re: Per Chris Lee of VandySports, multiple starters have quit the team because of Sarah Fuller

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I don't think he meant it as a defense of using a soccer player, but rather a semi-adjacent statement on how hard it is to transition from high school to college as a place kicker.

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High school kickers make that transition literally every single year.

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Regardless of where the person was coming from, they'd have to practice a decent bit to get where they can really kick it well.

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Would they have to practice as much as Sarah Fuller did?

Are you guys listening to yourselves? You are saying that it is easier for a woman soccer player to make the transition than it is someone who has been kicking for years.

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I would think it easier for him to kick than a soccer player who had never kicked a football before though, don't you think?

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100%

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You don't come in your first day playing football and yell at the dudes who've been getting their arse kicked all year for not cheering like your soccer team does.

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Exactly. I don't go in the kitchen and yell at my wife on the proper way to make a sandwich.

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she can, however, handle 5 -1/2 inches of the other kind of wood quite nicely.

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Weird flex but okay.

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There was never any "beating out" because there wasn't a tryout. Vandy just went to her and asked her to do it. That's a big part of what pisses people off.


So why are they blaming her for saying yes?

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I haven't seen anyone that's blaming her for saying yes to the opportunity.

is the rest of the women's soccer team available to fill in for everyone that quit?

I agree this is a 2-dimensional stunt by Vandy to signal their openness to gender equity. But y’all are a little too upset about it. It’s as if a locker room of only goobers is sacred to you. Do you like that musty smell? Does it make you randy?

This won’t take off because 99% of programs care only about winning. Let Vandy have their whatever this is.

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Let her play QB for a play, toss a wobbly incomplete pass and get selected SEC Co-Offensive Player of the week.

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FIFY

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I don't think he meant it as a defense of using a soccer player, but rather a semi-adjacent statement on how hard it is to transition from high school to college as a place kicker.

Regardless of where the person was coming from, they'd have to practice a decent bit to get where they can really kick it well.

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^This. Kicking isn't as easy as everyone assumes. It really is a technical thing that takes a ton of practice at the collegiate and pro levels to get right. That's also likely the reason why the coaches just went with a squib and hoped for the best but even that can go wrong.

We undervalue kickers and STs players more than any other position but if you're a guy (or gal) that likes to follow the analytics of the game returning starting kickers turn out to be one of the most important returning players a team can have -- more important than QB in factoring a team's likely production for the next season.

ETA: And no, I was never a kicker (unless you count managing to kick it behind myself), I just know a few who were.

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They went with a "squib" because if she absolutely unloaded and really got ahold of a kickoff, it might get to the 30 yard line. Also, they didn't want to take any risks that she might get hit.

It was a pathetic microcosm of all that is wrong with modern society.

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How so? Vanderbilt's best this year is a roster full of players that under normal circumstances wouldn't be playing even for Vanderbilt. They suck at an epic level because of that. I'm not sure why you or anyone else thinks the kicker should be better than the rest of the slaw.

Y'all are reading a conspiracy into what in reality is just a shitty team operating in shitty circumstances. This is not a normal bad Vanderbilt team.