Arkansas One Step Closer to the Fulmer Cup? *Updated*
So, with all the recent trouble lately involving members of the University of Arkansas football team, Arkansas has moved leaps and bounds lately in something popular sports blog Every Day Should Be Saturday calls the “Fulmer Cup.”
What’s that, you might ask? It’s not a good thing. Tennessee Coach Phillip Fulmer is notorious for recruiting and catering to, ahem, let’s call them ne’er-do-wells. So much so that EDSBS named their troublemakers report after him. But Fulmer’s team isn’t the one making headlines recently. It’s Arkansas.
Arkansas has moved up into the sixth place spot for the “Fulmer Cup” thanks to Marques Wade’s latest arrest this week.
Well. At least we are ranked?
If you follow the Razorbacks, you probably know that this summer most of the linebacking core, and now Wade has been arrested for something or other. To Bobby Petrino’s credit, he’s been swift and fair in doling out punishments, however. Star linebacker Freddy Fairchild was kicked off the team earlier this summer for some pretty severe domestic abuse charges, and it was announced today that Wade and linebacker Freddy Burton were suspended for the first two games of the 2008 season.
“We have suspended Freddy and Marques for the first two games of the season,” Petrino said in a statement released by the university. “While the athletic department policy in development for addressing these types of issues calls for a one game suspension, I felt that a two-game suspension was appropriate in both of these cases.”
Kuddos for not going easy on these guys. Also, kuddos for not kicking them off the team. Everyone deserves a second chance.
In other news, Houston Nutt is still a weirdo.
Update: Son of a…
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By Totalbastard on July 29th, 2008
This is fricken dumb.
Perhaps the stars just aligned, or perhaps the end is near.
Perhaps our football team is being fricked with by aliens.
Perhaps illegal aliens.
In other news, Dan Coody is my new Facebook friend, so there is at least some joy in the world, apart from women’s collegiate sexyvolleyball.
By Bob on August 3rd, 2008
Hey, thought for the day . . . .
Who brought those Fulmer Cuppers to Fayetteville?