Thanks to the wonderful BCS System, the Wisconsin Badgers somehow made it to this year’s Rose Bowl, with a 11-1 overall record (7-1 in the Big 10), despite losing to Michigan State (who also finished 11-1/7-1, but didn’t have a 70-3 win over something called Austin Peay, or an 83-20 win over the ever powerful Indiana Hoosiers…but that’s a post for another time on another blog).

As a part of the package for going to the Rose Bowl, Wisconsin received 5,800 student tickets to sell (yet another post for another blog, but assuming TCU also got 5,800 tickets, that’s 11,600 tickets for students to a college football game, leaving approximately 80,000 tickets for the general public; glad this is a college football game).

Some students, not surprisingly, purchased tickets to the game, and turned around and posted them for sale on sites like Facebook Marketplace, figuring they could avoid paying thousands of dollars to get to Pasadena to attend the game, and turn their $150 tickets into a few dollars profit to use on books tuition a weekend’s supply of Busch Light (or are they forced to drink Miller products in Madison too?).

So far, pretty standard goings on at any University across the country.

The Badger Herald, a campus newspaper, took issue with those students, and took action, publishing an article declaring 33 students as the “Worst People on Campus.” Worse than the obnoxious professor who assigns homework over holidays. Worse than the creepy janitor that volunteers to clean the women’s restrooms. Worse than frat boys.

Taking it one step further, The Badger Herald named names.  A couple of our favorite lines:

Truly, there is a special place in Hell for people who buy Rose Bowl tickets with the sole intention of profiting from them. It is entirely unfair to those who actually love this football team and were counting on a cheap face value ticket in order to make the trip to Pasadena an economic reality.

We ask this of UW Athletics: Next time, make it so people have to pick their tickets up at the bowl site. That will keep the worst people on campus from cheating the system.

Within twenty-four hours, editor’s had to post an update and take down the ability to comment on the story, as things had gotten a bit out of hand in the 1,200+ comments:

The comment section has been closed. All threats will be removed and reported to campus and city police. This piece is by no means meant to be a call to take action against the above individuals, simply a tongue-in-cheek commentary about an unfair ticketing practice, and we apologize if it was taken as anything more than that.

Frankly, their original post didn’t seem like it was simply a “tongue-in-cheek commentary”–but leave it up to Badger fans to take a simple article like that and turn it into a call to Jihad against their fellow students for trying to make a buck.

And, of course, it didn’t end there–the paper had to backtrack even further by Wednesday morning, as an additional 200+ names were submitted as people who were selling their student Rose Bowl tickets, and they simply “don’t have the resources to continue fact-checking and adding the additional…names that have been submitted…”

Way to go, Wisconsin.