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FULMER CUP SCORING: FURTHER CLARIFICATION

Readers can send you emails that force you to rethink things. Sometimes those things are things like whether you should purchase a spare firearm from Dee Webb, and sometimes those things are far more benign, like reconsidering something you wrote that was so obviously half-assed you're ashamed of even typing it.

The reader in this case, Mark, threw a brick of logic through the window of the crazy house we've been building called the Fulmer Cup.

You know, you may want to rethink the Fulmer Cup point system. A cup named after Fulmer should really be about quantity, not quality. Do 10 miscellaneous underage-drinking, speeding, DUI and campus fights outweigh one murder? Absolutely. Else we'd really think Navy was a thug program and FSU just middle of the road.

Methinks you ought to scale down the multiples a bit. 5 for Murder One is more balanced. Give the 7th Floor Crew a chance to catch up!

Mark makes one mistake here: he assumes that anything on this blog has anything to do with logic. Forgiving that, he's totally right: giving Navy an insurmountable eight while UGA rolls through their annual cycle of suspended license charges and drinking-related follies makes very little sense, even with Red Queen Orson presiding over this particular court. (Not that sailors can't or necessarily won't make up ground, as well. You know them, those filthy beggars, going from port to port...)

Who's in charge of this thing? Oh, yeah. Off with his head.

We know revise the scoring system down to a max 5 point system, with Loren Wade-style "shooting someone in the face while screaming RIVERSIDE MOTHERFUCKER!" first degree murder earning you a stout five points. Other crimes, misdemeanors, and various stank point modifiers are located in the list below:

Rape: 4 points. Downgraded to one if either participant is wearing a clown mask.

Bestiality: 4 points. It's a form of rape, really, no matter how much the goat has had to drink. High point value justified further by the fact that it involves having sex with an animal, which you would say was unthinkable if we hadn't had in the past year alone two stories involving college athletes and at least the association with barnyard bonhomie of a most intimate degree, including the EDSBS Official GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, the arrest of Oregon State player Ben Siegert for stealing a sheep used in a study on homosexuality in sheep.

Grand Larceny: 4 points. We use this as a catchall for players being involved in crime so outrageous and well-planned it can only be described as "nefarious," "professional," or "legislation." Applies to large drug rings, chop shop operations, and the Haitian human trafficking ring that's been run out of the Miami locker room since '93. (We kid! They didn't get that thing humming 'til '95 at the earliest.)

Hitting Girls, a.k.a. the Ernie Sims School of Easy Lovin' Level: 3 points. We'll downgrade this to 2 if the girl can hold her weight and requires daily medication to prevent her from gouging her own eyes out--since those were the ones we always ended up dating, and we understand--or upgrade to 4 if the damage includes intensive care. But Dad always said never hit girls, so we take this one seriously. Dad also said always double down with split aces, too, but we'll be damned if we didn't end up selling bone marrow in Macau the last time we followed that bit of advice.

Car theft/Assault/Driving through houses drunk/Drug possession of the Tyrone Biggums variety: 3 points. "Drug possession" never sounds all that bad until you add in "crack cocaine," which is society's signifier that your life has gone from that of high functioning simian in a complex society to that of a rat with electrodes in your brain's pleasure centers hitting a pedal in a glass box in a lab. Weed? Par for the course, especially if you're NFL-bound. Crack? Break out the Sportscentury "Weepy Sonata" music, because the story of your descent from boundless potential has just begun, and they haven't even begun to show the grainy shots of 130-lb you huddled in a shelter on Skid Row.

Fightin' in 'da Club/Weed Possession/Standard DUI: 2 points. Any scenario involving group fighting of a thugged-out, "we run this place" variety, and marijuana possession of the nickel bag level. Possession of 100 pounds of marijuana is a totally different thing, and takes you right back up to the 4 point "nefarious" level.

Drankin'/Suspended License/Assorted petty misdemeanors: 1 point.

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When’s the starting gun sound?

by PSUrob on Feb 24, 2006 8:04 AM EST reply actions  

Any bonus points tacked on for the coach’s response? What might get someone kicked off the team or perhaps suspended for a semester at one school might just result in a few dadgummed stadium sprints at another.

by Pat on Feb 24, 2006 8:43 AM EST reply actions  

Wow, doesn’t including Beastiality as 4 point crime instantly put Clemson in the driver seat?

by Ryno on Feb 24, 2006 8:51 AM EST reply actions  

Ahhhh, I love the smell of mysogyny in the morning.

by bitterhorn on Feb 24, 2006 9:01 AM EST reply actions  

Any bonus points tacked on for the coach’s response? What might get someone kicked off the team or perhaps suspended for a semester at one school might just result in a few dadgummed stadium sprints at another.

