FULMER CUPDATE: ROOOOOOOOOOOOLL TAAAAAHDE.
The most stunning event in the history of the Fulmer Cup places Alabama at the pinnacle of offseason feloniousness. Update brought to you by Brian, who is hung like Reggie F’n Nelson and as tenacious as a Jimmy Johns pit bull.

Jimmy Johns’ monumental arrest for powdered cocaine distribution nets Alabama a mountain of points as powdery as Breckenridge in February and just as immovable. Before any points are awarded, bear this in mind: while Johns may be eligible for the Ellis T. Jones III for individual achievement, the points may not be discarded as “just one guy” thanks to Alabama already having several offenses on the board. The judgment is that Alabama keeps the points, and there will be no debate, because this is not democracy. (Those who object will not be waterboarded, but rather “aqua-cuddled.” It’s not torture if you have a good word for it!)
The tally, as assembled from Johns’ weighty entry at the Tuscaloosa County Jail:
Five counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance times three points each= Fifteen points
One count possession of powdered cocaine: three points
Two unreported traffic citations= two points
The final tally: TWENTY POINTS, a score deserving of all-caps hyperbole, except that it isn’t hyperbole if you even come close to halving Ellis T. Jones 13 felony charges (somewhere around a forty point score by itself without any bonus points. Quantifying his achievement almost demeans its greatness.)
Alabama now sits proudly with an oxygen bottle on an Everest of points: 28. The prayer flags flapping in the breeze, the Himalaya all around you…it would be beautiful if we were talking about mountain climbing, and not a college linebacker caught selling blow in an undercover sting operation.
One point not to be forgotten is that if you sell to one person five times, the actual number of transactions Johns made with customers was likely larger. No one sells coke experimentally or on a lark, especially when you’re diligent enough to make five sales in a row. Johns seemed to be pretty serious about this, and to imagine some of his teammates did not know he sold yayo from his apartment is insanity.
There’s a fine line between dumping off a few grams for a friend for extra cash and being a responsible, diligent, and responsive coca dealer. And yes, that’s an abominable pun we shouldn’t have even sniffed at. Sniff! Cocaine is funny! Except when it destroys your family and eats your house, car, and septum!
In addition to this, a website suggests Jimmy Johns may have been selling pit bulls using his name, something Will points out is a possible violation of NCAA rules. For all we know the site may be a mockup for a class, since there’s only an email address and no phone contact. Further digging required, but further proof all football fans in the state of Alabama sleep with a bible on one nightstand and a copy of the NCAA rules and regs on the other.
One final note on this: Johns allegedly had tabs of Ecstasy on him, too, but it pops up nowhere on the charges, meaning so many charges are in play here that adding the E onto the tally is considered overkill even by the prosecutors here. We follow their guidance and stick to the arrest record for points, and award no style points because, really, some things speak well enough for themselves on their own.
In what would be big news any other week, Washington State picks up a three point adjustment for this unreported (or totally missed, perhaps) incident from February, which eventually resulted in a series of misdemeanor pleas:
Andy Mattingly, a linebacker coming off an outstanding sophomore season, was in Spokane in late January when a friend called for help. His front teeth had just been punched out in an argument with some soccer players from North Idaho College, he said.
The friend joined up with Mattingly and Trevor Mooney, a WSU tight end. The three went to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where two of the soccer players, a goalie and a midfielder, shared an apartment.
First, they knocked. Then, Mattingly kicked in the door. The midfielder grabbed a steak knife, the goalie a butter knife. Mattingly picked up a frying pan off the stove.
The midfielder jumped out a window. This left the goalie — Cesar Lira, 5 feet 10, armed with a butter knife — to contend with Mattingly, a 6-4 linebacker swinging heavy kitchenware.
Mattingly hit Lira’s head so hard the pan’s handle broke, court records say. Lira got back up, jumped out a window and called police. He had a 2-inch gash and was “bleeding profusely,” a police report says.
When police arrested Mattingly and Mooney, Mooney was so drunk he vomited while being booked.
Frying pans are the new kettlebells!









51
pz says:
According to the last update I can find, WSU didn’t even get their full 3 pts credit (and I agree that the story sounds like it is worthy of at least 4), and that PSU did somehow pick up an additional 3 without merit.
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/06/10/fulmer-cupdate-eer-closer-to-the-lead/
June 25th, 2008 at 11:07 am
52
Out of Conference says:
#19 – I want to see Jimmy Johns wake up with TAFKAOSU’s head in his bed…. oh wait, wrong movie.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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hailstate says:
Speaking of Jimmy Johns:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n1Nb7l3DSqU
June 25th, 2008 at 11:13 am
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dawgaddict says:
http://www.mastinspitbulls.com/
the site where another breeder denounces their sale of breeding dogs to JJ…
paRoll Tide!
