FULMER CUPDATE: BRINGING THE IRISH BAC!

by Orson on Feb 6, 2008 1:54 PM EST Comment 13 comments

In all the Signing Day hubbub, we shouldn't forget to note Notre Dame scoring, both because it's been so rare in the past year or so, and also because if we don't note it now we'll have to deal with all the emails saying "You can't count!" and "Don't forget our points." Bloggers make lousy accountants, but let's go ahead and get to the digits.

Notre Dame tight end Will Yeatman drank like a champion on January 28th but then made the error of driving his own victory chariot, an error noted by the local authorities in the form of a DUI charge, good for two Fulmer Cup points. Yeatman has been suspended indefinitely from the team by coach Charlie Weis. We're tempted to demand his arrest and the filing of additional charges for this comment, though:

A month ago, Yeatman said that during Notre Dames 3-9 football season he had points where he became excited for lacrosse season early.

To be fair, this is extremely unfair quotation going on here: Yeatman also plays for Notre Dame's lacrosse team, and says he just wanted to find some way to use his talents to make Notre Dame look good in an athletic endeavor. And if we'd had a 3-9 season last year, we'd crave the sweet relief of being hit in the face with a lacrosse ball, too.

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They play lacrosse west of Towson?

by DevilGrad on Feb 6, 2008 2:32 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Once they made it west of Pikesville, DevilGrad, it was only a matter of time before someone was holding his stick to shade his eyes (so to speak) while looking at the Pacific, in the manner of Cortes. Or something.

by DC Trojan on Feb 6, 2008 2:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Drunk Irish

by Odell 51 on Feb 6, 2008 2:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Just imagine if Lacrosse had SEC speed……like Jim Brown had (All american Football and Lax at Cuse)

FYI it has been a club sport in the south for years (something I did not know)

by shovel pass on Feb 6, 2008 3:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

re: #3 Odell 51

Isn’t that redundant?

by Geaux Irish on Feb 6, 2008 3:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/feb/04/police-found-faison-passed-out-in-truck-blood-at/

Has Tennessee been awarded points for Faison’s DUI yet?

If yes, pardon me.

by UgasTexan on Feb 6, 2008 3:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I dont know if its ever been addressed, but at what point to recruits begin to count towards Fulmer Cup? Being that its signing day and all, I would guess now…

Also there are two kinds of drunk irishmen, the lacrosse playing kind and the kind like tommy teirnan… the first being an unathletic stiff with a thing for chubby coaches, the second being an angry comic anyone outside the thickest gutter in Dublin can’t understand.

by beckett929 on Feb 6, 2008 4:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Sadly, the ND lacrosse program has been vastly superior to its football counterpart over the past decade, and losing Yeatman is a far bigger hit to the Irish laxers than on the gridiron. Yeatman is a decent blocking TE, but not much of a receiving threat at this point.

From the sounds of it, Yeatman will be gone for the rest of the semester, at a minimum. That seems to be the precedent set by ND administration with the Rashon Powers-Neal DWI suspension in 2005 and the Kyle McAlarney (man, what a perfect ND name) suspension from the basketball team for MJ possession.

by Deez Nutz on Feb 6, 2008 4:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Kansas makes an appearance on the big board. Go fighting Manginos!

Kansas redshirt freshman cornerback Phillip Strozier, a graduate of Rockhurst High, was arrested Saturday in Lawrence on charges of theft and removal of a theft deception device.

by Brian O'Blivion on Feb 6, 2008 4:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Wouldn’t you leave the theft DECEPTION device behind to deceive the authorites into believing that no theft occured?

by skinnyphatman on Feb 6, 2008 4:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Isn’t Yeatman in the EDSBS Facebook group? There are several ND players who read this site…I think Toryan Smith is another one.

by Wilbur on Feb 6, 2008 5:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeatman was expected to be one of the best lacrosse players in the country this season. I think he won the national freshman of the year award last year.

by champ on Feb 6, 2008 8:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I know this sounds terrible, and I am not saying that DUI’s are a good thing, but when it comes to a successful football program, this is something you like to see.

Way to Go Irsih!

by Odell 51 on Feb 7, 2008 9:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs