FULMER CUPDATE: THE LONG DELAYED BIG BOARD
The big board arrives, albeit with signficant marginal errors, we’re sure. Still, it comes free from the boardkeeper Brian, who as always is endowed to a degree one might call Reggie Nelson-esque.
South Florida is ETJ3′d. Please spot the big asterisk noting an exceptional case with conditions and provisos attached: South Florida’s score dwarfs the available competition by a wide margin. Cue FAILhorns, though: Puppello’s substantial points are unabetted by a teammate, a situation disqualifying the score from consideration for the championship by itself. He is, however, the clear leader for the Ellis T. Jones Award, a title he’s likely locked up (unless someone takes the challenge and pistolwhips four or more people in a single flurry. With the departure of Ronnie Wilson from Florida last year, that’s not likely to happen.)
Correction: Florida State should be on the board with six points total after the arrest of Rod Owens, who celebrated his big spring game by getting hammered and toodling aroundTally, a privilege you may engage in if you’re willing to pay the Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride fun price of a DUI charge.
Further fairness, Further Correction: Just to keep up, Florida enters the fray with a five point performance from walk-on junior running back Marquis Hannah. Hannah earned a felony unarmed burglary charge and a misdemeanor battery charge for something that really, really ended up sucking for some poor dude in a dark apartment:
Hannah allegedly pushed his way inside the apartment Friday yelling at two females that “they needed to talk,” according to jail records. A man awoke from the bedroom and Hannah allegedly struck him in the face, according to police records.
“Hey, what’s going on I–BLAAAAOOOOWWW.” The bonus point (home team, right?) gets us to five points. Urban Meyer had no comment other than to say he thought his eventual punishment of Marquis Hannah would be “harsh.”
It’s Ames. Iowa State gets a point for public intox, but no one blames you, sir. It is Ames, Iowa after dark, and what happens in Ames, stays in Ames, mostly because no one but Seneca Wallace has ever left.
Um, it’s Pullman. Same for Pullman, where two Washington State players account for three points on combined DUI/suspended license charges. It’s not their fault either, since Georgia has outsourced their expensive driving violations operation to the cash-strapped Cougars for the year. (Seems to be working.)
The People’s Republic of Evanston wants to taek ur gunz. Air rifles are banned in Evanston, since power comes from their barrels, and every decade or so takes out a stupid child’s eyeball. It’s also why Jeff Radek of Northwestern earned one point for Northwestern for possession of an air rifle, a sure sign THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER IS BEGINNING!!! SAVE US JASON MCINTYRE!!!
It’s water. Bacardi water. Marshall, underage drinking, and why no one uses rum bottles as water bottles after they’re done with them. One small point for Marshall, a program that’s toned down the festivities significantly in the post-Pruett era.
FnDC In that case it stands for “Fightin’ ‘n da Campus,” as UConn linebacker Kijuan Dabney earned one point for second-degree disturbing the peace after he was asked to leave a school-sponsored event. That happened to us once at a school-sponsored orgy, but it was during our disastrous visit to Smith College, so it was understandable.
UConn may also pick up one point more for their team captain interfering with a police officer during a fight at an apartment complex during which officers recorded eight tackles, 4 sacks, and 2 TFL (tased fully and lovingly.)
Old shit, but……we award one point to Oklahoma for failure to show. We’d also put a INSERT TITLE GAME JOKE here, but we’ve been rewatching the title game, and that would be an inaccurate description of how close the Sooners came to winning that game. This should hurt more for Oklahoma fans, and that is by design. We’re kind like that.
This should catch us up, but if not…drop them in the comments, please.










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comoprozac says:
Gene Chizik was able to get out of Ames.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
I appreciate the nod to “The Wind in the Willows.”
April 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
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JTG says:
Shouldn’t the guy from Marshall be awarded a bonus point for getting caught with the bottle of Bacardi walking across the POLICE PARKING LOT???
Not smart.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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Theskipster says:
Shouldn’t WSU get 4 bonus points for their fourth player arrest to put them in the number 1 spot with 11 points?
There was Anthony Laurenzi for weed
Marshall Lobbestael for passing out in a police station
Michael Willis for DUI
Romeo Pellum for driving with a suspended license
April 28th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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Croc says:
Orson,
I’m OK with the “home team” point but can’t we get a reduced sentence for Hannah being a practice squad player? Call it the Rudy Rule.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
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Silver Britches says:
Still conspicuously absent . . . . .
