If you thought all the stories of Logan Young and Ronnie Cottrell and Thomas Gallion and Phillip Fulmer, Tom Culpepper, the NCAA and the Easter Bunny were behind us… think again.

The judge who oversaw the 2005 trial in which former Bama assistant Ronnie Cottrell sued the NCAA and recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper for defamation… is writing a book.

In “A Lynch Mob Mentality: Ronnie Cottrell Vs NCAA, The Untold Story,” judge Steve Wilson says that circumstantial evidence does point to a conspiracy in the legal mumbo-jumbo, but not one that involved Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer… which Thomas Gallion claimed in Cottrell’s lawsuit.

Wilson says that the plaintiffs, booster Logan Young (remember Albert Means?) and The Tuscaloosa News might have been the actual conspirators in this case as they tried to take advantage of the public’s hatred for the NCAA, which had just put their beloved Tide on probation.

Wilson also tries to “set the record straight” regarding some lies and rumors that he believes were spread about him.  You can read more about it here at The Birmingham News (I bet they just hate that Wilson ripped The Tuscaloosa News).

Wilson’s book has yet to find a publisher.  My guess?  A Tennessee publisher will be on the phone with him by day’s end.

And the beat goes on.

(For the record, I think Sonny might have been violating some “team rules” before this performance.  Wow.)

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