FULMER CUP ACCOUNTING: CRIMINAL MISCHIEF EDITION.
The Cup enjoys another slow week. How slow? We’re counting drunken trashings of dorm mirrors, for Jeebus’ sake.
Notes, updates, and apologies follow.

Notes, Updates, and Outright Apologies.
Though it’s not D-1, we should mention the outstanding accomplishments of the Montana State Grizzlies Bobcats, who in addition to being one of our favorite teams to earn pennants on in NCAA 2007 have just earned a raised eyebrow by firing their coach, Mike Kramer. (”No, honey. Throwing 85 yard bombs on easy to Dallas Baker does not get old. Ever.”) Kramer led them to three Big Sky Conference titles and went 8-5 last year, accomplishments seemingly incongruous with a firing.
Incongruous…until you begin tallying up his players’ off-the-field entrepreneurial activities, that is. The straw breaking the Kramer’s back:
Former wide receiver Rick Gatewood was arrested this week on drug charges and is accused of using his athletic scholarship money to traffic cocaine from California in the Bozeman area. His brother also faces drug charges.
Gatewood is the sixth former Montana State athlete arrested or charged with crimes involving drugs or murder in the past year.
Holy Dennis Ericksonness! We bought beer with some of our Florida Academic Scholarship cash, but not being a business major we never imagined making that kind of a profit off it. The arrest is the final nail in the metaphorical coffin for Kramer, who somehow missed that numerous Montana State players were involved in drug-related activities, and that was after the arrest of two former Montana State athletes for murder in a drug-related case.
Cocaine reference=obligatory Dr. Rockso posting. They say it’s gonna snow!!!
Ole Miss channels the Georgia Bulldogs and earns a suspended license charge, the putt-putt of Fulmer Cup charges to the long drives put forth by Illinois, Penn State, and Florida this year. Two citations for cornerback Cassius Vaughn, one point total for Ole Miss due to piddly traffic misbehavior.
Cincinnati scores points not from any salacious sex tape footage involving football players (:-(), but for defensive tackle Adam Hoppel’s assault on a mirror in a dorm bathroom. If he doesn’t earn the nickname ‘Parakeet’ after this, we’ll be sorely disappointed in the imagination of opposing players and jibing teammates.
Walk-on Iowa Hawkeye Tyler Gerstandt stumbles off the wagon this week after picking up an underage possession charge in Iowa City. Again: does anyone truly know how hard it is to be ticketed for being drunk in a college town? We were drunk in every possible permutation of public drunkenness. In fact, we distinctly remember riding an ostrich while wearing a suit of armor down University Avenue, drunk as Andy Dick and attempting to re-enact the video game Joust. And no one said “boo” to us. (A few instances of “Die, fag!” yes. Tickets? No.)
What you just read never happened. But it could have, and thus our question: what towns are hardest to be punk in drublic in without getting a ticket?
Consider this your user question for the day. Adieu.












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Since your bored, I thought I’d share this:
http://www.hawkcentral.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/HAWKS0104/704160329/1058/HAWKS0104
Does Iowa get some more points, or do the points transfer with Bain to Akron?
Comment by BuckeyeRocket — May 28, 2007 @ 3:49 am
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i have to disagree with how hard it is to get a ticket in Iowa City. More recently the Iowa City police force will send 95% of the cops working to patrol Downtown during bar time on Friday and Saturday to issue underage drinking tickets as well as public intox tickets. If the players at Montana wanted to deal driugs, they should do so away from downtown Iowa City on a Friday or Saturday night and they would get away with it!
Comment by Hawkeye Troublemaker — May 26, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
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Two college towns that seem prety tolerant to me: Morgantown and Newport News.
2003 or 2004. WVU upsets #3 VT at home. Probably 100 state troopers on the field, protecting the goal posts (before they started fighting the crowd that rushed it and throwing tear gas at anything that moved) Drunk student walks into the end zone, unzips, takes a leak right there, while the troopers watched from about 50 feet away. Kind of a shame we replaced that turf this month.
