FULMER CUPDATE: THE BIG BOARD GETS ILL(INI)
by Orson on Feb 11, 2008 12:44 PM EST
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PrintBrian presents the big board for the week. A smattering of notes on what was a quiet weekend follows.
Remember: Illinois and Mizzou are both victims of one player's outstanding contributions. Depending on your semantics, then they're not really winning as a team effort. That award would, at this point, go to the West Virginia Mountaineers and the nine points they earned last week for a large "intent to distribute" marijuana arrest. Tennessee is just a disorderly conduct or DUI charge away from nipping into the team lead, however, a move that would restore the earth to its proper axis, return to the king to his rightful place in Gondor, and get Arrested Development back on the air again.
Missing in action: A few obvious preseason faves miss the list completely, making them sleepers just waiting in the weeds to explode onto the board, or otherwise tranquil programs with shockingly little to worry about in the discipline department. Where's former champ Marshall? Or heavy preseason favorite Arizona State? Or even Purdue, a team with consistently high scores throughout the short history of the cup? And whither Florida, Florida State, or Miami? Florida's already got a point for a piddling underage drinking charge, but none of the big three has anything to show in the way of taserings, drinking while flying a blimp, discharging weapons in crowded daycares, or trafficking in exotic animals.
The Florida points are on the way in an update, so don't bitch about it in the comments. This ensures one person at the least will bitch about it in the comments.
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I believe the reason set forth for the mutual exclusivity of the individual award and the team Fulmer Cup award is that the Fulmer Cup goes to the team that displays a “lack of institutional control” and one player does not necessarily show that lack.
While I agree with this argument, if one team is consistently in the running for the individual award, doesn’t that show a long term lack of institutional control? If so, shouldn’t a team that has been up for multiple individual awards be excluded from the mutual exclusivity?
by Anon on Feb 11, 2008 1:08 PM EST reply actions
Me thinks we need a lifetime achievement section, the player that graduates/leaves early for the draft/becomes a hobo with a strong love for the purple drank/otherwise ends their college football career with the most points wins…
Maybe the prize can be a platinum ankle bracelet?
by SEC Supremacist on Feb 11, 2008 1:19 PM EST reply actions
Anon makes a good point. Perhaps accumulating FC points in year one should make the exploits of a single player FC eligible in year two. In other news, doesn’t Kansas have some points coming thanks to a Rockhurst grad?
by rusty on Feb 11, 2008 1:20 PM EST reply actions
There should be a notation in parentheses for the individual with the most points comprising the team score. So you’d have 11 (11) for [Name Redacted] U.
Give Free Shoes time. The new spring fashions haven’t made it to Dillard’s yet.
by yoyofutbawl on Feb 11, 2008 1:21 PM EST reply actions
Great insight, drogue! In honor of your clear thinking, I’m upping your mission requirement to fifty-five.
by Col. Cathcart on Feb 11, 2008 1:46 PM EST reply actions
#’s six and seven…how is this a catch-22? Never mind.
by major major on Feb 11, 2008 1:54 PM EST reply actions
Still missing:
1. An additional point for Wazzu
2. Duke points
3. Kansas point(s)
by Brian O'Blivion on Feb 11, 2008 1:57 PM EST reply actions
Coach Stew kicked all the WVU players involved last week off the team, we still get to keep our points, right?
by beckett929 on Feb 11, 2008 2:05 PM EST reply actions
i would just like to bitch about the florida points not being included on the big board … sry kthnx
by dano on Feb 11, 2008 2:06 PM EST reply actions
Goddamn it, #9, I was hoping no one would notice.
by PeteJayhawk on Feb 11, 2008 2:22 PM EST reply actions
Leave it to ASU to have the sum equal less than the parts, even with former Michigan/Fulmer Cup man Eugene Germany transferring in. The Koetter legacy of underacheiving lives on in Tempe.
by Big Jon on Feb 11, 2008 2:31 PM EST reply actions
yoyofutbawl-
Sadly, the (in)famous Dillard’s at the Tallahassee Mall has closed. I went by the other day, poured out a forty, and then smacked some random bitches in tribute.
by Big Jon on Feb 11, 2008 2:32 PM EST reply actions
According to our records, Florida St. has NEVER been on a Fulmer Cup leaderboard. Astounding.
by Neodoomium on Feb 11, 2008 2:48 PM EST reply actions
Typically I would of expected WVU to choke and blow this championship too, but now that RR is gone I could see them actually finishing something.
by colonel angus on Feb 11, 2008 2:48 PM EST reply actions
FSU’s living off its reputation from 15 years ago. That and applesauce. Lots and lots of applesauce.
by DevilGrad on Feb 11, 2008 3:36 PM EST reply actions
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Has the State of Florida erected one of those historical signs there? I can see it now – “Approximatly 200 yards north, Peter Warrick, a Florida State U. football player……”
Hopefully there’s a Belk’s, which will substitute nicely.
by yoyofutbawl on Feb 11, 2008 3:46 PM EST reply actions
Oklahoma State was in the lead early, but once they got past the early season non conference action, they fell back in the standings. Applies to most revenue generating college sports.
by HeadThief on Feb 11, 2008 3:51 PM EST reply actions
Anybody know if PW will be playing for Team Florida in the AAFL? That would mean wearing orange and blue and playing for the home team in The Swamp. Last I checked there were no Dillard’s in Hogtown, either.
by Acorns on Feb 11, 2008 3:55 PM EST reply actions
according to this site:
http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/Florida/coachesplayers.php
he will!
by Pappy on Feb 11, 2008 3:59 PM EST reply actions
If anyone has a subscription to the HeraldTimesOnline, please tell us exactly what this article says.
http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2008/02/11/news.qp-3228962.sto
It looks like Indiana is aiming to pick up Purdue’s slack for Hoosier State Fulmer Cup points.
by rusty on Feb 11, 2008 7:53 PM EST reply actions
There is a Dillard’s in the Oaks Mall in Gainesville.
by Chris on Feb 11, 2008 9:19 PM EST reply actions
Cincinnati representin’ for the Fulmer Cup.
Indiana is set to get alot of points, mostly for drunk in pub-lick.
James Bailey, 21, disorderly conduct
Jarrell Drane, 18, illegal consumption
Darius Johnson, 18, resisting law enforcement, illegal consumption, public intoxication
Demetris McCray, 21, disorderly conduct
Ian Reeves, 18, illegal consumption
Orson, the Big Board is a mess. Please do not let this deterioate into the Blog Poll.
by Brian O'Blivion on Feb 12, 2008 11:00 AM EST reply actions
You can read about the Indiana arrests here.
by Brian O'Blivion on Feb 12, 2008 11:04 AM EST reply actions
Hey, Gators, stay off UGA’s piddling charges turf. We’re the recognized champs when it comes to alcohol possession and scooter malfeasance (as well as unauthorized “borrowing” of teammates’ cars).
by Because They Can on Feb 13, 2008 1:05 PM EST reply actions
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