Rapid Reaction: Vanderbilt, Sarah Fuller make history, but Mizzou dominates Commodores for easy victory
Saturday’s game between Mizzou and Vanderbilt will be remembered for a long time. To start the second half, Vanderbilt sent out Sarah Fuller to handle the kickoff.
The goalkeeper for the Commodores’ title-winning women’s soccer team executed a squib kick exactly like her coaches wanted, but the Tigers still recovered.
It was a cool moment, and probably the only one for the Commodores, as they were absolutely dominated by the Tigers on Saturday afternoon in Columbia.
The Mizzou offense had a huge day in the 41-0 victory. Larry Rountree III led the way with 21 carries for an impressive 160 yards and 3 touchdowns. Tyler Badie also had a rushing touchdown, but he made more of an impact as a receiver, putting up 7 catches for 102 yards to lead the Tigers.
QB Connor Bazelak also had a strong outing, throwing for 318 yards, but with 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions. In the fourth quarter, freshman QB Brady Cook took over for Bazelak and went 3-for-3 for 36 yards and an easy touchdown pass to WR Damon Hazelton.
The Mizzou defense was the star of the show, though, pitching a shutout against the Commodores even though they only forced 1 turnover.
For Vanderbilt, this loss sent them to an 0-8 record. Mizzou improves to 4-3 in coach Eli Drinkwitz’s first season at the helm of the Tigers. The Tigers play Arkansas next Saturday, while Vanderbilt is scheduled to take on Georgia.
I have a question for you “genius”, since you rep these talking blabberheads about how “inspiring” this crap show was, why aren’t little girls inspired by watching volleyball or womens soccer-hoops? It’s only this spectacle of idiocy that “inspires” because why, idiots like you say so?
Your response to it is the exact reason it was important. You seem to feel awfully threatened by it. Have a good day.
“Your response to it is the exact reason it was important.”
and that’s the response of an sjw idiot, you clowns cannot argue facts you need your emotional feefee crutch to make you feel superior. Soyboi retards are not a threat, certianly Miss Sarah isn’t.
I’m not sure what name you just called me, but you don’t know me. I get the sense that it’s somehow based on politics with you. You make my politics look bad
It is important for a Beaker to talk about these things. They have nothing else to talk about on a football board.
EXACTLY!!! It’s a farce, and totally deserves having Vanderbilt–one of the WORST football programs in America–commit it! And while watching the halftime show of the UGA/SC game, Dori Noka–while covering this stunt–makes the ignorant and foolish comment “women belong in the game.” Such fools are setting football back even further. Now that she has some attention, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see her kneel during the anthem (or some such nonsense!).
What a time to be alive, 2020 y’all.
>>”Vanderbilt chose to let Sarah kick. They chose to dress her for a D1 game… They chose to let her squib kick in this decade and not do the other things, because a squib kick is easy, and because the other things are hard; because she is not capable to achieve any other goal or serve to organize and measure the best of Vanderbilts energies and skills, because that challenge is one that she is not capable of accomplishing, one Vanderbilt was unwilling to postpone, and one they will ultimately lose, and all the others, too.”
Doing something for the sake of doing it is not an accomplishment. Sarah ultimately does a disservice to women’s rights and their struggle for equality. Focus on her unbelievable soccer skills, not her pop warner level kicking ability. This is peak participation trophy nonsense. Sad that Vanderbilt would even do something like this.
Mason got himself at least one more year by playing Fuller and saying the things he said. Vandy is a very liberal place and most of these people loved the fact that their school was the first to play a woman in a p5 football game.
Left-wing liberalism always involves ‘symbolism over substance,’ and it always will.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! You summed it up exactly as it is!!
The power 5 has had female kickers before it’s just their coaches didn’t want to embarrass them by putting them on the field in a game. The one at Colorado transferred to (I think) New Mexico St and wound up being the first Div 1 female kicker to score in a game. It’s been 20 years since then I wonder where all the super qualified female kickers are hiding?
