FULMER CUP SCOREBOARD: QUIET...TOO QUIET
Your Fulmer Cup scoreboard for the week of May 14th finds things awfully quiet on the Fulmer Cup...too quiet, if you ask us....
Note follows--not notes, but note. That's how quiet it is.

Notes, errata, and apologies.
Eastern Carolina needs some points for next week for the strange arrest of their defensive line coach Donnie Thompson. Thompson, now the former defensive line coach, falsified $11,000 in expense reports during what he calls recruiting. Given ECU's 69th ranked recruiting class, Thompson should have falsified a few thousand more in expenses. It should be mentioned that East Carolina did fire him for this.
Three points for stealing from your employer and being a less-than-outstanding role model for your players. Though you certainly get an 'A' for effort in the recruiting department, Donnie. The dancers of Greenville thank you for your efforts.
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Ooh Ooh! Teacher I have one. This happened about two weeks ago, and his hearing was today. No word on what happened. Most likely just a fine and maybe some form of probation.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007705120346
Sorry for the delay, but it’s a misdemeanor driving on a suspended license charge and driving the wrong way on a one way street. It’s not exactly something that would make Ellis T. Jones proud, but it is a way for my team to enter into the Fulmer Cup standings, and I wouldn’t want us to miss out on an opportunity to put some points on the board, since we did come in last in the SEC in scoring offense last year.
by rebel84 on May 15, 2007 12:47 PM EDT reply actions
I look forward to the Fulmer Cup standings weekly. Thank you for creating this years ago.
by CFB Authority on May 15, 2007 1:36 PM EDT reply actions
Orson,
The reason it is so quiet, to quote Alice Cooper, is that “school’s …..out ….for…. summer”. We’ll have to wait until June for our proud student athletes return back to campus to lift weights, run stairs and take their “clapping for credit” classes to see the kind of mayhem we’ve enjoyed the last month or so.
by Sean on May 15, 2007 1:38 PM EDT reply actions
He got fired for having the 69th best recruiting class? Shit, I bet the D-Coaches at Sac. St. are sweating major bullets right now.
by tOSU_radar on May 15, 2007 1:48 PM EDT reply actions
Perhaps Texas ATM deserves honorary Fulmer Cup points due to the fact that, for the second time in a month, the official athletic site credits them with a win they didn’t actually, you know, win:
http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/football/history/opp/texastech.html
Sept. 30, 2006 College Station W 27 31
Um, wrong.
Or maybe there should be a Pyrrhus Cup, of which ATM will always be the sole winner, but only at the cost of the credibility of their entire athletic department.
by KongHorn on May 15, 2007 1:50 PM EDT reply actions
Just because the student-athletes (chuckles @ student) are away from the campus in no way means that the crime wave will cease. Once the boys meet up with their old buddies from the hood, I’d expect a short term increase in extracuricular activity.
The Big12 needs to get its act together. The Big12’ers can assault, cheat, and steal with the best of em. Very poor showing thus far.
by Rome on May 15, 2007 1:56 PM EDT reply actions
There should really be a separate award for “being a less-than-outstanding role model for your players.”
The Switzer Cup, perhaps?
by GamecockTony on May 15, 2007 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
Rome – When you’re being passed by the miggidy-miggidy-MAC daddies in the standings, you need to step it up.
Conference that Can’t Count Represent!
by Sean on May 15, 2007 2:06 PM EDT reply actions
you know all is quiet on the fulmer cup front when the buckeyes aren’t somewhere on the cup radar.
teflon tressel must be running a tight ship this year.
by Jim Harbaugh Scramble on May 15, 2007 2:12 PM EDT reply actions
Maybe one of those other CFB Blogs that like to do, you know, actual math, (SMQ, MGoBlog, anybody?) might be interested in charting FC incidents by date over the last couple of years and see if there is any correlation between the time of year and the level of activity.
by PeterPumpkinhead on May 15, 2007 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
Is he related to John Thompson? John is no longer the head coach there, right?
by ChompEmGators on May 15, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions
No, Donnie is not related to John. They don’t share the same skin pigment.
PPhead, without doing the math, I would imagine there is an extremely high direct correlation with player misconduct and months on a calendar.
When does the Fulmer Cup get going? When the boys are free to play in the spring semester, spring practice and “voluntary” workouts aside.
by Coop on May 15, 2007 3:35 PM EDT reply actions
Why doesn’t ESPN report these things? There is a simple answer…none of those schools are south of West Palm Beach.
by ArmyCane90 on May 18, 2007 1:01 PM EDT reply actions

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