This is an excellent idea, if the guys can implement it. There should be a bonus point awarded for Bobby-Bowden-style depth chart justice or for my personal favorite — interpreting a university policy mandating a game suspension for alcohol violations by making [sic] your star tailback sit out the spring game.

by DevilGrad on Feb 24, 2006 9:30 AM EST reply actions  

At some point, there needs to be an ESPN-like rundown of the greatest Fulmer Cup off-seasons of all time.

Early favorite has to be 85 Oklahoma. Selling crack out of the dorm is pretty hardcore and makes Lawrence Phillips look like the prison bitch that gets passed around for menthols.

I also appreciate the clown rider on rape.

by NoleinTexas on Feb 24, 2006 9:34 AM EST reply actions  

Brilliant suggestion. I think we’ve got a new show for Bob Ley to host on ESPN Classic.

by DevilGrad on Feb 24, 2006 9:41 AM EST reply actions  

Stu Scott can do the show with one eye looking at the camera and the other at Charlie Murphy!

by PSUrob on Feb 24, 2006 9:48 AM EST reply actions  

According to something I read, Stuart’s eye is wonky cause he took one to the head from a Juggs machine.

by SmoothJimmyApollo on Feb 24, 2006 9:55 AM EST reply actions  

The EDSBS poetry slam!

Collegiate Football
send lawyers guns and money
hey, where is my flask?

by bitterhorn on Feb 24, 2006 10:02 AM EST reply actions  

The Fulmer Cup deserves it’s own episode of Sports Century.

Totally unrelated but relevant anyway: The Bill Simmons Drinking game via deadspin via some other dude: http://peterdewolf.wordpress.com/2006/02/21/the-bill-simmons-drinking-game/

by rjm on Feb 24, 2006 10:03 AM EST reply actions  

I hope that a Rae Carruth-like multiple felony saga and subsequent police chase can still count for a bonus round or two.

Extra points for hiding from the police in the trunk of your own car in a motel parking lot.

by dogtown gator on Feb 24, 2006 1:08 PM EST reply actions  

As a Dawg who uncontrollably just wants to win anything and everything, even an ignominious distinction such as the Fulmer Cup, I take issue with the fact that “driving on suspended license” gets only one point. Since so many UGA players seem to be charged with this, I feel it necessary to request an uppage of point value. You’ve remarked that Georgia just needs someone in the Athletic Dept. specifically assigned to keep all players properly licensed. Actually, “driving on a suspended license” is a much more serious charge than “driving without a license” or “driving on an expired license.”

“Suspended” means that by operation of law your license or privilege to obtain a license has been taken away from you. In Georgia, this disqualification could be either by virtue of a conviction for a drug charge or serious traffic charge such as DUI, or by failure to appear at a court date, or by failure to fulfill some financial obligation such as child support.

Thus, this charge is not simply failing to renew your license on time. It is driving when a court has specifically ordered that you cannot. This is a misdemeanor, but it is not a petty misdemeanor. The minimum penalty in Georgia is two days in jail, and for a second conviction within five years, the minimum is 10 days. Compare that to the minimum jail time for DUI: 1st offense-24 hours, 2nd offense in 5 years-72 hours.

“Driving with a suspended license” should be at least on par with DUI (2 Fulmer Pts). That should hoist the Dawgs back up to the top of the leaderboard…

by The General on Feb 24, 2006 1:31 PM EST reply actions  

Hey Ryno,

It doesn’t necessarily put Clemson (Auburn or LSU, most likley) in the driver’s seat, but you gotta admit, 4 points is one helluva handicap…

by tigercpa on Feb 24, 2006 3:13 PM EST reply actions  

I think Kenneth Tookes should be credited for firing the starting gun for this years Fulmer Cup!

by OldSchoolAGR on Feb 24, 2006 3:15 PM EST reply actions  

Orson,

Point of reference, can you tally up the total for Cockaboose, er Calaboose ’05 in Klumbya?

by tigercpa on Feb 24, 2006 3:18 PM EST reply actions  

“We’ll downgrade this to 2 if the girl can hold her weight and requires daily medication to prevent her from gouging her own eyes out”

What if the girl can hold her weight and self-medicates daily with booze to keep from gouging her husband’s eyes out?

