| OT Closing Down The Fulmer Cup

After 12 seasons, the Fulmer Cup Committee has decided to end the Fulmer Cup. For those who do not know, the Fulmer Cup is a parody award akin to the Razzies and Ig Nobel Prize, and is meant to track the criminal achievements of various college football programs during the offseason and declare a "winner."

The Fulmer Cup was created in 2006 by Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday, and run by his website for six years. In 2014, he handed the award off to r/CFB, who ran it for 6 more years at r/TheFulmerCup.

After talking it over with the Fulmer Cup Committee and the r/CFB subreddit moderators, we are discontinuing the award. There are a few contributing factors to this decision, which include:

• Last year’s award season was canceled due to Covid 19 causing confusion and uncertainty in the schedule, making the timing of the Fulmer Cup season unclear.
• The availability of the team has been reduced.
• Larger discussions around criminal justice, plus the severity of several crimes this year, have made it difficult to administer in a light-hearted way.

It has always been tricky to incorporate a humorous angle to the award, given the sensitive nature of the subject. Although the moderating team has tried to strike that balance, it has become more difficult in recent years. In addition, the number of players scoring points has been trending down. Here is a chart of the 6 years r/CFB administered it:

Year	Players Charged
2014	111
2015	123
2016	116
2017	136
2018	67
2019	69

While we have been entertained by some of the crimes players, coaches, and administrators have committed over these past six years, we no longer have the capacity nor comfort to continue the award.

The Twitter account, @thefulmercup, may continue on as a purely informational account in a more limited capacity, but without the larger structure of the annual award. If a group has a good proposal for how to run this in a way that appropriately addresses all the above concerns, we are open to handing it off as it was handed off to us, but our inclination is to let it end here.

Thanks,

The Fulmer Cup Team

 

[50+yeartidefan]

So. The Fulmer cup committee now is awarded the Fulmer Cup

Fitting

and discontinuing it now,,,,just in time for it not to return to its namesake

SAD

 

[XXL TideFan]

Your missing it. A protected sub set of society can’t be criticized at all. Can‘t have a Fuller Cup and CRT at the same time.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Ole Mark Richt had some good years leading The Cup

Head Ball Coach...........On playing UGA early in the season: “I don’t know. I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.”