Knocked from the ranks of the unbeaten in heartbreak- ing fashion, the Badgers have moved on and set their sights on bouncing back with another strong showing against the Buckeyes
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oe Rudolph knew the honeymoon was over when he became a college football coach. Take that literally and figuratively. Two days after Joe and his bride Dawn returned from their honeymoon, he began working as a grad- uate assistant coach for Ohio State's Jim Tressel, the recently deposed Buckeyes head coach. Rudolph was completing work on a master's de- gree from the Tepper School of Business at Carne- gie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pa.) when he got a taste of high school coaching and liked it. "I really had the bug to get into coaching,'' said Rudolph, a starting All-Big Ten offensive guard on Wisconsin's 1994 Rose Bowl team. "I just wasn't sure what level I wanted to coach at." While he was going to school at Carnegie Mellon, he was writing papers on the NFL instead of Fortune 500 compa- nies. "All my thoughts started to go towards foot- ball,'' he conceded.
