FULMER CUP SPECIAL: THE GREY PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN!

by Orson on Apr 3, 2007 11:31 AM EDT

Dennis Erickson is the Ol' Dirty Bastard of coaching: a bon vivant vagabond whose very presence creates a contagion of merry malfeasance. Correction: usually, it's just malfeasance, and petty stuff for the most part. But like ODB, he just keeps moving on from gig to gig, often trailed by state troopers. Unlike ODB, he's currently breathing.

Though he's left the Idaho Vandals in the dust for a better job for the second time in his coaching career, his legacy remains with the Vandals: already tentatively on the board for a tasering incident earlier this year, Idaho scores a second time with a misdemeanor assault charge for safety Jevon Butler. Butler and two other non-football folks were arrested for:

...allegedly punching UI freshman William J. Petersen and Matthew D. Scott numerous times in the face.

Solid, unspectacular but fundamental FC score, there. (HT: Bruce.) Because it's a misdemeanor, it's only one point for Idaho, who would undoubtedly be putting bigger digits on the board if the Grey Panther were still pacing the sidelines in Moscow.

Given that he's at Arizona State, however...it's only a matter of time before his Golf Cart of Death drives the Sun Devils into the Cup. We'll take any excuse we can find to post the pic of Dennis Erickson driving a golf cart into a volcano, if only because we want credit for psychic powers when it finally happens.

Bad photoshop. Volcanoes. A guy who likes beer. It all adds up to funny.

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was there any sacking and/or pillaging involved in this incident? if so bonus points would be in order.

by NDTom on Apr 3, 2007 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

The fact they are students, not athletes, at Idaho leads me to believe these victims were white. Just going by percentages on that one.

http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/357/44/

So they got beat down for WWW, walking while white. I could be wrong and please correct me if I am but shouldn’t this be a hate crime? It’s obvious the motive wasn’t robbery.

by Mike P. on Apr 3, 2007 12:54 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, I would say that is a safe bet. It’s a rare event to have any sort of diversity in any class on campus at UI… ISU is just as bad. call it 1 in 150 for someone that isn’t… uh… the color of sour cream.

by psuedosilentobserver on Apr 3, 2007 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

If I had a dollar for every time you’ve used that pic I’d have about 7 dollars, give or take.

by hazer on Apr 3, 2007 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

Interesting point, Mike.

Looking at the good ole’ Merriam-Webster:

van-dal:
1) a member of a Germanic people who lived in the area south of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and the Oder rivers, overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., and in 455 sacked Rome
2) one who willfully or ignorantly destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public.

With that said, how long until Miles cracks down on the “Vandals”? Certainly the school’s namesake is “offensive” to the peoples cited in definition 1)…although maybe they’re allowed to exist since Butler lives up to defintion 2) by vandalizing random white-boy’s faces.

by Aerobab on Apr 3, 2007 2:02 PM EDT reply actions

I just don’t think the NCAA can find any original Vandals to ask if they take offense to the name. I believe they went the way of the dodo several centuries ago.

by Mike P. on Apr 3, 2007 2:23 PM EDT reply actions

nothing on florida’s latest foray into criminaliticity?

you better write on it, or doe will punch you in the face.

by adam on Apr 3, 2007 2:35 PM EDT reply actions

Adam—see yesterday’s posts. We got it.

by Orson Swindle on Apr 3, 2007 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

but i didn’t work yesterday. i thought that meant you wouldn’t be posting anything…

by adam on Apr 3, 2007 4:10 PM EDT reply actions

By an earlier poster’s description and the university’s primary makeup Doe is the wrong color to be a Vandal, and besides he was charged with “affray” which means he must have a crowd within which to perform his violence…. it isn’t always easy to come up with a crowd when you want/need it so give Doe some cred…. I think he deserves it… there is some discipline involved in waiting for that crowd to show….

I must say I have always wondered about the word “Idaho”, it seems like one of those names some has-been actress will name her kid after an unsuccessful attempt at a resurrection of her career with a newly emerging boy actor….or whatever.

by sb on Apr 3, 2007 8:57 PM EDT reply actions