FULMER CUPDATE: BUFFALO STAMPEDE!
Brian, who is hung like Reggie F’n Nelson, brings us the Big Board again this week. Notes, invitations to join us for most glorious bearish Russian kettlebell workouts, and refusals to correct follow below.

Notes, corrections, clarifications and obfuscations:
PENDING: MASSIVE POINTS FOR PITT. It allegedly involves a SWAT team, meaning the vaunted Wannstache recruiting charm extends not only to talented humans, but to whatever rough beast requires a SWAT team to remove him from a dorm.
Colorado bumps up another three points and places themselves in the thick of this trailer-park brawl with the arrest of Jake Duren, linebacker, for breaking into a car on campus this past weekend. Duren had just had an outstanding spring scrimmage, so in order to celebrate, he did the logical thing:
Duren, according to CU Police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley, was found bloody and smelling of alcohol in a hallway of a family housing complex near the campus. Duren, his hand bloodied, apparently had broken into a vehicle in the complex parking lot, Wiesley said.
Duren does not live in the complex, and Wiesley said Sunday night that campus police do not know why he was there.
“Found bloody and smelling of alcohol:” The subtitle for our autobiography, ranking right up there with “And now I am filled with shame” for the winner’s spot in that contest. Duren was immediately booted from the team by Dan Hawkins, who surely noted the youngster’s shorting on discipline and love early in life whilst tossing his locker contents into a cardboard box.
Extra bonus SMRT: how did the police link him to the scene of the crime? Duren left a trail of blood behind him.
As spectacular as accosting your teammate with a knife is, the charges remain surprisingly paltry:
Bell, 21, was arraigned before District Judge Daniel Hoffman on numerous charges, including terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct and harassment. He was jailed, with bail set at $50,000.
All of the charges are misdemeanors, leaving us with five points on five charges. Even with one bonus point for the spectacularly stupid nature of the crime, the max we can award here is six points. For the perverse Penn State fan hoping for more points here, you should be ashamed. (And, um, no, you can’t have any.)
Anyone’s game at this point. True, boldfaced header: it is anyone’s game. We seriously, seriously doubt Missouri can rack up more points this season. (If they do, the “Pinkel Cup” has no ring to it.)









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Sundawg says:
Dammit, what about Bethune-Cookman’s backup QB and his string of felonies including attempted murder and cocaine possession?
Don’t ignore the small schools, Lawya!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
The halfway point in the Fulmer Cup is in two weeks. This has been a warmup to the summer fun that is ahead of us. Look for Penn State, Illinois and Michigan to have a big second half charge. Remember folks, they haven’t seen the good felony weather yet. West Virginia looks solid and won’t fold down the stretch like they do in their games. Tennessee will keep the SEC proud. It ain’t the Fulmer Cup for nothin’!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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jds says:
Agree with sundawg. Even though they’re not div 1, we should at least calc a point total. Trafficking cocaine within 1000 ft of a school should not be ignored!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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zzgator says:
Fitting that Tenn-uh-see is the only ess-eee-see school representing at the present time. Apparently the rest of us are moving too fast for the cops to catch us.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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Doug says:
Damn. Caleb King and the rest of the Dawgs are gonna have to rack up a whole lot of scooter miles to even hope to catch up with this bunch.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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kleph says:
not quite, zzgator. bama, arkansas and miss. state are all included in that four-way tie for tenth. that’s plenty good placement for a second-half breakout.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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hobeg8r says:
Maybe Dr. Tebow is performing lobotomies on the Gators to keep them in line…..whatever it takes!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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Dave says:
Sundawg: he already covered it here, in item #3: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/04/10/curious-index-41008/
Athletes on non I-A schools are ineligible for the Fulmer Cup.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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zzgator says:
Thanks for the expanded list kleph…just goes to show you how far the state has fallen in the CFB ranks…Gators at the bottom and nary a point in sight (yet) for the co-canes or the crimi-noles. Sigh.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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kleph says:
also, that’s a slightly old list – it’s dated march 28 – so the individual placements might have changed a bit since.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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El Hombre says:
The Big XII North: fighting our inferiority complex to the South by getting arrested!
