FULMER CUPDATE: BAMA GETS CRIMINALLY MISCHIEVOUS
Alabama, whose players had been too busy for this shit during spring practice, picks up some minor but always entertaining criminal mischief points for an incident at The Legacy nightclub in Tuscaloosa.
The Legacy advertises itself as “known for it’s great atmosphere, amazing live entertainment, and the best staff you’ll ever meet.” All three–in addition to the completely unique beer lights and multiple televisions, unseen in any other college bar anywhere–must have been irresistible for Alabama football player Brandon Deadrick, who refused to leave the establishment Saturday night and was booked for criminal mischief, resisting arrest and giving a false name.
Sir, I cannot leave your establishment. It transfixes us.
(Again, note to legal authorities around the nation: please, please start reporting the fake names, since we just make up fake fake names in our head when stories like this happen. Today’s fake name bets: Hank Towardsbottom, Elrod Cummerbund, and B.Y. Youngsfanger. )
Roy Upchurch, another Bama player, was also arrested, though we’re not quite sure of the charges. For the moment Bama cleans up with a three-spot for Deadrick, and a blanket one pointer for Upchurch’s arrest until we figure out the charges, thus totalling a four-pointer for Bama.
A dilemma, though: if Alabama football players corner and pummel Mike “I have a Ph.D. in Awesome Sex and Sportswriting from the University of Delaware” Freeman for dubbing Alabama the dirtiest program of all time, do we award points for the assault? And how many comments until the inevitable Auburn/Alabama threadjack, since they now can bond in a queasy front against a common enemy as Freeman also tagged Auburn as the second dirtiest program ever?
UPDATE: Your specious, potentially not-true-at-all internet account makes this seem much more mischievous than the newspaper account does:
I was on the strip Friday and Upchurch and Deaderick, and three other assumed football players I didn’t recognize, tried getting some underage girls into the Legacy. They got in an arguement (sic) and subsequent fight with the bouncers over it and UAPD and TPD responded. A big fight with the 5 players and the police went down. Upchurch and Deaderick got taken in by TPD and the other three were hauled in by UAPD. Deaderick head-butted the back window out of the patrol car and had to be maced by the cops to get him under control. Why isn’t this on the news or in the papers?
Because it’s interesting, that’s why. And, you know, possibly untrue. (HT: Will.)
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Roll Tide Auburn Sucks.
Comment by JR — July 18, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
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Bucky,
You are a butthead, even for a Yankee. I was born in New York and moved to Alabama, but whereas I adapted, you just turned into a bigger jerk with bigger anti-South prejudices.
Alabama fans, bless their hearts, are funny in a pathetic sort of way. Poke them a little bit and giggle while they talk about their 12 NCs and ‘Bama’s back’, but don’t go painting the whole South with your hate.
Pick on Canadians or something worthwhile.
Comment by War Eagle — July 17, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
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#92
No one has treated me like shit, I just don’t care for the southern mentality that exists in Alabama and for the instant negative reaction to anything northern.
And for the life of me, I can not figure out where this “thinks he’s better than everyone else because he’s from the north” shit comes from. My guess is that it is a reaction southerners have upon hearing someone from the Midwest speak and use proper grammar, not sure. Or maybe it comes from “outsiders” telling people from the south that their primary education sucks, but that’s just the truth in Alabama.
Let’s just be honest about the whole north/south thing, you guys have never let go of the past and the hatred for the north and the wrongdoings of the civil war have been passed down through the generations. I’m not saying it is conscious hatred, in my opinion it’s something that is just kind of ingrained and just accepted.
Comment by tOSUBuckeyes — July 17, 2007 @ 11:36 am
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Most people don’t know this. It was not until the early 80’s that Auburn grads (Auburn people) where allowed to sit on the Auburn University Board of Trustees. Up until then, they had all been appointments from the University of Alabama system.
Now you guys think about that for a minute.
Orson, how nice would it be to have the UF BOT comprised of all FSU grads? How under thumb do you think FSU would keep UF?
