FULMER CUPDATE: MADNESS IN ALL DIRECTIONS

by Orson on May 4, 2009 1:02 PM EDT

This picture and Party Dog have nothing to do with the Fulmer Cup. Please move on.

It's a busy week in the Fulmer Cup. Vamonos!

Blaine Dalton and how to have a misunderstanding involving beer and hydrocodone. For the moment, Blaine Dalton, Mizzou's freshman qb of high pedigree and hoopla, has scored a conservatively estimated five points for the Tigers for "suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance, minor in possession of alcohol, possession of false identification and three traffic charges, including a lane violation and failure to provide insurance."

We'll back off the tiny traffic charges for the moment and hold fire as Dalton's charges may likely be the work of overactive campus police imaginations.

From the Columbia Daily Tribune via Bully for Old Mizzou:

"They looked in my car and found an unopened beer in the glove compartment," Dalton said. "It was warm. I don’t know how long it had been in there. It wasn’t cold and it wasn’t open, and I wasn’t drunk or anything like that."

Dalton said a police officer then brought the prescription bottle to Dalton and asked him, "Who’s Wilson?"

Wilson is Dalton’s former Blue Springs South teammate Zach Wilson, an offensive lineman who started three years with the Jaguars and then went to Northwest Missouri State University on a football scholarship before giving up the sport last season.

Wilson’s name was on the prescription bottle. The pills were prescribed by a doctor after Wilson had shoulder surgery last September.

Wilson said he left them in Dalton’s car after visiting his friend before a Missouri spring scrimmage.

"They’re mine," Wilson said late Saturday night. "I don’t remember the exact date I went to MU to see Blaine, but I had on some shorts with no pockets and I threw the pills in his glove compartment.

Real friends always leave extra pills for you. Alibi or not, Mizzou gets the five for the moment.

Ohio State will now use their mandatory three points for the season. Ohio State maintains a constant low-level presence in the cup. We hesitate to call them a steady performer, but they usually show up for somewhere around three or four points, and usually for something completely innocuous like smoking weed in a dorm room or perhaps the random barfight or two, or perhaps a random DUI by a walk-on running back.
Two points for the Buckeyes are awarded, since it is a normal, run-of-the-mill DUI with a drunk but not spectacular BAC reported.

Aggie DUI Double Dazzles Defenders! Defense attorneys, we mean. Offensive linemen Matt Allen and wide receiver Terrence McCoy each picked up a DUI, which we'll bundle as a package deal and award five points for in total (two points for each charge, and one bonus for accumulating them like twinsies.)

The "Mobile Vegetable Supply" sign made the police suspicious. We mentioned last week that Marshall had been quiet thus far, thus prompting concerned citizens and Marshall football players to do something about all that lack of trouble by getting arrested for felony drug charges.

According to Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas, his deputies were patrolling for underage drinking when they spotted a car double parked. Bembry and Marshall were in the car. When they rolled down the window to speak with deputies, McComas says there was a strong smell of marijuana. Deputies then searched the car and found four individually wrapped bags of the drug.

The Thundering Herd stomps up seven points in all--three for each felony charge, and a bonus for doing this immediately after we said how nice and quiet things were in Huntington this Fulmer Cup season. Both are suspended from the team, absences putting a substantial dent in the team's depth chart: Darius Marshall was a 1,000 yard rusher and the team's leader in yardage on the ground last year, and DeQuan Bembry was the leader in tackles for loss. Marshall now sits at ten points total after three points from Bembry's prior arrest in March, and puts the Herd in a very bad spot, indeed.

He's a good boy. But Cameron Wade neglected to appear in court, and earns FSU one point in the Fulmer Cup.

Note: There are a number of other scores in the SAS Processing Station, but we think we may have scored them and assessed points already. We'll check on it, but in the meantime we'll let them stay under the heat lamps a bit longer.

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That Dog is the next star of In the VIP

by BurritoBrosShits on May 4, 2009 1:10 PM EDT reply actions

The first I heard of Mizzou’s entry into the Fulmer Cup standings was from Chase Daniel’s ominous Twitter message. http://twitter.com/ChaseDaniel/status/1673438625

Of course, Chase didn’t specify which Blaine he was referring, so it sounded like it was the upcoming starter Blaine Gabbert. (Blaine is the new Chase).

