FULMER CUP 2009: THE FINAL TALLY

FOOBAW and all notwithstanding, I think I was actually more excited for the Fulmer Cup Championships today than for any of the actual games being played tonight.

Solid Gold Prediction South Florida will just miss winning the Big East this year but still make it into the BCS as an at-large bid.

Don’t believe me?

2007 Fulmer Cup Winner, Illinois, (inexplicably) played in the Rose Bowl as an at-large Big Televen team. In the Rose Bowl, USC

2008 Fulmer Cup Winner, Alabama, got hot a year earlier than projected under the reign of Saban and grabbed an at-large spot in the Sugar Bowl for the SEC.

Following this trend-of-two (Failsafe!!!) USF is about to have a big year.

2007 Fulmer Cup Winner, Illinois, (inexplicably) played in the Rose Bowl as an at-large Big Televen team. In the Rose Bowl, USC…

USC what? Forgive my incomplete thought. I’m currently suffering from a stroke caused by the onset of football tonight.

Carolina considers this its first win of the season. Tickets punched for the Outback Bowl!

Congratulations to the Iowa Hawkeyes for another spectacular season culminating in a top-5 Fulmer Cup finish. Eventually Ferentz’s crew will break through for a championship.

But there are a few hours left before kickoff. Isn’t there still time for someone to snatch victory? (hehe, he said snatch)

Looks like Ole Miss wasn’t awarded it’s last 5 points. For shame, for shame.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/08/24/fulmer-cupdate-cockup-at-south-carolina/comment-page-1/#comment-354557

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/08/24/fulmer-cupdate-cockup-at-south-carolina/comment-page-1/#comment-354560

It just feels right when a Florida-based team is leading the Fulmer Cup standings.

I’m disappointed in the regression of Bo Pelini’s defense in year two. Not one sexual assault or throwing of a biology student down an elevator shaft.

BULLS WIN! THE BULLS WIN!!!

^ I’m guessing that, unlike in RedStick, there aren’t any coeds in Nebraska worth sexually assaulting.

This will probably change the betting line in all USF games this season. As they say on Wall Street, don’t fight the tape. Congrats Bulls on a great off-season!

bj @16

I would encourage you to check out Melissa Midwest if he wants a sample of girls in Nebraska. Definitely NSFW.

I have to wonder how many Locker rooms around the country breath a sigh of relief now that EDSBS is no longer counting coup and tallying points at the expense of the stupidity of their so called “Student”-athletes.

That being, this day should open up a new contest, yes there are innumerable stats, scores, taunts, BBQ’d items (both identifiable and what one wishes were unidentifiable if you are tailgating in the bayou region) and flaming cocktails (of various types) to watch out for and or consume in the coming months until the final whistle sometime in the end of winter.

Kids will be kids, boys will be boys and trouble…well she wears a short skirt, no bra or panties and is always willing to “talk” to you in the equipment locker when you got a “free” moment.

That being so, we should keep count of the “nasty” and plain ole “Stupid” that the “priveleged” come up with after the season starts and give out bonus points depending on how they are truly punished…inversely proportional to their importance on a team and getting a hearing moved to post season so it doesn’t interfere with the school’s chances of a championship or bigger bowl game (read MOAH!! “$$” BEATCHE$$!!) should give more points to a school and more mud in their virtual eye.

It’s up to us fans and EDSBS to drag these boys back down to reality by kicking them in the virtual “Ding Ding” (yeah i went there, didn’t I?) in our out of season, not because it’s mean, but because it’s funny and we can. We don’t make excuses, and making fun of any that the schools and the “boys” hide behind to hide their “faults” on or off season should be our “duty” here on EDSBS…
 FULMER off Season…
 " " IN Season………….. Name open to suggestions…. as are inverse bonus scoring point systems for importance of player and action of school – if proper and legal (Boot from team/suspension immediate etc- points reduced to 1?) If delays, denials and trickeration to keep the boy elligible and enhance chances of post season because he’s important part of team? Big points of shame added…

I, for once, am proud that WVU has failed to finish in the top ten of something. Fie on you who thought Stew would be a pushover on discipline. Now if he can just figure out them dadburned headsets…

How come Feagin getting booted off the UM team never made it’s way into the FC board as points? Were no charges filed?

