FULMER CUPDATE: GUNS ALL OVER THE PLACE
Erique Robertson, Illinois weak-side linebacker, has been charged with three felonies in connection with an incident near the astonishingly spelled “E’llusions” nightclub in Champaign, illinois.
Freshman football player Erique Robertson pleaded not guilty to three class-four felonies Monday, one day after head coach Ron Zook suspended him indefinitely. The 19-year-old linebacker is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of weapons.
According to a Champaign Police report, Robertson was also charged at the scene with not having the proper identification for a firearm and obstructing justice.
If the charges hold, that’s three points a felony charge plus the misdemeanor points…all tallying up a whopping 11 points for the Illini, who if you’ll recall leaped to a sizeable lead last year with the breakup of a burglary ring involving two players. This eleven point total would ensconce the Illini in the catbird seat with a one-point lead over Missouri, and also puts Erique Robertson in the running for the Ellis T. Jones III Award for individual achievement.
Remember: when [NAME REDACTED] talks about the need for proper gun handling, he’s not talking about firearms man.
Guns, baby.
Filed under: Big 10 Conference, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Fulmer Cup, name redacted by Orson Swindle
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sold “OUT” house, not “our”
Comment by Out of Conference — January 30, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
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Nice reply, DG. I wanted to applaud your reply to me on the variety.
I saw a Miami-Ohio game in Athens in 1996 I think. Ed Sears (sp?) was the big guy for Ohio and scored the first 16 or so points for Ohio. Miami was favored, but Ohio won. There were Muck Fiami shirts aplenty. Sold our house, I snuck in a door that security guard held open for us. At that point it was the crowd record in that arena, but you need to add 3 to get the accurate number (if not official).
Comment by Out of Conference — January 30, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
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Re #45: And so it is. I’ll drop this digression and get back to monitoring the wires for Fulmer Cup updates, and you can return to plumbing the depths of th e ‘Bama two-deep before your next attempt to call Paul Finebaum.
Best personal regards,
DG
Comment by DevilGrad — January 30, 2008 @ 10:38 am
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@ #42
Yeah, ok…that’s great, college boy. But like it has already been said, this is a football blog…..see?
Comment by shovel pass — January 30, 2008 @ 10:06 am
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@34 and Illusions is a strip club in Woodville, MS. And , yes, their advertisements on Baton Rouge radio claim that they put the “Wood” back in Woodville.
Comment by lance harbor — January 30, 2008 @ 9:39 am
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Re #38: Different strokes, sir. Different strokes.
Football is all Wagnerian sturm und drang and frequently more dramatic than anything else on offer in American sport. But, while I love the smell of napalm in the morning (and killing the wabbit) as much as the next guy, I want something other than Wagner on my playlist.
Well-played basketball is either intricate chamber music (e.g., Princeton and my Miami RedHawks) or flowing jazz (Duke and Carolina). It’s a nice change of pace, and apparently, even Mr. Swindle partakes now and again.
Comment by DevilGrad — January 30, 2008 @ 8:52 am
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#15,
tOSU and its fanbase is hated not out of begrudging respect but because of their blind eye to the facts staring them square in the face, delusions of grandeur, and a frustrating sense of entitlement.
All of which is summed up nicely in your post.
Comment by Irwin Fletcher — January 30, 2008 @ 8:15 am
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in the street, with a wrench.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_549941.html
Comment by rusty — January 30, 2008 @ 12:23 am
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Between Ferentz’ Felons, Joe Pa’s School of Malevolent Geriatrics, and Zoooo-ooook, the Big 10’s Fullmer Cup status is looking up. Way up.
Look for big things from Rich Rodriguez in Ann Arbor once he gets his kids installed. In the past, all you could hope for from Michigan was the occasional beer bottle assault (thank you, Marlin Jackson) and some late-night porch spankin’. But it could be laywers, guns, and money in AA before 2009 is out.
Comment by The Dead Eyes of Tom Brady — January 29, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
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How about enough talking about a shitty game like hoops. I mean for god’s sake, throw a round little ball in the hoop kids. Come on, you can do it. Oh, don’t want little Tommy to slap you wrist while you try it? Ok, let’s call it a foul. Tommy, 4 more of those and you have to sit in timeout, mkay? Somebody must have posted a link here on the Tarhole/Dookie Rivals hoops site, and shazam now we have heffed up hoops kids playing tag on here.
Comment by Out of Conference — January 29, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
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Threen,
how bout in bball about 7 years running? does that count?
Comment by Duke of C-U — January 29, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
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TAFKatOSUB,
I don’t really care so long as Georgia players are only getting arrested for trivial shit. When assaults and guns enter the picture in Athens I’ll feel somewhat ashamed of the program. Take Georgia’s basketball team under Harrick for example. What the rest of the league does is delciious schadenfreude.
Comment by Biggus Rickus — January 29, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
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“Although hated, they are what every program aspires to be, which is grudging respect in an odd backhanded way.”
A football team scores one NC in 40 years and suddenly they are what every team aspires to be? Um, really?
Hey that sounds great, can I get one of those frontal lobotomies too?
Evidently, the commentary about Dook hourly workers showing up in UNC gear on game day was not legible to those without reading skills.
Comment by atepesm — January 29, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
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“E’llusions” is the name of a strip club in Monroe, Louisiana.
Comment by Ennui Stagger — January 29, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
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Uhh.. did I miss something? What ever happened to [Eyes Redacted]?
Comment by Hobnail_Boot — January 29, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
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Now there is an award I can get behind.
Comment by PTTO — January 29, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
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Re #29: Either that or the 2000 University of Washington team used up the Pac-10’s entire allotment of Fulmer Cup points for a ten-year period.
If you haven’t already, check out the Seattle Times series this week. I expect big, big things from UCLA once Slick Rick’s disciplinary standards are in place.
Comment by DevilGrad — January 29, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
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#1 You’re right: Even their arrests sound snobby.
they only manage to rack up some misdemeanors for a “public affray” while other teams’ thugs would have at least garnered some FndC points.
Comment by Cincy — January 29, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
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Weed isn’t illegal on the Left Coast and ‘tussin isn’t made in China yet, so Purple Drank it hasn’t made it out to Pac-10 land in copious quantities yet. Apples and Oranges tosuguy.
Comment by Out of Conference — January 29, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
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Pac 10 is going to be back like cooked crack. With Rick Neuheisel & Dennis Erickson 2.0 we are in for a felonious treat. TAFKATOSUB is not giving these two gents credit for past performance (which is not always indicative of future returns, but in the case of the Fulmer Cup it usually is).
Also Cutcliffe being the former Fulmer fluffer now at Duke, ironic. What was his FC record at Ole Miss?
Comment by Crabapple Buck — January 29, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
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#11
I think if you look at the all time standings, Name Redacted is the difference between the Big Ten and SEC standings. SEC: 102 and Big11Ten: 121.
Regardless, both conferences should be ashamed when compared to the Pac10: 27 Points.
Comment by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — January 29, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
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MoC didn’t leave tOSU he was kicked out after several “chances” to get his shit together.
I don’t think MoC would have had any FC points…the arrests didn’t take place until after he was kicked out of Ohio State for not attending class, etc.
Comment by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — January 29, 2008 @ 4:59 pm