This actually may be the beginning of the implosion of the program there.
You’re beyond moronic. Where do you get off saying she has pop warner kicking ability? Id bet my house you couldn’t kick a 20 yard field goal, but she was drilling field goals pregame.
She came off the couch and kicked in a P5 game, because she is talented.
Seriously can’t stand people like you.
Please know that when the women’s US national soccer team – the best female sports organization in history – faced off against a bunch of Dallas 9th and 10th graders THEY LOST DECISIVELY.
So yeah, a women’s soccer player did an OK job of executing a squib kick. But a male soccer player, basketball player, track athlete OR OTHER FOOTBALL PLAYER could have done the same job FAR BETTER.
So please, don’t delude yourself. This was a PR gimmick plain and simple.
“She came off the couch and kicked in a P5 game, because she is talented.”
you may be the dumbest idiot on the planet if you really believe that.
Pop Warner is a good description of her kicking. Once again, (working my way up the thread), with practice she might actually be a good kicker in football. She wasn’t ready.
“Doing something for the sake of doing it is not an accomplishment.”
well it could be but it’s clear in this case it really isn’t. She didn’t “earn” the position of kicker through tryouts and accomplishment of merit, it was a case of “you know how to kick a ball and are on campus/schollarship, wanna be a football player?”.
There are a thousand high school boys that can out kick her and would make a better football player, this story if for the media goop spewers to feel good about fooling a bunch of saps into thinking it’s some sort of “accomplishment”. Looks like they’ve done it again, sports fans seem to be the biggest collective of dummy’s on the planet.
easy to tear people down from behinda keyboard. Mason asked her to step in and she did.
I thought it was really cool.
It was cool but it wasn’t really an athletic accomplishment. I watched her kicking and I doubt she could kick a 20 yard fg.
She said she’d been kicking FG’s of 38 yards in practice. Yes, my grandson was kicking 20 yarders (college extra point) at the age of 10 but not facing a rush. I do wonder if Coach Mason sent out a request if any students on campus wanted to try out.
To 57939names,
That would correspond with what I saw before and at halftime. That said, her kicking was ugly. Low shots above the bar. With practice, who knows. I wondered the same thing too with regards to requesting the student body.
Haven’t seen anyone tear her down. Just the decision itself and Mason for making it.
It’s even worse than symbolism. Did you know that a lot of Division 1 football schools purposefully don’t include men’s soccer teams in their offerings while they do offer Women’s Soccer. Among the students of these institutions are often men’s club soccer players that pay their own way to play other college clubs. Some of these soccer playing men can kick a lot further than the scholarship kickers on the football team. In fact it’s so common that some football programs know they can count of walk-on kickers and/or soccer players to fill those roles. Enrollment at Vanderbilt is about 13,000 students. Is Mason telling us that among those 13,000 students there’s not one man who can smash the football 2/3rd the length of the football field? Because I don’t believe it. And so I believe that he chose to take an opportunity away from a male student and give it to female student who already has a full-ride scholarship and plenty of fame. It’s ok for Men to have opportunities Women don’t have and it’s ok for women to have opportunities men don’t have. No College should have to sponsor every opportunity in the education/sports dictionary for both sports. And sorry boys and girls, but it’s not ok to encourage men and women to play physical contests against each other. Men are physically and chemically different that women. It’s perfect if you are born with either physical or chemical set of gifts. It’s not so easy to be Mr. or Ms. in-between. And for those of you who feel you are in-between Blessings to you anyway, there are tons of activities and careers that have zero advantages on either side of the gender fence.
Well said! But BTW, I’m not very surprised that a sham of a football program would perform this sham of a stunt!
I think it is inspirational. I played football with a girl in middle school, she was not allowed to play in high school. I knew a couple girls that wanted to play flag football and were told no because they had parents that believed it was a guys sport. What is the harm to teach girls they can be kickers? Absolutely none. Sarah hats off to you…MIZ
and for today everyone should #anchordown.
” What is the harm to teach girls they can be kickers? ”
do you realize what an idiotic statment that is? Nobody is preventing girls from being “kickers”. If you actually meant to say kickers in competitive mens football, then what will you say when she is taken off the field on a stretcher? Time to change the rules again so the girls don’t get hurt? The problems become compounding and you idiots with no ability to think beyond your nose can’t see a single one of them.
I’ve read some of your posts. You should not necessarily think you are in a place to insult others’ ability to think.
Reading my posts are one thing, you comprehending would be something different, you just aren’t very bright.
“But.. but.. it’s HISTORIC, it’s GOOD FOR THE GAME, it’s GOOD FOR GIRLS”.. .lol idiots are easily taken in by nonsense.
“What is the harm to teach girls they can be kickers?”
Because guys are better ones. So were there to be an equal competition between male kickers and female kickers, male ones will win every time.
Had there been an open cattle call for someone to get in that game and do a squib kick, it would have been answered by members of the male soccer team as well as guys who played football in high school but chose Vanderbilt academics over Division II ball. And all of them – 100% of them – would have performed better than striker for the US Women’s National Soccer team at her athletic peak, let alone a goalie for a college soccer team.
That’s right. And so it morally wrong make a publicity statement by taking an opportunity away from someone who deserves it and give to somebody in the name of publicity. Congratulations to the Vanderbilt Women’s Soccer program on your NCAA Championship. Please have the grace and class to realize you can now be used to promote things that are wrong.
The squibb kick was to protect her. There was no advantage to it. And to your first comment, there is no problem with that. However, the kicker is the 11th man on the field and there are situations where they are the last line of defense. It’s a contact sport. That said, there will be an anomaly where a female will be physical enough to make the grade and kick so we will see it. It just won’t be a regular thing.
I watched a girl play on a boys soccer team up til the end of middle school, was the best player on the team. When they entered HS, she played one year and then joined a girls team. She was still an exceptional player but biology had kicked in, boys were becoming men, and she was becoming a woman. She was not able to compete at the same level with the boys. Now that’s not at odds with your experience and the girls you played football with may have weighed 190 and been big boned. It just usually doesn’t transfer well. And this was a gimmick. And that’s what’s being called out.
So awesome to see Sarah in the game. I’m a little disappointed that Derek Mason didn’t let her kick a field goal in the 4th. Vandy had no chance to win and they could’ve made history. Instead they senselessly go for it on 4th down with 9 minutes left and down by 34 points.
She couldn’t have kicked from that range. I think the closest they got was the 44yd line in the 4th. She had difficulty from the 30.
Some day a woman will enter a P5 game, kick the ball deep, AND make some attempt to support her other 10 teammates in coverage. That woman will not go down in the history books. Today’s squib-and-trot-to-the-sideline stunt made sure of that. Style over substance. Sad.
Why aren’t men allowed to goal keep in womens soccer? WHEN WILL THIS INJUSTICE EVER BE CORRECTED! Level the playing field and such.. what’s sad is this nonsense is so “inspiring” to the brain dead.
EXACTLY!
She joined the team a week ago. You clowns who were expecting to see her step on and light it up are assuming it must be easy to be a kicker.
You’re a moron.
I’d put a thousand dollars on the backup punter being able to out kick Sarah, this is just a sideshow joke being put on to get you seals flapping your flippers. If they need her to fill a spot to make the numbers add up to field a team, well, that seems a bit iffy considering they wouldn’t let Coach Drinkz put a walkon on schollie to effectively do the same thing. The NCAA is the NCAA always a joke, never to be taken serious.
I’ll take the bet. You might want to watch some her soccer highlights before you lose the rest of your food stamps making bad bets.
Since she is a scholarshiped soccer player wouldn’t the scholarship be moved to football under the “Bear Bryant Rule”. That’s what happened when Bruce Ellington played both basketball and football.
Kicking a round ball down a wide field is very different than kicking a football, but I don’t expect you to comprehend why.