Also, while drunk at CNU in Virginia, I was arested for trespassing (not public drunkeness tho), my buds drove to the police station, also drunk after 6 hours at a party, and attempted to bail me out. Didn’t get me, but were allowed to drive away rather than being incarcerated themselves.
Comment by cm202 — May 23, 2007 @ 10:31 pm
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Re # 29
Tatum, the only problem I ever had in Athens was with the University itself rather than the cops. Had to go through the judicial process one semester for having a minor in my room with alcohol present, but the “charges” got dropped.
And the best place to go at the time for underage drinking was Uptown Lounge, which at the time, ironically enough, was right across the street (literally) from the police department. I guess they figured the cops were out and about town elsewhere.
We’d use the same Finnish passport to get literally 10 girls into the bar in a span of 20 minutes.
Comment by Maine-iak — May 22, 2007 @ 8:43 am
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Re: #30 Breaking up parties and then waiting in the bushes with a fresh pad of tickets was standard practice in Norman, OK.
However, there was one instance where they must have suspended the PI laws. After getting good and drunk at Chili’s (I know… who gets drunk at Chili’s right?) a friend of mine spotted the giant red chili that sits outside so many resturants. He immediatly siezed the opportunity to be drunk in public by mounting the chili, flinging one hand in the air, and riding the chili mechanical bull-style. ….. then the cops drove by. Nothing ever came of it though.
Comment by Cincy — May 22, 2007 @ 8:14 am
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It is easy to get DiP in College Station, TX, but you can avoid it as long as you know where to go once the bars close.
CSPD has 7 cars; 6 of them are patrolling Northgate (bar district) at night. That means you only have to avoid the one missing one out there on your way home, and you’re okay.
You’re better of dealing with the University Police Department than CSPD.
My brother and I were walking from Northgate back onto campus one Friday night, headed to Midnight Yell Practice, when we were stopped by two UPD officers. Bro was carrying two bottles of beer, one in each hand. They informed he was in possession of an open container, which is not allowed on campus (they ignore this for tailgating on gameday). He replied that he didn’t know, and asked if he could finish them. They said ok, so he did, and tossed the bottles into a trash barrel.
Meanwhile, I was already sloshed, so I just stood there and mumbled incoherently about the team we were playing the next day. The cops didn’t do anything, just told us to be careful, and went on their way. They were nice.
Comment by Beergut — May 22, 2007 @ 2:47 am
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#22:
Bdoc,
Things must have changed in Key West. I was there on spring break in ‘92 and got in to a bar with my fake ID (as my friend in the line next to me got his taken up, no less) and we’re in there for maybe 5 mins, just long enough to get my first beer when two cops come walking through the damn bar, and as luck would have it, straight up to me and ask to see my ID. Again, this is inside the damn bar. I present my fake ID once again, thinking I might be able to pull it off. Long story short, they marched my ass out the front door and down the middle of the main street and into a makeshift booking station. I spent all the next day in an orange jumpsuit picking up trash all over the island. That’s pretty tough in my opinion.
Comment by Nashville Dawg — May 21, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
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Back when I was in college, I had two fraternity brothers get arrested for public intox for riding their bikes to Taco Bell. At 2:30am… in February… during a snow storm… while wearing t-shirts and flip flops… We only found out they got arrested when we couldn’t find them at 3:00pm the next afternoon.
Comment by PAGator — May 21, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
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Just for the record, I didn’t read PeteJayhawk’s comment before I wrote mine, so I didn’t plagiarize those two words.
Comment by El Caballo de Sangre — May 21, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
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bhors @ #10 is right; it used to be nigh impossible to get busted for drunkenness in Columbus. It’s a long time since then, so I don’t mind admitting that in Oxford, OH (Miami U.) from ‘87-’91, I racked up one each of: fake ID, public drunkenness, public urination, drunk & disorderly ,and disturbing the peace. So that’s my vote for the easiest.
Comment by El Caballo de Sangre — May 21, 2007 @ 4:41 pm