Comment by KT — July 17, 2007 @ 10:40 am
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TOSU,
My wife is from Peoria, IL, but I am from Mobile.
She, and her parents both admit that the south is much friendlier and ten times LESS racist than the North ever thought about being (mainly because of the culture shock you get down here, with it being about 50% black).
Maybe people were being mean to you because you personified a typical yankee: Asshole that thinks he’s better than everyone else.
I can see why now they treated you like shit.
Comment by Steve — July 17, 2007 @ 10:07 am
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for some objectivity, this was taken from the NCAA website: https://web1.ncaa.org/pdf/convert?pdfurl=http://goomer.ncaa.org:2020/wdbctx/lsdbi/lsdbi.lsdbi_mi_rpts.mostinfractionsrpt
Bama and OSU have the same amount of major infractions.
Comment by Kecalf Bailey — July 17, 2007 @ 9:08 am
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tosubuck-
Quit acting ignorant, Alabama is not the only place it continues.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/16/racial.slur.ap/index.html
Comment by King Harvest — July 17, 2007 @ 7:40 am
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As commenter no. 82 said, the reason Auburn and Alabama have been penalized the most is that their idiot supporters get boners over seeing the rival get in trouble. Auburn was the better program when Bryant first arrived at Alabama and he played a key role in getting AU put on probation, surpassing them for good pretty quickly afterward. That was the first blow, but they’ve traded a lot of licks in the years since.
I don’t believe for a second that either program is dirtier than your average top-20 programs in FBC history. But there’s such a juvenile level of hatred between the two sides that they can’t wait to topple the other one again. Just a quick glance at the comments section on this board where either school is mentioned pretty much proves my point.
Comment by David — July 17, 2007 @ 4:12 am
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46 & 51
Tennstud’s birth name is Roy Adams. He was the booster hosting the party last year that got some attention from the NCAA. Trooper Taylor got paid to make an appearance at this party. Adams also continuously admits to having contact (of various sorts) with Vole players, recruits, and ex-players. I would post a link to Gridscape but all of that orange makes me vomit. Twice.
Comment by Tommy Gallion — July 17, 2007 @ 12:03 am
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#85
“As for my bone with Alabama…it’s simple, I have been to your state, lived in your state, and I have never met a Bama fan who didn’t have some back-handed, northern/yankee-hating comment upon discovering that I am a Buckeye fan. I have see first hand how racist the people of Alabama are and how intolerant you are of anyone “not southern.—
My grandmother had a sweet southern saying that is perfectly applicable in this situation…”Don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
Comment by CapstoneAlum — July 16, 2007 @ 11:14 pm
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#85: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! I’m so certain that a BAMA fan living in Ohio would experience nothing but kindness & compliments from the natives there. That is by far the friendliest place in the country…no doubt about it.
I’ve lived in the north & visited in the north & the condecention toward southerners (in general-not just fans of a certain school) is palpable.
As for the racist comments…yes, there are still ignorant racists here. But don’t pretent to be sacrosanct…there is racism there & not just toward blacks. There you spread your prejudices among many non-WASPs & don’t pretend to not know what I’m referring to.
I’m truly sorry that your experience here was distasteful, if in fact you’re being honest & not just stating thusly for argument’s sake.
Comment by drumhead954 — July 16, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
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#80
Level playing field huh? I’m sure that is what Bear had in mind when he was signing his 7th or 8th quarterback to a scholarship to ride the pine at Bama instead of starting at another school.
As for my bone with Alabama…it’s simple, I have been to your state, lived in your state, and I have never met a Bama fan who didn’t have some back-handed, northern/yankee-hating comment upon discovering that I am a Buckeye fan. I have see first hand how racist the people of Alabama are and how intolerant you are of anyone “not southern.”
Comment by tOSUBuckeyes — July 16, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
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#82: Doug: you & your excuses for cowtown’s record # of probations are just typical barner whining. Your red-headed step sister jealousy is so OBVIOUS on the face & in the heart’s of EVERY single barner, you couldn’t hide it if you tried from now ’til doomsday.
