Posted on 12/03/2020 9:33:51 AM PST by md1986
This coming Saturday Georgia will square off against Vanderbilt. Seeing as the Bulldogs are 6-2 in college football’s toughest conference while the Commodores are 0-8, there isn’t a ton of mystery surrounding what the end result will be. As a result, there has been a certain media focus on subplots like kicker Sarah Fuller, who made history last week when she became the first woman to play in a Power Five conference football game. During his most recent press conference, Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart explained why he would not focus on Fuller and her role in the lead-up to the Vanderbilt game.
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In the Notre Dame Clemson game the kicker made an important tackle. Is Sarah Fuller prepared to make a tackle or is she told to stay out of the way? Could a player be charged with assault if there’s a collision?
“I’ve never had to have that conversation before. I’m not going to change and have that conversation now,” Smart said. “We don’t account for the kicker in our returns.”
LOL. Perfect.
Fuller is a novelty being used by a failed program to generate interest.
Sorry, my bad. Notre Dame’s holder made a tackle on a missed field goal that Clemson was attempting to return for a TD. Same theory applies.
Another glaring example of the media desperately trying to infuse politics into sports.
Good for Kirby Smartt. He didn’t take the bait.
Huh? Your blog didn’t write this. It’s cut and pasted from the web. Why make it clickbait on our dime, posting bot?
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During his most recent press conference, Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart explained why he would not focus on Fuller and her role in the lead-up to the Vanderbilt game.
“Probably not,” he said.
“I’ve never had to have that conversation before. I’m not going to change and have that conversation now,” Smart said. “We don’t account for the kicker in our returns.
“I don’t think anybody in the country accounts for the kicker. You assume that if you get to the kicker, you did a pretty good job in the return game,” he continued.
“We don’t plan on having a conversation about it. She plays a very physical sport to be honest with you. I’ve seen some pretty brutal collisions without a helmet and without gear on. I’m sure she can take care of herself when it comes to that. That’s not something we’ve really concerned with because we don’t assign anybody to the kicker.”
Vanderbilt interim head coach Todd Fitch, who took over for the recently-fired Derek Mason, said that Fuller would continue to be on the roster for the foreseeable future.
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“I didn’t speak with her specifically after last week’s game, but she indicated that she wanted to continue,” he said.
“She was there today. Right now, as it stands I don’t see any change in that. She’ll be with us on the trip to Georgia and we’re gonna put the best people out there. If she’s our best option, we’ll continue to work with her and we’ll do the best we can for the team.”
Vanderbilt got blown out 41-0 in Fuller’s debut versus Missouri last week.
Will she and her team fare any better this time around?
Time will tell.
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Her kick was a joke. Any male 55-65 could have kicked like that. Then she run off the field to high fives, backslaps, hugs and interviews.
Amazing.
Kirby Smart should one up Vandy and get a trans woman to kick off (after the game is out of reach). The media reaction would be comedy gold.
I can picture a returner veering away from an open field to run her over. haha
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That being said, were I a returner that broke thru to the kicker I might be inclined to make Ms. Fuller the first woman in power 5 football to take a massive hit. Just sayin. When I played high school ball one of our opponents had a well known “popular” pretty boy on offense. I made it one of my game goals to level that little prick at every opportunity. The next week he informed his daddy that he didn’t like football and really wanted to be involve in Drama.
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LOL! Love it!
She’s 6’2” 190 and in great shape. I’m not saying she’s going to try to tackle anyone, but if a returner were headed for a touchdown she could probably re-route someone or slow him down if he tried to run her over.
her performance was horrible
25 yard kickoff
middle school kickers can kick farther
“if shes our best option”.....
if she’s their best option, they have tremendous problems
She supposedly was told to do that to avoid a return.
i don’t believe it
that means they have little faith in all their guys on the field to get someone before its up to her
Almost every one on this thread is completely ignorant of why she is playing. Especially the tough guy that wants to put a “big hit” on a girl.
‘Almost every one on this thread is completely ignorant of why she is playing.’
old thread, I know, but...she’s playing because ridiculous covid protocols are preventing better players from playing; any other points you want to make...?
‘Especially the tough guy that wants to put a “big hit” on a girl.’
he wants to put a hit on someone who’s status is elevated and exalted for the phoniest of reasons, precisely because everyone knows how poorly females would compete playing against males in a strength related competition...and if this phony wishes to play with the boys, take a hit like a boy, without the bogus nonsensical adulation...
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