I’m just asking. It’s your chance to shine, baby.

by The Conscience of a Nation on Feb 24, 2006 3:19 PM EST reply actions  

Why isn’t f$u listed? In 2006 they’ve had one player accused of rape (pre-bowl), and two more kicked of the team (post-bowl), for undisclosed reasons.

by Gator Sean on Mar 2, 2006 1:09 PM EST reply actions  

We’re trying to count strictly off-season stuff, but we may have to add them in. Consider that under review.

by Orson Swindle on Mar 2, 2006 1:21 PM EST reply actions  

What, nothing for Recruiting violations?

by Brian on Mar 3, 2006 6:38 PM EST reply actions  

Points should be deducted for any coach firing a losing coach who obviously didn’t realize how important it is to be at the top of this list in order to win.

by Bob Teitlebaum on Mar 9, 2006 11:57 PM EST reply actions  

Why can’t Ole Miss be credited points for recruiting violations? We want to be #1 in something! Please!

by zricz on May 2, 2006 7:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Are we sure Tennessee doesn’t have more points?

by bamafever on May 24, 2006 10:35 AM EDT reply actions  

A special place in the Fulmer Cup hall of fame should go to the UAB basketball team that strung out an underage girl who then serviced the team and other hanger ons until she failed out of school.

by bogwag on Jun 5, 2006 7:36 PM EDT reply actions  

bamafever – We let Schaeffer go. Big mistake on our part (as far as Fulmer Cup standings, anyway).

by Holly on Jul 11, 2006 1:08 PM EDT reply actions  

hey fucko,

it’s not bestiality, it’s interspecies erotica.

bama fans take offense to such terms.

by Bill on Jul 29, 2006 12:43 AM EDT reply actions  

Gosh it’s funny that three rapists at Notre Dame don’t score a single point. Nor was the felony theft by Lynn Dunbar and her showering of unauthorized Las Vegas vacations and sex parties upon ND players worthy of one point.

Methinks that we have a hearty dose of Catholic bias in this “ranking”.

by Cozmo on Aug 1, 2006 7:19 PM EDT reply actions  

Can Ohio State still receive points for Maurice Clarett? It seems like his latest lunatic fringe arrest is just a shameful waste of perfectly good Fulmer Cup points.

by DirkDawggler on Aug 9, 2006 7:20 PM EDT reply actions  

maybe an alimni edition could be started for folks like Clarrett

by JS on Aug 11, 2006 1:40 AM EDT reply actions  

that was supposed to read Alumni Edition…

by JS on Aug 11, 2006 1:40 AM EDT reply actions  

Somebody better update the stats on Marshall. 3 players arrested last night.

by Chico Esquala on Aug 22, 2006 12:00 AM EDT reply actions  

Marshall had one player arrested for loitering / drunk & disorderly not three.

by HERDftblfan on Aug 27, 2006 10:01 AM EDT reply actions  

Marshall fans cry an awful lot.

This poll is awesome. As for the idea of the “bonus” point for how the school/coach reacts, I believe it should go both ways. If they kick the guy off the team – subtract a point. If he laces it up the next week – add a point. This would at least give a little credit to schools who punish offenses and add to the humliation of those “Bowdens” who look the other way.

Where the hell is Miami???

by Sir Wilbur on Aug 28, 2006 8:35 PM EDT reply actions  

Wait a minute. I don’t see UNLV on the scoreboard yet. In fact I only saw 4 Western states listed at all. What’s up with that? This is obviously more Eastern bias from people whose geographical knowledge stops at the Mississippi River.

by LV Kid on Sep 3, 2006 1:00 PM EDT reply actions  

8 teams from the SEC are on the list proving once again that the SEC is the most dominant college athletic conference in the country. My Razorbacks are disappointing me on this list, I miss the glory days when there were at least 2 guys arrested every month for drunk driving. What are college athletes coming to these days, it’s their duty to act like they are above the law, and raise all the hell they possibly can. GO HOGS!!!!!

by Phillip on May 4, 2007 10:50 AM EDT reply actions  

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