June 25th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
In all seriousness, EVERY major university (and lots of smaller ones… I’m looking at you Troy State) is a Cocaine Distribution Center… and a Weed Distribution Center… and an X Distribution Center.
Feel free to bury your head in the sand about it, especially if you have college age kids, but it’s all over the place. And for athletes it doesn’t stop in college… steroids really ought to be the least of the NFL’s worries. If you’re a Miami Dolphin and you’re not doing Blow, you’re not getting any love from your teammates. Period.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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dawgaddict says:
and the ever popular MySpace trail….
notice the quote at the top: “Mastins Pitbulls Wonders WTF some people are thinking!!!? ”
lol
June 25th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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dawgaddict says:
whoops: http://www.myspace.com/mastinspitbulls
June 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
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Beezer says:
Bama sure is “relevant” again!
War Eagle.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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gerry dorsey says:
peterpumpkinhead @ 55 is exactly right.
however, to echo saban’s hair dye @ 27, tuscaloosa is likely worse than most. i’m now 29 and can’t recall ever seeing the powder anywhere outside of t’town…and i live in dallas.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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Flibbetigibbet says:
Here’s an update from (snicker) “The Rap Sheet.” JJ’s Pitbulls is not a class project:
http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2008/06/jimmy_johns_life_as_an_entrepr.html
June 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
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Chizad says:
Crabapple Buck:
Please do not lump Bama as a representation of the SEC.
That goes for on the field as well.
They are the chemically imbalanced cokehead uncle in an otherwise successful and proud family.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:29 am
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blon57 says:
#54 & #57
Every reputable breeder sells to college students. Right…
June 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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blon57 says:
#59
Are you saying there is no cocaine in Dallas? Are you kidding?
June 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am
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chuy says:
63-
Maybe he’s never been to Plano…and he definitely doesn’t hang out with any SMU alums….
June 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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dawgaddict says:
@62
i just report the facts, like a real reporter….lol
and in T-town, perhaps it is seen as a good business venture to sponsor a college athlete-breeder…there’s no blessing like that of the Crimson Tide, etc.
…or perhaps you are Roll Tarded and didn’t notice that this story is funny, and the student athlete caught selling coke lives in Tuscaloosa, not Dallas.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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blon57 says:
#64
I’ll second that.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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blon57 says:
#65
I was being sarcastic. It just doesn’t come across when I write.
Reputable breeders do home visits and background checks before selling to individuals, plus they have extreme contracts on stud/breeding rights. The legitimate dog world is one of moneyed interests and they are very select about who is in and who isn’t. My point was that (obviously) these are not reputable breeders, but trailer-park types who sell dogs to anyone.
As to reference #59, this guy probably doesn’t get out much in Dallas. Coke is rampant in most college towns, and especially in Dallas, where students probably have an abundant monthly allowance from their parents and a lot of free time.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
68
Dumpster Baby says:
So now that JJ is gone Who’s carrying the “rock” next year for the Tide?
June 25th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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Florida Boy says:
@68
John Parker Wilson
June 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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Steve says:
Chizad,
You of all people should know that LSU has many skeletons in its closet. You don’t have to look hard to find a bunch of coonass, corndog smelling fools that root drunkenly for the Tigers. Just because you guys have had some success in the last 6 years doesn’t mean you have the right to be elitist snobs and act like your shit don’t stink. One doesn’t have to look any farther than how they handled the sixty million dollar man to see that.
At least Saban booted Johns sorry ass off the team immediately, instead of testing the waters (several times) and doing everything short of sacrificing a virgin to keep Perilloux on the team.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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EmotionalFescue says:
It truly sucks that the ‘Things Crimson and White People Like’ post came out within the past week or so. This event could have made it so much sweeter. Tooting own horn here, but a few posters including myself, asked about the omission of the ‘white bag’ from the list. As ironic as rain on your wedding day. Wait, that’s not ironic at all unless the bride and groom were named Sunny Aldeetime and Notta Kloudendeesky. Or the couple getting married were the capsules you dropped into water that turned into foam dinosaurs. ”I didn’t know you were a velociraptor, honey.”
June 25th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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john says:
#70, nice spin. sebear kicked him off the team AFTER he had been kicked out of school…not to mention he’s facing 15 years MANDATORY. He’s a joke of a disciplinarian.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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gerry dorsey says:
obviously there is coke in dallas…its the douchey yuppie capital of america. my point wasn’t that there isn’t coke in dallas, but that there is a great deal of it in t’town.
and no…i don’t hang out with any smu alums…please refer to first sentence for reason.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
74
John says:
70,
Sneaking into a casino is par for the course in the Great State of Louisiana.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
75
NewAZTiger says:
My New Favorite Fark. Eat your heart out, LSUFreek.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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TAFKastOSUB says:
Second. Best. Day. Ever.
