FULMER CUP: GATORS' ATKINS NOW OFFICIALLY IN TROUBLE.

1 point–earning points for UF.

It’s good to see that you guys have standards. Maybe the kid can transfer to Marshall.

Taurean Green? Sure he has had some turnover issues and his jumpshot(tired legs) failed him at the end of the year, but that is nothing compared to the overhead keg smash of Taurean Charles.

Corrected, Kyle. Speed kills-accuracy.

interestingly Florida State is absent from the Fulmer Cup Race…maybe Urban could learn a thing or two from Bobby Bo about running a big time program and contrllin the youngins…Go NOLES

Sure, Matt. They’re just kids. Who leave the program, get accused of sexual assault at bowl games, and rob their teammates. But please, go back to what you were saying…

Orson, I’m pretty sure his babymama already gave birth a few months back.

If true, subtract one point.

Yeah, Matt. Bobby Bowden has TOTAL control over the freak show/drug circus/athlete mafia in Tallahassee.

How many Florida football players have had to sit out their bowl games for robbing department stores, gambling, or sleeping through finals in the past 10 years?

UF may not have the cleanest players in the NCAA, but the FSU crimiNoles will never be able to set the appropriate bar for abiding the law.

…please disregard if I need to check my batteries

Yes matt, Bobby has complete control. He undoubtedly made sure a player who was already dismissed from the team and a player who was already drafted robbed the house of his starting running back. He knows boys will be boys…

See what happens when players are let free of the FSU football program, they turn to crime.

So this’ll catapult the Gators straight up to T5 with Mississippi State? How quickly the mighty can tumble!

It must be said: Atkins’ less than stellar reputation makes this seem less than a surprise.

Not to mention the whole movie The Program was based on FSU.
Watch it again and notice the colors of the school the drug use the raping a pillaging. FSU will never get in any trouble until Bobby is gone. Same with all schools who’s coach is an icon. The NCAA can’t afford to smear the name of coaching legends. That would be like going after the guy who holds the homerun record being found guilty of muscle enhancing drug use.

While FSU and their fans certainly don’t have a leg to stand on when speaking of incidents such as this, they sure as heck can make fun of the Gator fans who a) are generally ignorant of their own team’s past issues or b) refuse to acknowledge they have problems at all.

Does that mean we put an astrisk next to FSU’s championships?

there’s a lot of Tallahassee-envy out there

Fuck is right. Probably. But, wait, don’t the charges have to formalized before points are assessed and we’re in real trouble? Doesn’t the thing say they are trying to talk it through? Guess I’m not a bra-burner after all, when my first instinct is that of a worried Gator fan and not a sympathizing woman. Whatever.

Very good, Daniel.

I saw Wyatt Sexton at Bonnaroo last weekend. Good to see he could make it back after last year.

Truly a God among men, that Wyatt.

The games in The Program were shot at Williams-Brice in Columbia, of course. The ’roids bit must have been an homage to the rampant steroid use at USC in the ’80s….

One thing, though — notice in the shots how many Clemson fans wore fucking ORANGE to games in which neither team on the field wore orange. The gigantic SEC sign on the ramp was a tad off, too.

Hey Hack,
  They filmed most of the onfield scenes during halftime of USC/UT game. That is why those fans are wearing orange. I guess UT needs some FC points for that.

Actually, Hack, not to quibble, but the majority of action shots from “The Program” were taken at the 1992 USC/Tennessee game in WBS.

That explains morons wearing orange.

I just remember that game, since it would be too many damn years until we beat them again.

psuedosilent observer:

We can definitely put an asterisk next to the FSU 1993 Championship over Nebraska after the terrible officiating in the game.

Made the Michigan-Nebraska Alamo Bowl look like it was picture perfect. You can get the FSU-Nebraska Orange Bowl here

ah gatorjess, I can sympathize – luckily (no jinx no jinx no jinx), most of the nittany lions wait to slap around their loved ones (or if they can’t be with the one they love, the one they’re with) after eligibility (or at least wait to get charged).

Strong to quite strong, PSUgirl.

Are we sure NavyGrad isn’t Trev Alberts. Seriously, can’t people get over that game, it was over 10 years ago and wasn’t that poorly officiated a game. Nebraska had their shots and they lost. It happens.

