FULMER CUPDATE: UTEP’S ROLLIN’, BABEEE!!!
This week’s big board includes the mysterious and possibly large score made by UTEP this week, represented by question marks. As with the question mark boxes in Super Mario 3, hit it with your head and see what happens! You may turn into a flying raccoon, grow to twice your normal size, or get the special Gallon of PCP bonus.
The addenda, errata, and apologies follow below:

Notes:
Arkansas State falls from the big board due to the dismissal of all charges against players following a ROOOOOOOOOOLLLL BOUNCE! roller skating fracas. We can’t find a link, presumably because the Arkansas court system is clogged solid with cases involving FOIA requests for Houston Nutt’s cell phone records. Should someone find one, please send it or way hyah?
UTEP’s got serious points coming based on the involvement of several players in a bar brawl so big it could have come straight out of a John Ford Western. (Haymakers for everyone!) Police arrived at the scene early Sunday morning to what they described as “a large fight,” and began arresting anything that hadn’t already been thrown into a wagon wheel chandelier, tossed down the length of the bar, or punched into the watering trough by a burly cowpoke. The impressive list of charges follows:
Isaiah Carter, 17, a freshman linebacker from Converse, Texas, was charged with public intoxication; Damon Cromartie, 20, a sophomore defensive back from Riverside, Calif., was charged with disorderly conduct; Tufick Shadrawy, 20, a sophomore wide receiver from Arlington, was charged with assault on a public servant, attempt to take weapon from peace officer and interference with public duties; Brandon Thigpen, 17, a freshman defensive back from Moreno Valley, Calif., was charged with public intoxication; and Brian Wilkins, 20, a sophomore linebacker from Tustin, Calif., was charged with assault on public servant, resisting arrest, search or transport and interference with public duties.
That’s looking to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a powerful 12-14 point surge, proving once again that Mike Price’s teams know how to score points in a hurry. Points pending difficult differential equations needed to calculate properly.
USF RB Mike Ford keeps USF’s ever-growing profile on the swell in the Fulmer Cup, as well, earning himself a contempt of court arrest for ignoring three outstanding warrants, which sounds pretty contemptuous to us. One warrant? That’s mere disdain. Two warrants constitutes snootiness. Three? Contempt, sirrah. One point for USF, who earns it but can’t make it onto this year’s diversified and competitive board.












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Bama is trying to make the big board with about two points:
Deadrick, Upchurch arrested over weekend:
TUSCALOOSA - Two University of Alabama football players, Brandon Deadrick, 19, and Roy Upchurch, 22, were arrested early Saturday morning on misdemeanor charges following an altercation in front of The Legacy, a bar along the UA strip.
Both were released on bail hours after being transported to the Tuscaloosa County Jail. According to jail records, Upchurch was released on $300 bond. Deadrick was released on a $1,500 bond.
Deborah Lane, a university spokesperson, said the two UA athletes are enrolled in summer school and confirmed that both were arrested in a story posted Sunday night on The Tuscaloosa News Web site.
A sophomore, Deadrick, is a 6-foot-4, 271-pound defensive lineman from Elizabethtown, Ky. Upchurch is a 6-foot, 191-pound sophomore running back from Tallahassee, Fla., who had surgery on his right ankle in October 2006.
Head coach Nick Saban was out of town when told of the arrests.
“We are still in a fact-finding situation currently,” UA athletic department spokesman Doug Walker said.
According to a Tuscaloosa Police Department report, Deadrick was arrested for criminal mischief, resisting arrest and giving a false name. Officers said Upchurch was arrested by UA police officers.
A Tuscaloosa City police spokesman said no fights or injuries were reported in the incident.
Comment by War Eagle — July 16, 2007 @ 7:51 am
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dammit!!! bama can’t get their shit together this year in the fulmer cup. only guilty by association.
Comment by gerry dorsey — July 12, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
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Not to fear. USF no doubt will be back on the board, and The Jim will be dispensing his hug punishment in full force.
Comment by USF sux — July 11, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
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No points to Bama for Coleman’s credit card arrest?
Comment by Tim Brando — July 11, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
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2 UTEP football players charged with felonies
Check out the story
http://www.elpasotimes.com/minersmania/ci_6345287
Comment by Kevo — July 11, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
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If Mike Price wasn’t the coach at UTEP, it’d make no sense.
Comment by CFB Authority — July 11, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
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Hey, so how did they not get MIP charges as well? all of them are under 21!
Comment by Jonathan — July 11, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
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hey, does michigan lose points now that the court sez only one of its 2 accused guys was actually guilty for beating the shit out of somebody?
Comment by shikselover — July 11, 2007 @ 11:48 am
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good to know i’m not the only person on earth that has heard of “the whitest kids ya’know.”
Comment by adam — July 11, 2007 @ 11:25 am
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About the Arkansas Tech name change…Why wouldn’t they just make the men’s teams the Golden Suns, which is what they call the women’s teams? Seems pretty cut n’ dry.
Comment by Brian — July 11, 2007 @ 11:22 am
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Yep ol’ Tray Blackmon is a regular sunday school teacher..wonder what town he will be found Drunk in Public in this year..
Comment by CapstoneAlum — July 11, 2007 @ 11:03 am