The best day ever is reserved for the day the NCAA finally realizes they made a huge mistake by not shutting Alabama down back during the Albert Means case and makes right on their mistake and finally shuts Alabama completely down.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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matt says:
based on his website, at least we know jimmy can read and write… the same can’t be said for Tray Blackmon, Carnell Williams, Bo, etc, etc…
June 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
78
WALLACE says:
oh, the aubs r so excited they may sh_t their overalls!
June 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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phil says:
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of turds…
June 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
80
TAFKastOSUB says:
#70 With Johns under arrest and out on bond for a shit load of drug related charges, should we really be praising Nick Saban for his speedy dismissal of Johns??? What choice did he have…the University expelled him immediately…kind of hard to stay on the football team when the school kicks you out.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
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Just wondering says:
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That may be true, but for his sake, let’s hope he can hold on to the soap, unlike the football.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
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COB says:
#33 +1
#75 +2
Also a big backer of #72, yes quite the mans man to kick a player off the team who is facing a triple nickle in the state pen…what a ball buster! Geez can a guy catch a break? Slang some ‘cane, raise some pits, the man is trying to LIVE son! Economy is rough!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
83
NewAZTiger says:
Remember how Spurrier cleaned-house when he started at USC? That’s what disciplinarians do.
Saban basically didn’t clean house, thus he kept all the bad apples. Great coach, great disciplinarian.
The Process is the method in which the Tuscaloosa Police Department cleans up the Bama football team under Saban’s watch. They all get Processed.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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kt says:
My Bama friends are going to pissed about winning this championship. Not so much because it is awarded to criminals, more so because it is named after Fulmer. I see them burying this one deep in the trophy case…
June 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
85
Tater Salad says:
Not that it makes much difference, but I believe he was suspended from the University, not expelled. I’m sure that will come soon enough, though, if it hasn’t already.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
86
jwoolf1 says:
#27 – “Tusacloosa’s campus/entire town is basically a cocaine distribution center … and has been since before the mid-80s.”
We are shocked and appalled — HARRUMPH, by gravy — by this information, and hope the local constabulary will take stern measures. Tut-tut and good day.
Signed,
America’s Food Service and Finance Industries, Most Politicians, the Last Two US Presidents, 3/4ths of the bands you like, and All Fraternity Members.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
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Holly says:
SEC
speedcoke! Take that, Big 12!June 25th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
88
blon57 says:
#87
Holly,
We’ll do our best to try to match the SEC, but I can’t make any promises. Y’all have so much talent.
OU care to weigh in on this one?
June 25th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
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UFJim says:
Wow,
I can just imagine that little puke goalie wielding a butter knife in a fight.
seriously, it is a testament to the power of jimmy johns (subs), that his crimes are so massive, even great fulmer updates look puny by comparison
June 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
90
chuy says:
#86 nails it…
June 25th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
91
jegtar says:
76- You are starting to sound like the “bad guy” in some shitty movie. Do rub your hands together and grin when you say that shit out loud?
June 25th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
92
NewAZTiger says:
So Much Fun, So Little Time.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
93
Wayne says:
This site seems to be using the same scoring system as you, and it appears that they may have information you’re lacking (see: Washington St., Nebraska)
http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Fulmer_Cup
June 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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blon57 says:
#92
Is that your own creation? Well done.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
95
Kenny says:
We should all chip in and help O buy a legit Fulmer Cup trophy so that we can have presentation day to the champions of infamy and mark the opening of the season.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
96
NewAZTiger says:
#93, I made it, but I was just visually executing a fun post I saw.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
97
DevilGrad says:
When does the new Drive-By Truckers song about this come out?
June 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
98
TIGERinATL says:
#92 is excellent.
“Coach _______” was an especially nice touch.
And all the guys trotting out the “every school does it” excuse should be quite proud of holding up yet another long lived bama tradition.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
99
briandtw says:
I wish the Fulmer Cup had been around when my alma mater (Central Michigan) had six players kicked off the team for murdering a guy.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
100
Steve says:
Gotta love the hate.
If Saban went in and kicked half the players off the team, he would have been crucified by you same assholes because he was trying to make room for players that fit in “his system”. He keeps the bad apples, and he’s a crook that is just interested in winning football.
I’ll remember that when the next school fucks up and remind them that their coach didn’t get rid of “insert player name here” before the press got ahold of the story. You know, because Saban is apparently omnipotent. He knows exactly what 100 kids are doing at all times, day and night, especially in the off season, when he can’t spend any time with the kids for any sort of organized activities.
I hope all of you catch some kind of fire-piss STD’s and die of a pus-filled dick explosion.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm