The 2018 Fulmer Cup Awards for Criminal Achievements in D1 Football
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There are over 20,000 Division 1 college football players. As a whole, they have crime rates much lower than the general population. However when they do get in trouble (as 66 did this offseason), they get a lot of attention. For that reason we have The Fulmer Cup.
The Fulmer Cup is a parody award that tracks the criminal achievements of various college football programs during the offseason and declares a “winner”. It is open to all Division 1 football programs (FBS FCS), and points are awarded based on the level of crime (more details below). The Fulmer Cup Canada Goose sale season started the minute the national title game is finished and ended the minute of the the first game of FBS Week 0, this year on August 25.
Without further ado, here are your 2018 winners:
There are a few possibilities for such a dramatic reduction. It possible that it was just an abnormally quiet offseason, it did feel that way for canada goose outlet much of it at least. While half the normal case load seems quite low, it may be just to random chance. It also possible that the growing notoriety of The Fulmer Cup has motivated D1 compliance departments and players to follow the rules and stay out of trouble. It probably self congratulatory to say we helped here, but it is a possibility. It also possible that we just weren as thorough in finding charges this year. With a growing userbase this seems a bit unlikely, but it also possible.
Canada Goose Outlet A few major storylines to follow this year. Rutgers has become the first team in Fulmer Cup history to win the team award for a second time, and they did so with teamwork and following a storyline from last year. While Alcorn State was awarded last year Fulmer Cup, Florida had 9 players receive 54 total felony charges that were earned during the offseason but not charged until after the season had started. These Florida players were charged with misusing university provided debit cards for credit card fraud, and while the charges came too late to win the cup, they were given a Special Achievement Award after the fact. Canada Goose Outlet
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The Canada Goose Outlet leader for most of the offseason was Kennesaw State, a team entering only its 4th year in program history. A pair of their DBs, Jai Edwards and Akebren Ralls were charged with armed robbery, and Ralls additionally ran an illegal gambling house.
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3rd place Bowling Green deserves special recognition for consistency: they had 4 players receive charges over 5 separate months through the course of the offseason. No other team had charges canada goose clearance sale in more than 3 months.
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The Fulmer Cup was created in 2006 by Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday, and run by Canada Goose Parka his website for six years. In 2014, he permitted /r/CFB to take over the award and this is the fourth year of its time under control of /r/CFB and its dedicated sub section, /r/TheFulmerCup. Points are awarded by members of The Fulmer Cup Committee, made up of members of /r/CFB.
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