[yankeedame]

I wonder if we'll be hearing from the NOW gang about this? (No, I'm not holding my breath, or betting the farm.)

[TalBlack]

Good Lord, woman can be allowed into combat, cops, firefighting to the detriment of themselves, their coworkers and the necessary social institutions that once held standards up, BUT THEY CAN'T GET ON A FRICKIN' FOOTBALL TEAM! Oooooooookay...whatever.

[TexRef]

What these schools should do is open up football tryouts to women. They could then treat football as a co-ed sport and wouldn't have to cut so many other men's sports to comply with Title 9.

[putupon]

I hope my team finds a good place kicker for this season, I don't care what the gender.

[rintense]

I say give her a chance. Let her skills speak for themselves.

[Deadeye Division]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/896352/posts

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I say let her become a kicker.

Then the male holder can pull the football out from under her... AAAAUGH!!

[Slyfox]

The Gophers aren't obligated to give her a tryout because schools can prohibit women from participating in men's contact sports.

But, I thought kickers didn't get tackled.

The Canadian Hockey League had a woman goalie who could repel the snot off a penguin.

[Newbomb Turk]

If Rick Neuheisel had let Katie Hnida kick in ( I recall ) 1999 CU would have likely beat Nebraska. We would have never lived that down.

[cherry]

"I'm going into education, and one of the things I believe in is encouraging kids of all ages, male and female, to try stuff -- whether you're nervous or scared or if you don't think you have a possibility of making it,'' she said.

oh, yeah, does she sound like a real terrible person, now doesn't she?

geesh....

[WFTR]

I applaud Minnesota for making the right decision. There must come a time when we realize that men and women are different and that we can and should acknowledge that difference in public policy. Just because someone is physically able to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

WFTR
Bill

[Timesink]

If this were a pro team, or some Pop Warner deal with a bunch of teenagers, I'd say give her a chance. If there's any position in which a female would face zero threat from other more powerful players that could potentially hurt her by accident, it's a place kicker. I'd say let her try, and if she was any good, let her go for it.

But given the amount of living hell and destroyed dreams the feminist groups and the federal government has forced down the throats of men's Division I collge sports in the name of the Almighty Title IX, utterly annihilating many of them in the process (example: WVU was just forced by the Title IX Feminazis to drop five sports ENTIRELY: Women's gymnastics, women's tennis, men's tennis, the rifle team and men's track, purely in order to conform to the federal government's demand of "equality of RESULT" in the ratio of males to females participating in on-campus sports), I can't say I feel to bad about a single female at another school getting a taste of what her so-called saviors in the NOW crowd have done to her.

[Husker8877]

Problem with this whole thing is that sooner or later, with the liberal idiots in charge at all the universities, they'll have to let the females kick from a "woman's" tee--10 yards closer. Can't hurt their self-esteem, can we?

And the proof is this chowderhead's statement, made with no apparent irony, that she can actually kick from FORTY WHOLE YARDS! WOW!

There are at least 18 thousand male kickers in high school today who can kick from more than 40 friggin' yards! Hey, if a female can keep up--with absolutely no artificial advantage--then more power to her, of course.

But wouldn't it be exciting if Clintonism invaded college football, as it has many other activities?

[Karyn M. PhD]

Ok, so it's a men's college team, not coed. Is there a women's college football team? I suspect not. Perhaps there isn't enough interest among female students. But is that the fault of this young woman? In the absence of an alternative, she asked to try out -- read: not necessarily to play, but to be evaluated as to whether she was good enough to do so -- and was not permitted to do so because (to put it crudely) she pees sitting down. This is simply wrong, no two ways about it.