Either way, M-I-Z

by ChasingMizzou on May 4, 2009 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

Note to commentariat -

We are now in the second half of the Fulmer Cup. Only 3 months and 3 weeks to get your crime on.

by Crabapple Buck on May 4, 2009 1:24 PM EDT reply actions

I’d give Marshall an additional bonus point for being the only football program I’ve ever heard of whose legal exploits spawned an 18,000-word law review article.

Per the Daily Mail link, “As former Daily Mail sportswriter Matt Lockhart notes in his 18,277-word article published in the Winter 2009 issue of the UCLA Entertainment Law Review, ‘Marshall University’s athletic department does not have a formal student-athlete discipline policy. Disciplinary action is up to the discretion of the coach, subject to review and change by the administration.’[”

Lockhart is a 3L at WVU, and the article apparently is entitled “Discounts on Shoes Equal Suspensions, But Arrests Equal Wrist-Slaps: The Time Has Come for the NCAA to Adopt a Uniform Student-Athlete Discipline Policy.” We may have to track that one down for entertainment value.

by DevilGrad on May 4, 2009 1:29 PM EDT reply actions

The whole Mizzou points thing sounds like typical campus cops who want to be on an episode of Real Cops. There is nothing worse than wannabees. I bet the felony charge (for possession of drugs) gets dismissed real quick. And – OMG – an unopened can of warm beer in the glove compartment. He’s lucky he wasn’t tasered for that.

Is that cop related to the cop who was given a shunning look earlier?

by hobeg8r on May 4, 2009 1:43 PM EDT reply actions

@ #3:

Damn. Guess I better go put an unregistered moped out in front of Butts-Mehre.

Still conspicuously absent. . .

by Silver Britches on May 4, 2009 2:02 PM EDT reply actions

hobeg8r

I don’t know how things are done at UF, but the University of Alabama police dept. is not a bunch of “wannabees”. As employees of the state, they possess the same arrest powers as a State Trooper. If a University of Alabama police officer was in Dothan, he could pull you over for speeding..they are not glorified mall cops.

by CapstoneAlum on May 4, 2009 2:03 PM EDT reply actions

UF cops can ONLY make arrests on university grounds…except if in pursuit off campus (for a crime which occurred on campus) so – I guess the glorified mall cops tag will apply.

by hobeg8r on May 4, 2009 2:15 PM EDT reply actions

I know its just the camera, but those girls all look vapid and dead in their eyes.
I think I’m in love.

by GamecockTony on May 4, 2009 2:27 PM EDT reply actions

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL @ #7….. who pimps their campus police force? “Tidecop = Bama state trooper.” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. “Tidecop > Gatorcop”. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

by Jack on May 4, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

Is that a female dog?

by Wozzo the Wonder Dog on May 4, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

@11- Do you mean the actual dog or the bleached blonde in the far back-right. I disagree with the bonus point awarded to A&M. If it happened the same night then by all means but these incidents were months apart.

by leNDmeabuck on May 4, 2009 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

You will notice Silver Britches that tOSU has finally made it to the board after a slow start. We had to resort to a walk-on for our points. Don’t lose hope. I’m sure after the murder investigation of Zinkhan is over, they will concentrate on more “important” matters like jaywalking, sassin’ back, and glaring in an condescending manner.

by Crabapple Buck on May 4, 2009 3:00 PM EDT reply actions

#10

No one with any amount of reasonably good sense would take my statement as the “pimping” of a particular police force. I simply pointed out the insane amount of arrest powers that the University of Alabama police are granted.

I’m assuming your ass is still blistered from the “fruit fly inspections”…

by CapstoneAlum on May 4, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions

@ crabapple buck at 13:

Buck, at Georgia we have a term for getting FC points out of your walkon tailback: “quality depth”.

by MaconDawg on May 4, 2009 3:12 PM EDT reply actions

Am I reading that right? Halfway through the offseason and not a single point for Georgia? Better get on the stick, fellas, y’all got a looooooooot of drivers’ licenses to let expire between now and then.

by Doug on May 4, 2009 3:16 PM EDT reply actions

WE! ARE! HIGH AS A MOTHERF***ER!

That Dog loves the white bitches.

by Mr. Pelican Pants on May 4, 2009 3:19 PM EDT reply actions

LOL @ capitalization of ‘’state trooper’’

LOL @ “wannabees”

LOL tidecop > gatorcop

LOL tidecop patrolling that great state of Alabama

LOL bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?

