FULMER CUP: BRING THE ILLINOISE!
Topic: Fulmer Cup
Soundtrack: Bring the Noise, Public Enemy and Anthrax. As good as the hybrid nu-metal hybrid shit it inspired is bad.
We postponed this Fulmer Cup entry in order not to just regurgitate the facts of the wire story, turn in a flippant slag or two at [NAME REDACTED], and award points. To do real research, in other words–to add real value here.
When that didn’t work, however, we just put a Public Enemy clip at the top and decided to do the whole thing anyway. In short, two Illinois football players were involved in an auto accident over the weekend, and the sight of a what was obviously a woman’s wallet sitting on the carseat aroused the attending officer’s suspicions. Inside the car, police found…
…stolen laptop computers, cash and credit cards in their vehicle. Police believe those items were taken during several residential burglaries.
Such prejudicial language. They could be “borrowed with subtlety,” or perhaps “involuntarily leased.” Or they can even trot out the Jason Bourne defense, claiming that Treadstone is right on their ass, and if the cops don’t get out of the way, they’ll be forced to use their assassin’s powers to preserve their mission–thus the laptops, cash, and stacks of fake passports.
In all fairness, [NAME REDACTED] has suspended them indefinitely for the arrest. The charges, though, could at the least, let’s say, severely impact their eligibility.
First Assistant State’s Attorney Steve Ziegler said this morning that he charged Joseph “Jody” Ellis, 20, and Derrick McPhearson, 20, both listing addresses in the 100 block of Sterling Court, Savoy, with four counts each of residential burglary, a Class 1 felony which carries a mandatory prison term of four to 15 years upon conviction.
Felony burglary? That’s at least three points for each count, bringing the total for this single case to a whopping 24 points. If the charges hold, that’s a Cho Oyu-sized tally for any university (even Marshall or Ohio) to catch up with.

We’re winning! Yay!









1
DevilGrad says:
Bring the Surfjan Stevens references. Woot!
This must be the best news Frank Solich has heard in weeks.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
2
rob says:
The Illini War: Or How to Demolish A Program But Still Be Friends With Your Players.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
3
Kenny says:
Look at the improvement the [NAME REDACTED]er is seeing now!
I’m sure the defense will be earnest and great, right up until the closing arguments when Jim Tressel comes on to deliver an Alan Shoresque monologue, for which the official will throw down his yellow hankie and instruct the two young receivers to run go routes in the Illinois Penal league.
Meanwhile, that hot shot receiver signee looks brilliant now, no?
March 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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HFS says:
24 points for that? Surely there must be some double counting in there somewhere. Seems ashame to give UIUC such a big lead so early on something so tame. Ellis T. Jones must be spinning in his grave! (*)
(*) I’m only assuming he’s dead by now.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
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socalirish says:
But it’s correctable, and they’re getting better and better all the time….
March 5th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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Kahuna says:
I see someone else was watching how the movie of the Bourne Supremacy was only tangentially connected to the book of the same name last night…
March 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
Zook is definitely one Florida coach that Spurrier will never be better than. I mean, Garcia = pissing and keying, Illinois players = new rap group Felonious.
If we’re lucky, though, they’ll meet in the Outback Bowl. I’d love to see what havoc would reign in Tampa with the Illini and Gamcocks in town.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
*e
The “Gam”cocks are a tranny band in Columbia with, well, hott gams.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
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Andy says:
Where is the link to the active visual scoreboard?
March 5th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
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jr says:
good look on the Anthrax/PE, Orson. Truly an amazing moment in music that cannot be tarnished by the plethora of dumbed down nu metal garbage it helped to inspire. on that same tip Faith No More was also a mighty force that devled into some metalrappish territory (and some other plain bizarrely awesome territory). incidentally, I hereby nominate Jim Martin from FNM as a Mustache Wed. honoree…
oh, and it doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the Fulmer Cup per se but I see that Fulmer got a two year extension, sans raise however.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
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Kerwin4two says:
I prefer the Anthrax goatee nu metal that started it all – “I’m the Man”
March 5th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
12
Dan says:
[NAME REDACTED] is going to amaze and astound all of you so much you might just have to change the name of the contest to the Redacted Cup. Give him his needed 5 years and he guarantees you at least 2 championships, he just didn’t say in what.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
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adam says:
is there such a thing as misdemeanor burglary?
March 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
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Gator KK says:
Those poor kids were obviously being targeted by uptight, white cops.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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Aerobab says:
#13, I’m not a law-man by any means, but that’s why Wikipedia was invented:
“The acts of burglary and any theft that occurs coincident with such entry are treated as separate offenses. If the perpetrator’s intended act after entering the burglarized premises was not a felony, the result can be two different misdemeanor charges rather than a felony count.”
My guess is, that like in many states, there’s a dollar amount of the stolen property that separates a misdemeanor from a felony. No idea what that value is. I’m thinking that the laptops and cash would be enough to push that threshold though.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
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tOSU_radar says:
The Illini playerz are so bad they should be in detention.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
They’re the men!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
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aerobab says:
Note, and Quasi-Threadjack: Knoxville media is reporting that Phil has dismissed a pair of players from his team. Reason has yet to be disclosed — safe to assume potential FC points will be involved.
GO VOLS!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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J.J. says:
Illinois doesn’t have such a big lead. If that Memphis story ever results in charges, that’ll be probably 24 points. It looks like the Fulmer Cup is off to a fast start this year.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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Cruzer says:
http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/6319702.html
“Josh McNeil was cited for underage consumption and public intoxication Sunday morning.”
“The University of Tennessee also announced Monday that linebacker James Turner has been dismissed from the team for a violation of team rules.”
How many points for all that?
March 5th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
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aerobab says:
You beat me to it, Cruzer…
Looks like it’s a single point for the Vols. No points for Turner since there was no formal charge by the Po-Po; strictly an internal matter.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
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SeaTrojan says:
“[NAME REDACTED] is a prophet, I think he’s got something to say to you…”
Maybe I misheard that line.
March 5th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
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MCab says:
Shut, shut, shut up!
March 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
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Socraticsilence says:
You know if Miami booster Keyser Soze ever switches to another team, all the covered up stuff is coming to the surface.
Really though, Memphis and the fightin’ [NAME REDACTED}’s have a shot at breaking 30, that’s the FC equivalent of the 4 minute mile, we truly do live in the golden age. (I mean what with the Bengals holding it down in the pro’s and now this, 2006-2007 might be remebered as the single greatest year in off the field hijinks ever.)
March 5th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
It’s really not fair to Fulmer, [NAME REDACTED] being at UI. I mean, have you been to Urbana-C? You literally can’t walk into town without tripping over the low-hanging fruit of FC point possibilities.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:07 am
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sb says:
Aren’t [name redacted]’s players only trying to keep pace with their basketball brethren? After all, dui and leaving the scene of an accident wherein you think you killed a teammate who remained at the accident severely injured and inebriated while passed out in the backseat is a feat seldom (fortunately) accomplished…
At this level of acheivement it may have to be renamed the [name redacted] cup, and let Phat Fulmer stew with his lesser performing minions.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
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MassDad says:
Lots to do in ChamBana! Wait till the Chitown recruits experience the winter-wonderland not to mention all they’ll learn from their fellow team-mates (after they get re-instated). On second thought, they might have to stop by Joliet to visit on the way down.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pm