2006 Yearbook (page 124) for a listing of numbers that were retired prior to the retirement of Richter's number this season.  Dayne's #33 isn't on the list. -JakeApple 14:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How is Ron Dayne's number not retired? His "33" is up there in Camp Randall along with everyone else on this list. Unless someone can explain why that doesn't amount to a retired number, I'm going to change it. --DanyaRomulus 19:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know how else to explain how it "doesn't amount to a retired number" other than to point out that the UW hasn't retired it (check the link I provided above).  Thus, changing it would be a factual error. -JakeApple 04:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

text:  Dayne's number IS retired,according to the stadium info HERE *Retired Numbers 
#33 Ron Dayne
#35 Alan Ameche
#40 Elroy Hirsch
#80 Dave Schreiner
#83 Allan Shafer
#88 Pat Richter
IdioT.SavanT.i4 (talk) 08:36, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ron Dayne Status 

message: I am removing this section, since it is a duplicate of the identical section from Wisconsin Badgers.  Since the nickname does not apply solely to the football team, the section properly belongs there.  --Chancemichaels 17:52, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Origin of team nickname" 

message: Anyone know about this usenet group? It always puzzled me... It seeems to have started as a badgers fan group, but does anyone know how or why? JustIgnoreMe 01:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  alt.badgers.rose.rose.rose 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:BuckyBadger.png

message: I hope there wasn't a reason the 2007 schedule was still on the page...I updated to 2008.  KellanFabjance (talk) 06:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2008 schedule 

message: Please correct "eigth" to "eighth" in the Team history section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Number (talk • contribs) 18:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you may be misreading this. It says the team finished eight out of ten seasons in the top 25. It's not saying they finished ranked eighth. AniMate 02:03, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe the sentence "…the the Badgers earned their eigth Big Ten title…" should read "…the Badgers earned their eighth Big Ten title…", i.e. delete the repeated "the", and correct the spelling of "eighth". Cheers. DynamoDegsy (talk) 08:21, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: D'oh! I was searching for eight spelled correctly. Fixed. AniMate 19:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  typo 

message: As a UW alumnus, I am somewhat appalled by this: where is the content for the great seasons in UW football history?  Countless other schools have write-ups going back decades for even the most mediocre seasons, and yet UWs best seasons have no content at all.  I created the following pages because I could not believe they did not already exist: 1952 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1953 Rose Bowl, 1959 Wisconsin Badgers football team, 1960 Rose Bowl, 1962 Wisconsin Badgers football team.  Unfortunately, they remain only stubs as I have no ready access to content and few have contributed any content beyond what I was able to find.  Surely, someone's alumni parents or grandparents must have scrapbooks full of material which could be added.  Sadly, 1993 Wisconsin Badgers football team page still does not exist.  What self-respecting alumni base lets their conference championship seasons go undocumented (at a minimum, those in living memory)? -- these are the Rowl Bose years!  For that matter, who would ever know that the 1896 Wisconsin Badgers football team was the first "Western Conference" champion?
Also, with Barry Alvarez's imminent induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, a page like Wisconsin Badgers under Barry Alvarez (1990-2005) -- similar to Maryland Terrapins football under Jim Tatum (1947–1955) -- to document this significant period in UW football history would seem to be in order -- especially since most of the season pages during his career are missing -- but I doubt I would ever have the time or resources to write one. Nusumareta (talk) 03:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the content for the championship years? 

message: The tone in some parts sounds more like the announcer at the stadium than it should, I've added a "tone" tag too, "dismal lows" etc is more of an opinion than a fact (although, ya, they apparently sucked for a while!). Anyways, if you can fill in some of those fact tags, that would be great, I think I got most of the important ones, let me know if you see any I missed. Thanks for the help! --  Despayre  tête-à-tête 03:49, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  as requested, fact tags added 

message: Wisconsin came out with new red helmets this past season, could the uniform section be updated to reflect this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.129.203.28 (talk) 03:22, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Wisconsin Uniforms 

message: I have changed the page to reflect the fact that Minnesota won the 1892 game vs. Wisconsin.  This 32-4 Gopher victory was on the books by that score until 2 or 3 years ago when a someone working for the Wisconsin Athletic Department found some information in an old folder which said that the game was actually a 40-32 Badger win.  Wisconsin changed its records and convinced the University of Minnesota to change its records as well to reflect the new score.  However, we recently uncovered new evidence that the original score (32-4 Minnesota victory) is the correct one and have started the process of getting the two Universities to update their records.  The college football data warehouse (which is the primary online source for this kind of information on Wikipedia) agreed with the evidence we presented and updated their records.  Instead of presenting everything here, I'll post a link to the discussion we had on a message board (Gophers vs. Wisconsin 1892) which includes links to the original online article which led to changing the records in 2011 along with the evidence we have to change it back to its original score.
Also, when making the changes, I originally updated Wisconsin's all-time record (which was listed as 653-480-51) to remove a win and add a loss, but when I checked the college football data warehouse (which has updated the result of that 1892 game already), it said that the record should be 653-481-53 (same number of wins, one more loss and two more ties than the page had indicated before) so I updated the page with that record instead. Gopherguy | Talk 17:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  1892 game vs. Minnesota 

message: I am not sure how this era in Wisconsin Football could be considered a RETURN to DOMINANCE.  The Badgers did not DOMINATE during this era, nor had they DOMINATED during a period so that it was not a return.  The were good, even very good, but not dominate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinskogg (talk • contribs) 13:41, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Return to Dominance 

message: The Badgers are not owned by the Minnesota Gophers Head Coach PJ Fleck.  Funny, but not accurate. 2600:6C44:6C00:1637:DCF4:6F4B:CD88:AF20 (talk) 12:36, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check ownership reference, paragraph one