April 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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skinnyphatman says:
Silver:
No doubt, the ACC police must be slacking in their duties, surely they should be able to round up an underage football player or two with a beer in their hand, somewhere. And undoubtedly, at least one football player is passing out on the shitter of some downtown Athens bar each weekend.
ACC Cops, you are making a mockery of your profession! Represent!
April 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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Roaminggator says:
I thought the asterisk was because they supposedly won their conference and their assistants are getting paid bonus money.
April 28th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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jd4au says:
Maybe you could give it to a combined Hawaiowa. I mean, those two states already have so much in common, right?
April 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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David says:
Missed this one on the Gators. Boy they are having a horrible offseason. Thet should have 10 points or more. I know the founders of this site are Gators but they are getting arrested left and right. Wake Up!
http://www.jacksonvillecriminalattorneyblog.com/2009/02/florida_gator_player_arrested.html
April 28th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Ahem.
http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20090309/ARTICLES/903090909/1136?Title=Charge-vs-Carl-Johnson-dismissed
Thank you.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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Morgan says:
Mr. Walk On is about to be a Walk Off
April 28th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
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dogtown gator says:
I’m not comfortable with a walk-on who’s never played even a special teams snap against Citadel earning us points. It feels cheap. Like getting rewarded for something we didn’t earn. I’m not sure the Rudy rule even goes far enough in discounting the infractions.
If only there were some lawyers in the commentariat who could help provide insight into this legal quandary.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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hobeg8r says:
Mr. Walk-On/Walk-Off was a criminology major. Maybe he was involved in some extra credit work to bring his grades up.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
#14
I think its either called being an “intern” or “field work” or “on the job training, for the bad guy” since you have to have a good guy and a bad guy to play cops and robbers, and he wanted to see how far this cop would take this situation, ya know, for research. When wrasslin with the police, always dare them to taze you, and tell them that you won’t shut up til they do.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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vegas_buckeye says:
The Carl Johnson Meme Continues.
I WILL NOT REST UNTIL CARL JOHNSON IS INDICTED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/02/17/fulmer-cup-birds-and-beasts/#more-9047
So… um… Orson. About that Carl Johnson guy?
/kicks stone sheepishly
April 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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Dougo says:
#12
Mr. Walk Off? You mean Kevin Youkilis?
Marshall should earn two bonus points: one for walking across the police parking lot and one for have the balls/drunk enough to actually the cop that the rum bottle contained water. However, three points should be deducted from Marshall’s score for the shame of having a player caught drinking Bacardi Razz.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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T-Mill says:
What is the final verdict on Torri Williams points-wise from yesterday. it was only driving on a suspended license, but it is his fourth run-in with the law after a DUI, an involvement with a stabbing, and a stealing condoms bust.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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stephen says:
It isnt even summer yet, give my boys from tampa time… we are at the top now, and we will be there in the end…. too much cool/bad sh*t to get into in tampa not to….
April 28th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
Holy shit! How can you leave out Carl Johnson, you homer?!? CARL JOHNSON. CARL JOHNSON. I don’t fucking care if the charges were dropped! CARL JOHNSON. CARL. JOHNSON. Did I mention CARL JOHNSON?!?
I think there’s a new EDSBS Award. You guessed it ladies and germs. The CARL JOHNSON Award. An honorary award to the player, preferably from Florida, who gets the most snarky reminders to include points for something where the charges were dropped.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
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AZDuck says:
As a resident of the Aloha State, I would like to point out that our Fighting Rainbow Warrior’s points are all the work of JUST ONE GUY, and that additional charges may still be brought. Also.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:52 am
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CincySooner says:
#4
You might need a Queen of Hearts ruling on your 4-time-loser bonus point. It’s unclear in the article whether Pellum and Willis were arrested separately or together.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:42 am
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SpartanDan says:
#20: Not anymore, they aren’t: http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20090428_UH_QB_charged_with_threatening_his_girlfriend.html
April 29th, 2009 at 10:14 am
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sessamoid says:
OU linebacker arrested for failing to appear.
http://www.newsok.com/ous-keenan-clayton-served-with-warrant/article/3365458?custom_click=pod_headline_college-sports
April 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
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sessamoid says:
Texas A&M’s Terrance McCoy – DUI
http://justiceweb.co.brazos.tx.us/JudicialSearch/Scripts/UVlink.isa/bodreaux/WEBSERV/CriminalSearch?action%253Dview%26track%253D778529
Texas A&M’s Matt Allen – DUI
http://www.abc40.com/global/story.asp?S=10260065
April 30th, 2009 at 8:40 pm