Montee Ball release from the hospital after being jumped by 5 men.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8222009/wisconsin-badgers-rb-montee-ball-victim-unprovoked-attack

"since all reports are that he never recruited as a badger"

Chryst did most of the recruiting for the skilled position players.

Good thing it's only head injuries. Shouldn't have any effect on his play. Or his schooling.

After he tears his ACL this fall, this "unprovoked" attack won't look so bad.

Love jsonline commenter that got mad after someone said that's what can happen at 2:15AM and replied that since it was close to the workout facility he was probably working out.

Scary stuff. Luckily most of the injuries are minor.

"Unprovoked" that's the benefit of being on the football team. He seems like a really nice guy, but he did get in trouble at Mifflin in May, so he has a little history. The working out at 2:15 am is just dumb. It would be nice to see what the football players schedule was this week. I'm guessing they have off today, and if they lifted last night that would complete put the working out to bed.

BUT I highly doubt he was drinking at a bar. It's not like Madison is much of a drinking town, and in the past Ball has shown that he avoids things like Halloween and Mifflin...oh wait....

I have always been told that nothing good happens at midnight.

But yeah he is very dedicated so I'm sure he was working out.

My favorite Jsonline comment was the one about why people should carry a gun, because him having a gun would of helped the situation.

I'm pretty sure that could of made it a lot worse, quickly.

lol JSonline

I don't know the particulars nor do wish too, but I assumed MB was more elusive as gang tackling is painful regardless of where it takes place.

"Chryst did most of the recruiting for the skilled position players."

No, he didn't. He only recruited quarterbacks.

Badgers got a commitment today from 2014 4 star QB Chance Stewart from Sturgis(MI)

Shockingly, Madison police are investigating reports football players may have beaten up a non-football player a week prior to the Ball incident. "Allegedly", it happened at Ball's house. I for one refuse to believe any Badger player would ever have beaten up anyone since they're student-athletes.

well Ball said later on Twitter that there was no fight beforehand, so I'm sure I believe him, he was jumped for no reason

And he got jumped coming back from working out, too.

Unless you believe the bartender at Brat who served him.

Poor guy, just trying to get his 2 am workout in, then he gets jumped for no reason by a bunch of guys who were just up to no good.

Yeah I saw that. You would have to be pretty drunk to brawl with D1 football players.

BUT as some reporter pointed out, Heisman trophy candidates don't get randomly jumped on their own campus for no reason.

Maybe he stole weed from Ron Dayne and this was payback.

I didn't have the 2 divisions for the Big 10 conference memorized but for some reason I thought Nebraska was in our division, haha I guess not. The only teams the Badgers have to compete with to get to the Big 10 title game are Purdue, Indiana, and Illinois, just wow. Some Minnesota fans are mad that Wisconsin got lucky, but it isn't their fault Penn St and Ohio St got sanctions put against them. The sanctions against Ohio St are really dumb though.

I'm still <pissed over the division names. They look even worse now after the PSU scandal. Is PSU really a leader?