April 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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Stephen Colboar says:
Oh, Pinkel.
Poor little Pinkel.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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Pirate_mate says:
“Dan Hawkins, who surely noted the youngster’s shorting on discipline and love early in life whilst tossing his locker contents into a cardboard box.”
Nicely played sir, 10 cocktails to you.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
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paco says:
Pittsburgh + SWAT = PCP!!! Kinda like nekkid vehicle surfing but without the mullet and Skoal. http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/04/08/theyre-tough-in-pennsyltucky/
April 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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Derrick says:
My trainer had me doing those Turkish Getups last week with 25kg kettle bells. Not that difficult really
April 14th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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Sundawg says:
Thanks Dave, my bad.
What’s a small school got to do around here to get a little respect, beat a powerhouse like Michigan or Alabama?
Oh, wait …
April 14th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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FisheriesDawg says:
Dave, from the link you gave, Orson said:
“We’ll update, as we may just deem this worthy of an Ellis T. Jones III award for individual achievement. ”
I look at this sort of like the MNC and the Heisman. Alcorn State wasn’t eligible to compete for the MNC, but Steve McNair was certainly eligible to compete for the Heisman.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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That 5.0 Guy says:
Sundawg @ #14
OH SNAP!
April 14th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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Yinka Double Dare says:
Crabapple, from what it sounds like Michigan’s players are getting worked so hard on S&C compared to before that most of them are probably too exhausted to get into any trouble. That, and half the team were either seniors, left for the draft, or quit. Too bad, Alex Mitchell might have been good for an angry threatening demand for Krazy Jim’s Blimpie Burger to make him a sack of 10 quintuples with bacon, cheese and fried egg on the house after the frustration of having a conditioning program that isn’t “Go eat a whole pizza every night, son.”*
*actual method of putting weight on a player used at least once during the previous coaching administration
April 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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Ivory Tusk says:
The Dawgs go nearly 25 years without doing anything, discover black jerseys and Evil Richt, then start talking smack? What is the world coming to?
April 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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RRTX Coug says:
More points for Wazzu please good sir:
http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/25453
April 14th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
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meatybob says:
Buffs sux.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
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Sundawg says:
Tusker, 25 years without doing anything? While you were planning your next dynasty, we took down the Berlin wall and invented the internet, which is a system of tubes …..
Actually, the wall was a Tech project that was poorly planned and constructed.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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gosouthgohard says:
The only system of tubes invented in Athens involves golf course irrigation.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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AWOL says:
What about Nebraska’s DE recruit Josh Williams being arrested for a felony offense? Punched (although this is disputed by some) and robbed a guy in his car of $900
April 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
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JTG says:
Damn. All this adds up to only 12 points? It looks so much bigger when written out:
Duren’s arrest follows a raft of problems other CU football players have run into since January.
In March, tight end Riar Geer was arrested on suspicion of assaulting two men.
The day before Geer’s arrest, linebacker Lynn Katoa turned himself in on suspicion that he assaulted a student at a party in February.
Both players were suspended.
In January, linebacker Nate Vaiomounga was charged with criminal mischief on suspicion that he broke a window in a residence hall. On the same night, fullback Kai Maiava was ticketed with underage possession and consumption of alcohol.
Vaiomounga also was charged with underage possession and consumption of alcohol in February.
Plati said Vaiomounga and Maiava were disciplined and are practicing with the team.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
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Freehawk says:
Turkish get ups with a SPOTTER?
What a wuss
April 14th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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Zombie JoePa says:
About the Penn State points: “including” from that article means “including but not limited to” for the purposes of point counting.
According to the Daily Collegian, Penn State’s student paper:
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/04/08/bell_off_team_after_alleged_kn.aspx
“The incident, which yielded no injuries, brought charges of terroristic threats, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, two counts of disorderly conduct and two counts of harassment for Bell, who was arraigned last night before Centre County District Judge Daniel Hoffman.”
That’s seven charges right there, plus a bonus point for “style.” (I’m just saying.)
April 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
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Matthew says:
Rack some more points of the Tigers!!!!
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/mizzou/story/3F2C3F4DF255D1D18625742D003CE334?OpenDocument
April 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm