FULMER CUPDATE: COUGAR’D!
This week’s big board only appears unchanged: Washington State makes a spectacular score in some post-incident charge juggling, a correction noted in the regular notes, corrections, and etcetera below. The board is provided, as always, by Brian, who is hung like Reggie F’n Nelson.

Washington State’s Andy Roof may have put Wazzou on the board for good thanks to his ability not just to punch people at parties, but also to break their bones while doing it. The Cougars already sat at a good, solid five points thanks to some contact lens sabotage and beery legerdemain.
Andy Roof’s original head-butting offense was given one point for piddly charges, but that may have changed in a drastic manner:
But the police investigation is pointing to alleged crimes more serious than misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. An assault that results in broken bones usually merits a felony second-degree charge, Tennant said.
“Our investigation is criminal in the fact, ‘Did Andy Roof hit this person and how much damage did he cause this person?’ ” Tennant said.
Broken bones in a fight mean likely and various felony charges for Roof. Conservatively, let’s go ahead and estimate two felony charges of assault at the minimum put Roof’s incident at a six-pointer, meaning WSU climbs to a count of eleven–and that’s if we don’t “reward” Roof with a bonus point for not only punching someone completely unprovoked, but also for smashing someone’s face into a stop sign.
Other than that: relative quiet. Two former Mississippi State players will be charged in a shooting incident, meaning we may have to award some retroactive points for the crime. (Croom did boot them, but they were players at the time, and therefore the charges and awarded points stand. Exeunt the EDSBS legal staff…) This quote mystifies us:
“I did make a terrible decision,” said Wesley. “I didn’t use the brain God gave me. I used what the devil gave me.”
A golden fiddle? A stunning goatee? The gift of knowledge? Or like the only great scene in Bedazzled, a life as a Colombian drug dealer complete with assassins in pursuit and a hot mistress? For the record, we never saw what was bad about that whole setup.
(Thanks as always to the SAS Wiki Fulmer Cup board for keeping us straight on scoring. We need all the help we can get.)












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Great story and thanks for keeping track of this stuff. The great Palouse is something else. Paul Wulff has got his hands full.
The title to the article is slightly incorrect. It should be “Coug’d it” not “Cougar’d it.” This is a common phrase in the Pacific Northwest that originally referred to the Coug’s tendency to go 7-0 only to lose all their games in November. Or Coug’s being up by 17 to USC only to lose the game. The phrase has transcended sports and has moved into the daily lexicon.
Blow a job interview “I Coug’d it.” Fail to close the deal with a girl, “Coug’d it.” Didn’t get the expected sale, “Really Coug’d that one.” Failed the class final, you got it now.
Comment by Cas — May 7, 2008 @ 10:41 am
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Eh, Chris, Zook has not beaten Iowa–EVER, so you guys may want to start there before talking about NC.
Comment by RJ — May 7, 2008 @ 9:18 am
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Eh, a conflict of laws issue.
Having had the fortune of living in Jackson Miss. for 5 years, and 4 years in Chicago, it make sense that firing a starter pistol draws more legal wrath from the authorities than 2 individuals shooting a real gun.
Comment by Chris — May 6, 2008 @ 7:26 pm
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the basketball scene wasn’t bad
“You just gotta go out there and take it one game at a time”
“Elliot(whatever his last name was) spitting glass at ya ass”
Comment by SpookyJuice — May 6, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
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Who’s in the lead for the Ellis T. Jones award?
Comment by John — May 6, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
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Don’t expect that point total to go up, Haters.
STARKVILLE - Two former Mississippi State football players won’t serve jail time for their roles in a March 27 gunfire incident on the school’s campus.
Quinton Wesley, a former MSU defensive tackle, was sentenced to three years probation today by Oktibbeha County Circuit Judge Lee Howard. Michael Brown, a former offensive tackle, was sentenced to two years probation.
**Both pleaded guilty last week to possession of a firearm on educational property. ** The two were dismissed from school and the MSU team immediately following the incident.
Wesley’s sentence was stiffer than Brown’s because Wesley had a prior misdemeanor conviction for simple assault in 2006, Howard said.
Wesley was fined $2,000 plus court costs and Brown was fined $1,200 plus court costs. Both former players will have to undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing and avoid further trouble during their probation terms, which are suspended prison sentences.
The two learned their sentences in front of a handful of family members in an Oktibbeha County circuit courtroom. Attorneys for both men said their clients wouldn’t comment.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/SPORTS030102/80506026
Comment by hailstate — May 6, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
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Chris:
Miss State hasn’t been awarded their full allotment of points, and could be headed for a higher point total given the severity of the charges. We can only assess what is charged, not what will be charged.
And how that happens are the powers that be dinging the Illini player in questions with three felonies and two misdemeanors
We do owe Sylvester Croom for precipitating his firing. And so do you: as bad as [NAME REDACTED] can be in a game situaion, he’s no Ron Turner.
Comment by Orson Swindle — May 6, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
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Chris @ 25 Funny you should mention the Rose Bowl; I was watching that last night, and “next year’s National Champions” was not what came to mind while watching the Illini.
Comment by DC Trojan — May 6, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
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Chris - love the passion and the backhand props for Manningham (5-78 and 1 td receiving to go with 7-53 and no tds rushing), but I am pretty sure it was Arrington (9-153 and 2 tds) who ran 2,008 post routes and was uncovered for every one of them.
Comment by maskedavenger — May 6, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
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Well, once Urban’s boys start taking over, you end up with a team built in Schembechlers image transform into a bunch of Tazmanian devils, running by a bunch of stunned db’s wondering who just ran by them (pardon me, Mr. Manningham, please, continue running your post route while I try and find my jockstrap).
If not for the genirosity of Hart, they would still be scoring.
But I digress.
How does one player firing a starter pistol get twice as many points as a program with 2 players shooting a real gun? That whole NAME REDACTED thing? Giving thanks to Sylvester Croom for beating the Gators so he could be fired? A combination of the two?
Comment by Chris — May 6, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
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“Eh, I can understand why you would not like him. I wouldn’t like a guy who recruited 20 of 22 players that won a National Championship,”
Oh! Heavens Yes! Thank god for [NAME REDACTED}! Because UF never, ever attracted any talent before He arrived. Nope. He really put us on the map, talent-wise. Strange he couldn’t win more than 9 games, though. What with all that talent running around. Anyway, enjoy your certain national Championship.
Comment by Mr. Wrong — May 6, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
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Duly noted.
Would that be his real name, or NAME REDACTED?
Simply put, who is gonna beat the Zooker? He’ll handle Mizzou. The B10? We’ve handled OSU, who else stands in the way? Michigan, with its spread offense with a bunch of lumbering pulling guards on the OL, no qb, and no receivers? PSU? Wisconsin?
Zooker has their number.
Which all leads up to a national championship game against Georgia, with an outcome more akin to recent B10/SEC bowl games such as Wisconsin v. Arkansas and Auburn recently, PSU over Tennessee, Michigan over Florida then, ummm, the other ones.
Comment by Chris — May 6, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
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Illinoise for the MNC? Shit, I’m an ND fan and even I’m not that delusional.
Comment by AllWhoYonder — May 6, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
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If [NAME REDACTED] wins a national championship anywhere in anything, we will eat his entire name carved out of pieces of cheese. And considering that we can’t eat even mildass American cheese without wanting to hurl up our liver, that is quite a bet.
We’ll even film it, and the requisite vomiting afterwards.
Comment by Orson Swindle — May 6, 2008 @ 2:29 pm