Joe, in college football no one ever gets over anything. The advantage is that you can always needle opposing fans over it.

Watch this (pulling pin…)

Peyton Manning!
Charles Woodson!
Heisman!
GO! (Throws grenade…)

Orson-
62-24.
(I’m a Gators fan as well, I just felt like further evidence was required of grenade-throwing.)

Feeling a post come on tomorrow about this…

Before you crucify me with your wit, at least add QEDMF to it. It would make my day.

Point taken Orson.

And, just of the hell of it, 38-34 (one of the very few times I didn’t want to punch Chris Rix in his stupid, stupid face)

IM waiting for clarification on the Atkins incidenty before I update the scorebaord, seems there are vastly conflicting versions of the incident, and we should award points after the investigation becomes more conclusive.

I didnt read all of the posts, but Atkins hasnt been arrested or charged with anything. So, points for this is wrong. A complaint has been filed so that the police can investigate. Big difference.

There’s a big IF TRUE frontloading this whole thing, Major.

Tennessee has, I kid you not, a Facebook group called “I’m still not over Peyton losing the Heisman to Ass-Hat Charles Woodson”.

(And a decade later, somewhere in the recesses of my closet, I still have my “Keep Your Fucking Trophy” t-shirt.)

Here’s a link to the Gainesville Sun article, which has some extra information not found in the Orlando Sentinel article.

http://www.gatorsports.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060620/GATORS2201/60620022

But if Meyer is serious about holding his players to high standards then I’ll be interested in seeing how this turns out. Atkins self-defense defense may be true, but if I’m a football coach who wants to make an impression I might not make the law the baseline for my decisions. Besides, even a small cornerback is much stronger than a woman. The only cornerback I can think of who’d ever have a reason to fight back would be Vernell Brown, but he’s too classy to do so.

And I’m glad that Orson posted this and gave Fulmer Cup points for it, so as to keep people from thinking there is a double-standard. The points can always come off the board.

Simply a PR move.

UF is trying to balance the stories that Tommy Z and that Shark guy are getting at Notre Dame. Santonio Holmes did the same for OSU.

However, USC is still winning the PR war. What with Bush, Jarrett, Wright and Sanchez, and all.

First it was Tookes, then it was Atkins (the March 11th incident) and now Atkins a second time. What do all of these incidents potentially have in common? All accused and no formal charges…looks like the Bull Gators’ pockets are deep and connections are strong with law enforcement in the State of Florida.

Shouldn’t TCU get points for this:
http://cbs11tv.com/seenon/local_story_146220718.html

A bar brawl with tasers… they know how to party in Texas.

Isn’t anything named “Atkins” bound to be in trouble when Fulmer’s around?

Joe, I’m definitely not Trev Alberts, just grew up in Nebraska and still an avid Husker fan. Although I would cheer for Navy over Nebraska.

Even though the game was over 10 years ago when it is on ESPN Classic I highly recommend watching it as it was truly a GREAT game. I can easily point out SIX incorrect calls by the refs in favor of FSU and ONE incorrect call in favor of NU. If Miami fans are not willing to conceed they lost to tOSU, then I contend that Warrick Dunn fumbling before crossing the goal line into a NU defender’s grasp in the end zone is not a TD, but a touchback. And I can show you a copy of it on tape.

NavyGrad – agreed. It was an excellent game. And I have seen it since. My point was that the calls in that game were of the “it could have gone either way” variety and not the “totally egregious, take the game away from the other team” type. Combine that with the fact that Nebraska still had a shot to win and that they followed that loss with two straight titles and I always thought it was odd that Husker fans still seem to be hung up on it.

Maybe you can now call it the Meyer Cup!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Kudos to Holly. I have my “keep your fuckin trophy” tee shirt prominatly displayed above my fireplace. I kiss it everyday. Its the truest thing in the entire universe!

Joe, true, that completely shanked missed FG still haunts our memories, although the subsequent years helped.

I still remember a very vocal and passionate Coach Osborne on the field screaming that the pass was caught with time on the clock to set up that field goal. So out of character of the man. I wish that I could get that game off my VCR onto a DVD or computer file.

Now if only Navy could beat Notre Dame!