By the way, most of the charges against FSU players have been dropped in the last couple of weeks. Once again, we fade in the fourth quarter.

Pupello was off the team when he was arrested. It would be like blaming Michigan State for the Plaxico Burress arrest…

Trent Pupello wasn’t a member of the team- he left in December following a terrible car accident in which he was nearly paralyzed. He still hasn’t been formally charged, either. I’m not excusing what he did, but he was not a member of the USF program (or even a student), so it’s not right to count him in the “standings.” It’s a technical point, but if you’re going to publish on the internet, your facts need to be correct.

USF actually has been pretty tame in the arrest department for current players- since 2005, there was Grothe’s arrest (for serving an underage patron at a bar where the cops told the bouncer not to mark someone- an unmarked person to the bartender means that the person has been checked and can drink as it was a very busy bar- the DAs office didn’t even bother with it because the police conduct was so outrageous), Woody George pulled a parking boot of his car, which is really just impressive, Mike Jenkins and Carlton Williams were involved in a fight, and the Barrington ticket thing.

USF hasn’t had an active player rape someone (Satterfield, from my high school’s rival! at Iowa), attacked someone in a dorm room (half of the Penn State team), or get arrested 6 times (Stephen Garcia, from Tampa, somewhat ironically).

Seems we have an Instant Winner for the new “In Season” Miscues, Screw Ups, and Assorted “Ooops, sorry Coach” excuses award contest….

 Blount was the first with his patented Falcon Punch and qualifies as he’s their best player too, how Oregon handles this will have much play in how scoring breaks down as it’s the first one of the season….

   It’s DUCK SEASON folks! Light up your BLOUNTS! Time to Ganja err Gauge yer point assestments for Oregon once punishment is assessed for the young man.

Darn, Washington State had two more alcohol-related in the last couple of days. too late to qualify. I guess they Coog’ it. (That makes 35 football players arrested in the last two years.)

On a side note: Blount Punch was served at a tailgate before the Washington-LSU game. LSU fans found it very tasty, and stiff. I guess it reminded them of Mountain Dew.

November 30, 2009

All charges dropped against former TE Pupello

Seven months after his arrest in Channelside on four felony counts, prosecutors have decided not to pursue any criminal charges against former Florida and USF tight end Trent Pupello.

Pupello, 22, was arrested in April on three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, one count of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of discharging a weapon in public after an incident in which police alleged he pistol-whipped three people in a brawl outside a nightclub. On Wednesday, prosecutors filed paperwork to not file charges, writing that “after a thorough review of statements from numerous witnesses … (we are) unable to refute the defendent’s claim of justified use of force.”

Pupello, a former Jefferson standout who was a redshirting freshman on Florida’s 2006 national championship team, played one season at USF in 2008. He had left USF’s football team after that season, taking a year off to recover from neck injuries suffered in a car accident last fall. He has not attended classes at USF since the spring semester, and did not return messages seeking comment, though there’s no indication that he intends to return to college football.

November 30, 2009
All charges dropped against former TE Pupello
Seven months after his arrest in Channelside on four felony counts, prosecutors have decided not to pursue any criminal charges against former Florida and USF tight end Trent Pupello.

Pupello, 22, was arrested in April on three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, one count of aggravated assault and a misdemeanor count of discharging a weapon in public after an incident in which police alleged he pistol-whipped three people in a brawl outside a nightclub. On Wednesday, prosecutors filed paperwork to not file charges, writing that “after a thorough review of statements from numerous witnesses … (we are) unable to refute the defendent’s claim of justified use of force.”

Pupello, a former Jefferson standout who was a redshirting freshman on Florida’s 2006 national championship team, played one season at USF in 2008. He had left USF’s football team after that season, taking a year off to recover from neck injuries suffered in a car accident last fall. He has not attended classes at USF since the spring semester, and did not return messages seeking comment, though there’s no indication that he intends to return to college football.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/usf/2009/11/all-charges-dropped-against-former-te-pupello.html