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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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
Comment by AWOL — April 14, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
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The only system of tubes invented in Athens involves golf course irrigation.
Comment by gosouthgohard — April 14, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
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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.
Comment by Sundawg — April 14, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
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Buffs sux.
Comment by meatybob — April 14, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
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More points for Wazzu please good sir:
http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/25453
Comment by RRTX Coug — April 14, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
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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?
Comment by Ivory Tusk — April 14, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
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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
Comment by Yinka Double Dare — April 14, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
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Sundawg @ #14
OH SNAP!
Comment by That 5.0 Guy — April 14, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
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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.
Comment by FisheriesDawg — April 14, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
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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 …
Comment by Sundawg — April 14, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
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My trainer had me doing those Turkish Getups last week with 25kg kettle bells. Not that difficult really
Comment by Derrick — April 14, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
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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/
Comment by paco — April 14, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
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“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.
Comment by Pirate_mate — April 14, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
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Oh, Pinkel.
Poor little Pinkel.
Comment by Stephen Colboar — April 14, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
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The Big XII North: fighting our inferiority complex to the South by getting arrested!
Comment by El Hombre — April 14, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
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also, that’s a slightly old list - it’s dated march 28 - so the individual placements might have changed a bit since.
Comment by kleph — April 14, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
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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.
Comment by zzgator — April 14, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
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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.
Comment by Dave — April 14, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
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Maybe Dr. Tebow is performing lobotomies on the Gators to keep them in line…..whatever it takes!
Comment by hobeg8r — April 14, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
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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.
Comment by kleph — April 14, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
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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.
Comment by Doug — April 14, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
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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.
Comment by zzgator — April 14, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
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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!
Comment by jds — April 14, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
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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’!
Comment by Crabapple Buck — April 14, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
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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!
Comment by Sundawg — April 14, 2008 @ 12:42 pm