MARSHALL THUNDERING HERD: YOU ARE THE 2006 FULMER CUP CHAMPIONS

God, I love that movie…I’m so gay.

Kudos to Ryan Moore at Miami for coming in under the deadline. Let’s hope you run your routes with the same precision and timing. He tried to get the ‘Canes out of the 4 point mire, but just didn’t have the time.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/football/ncaa/08/29/moore.dispute.ap/index.html

WOOOOOO, HEARD!!!!

Just like on the football field, Purdue doesn’t finish well. Grabbed a big lead to begin with and let a Randy Moss-less Marshall take it from them.

They should rewrite the ending to the upcoming Marshall football movie.
Nothing says you have come all the way back from the depths of hell like a Fulmer Cup championship.

Wait, 4 SEC schools. Are we sure this isn’t just the AP Top 10?

Prayers answered! Can die a happy man now.

It’s time to alert the mainstream media!

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY WINS INAUGURAL FULMER CUP

— Somewhere between Huntington, WV and a jeans shorts convention (8/31/2006)

 
Riding its “three yards and a cloud of misdemeanors” strategy past such traditional powers as Tennessee and Auburn as well as upstarts Delaware and Purdue, Marshall University clinched the 2006 Fulmer Cup last night. The Fulmer Cup is awarded to the major college football program that posts the greatest array of off-season arrests, based on a points system administered by the college football blog EveryDayShouldBeSaturday.com (“EDSBS”).

The Fulmer Cup is named after Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer, whose traditional efforts at team discipline and hellish 2005 off-season inspired this year’s competition.

EDSBS is one of the sharpest and funniest blogs in all of college football. In recent months, EDSBS authors “Orson Swindle” and “Stranko Montana” have appeared on Paul Finebaum’s popular sports radio show and the site has been featured in several daily newspapers and on MSNBC.com.

Marshall’s Fulmer Cup triumph came as a surprise to major college football fans but not to long-time observers of the Thundering Herd program, who cited Marshall’s continuing effort in the competition (with the clinching arrests coming after two-a-days ended), quality depth (at least three starters arrested during the off-season), and historic culture of lax discipline and excuse-making by its win-at-all-costs fanbase as keys to the victory. For more details and reports from the entire competition, visit EveryDayShouldBeSaturday.com.

In addition, an individual achievement award was given to former San Jose State player Ellis T. Jones, whose one-man robbery and kidnapping spree across California earned him a Fulmer Cup-record 31 points.

With its Fulmer Cup team title, Marshall travels to Morgantown for Saturday’s game against West Virginia coming off a 4-7 season but still rightfully able to claim that “we play for championships!”

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Who is TN tied with at 5th? Or, is that a typo in the graphic?

Tennessee’s lone tie for 5th is correct. Fulmer’s girth can’t be confined to just one placeholder.

I would like a breakdown of Tennessee’s points. I am appealing their position at number 5. They had 5 points and now its 8. Surely we won. Recount! Recount!

Maybe we could get some attributable points on appeal for Justin Gatlin?

Also, since there are two T-4s, shouldn’t Tennessee be #6 and similarily Iowa #9, etc, etc?

DevilGrad – Would you mind if I submitted your press release to the local papers back home in Charleston, WV? Properly attributed of course.

Let’s ask the Shitbags!

DevilGrad – Would you mind if I submitted your press release to the local papers back home in Charleston, WV? Properly attributed of course.

Feel free to distribute it as far and wide as you’d like.

Congratulations to the Herd.

Great summary of a firece competition.

Only complaint is that there is nothing “barely legal” about an AR-15…they are perfectly legal to own. Not so legal, or smart, to fire in a dwelling.

Still think Tennessee should get the Notre Dame type bias and finish higher, after all, as long as the namesake of the cup is stil waddling the sidelines in Knoxhell, shouldn’t that be good for at LEAST second or third???

PDL

DevilGrad – I will forward to the WVU student paper. If anyone enjoys reading about the illegal misadventrues of Marshall students, it’s WVU fans.

stolen lap tops, phone card scams, widespread academic fraud…surely the Vols and their fat crook of a coach should get some points on a retroactive basis for past sins

Fuck this!! We need a playoff.

“put them in a trunk without their permission.”

Still kills me, I mean just how often are people ‘put’ in a trunk with their permission?

Wait, what happens if a Purdue football player gets pinched tonight for DUI and, say, assaulting a cop?

You don’t have to make stuff up matt, I’m sure there were plenty of legitimate crimes that could enable us to win. widespread academic fraud?

In the SEC? Never, I say!

