Posted on 11/30/2020 9:24:44 AM PST by md1986
Sarah Fuller made history on Saturday afternoon when she became the first woman to play in a Power Five conference football game. Vanderbilt installed her as a kicker after the team’s other kickers were deemed unavailable due to COVID-19. Vanderbilt ultimately lost to Missouri 41-0, falling to 0-8 on the year. The team’s head coach, Derek Mason, was fired one day later. Shortly after making her big debut, Fuller did an interview with Courtney Cronin of ESPN. Among the interesting tidbits that emerged from their conversation was how Fuller got angry at her teammates at halftime.
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She yelled at them for not being enthusiastic enough, then said “I hope I gained their respect...”
What a dweeb. Not the way that happens.
She’s not wrong.
ESPN was positively orgasmic over her appearance, which was quite underwhelming, in a game.
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“If I’m going to be honest, I was a little pissed off at how quiet everybody was on the sideline,” Fuller told Cronin. “We made a first down, and I was the only one cheering and I was like – what the heck? What’s going on? And I tried to get them pumped up, and I was like, ‘You guys need to start [cheering] your team on.’
“My main thing was during the SEC tournament, my entire team was cheering the entire time. It didn’t matter if we were in the locker room or if they were on the sidelines, I think that’s what won it for us. Everybody was cheering non-stop. I just went in there, and I said exactly what I was thinking. I was like, ‘We need to be cheering each other on. This is how you win games. This is how you get better by calling each other out for stuff, and I’m going to call you guys out.’
“We need to be supporting one another. If we get a first down, if an interception happens, it’s our fault. We need to be lifting each other up. That’s what a team’s about. I think this team has struggled, and that’s been part of it,” she continued.
“We really just need to build that team camaraderie where they can all lean on one another. It was an adjustment going from that team mentality where – hey, we’re all here supporting one another, and I just wanted to bring that to this team.”
Fuller says she hopes that her speech ultimately helped her gain her teammates’ respect.
“I hope I gained their respect,” she said. “It wasn’t ill-intentioned at all, I just want this team to succeed and do well. I’m a Vanderbilt student-athlete. I want all our sports to succeed. I call it how I see it, and I’m not going to BS anybody. Didn’t want to BS them.”
It remains to be seen if Vanderbilt’s next football coach ultimately permits Fuller to serve as the team’s kicker as well.
Maybe they were less than enthusiastic over the “groundbreaking” event..
Did anybody comment on how pitifully short her kick was?
Did anybody comment on how pitifully short her kick was?
Feminist tokenism for absurd leftist optics.
She wanted the players to be cheering and jumping up and down on every first down.
She wants the boys to be like girls.
I can see why they did nothing in the second half.
A stunt for whatever reason, since every other player on the team can likely kick a football farther than this chick.
Did you see “the kick?” It was pitiful. It only went about 25 years in the air, and bounced another 5 years before it was fielded. And it was the kickoff of the second half. So weak. Had a male kicker done that poorly, he would be booted from the team.
27 whole yards no less, she must be beating agents off at the door! wait...
The only remedy is to mandate female participation. Each team must have at least 90% blacks, each team must have at least 90% women, each team must have at least 90% disabled, each team must have at least 90% transgenders, each team must have...
This is the only way to save sports. Diversity is our strength.
My only curiosity in this was to see if she could reach the end zone, and instead we get a pooch kick. Well at least that leaves ESPN with another opportunity in the future to hype “the first female to do a normal kickoff in a Power 5 game”
You Win - it’s a stunt!
Somebody new comes in, and immediately she wants to start ordering everyone around.
But she’s not the coach. She isn’t an authority figure.
And maybe sexist to say, but she drawing on her experience on a girls team and wants these guys to behave the same way as her girl teammates. Is that really fair?
Come on, it is not win or lose, it is how you cheer that counts according to the kicker. See, former coach is 0-8. Had his team been joyful he would have had a chance to see a 0-9 record BUT since “the guys” were not rah rah, he is gone.
Meanwhile in the NFL this weekend, Jaguars lost 10th straight game. They seemed rah rah and happy with how they played the Browns BUT the General Manager was fired anyway. Maybe the kicker for Vandy needs a reality lesson?
My oldest is a short/long snapper and believes all kickers/punters are weird. He doesn’t even call his kicker by his name... just calls him “Kicker.”
*** Did you see “the kick?” ***
Yep, and the cucks over at ESPN said she was selected for her ability to direct kicks exactly where she wants them to go. ESPN was even more pathetic than her “kick”.
I heard a guy on the radio while doing errands Sunday, and he said that for a kickoff she can run right off the field and it would be a penalty to try to block her. However, if she somehow were to punt? No running to safety, she’s fair game, and he indicated there would be players who would blow her up.
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