LOL any discussion of campus police greatness

by Jack on May 4, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

So that’s Blaine Dalton, huh? I thought he’d be bigger.

by Big Jon on May 4, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions

I giggled at a dude named “Darius Marshall” playing football at “Marshall”. I guess he wanted to go where everybody knows his name?

by adam on May 4, 2009 3:45 PM EDT reply actions

So this is a party at Chris Rainey’s house?

by BurritoBrosShits on May 4, 2009 4:06 PM EDT reply actions

@21

I’m guessing That Dog came along as protection for the “talent.”

by NativeSon on May 4, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions

So what is Marshall’s total now?

by Whaz on May 4, 2009 4:52 PM EDT reply actions

Orson, I, too, am laughing all day at the photo.

Thanks for posting.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on May 4, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions

I’m guessing Tidecop has at least 12 TIMES more felony arrests than your bitch ass cop.

by Brian O'Blivion on May 4, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

@23: According to the good people at Something Awful, Marshall now has 17 points, tying them for first place overall with USF but technically giving them the lead due to the ETJ3 rule.

by Turd Ferguson on May 4, 2009 5:43 PM EDT reply actions

I want to see Tidecop pull over Chizik’s Hummerstrosity, since CapstoneAlum stated Tidecop has jurisdiction over the whole state. Matter of fact, I can’t believe Saban hasn’t thought of that.

by Jack on May 4, 2009 5:52 PM EDT reply actions

Oops, I screwed that up when trying to figure out what points Orsen was actually giving them. Should be 15 for Marshall after today’s 10 point gain. That puts them in third place. I’ve fixed it.

by Theskipster on May 4, 2009 5:58 PM EDT reply actions

That Dog is snarling at Chris Rainey.

by John on May 4, 2009 5:59 PM EDT reply actions

Marshall got 4 points here (for Bembry’s drankin’ & Corey Hart’s smokin’): http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/03/09/fulmer-cupdate-marshall-and-ole-miss-declare-for-mayhem-draft/

then 1 for Courtney Edmonson’s “Bicardi water” here: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/04/28/fulmer-cupdate-the-long-delayed-big-board/#more-10090

and 7 today for Bembry & Marshall’s weed sacks

(I think the so-called “10 point gain” includes points for Bembry’s first arrest, which was in their initial 4 points awarded on 3/9)

Unless I missed something, I think my esteemed alma mater ONLY has 12

(although Edmonson should get bonus points for getting popped with Bacardi in the MUPD parking lot)

by i got a herd on in tampa bay on May 4, 2009 6:54 PM EDT reply actions

Jack @ 27

My statement is an assertion of fact.

§ 16-22-2. Campus police; powers.

(a) Any police officer appointed pursuant to the provisions of Section 16-47-10 or 16-22-1, is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state; provided, that the primary duty of any such police or peace officer shall be the enforcement of the law on property owned or leased by the institution of higher education employing said peace officers; provided further, that he shall not otherwise act as a peace officer in enforcing the law except:

(1) When in pursuit of any offender or suspected offender who is charged with the commission of a crime while on the premises of said institution; or

(2) To make arrests otherwise lawfully for crimes committed, or for which there is probable cause to believe have been committed, within his presence or within the boundaries of said property owned or leased.

(b) The provisions of this section granting authority to police officers at institutions of higher learning in the State of Alabama are not intended to limit or abridge any powers heretofore granted to said officers by law, and the provisions of this section are, therefore, to be considered cumulative.

As you can see, the Code of Alabama grants them statewide authority (with the caveat that their primary purpose is enforcement on campus).

Nothing would make me happier than to see a picture of the roving Megan’s Law violators being written a citation by the UAPD. That, you and I can agree upon.

by CapstoneAlum on May 4, 2009 10:16 PM EDT reply actions

I’m putting on my UA 911! uniform and arresting everybody on this board!

by Mr.Pelican Pants on May 5, 2009 12:17 AM EDT reply actions

@30

I think you are right. I’m changing the SAS board now to reflect the 12 point total.

by Theskipster on May 5, 2009 8:08 AM EDT reply actions

Marshall’s Darius Marshall and DeQuan Bembry have charges reduced to misdemeanors, due to arresting deputies mistaking less than 10 grams of weed for a huge sale opportunity. No felony, and WV law states: 15 grams or less of marijuana is a pre-judgment diversion and probation.
Expect anywhere from 1-2 game suspension for Marshall, 1-4 games for Bembry, who also had the public intox, underage consumption and arguing with the arresting officer that took place in the lobby of his dorm, where he was headed to his room.

by Woody Woodrum on May 6, 2009 10:10 AM EDT reply actions