Remember this VolBrian, maybe you don’t…probably before the folks from the East Tennessee/Appalachia Adult Literacy Initiative came down to the hollow and signed you up for classes

University of Tennessee English professor Linda Bensel-Meyers calls herself a fan of athletics. Says football is her favorite.

What better place to be than Knoxville’s Neyland Stadium on a Saturday afternoon in the fall if you are a professor who enjoys one hundred-yard clashes?

However, Bensel-Meyers finds herself embroiled in her own battle, one against the university for which she works. A tenured professor, Bensel-Meyers has charged the athletic department, in particular the football team, with academic dishonesty.

The allegations, of which Bensel-Meyers says she has proof, include plagiarism, grade changing, physical and verbal intimidation, abuse of academic probation rules, steering players into certain majors and violation of civil liberties laws involving learning disabled students.

Tennessee president J. Wade Gilley has denied any academic improprieties, and the NCAA recently sent the school a letter stating, “the enforcement staff has determined that there appears to be no need to conduct any further inquiry at this time into alleged violations involving academic issues and the Tennessee football program.”

You can still hear the sigh of relief echoing through the mountains and valleys of the Great Smokies. Score one for the athletic department.

Said Bensel-Meyers: “I don’t think the NCAA investigators were interested in seeing the evidence I had.”

Does the final ranking feel a little empty to everyone else? I guess FSU quit caring about the Fulmer Cup when they quit finishing every season in the Top Five.
Maybe there is a direct correlation between their lack of success and decline in crime (that’s way more likely than Amato and Richt leaving town).

Matt,
I thought we covered this the other day…that here in the hills of East Tennessee, there is NO SUCH THING as a “hollow”. The preferred nomenclature, dude, is “haller”.

Electricity may have just come to Tennessee, but you must have just got cable Matt. You need to change “says” to “said”. Even Bob Ley’s OTL and the mighty invesitgative journalists at the WWL couldn’t prove Bensel-Myers’s allegations and they would have loved to bring down Tennessee. Especially since they had just won the National Championship. That’s right Matt, the shit happened in 99! Where have you been? Granted there are some grades handed out at all schools, but this shit was made up by a professor pissed at the university just like that Auburn prof. Oh yeah, I guess you won’t learn about that until 2013. You must want some points for PM’s mooning or Becksvoort throwing water ballons out of Gibbs Hall. Catch up!

Dammit, Pat Dye’s Liver beat me to it- but I’ll have the last laugh as my liver gets replaced first (I put myself on the waiting list when I was 3). And Jonathon, if you haven’t been voluntarily put in a trunk, you haven’t been trying hard enough. Go drink a fifth of Tom Sims and get back to us, I guarantee at some point you’ll try to climb in a stranger’s truck screaming “Where’d you go, monkey? WHERE’D YOU GOOOOOOOOO?”

“Three yards and a cloud of misdemeanors”.

Gold, Jerry, Gold.

until the day I find myself somewhere between chattanooga and johnshon city living in a shitty trailor anchored into the side of a hill, spending entire days barefoot cooking up crystal meth…until that day, I’ll continue saying hollow

Florida edges Iowa again. Bullshit offsides call.

You should do a breakdown by conference.

The Fulmer Cup – Even if you lose, you still win.

i think all of us were pulling for those plucky little fightin’ blue hens

At marshall they perp for championships.

So, did you know our good man Ellis has a MySpace page?

www.myspace.com/ellisjones

Ha, matt, that’s an old clip.

Gilley was how many deposed presidents ago for UT? UT presidency being so scandal-ridden of late.

Right after UT showed Shumaker the door, I moved to another SEC school. They were/are deeply divided about their president. I kept telling them, “Y’all think you want a scandal to get this guy out of here, but really you don’t.”

Thanks for showing some love for the Blue Hens, who like a good I-AA football team, gave it their all before the big boys roared back in the fourth quarter to secure the win. Still…. a fine effort from the boys from Newark.

Now, if the WWL would make a movie about this never-say-die-but-say-get-in-the-trunk team, then all would be right with the world.

As for next year’s competition, you have to like Sam Houston State. Their recruiting efforts should pay off.

I am so proud. I will use a sharpie to add that to the list on the back of my “We Play For Championships” T-shirt.
There’s no point in being mired in mediocrity, whether in athletics or crime. Perhaps this is a harbinger of a great season to come!! Is there any historical data with which to correlate ? (eg crimes vs wins?)

and DevilGrad, that was hilarious.

Wait, Ohio University has had 17 football players arrested in 2006 and their head coach has TWO DUI’s and OU isn’t on the list?

Can someone smell corruption?