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.
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?
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.”
For those of us with daughters who have coached girls teams, one of the things you see immediately is that girls teams tend to cheer non-stop. They cheer win they are winning. They cheer win they are losing. Compared to my son’s teams, girls just cheer more, lots more. Watch a girls college softball game and listen in the background. It’s constant.
So with that said: She is really complaining that the Vanderbilt football team is not feminine enough for her taste. A further effort to make sissies out of our sons.
Looked like a long onside kick. Any HS kicker could have kicked it better.
Do you suppose she out-kicked other kickers and that was why she was on the field?
In the facility, at university, there are scales on which the football players (or anybody else) can stand, to read their weight.
The scales are manufactured by Toledo Scales.
The lowest reading on the scales, is 150 lbs.
Jut shut up and be grateful you were allowed to play, Sarah!!!!
Sarah Fuller’s comments to her teammates reminded me of the Office Space girl.
Case of the Mondays (scene from Office Space):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AB9zPfXqQQ
It’s one of the many reasons I don’t watch ESPN anymore. Sure, hype it up, but the one kick I did see was not remarkable at all. Like most “new” athletes on a team, whether you’re the second-string punter or a backup on special teams, you really cannot come in and start screaming at your teammates in an attempt to earn their respect... not in football. Clearly she has a lot to learn, and on the basis of her performance, I would add kicking to that list.
MJ
“That was designed, you know, meant for her because that’s what she used to striking. You know, really, we tried to go with the most natural kicks in her arsenal.
“Tried not to, you know, over-coach her, but let her do and understand what felt comfortable to her. And that’s really what we went with. Man, I thought she punched it exactly where she needed to punch it. Ball’s down, 35-yard line. Let’s go.”
Give the coach a break, they had no other person to go with.........