FULMER CUPDATE: PITT CONTINUES HOT STREAK

by Orson on May 13, 2009 3:34 PM EDT

Pitt redshirt senior Adam Gunn earned the rare sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA after suffering a broken vertebra in his neck on a hit against Bowling Green. The helmet-to-helmet collision gave him a concussion and a fracture of the C-5 vertebra in his neck, eventually requiring surgery to fuse it to the C-4, put Gunn in a neck brace, and file the appeal for extra year.

Gunn may have decided to begin this second chance at football and a senior year as a starting linebacker by running headlong into the arms of the police and tackling an impressive array of charges: resisting arrest, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, and public drunkeness, all done on Sunday morning in what reeks of a FnDC/Nightlife Decathlete case. As all are misdemeanors, so it's four more points for Pitt, a school making a di-dangity-dang-dang strong run in the offseason-long barfight of the Fulmer Cup.

ps. Bonus fun comment from Pitt Sports Blather!

keep getting in trouble guys - anything to get the wannstache fired! Please!

So...cold...at...this...thought...no...Wannstache....in...life...we actually shudder at the thought of this happening. Pitt fans might not, but life without the Wannstache seems like a poorer, less macho place to be.

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He was jest aht celebratin’ da Gwins victory whenever he drank to many cans of arn.

by now_a_hoo on May 13, 2009 3:45 PM EDT reply actions

has phil steele done a correlation between fulmer cup points and wins in the pre/pro-ceeding years?

by ohiodawg on May 13, 2009 4:51 PM EDT reply actions

What the hell kind of bars does Bas Rutten hang out in, where those are the kinds of fights that break out? Mostly I just see catty drunk girls throwing glasses at other catty drunk girls.

by Haole on May 13, 2009 5:30 PM EDT reply actions

I’d say FC scoring has a direct correlation with next-season success.

Leave out 2006 which, due to overall lack of documentation, amounts to the pre-forward-pass era of FC scoring, and you will see a pretty close relationship between FC scoring and “surprise” teams of the following season.

Exhibit A: Illinois 2007. Exhibit B: Alabama 2008.

Will we see Pitt in the Orange Bowl in 2009?

by CincySooner on May 13, 2009 5:45 PM EDT reply actions

In 2007 you needed 10 points to break into the Fulmer Cup Top 10.
In 2008 you needed 11 points to break into the Fulmer Cup Top 10.
In 2009, now all you need is 7 points to break into the Fulmer Cup Top 10. Is it the economy? Less booster cash to get drunk and crazy on?

by Sean F on May 13, 2009 11:31 PM EDT reply actions