You & ALL barners worry more about BAMA losing or getting into trouble than you do about your own program. au=classless, as shown by your parting remark.
RTR!!!
Comment by drumhead954 — July 16, 2007 @ 8:49 pm
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Crooklahoma . . . the legacy continues.
Comment by The Duke of Wazzu — July 16, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
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Listen up: UA & AU are responsible for each team’s NCAA violations. One or the other has turned the other team in over the past 30 years. Bama was better at it early on . Auburn finally got wise and set up Bama 3 times. Fulmer iced Bama’s ass with LY. Since then a truce has been called. Tubs and Saban will keep the programs clean and keep off each other’s ass. All programs have been dirty, AU & UA just made it sport to set the other up for violations. As they say; we just try harder to fuck our rivals in AL.
If OSU had any balls they would take Michigan down.
Fuck Bama!
Comment by Doug — July 16, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
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Wow does Auburn have 7 probations? That’s a lot. That’s like one less probation than Ohio State has bowl losses to SEC teams.
On behalf of the Auburn nation let me rip off Tito Ortiz:
If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin’.
Comment by Stephen — July 16, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
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tOSUBuckeyes: what kind of burr do you have up your a$$ for BAMA? You’ve spent your whole day (at your employer’s expense, I’m guessing) researching the internet to find any available dirt on BAMA.
Have you ever even visited the state, let alone Tuscaloosa? Much of the time, when someone from your neck of the woods visits here for over a week, they find themselves wanting to live here….ask around if you don’t believe it.
As to the charges by the ncaa, they are simply that: charges. NOT PROVEN and that is what bugs most BAMA fans…there is no due process with the ncaa. They make charges & levy penalties…capriciously, I might add.
All the BAMA fans whom I know, ask for just one thing: a level playing field. If there are rogue, jock-sniffing “boosters” cheating to get recruits for BAMA, we need to be censured….but so does every other single institution where “boosters” do likewise. I won’t detail the charges against OSU, USC, OU, UM, utenn, etc. etc. that were convienently swept under the rug, as you seem very astute with your college football KNOWLEDGE. Fairness….that’s all we ask for.
But given a level playing field, we’ll take on all comers & win our fair share of games, conference championships & NCs. (Oh, I forgot…they’re “mythical” when BAMA wins them. BTW, that was JoePa’s default name for the NC until he won two himself.)Since you’re so efficient at internet research, how about researching our football record for the past century. BAMA has won very consistantly since near the beginning of football in the South.
Just one more comment…………………………we’ve got a legitimate coach once again (been awhile, now). So look out!
ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!
Comment by drumhead954 — July 16, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
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We don’t cheat more in Alabama. We just get blamed more.
And if someone was going to kill Logan Young and try and make it look like an accident, they damn sure wouldn’t have done it that way, not to mention the fact that there would have been evidence of another person all over the house after a struggle like that.
Comment by Steve — July 16, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
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If we’re going by state, nobody cheats like Texas. Seven of the eight Texas schools that used to belong to the SWC have racked up a total of 38 NCAA major violations over the years. And that doesn’t even count three or four little schools in West Bumblefuck who have committed multiple violations trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Linky linky
Comment by DevilGrad — July 16, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
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#76
Maybe using Big Ten/Eleven math, but 7 + 4 = 11
Comment by doubtingthomas — July 16, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
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#56
Here’s a little evidence that might sway your opinion regarding Bama. This is just one of 4 NCAA infraction cases; Auburn has 7 on file for a total of 12 from the one state.
https://goomer.ncaa.org/wdbctx/LSDBi/LSDBi.MajorInfPackage.ProcessMultipleBylaws?p_Multiple=0&p_PK=526&p_Button=View+Public+Report&p_TextTerms=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_TextTerms2=ThisIsADummyPhraseThatWillNotBeDuplicated&p_Division=1
Comment by tOSUBuckeyes — July 16, 2007 @ 2:15 pm