Comments on: FULMER CUP: WVU TAKES THE LEAD, BOGGLES IMAGINATION

By: ALEXIS

ALEXIS — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:47:02 +0000

HES INNOCENT!

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:38:26 +0000

More details about the whole “Washington isn’t on the WVU team” thing can be found here: http://www.timeswv.com/wvu_sports/local_story_213002244.html.

This is like having the game-winning (or is that game-losing?) hail mary called back for holding. I assume the points will be adjusted today?

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:36:35 +0000

#77 – I did pull up the 2008 WVU football roster (updated 7/15/2008) – before Washington was arrested – and I agree – he is NOT on the roster. I guess we need a ruling on this as to whether or not the points should be assessed to WV.

By: Cz

Cz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:22:14 +0000

This guy isn’t even a Mountaineer.

“He is no longer part of the team and has not been since May,” WVU Director of Football Communications Mike Montoro said Wednesday.

http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/WVUSports/200807310101

By: Nic

Nic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:11:11 +0000

Don’t expect the fact that the charges are dropped to change the point total. If that were true, then points would have been taken from Bama’s score when Rashad Johnson’s disorderly conduct charges were dropped.

By: UPSDawg

UPSDawg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:07:42 +0000

Clint Boling’s DUI charges were dropped today…will adjustments be made to UGA’s point total for that, as well as Jeremy Lomax’s weapons charge being dropped? Thanks just the same, but this is a championship I DON’T want the Dawgs contending for…

By: Uh-huh

Uh-huh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:21:27 +0000

Good news, Bammers!

Washington was dismissed from the team 10 weeks before this incident occurred.

Roll Tide!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:11:16 +0000

I’m no bammer fan, but this guy makes Jimmy Johns look like citizen of the year.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:07:34 +0000

FYI guys…At the end of the spring semester, Coach Stewart told Washington that his scholarship would not be available for this year. When Coach Stew said he was going to “recruit men with character, not characters”, he meant it. Over the last couple of months, he’s let a couple guys go, who haven’t gotten in trouble yet, in order to clean up some of the behaviors with some of the recruits that Rodriquez took a chance on.

It was also quoted on MSNsportsnet that Washington has not been a student of WVU or member of it’s football team since the end of the spring semester.

I’m sure this will get cleared up, and the points will be appropriately deducted.

By: PrestonCo

PrestonCo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:50:17 +0000

OK, something seems weird here….He shot somebody in the head…..but the article didn’t even mention the victims condition and Washington was only charged with assault…..instead of attempted murder. I don’t get it.

By: PeterPumpkinhead

PeterPumpkinhead — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:32:16 +0000

SevenDs,

First of all, it’s 7 if we’re going with AP/UPI. Second, there was no AP in 1926 when Bama went undefeated, traveled by train across country, and defeated an undefeated Washington (this is way back before Ty… this is the era Washington is talking about when they talk about “Tradition”) team in the Rose Bowl. Several well respected polls crowned them then. So that’s 8.

I can go on, but the reasonable number is probably 10… and I wouldn’t rely on getting my MNC data from a school that tries to claim 18 of them.

By: PeterPumpkinhead

PeterPumpkinhead — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:26:51 +0000

Ok, the tiebreaker thing is cute, and if he had resisted arrest after getting wasted, smashing up a car, and burning a couch, I’d think it was the cleverest idea I had heard all week.

HE SHOT A GUY. IN THE FACE. TWICE. IN FRONT OF A 5 YEAR OLD.

I’m not even sure anything this violent should get cup points… that it should be involved at all. What if the guy dies?

I’m seriously beginning to wonder if the Fulmer Cup has outlived its usefullness… I mean, if this is the kind of stuff we’re going to have to keep track of, it’s not really funny anymore.

By: David Puddy

David Puddy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:24:41 +0000

I’ve driven past Washington’s old high school in Canton, and also driven past the county jail where he’s currently being held. Good ol’ Northeast Ohio, business as usual. And on top of it, he was recruited to my Alma Mater. Double whammy for this Youngstown native and WVU guy.

By: crimson daddy

crimson daddy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:49:20 +0000

Apologies if this has been said…..

But how in the heck does Jimmy Johns get 20 points while this waste of flesh gets off with only 9?

And were the points awarded to Alabama for Rashard Johnson’s arrest taken off since the charges were dropped?

By: sevenDs

sevenDs — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:12:26 +0000

Hey Barrister,
No, that would be lying too. We only have one, from the AP in 1957.
Unless you mean Heisman trophy winners.

Why can’t you be satisfied with the 6?

Of course with no playoff, they’re all mythical, so I guess the 12 is just as realistic as the 6.