I’m no expert but I played football and soccer competitively. Different parts of the foot are used for a soccer ball. But kicking power is kicking power, and when you have no other options it’s not a bad idea to look at soccer players.
“I’ll take the bet.”
you’re on biffy, even if their punter is an inbred that can’t kick the backup QB will have more talent and ability than a “pro kicker” girl, it’s simple genetics, something you can’t understand.
Punting, might be a question mark depending on how comfortable she is kicking a football. Field goal, extra point, or kick off? I agree with you after watching her practice before and at half time. Give her a season to practice and maybe but I’d still bet with the backup.
I get she’s a good athlete, but this doesn’t seem remarkable in the slightest to me. PR stunt probably, and it likely saved Mason’s job.
You argue both sides of the argument. What you said here is the basis for most of the arguments you defend against. She joined a week ago. She is not yet (if ever, and goes for anybody trying something new) capable of kicking in college football. Watching her practice established that.
And what will be the reaction when that woman kicks it deep and then runs downfield with the rest of the team and gets BLOCKED and severely injured? They’ve already seen what the “trannies” do to REAL women in MMA. There’s a reason God made women the way they are and that’s why we love them!
How often do male kickers make a play on special teams? Literally almost never.
“How often do male kickers make a play on special teams?”
Every single weekend that football is played, the reason you don’t know about it is it isn’t reported because it’s “no big deal”. It’s simply amazing how uninformed you are.
Again, I played on special teams. Did you? Any time a kicker makes a play on special teams,it gets national attention and is a top 10 sportscenter highlight because it’s so rare.
Its comical that you have these massively misinformed opinions and have the audacity to tell others they’re uninformed. Go back to the circus, clown.
“Did you?”
Yes I was the X fly, I played by the kicker and went straight for the ball. Our kicker was in the play a lot, but it happens throughout football so much it is not considered “a thing”. You would know this if you actually knew anything about football.
It will be on ESPN highlights FOREVER!
Awesome day for that young lady, the SEC and College Football in general. I too was hoping she would have an opportunity to at least score a point with a FG or Xpt. Some other young lady may get that opportunity at the P5 level, or maybe even Fuller.
“Some other young lady may get that opportunity at the P5 level, or maybe even Fuller.”
No they won’t. Because guys will be competing for the same opportunity and – despite all the feminist propaganda that you have imbibed from the media – no female athlete is capable of winning a competition against a male athlete. (This means of similar caliber. So no bringing up Hall of Fame Olympians against second string 9th graders. And even there, the US Women’s soccer team that so many call “the most dominant sports team in history” was decisively beaten by a Dallas U-16 team … no one talks about this for obviously reasons.)
YEP!
You probably never thought you’d even ever see a girl suit up for a P5 game. Well, you and everyone one else who thought that was wrong.
“You probably never thought you’d even ever see a girl suit up for a P5 game.”
Happened 20 years ago at Colorado, Katie Hnida, google it up, oh btw, they were playing Mizzou back then.
Well that just makes everyone getting their panties in a pinch over Fuller look even worse. And yes, that includes YOU!
and it was wrong to have that contest, it hurt the Women’s National Team and it hurt the boys team also.
Boowolfman. I see you’re not trashing the Mizzou offense or the coach this week. In case you didn’t notice, Mizzou had it’s oline back this week.
Sarah Fuller is a publicity stunt nothing more, nothing less. The cool thing was she had the courage to take the offer and suit up.
Missouri, today, became the 6th team this year to score close to 40 points against Vanderbilt. Against Kentucky and Ole Miss, Vanderbilt also scored quite a few points. So the first men on the Mizzou roster I want to congratulate are the shut-out defense. But I join you in congratulating the today are the offense… for lighting up the scoreboard a little. If you are saying that I trashed the Missouri offense or coach recently, well, i’m not sure “trashing” is accurate but Missouri has scored 20 point or less this year in 5 of their 7 games, if that’s not a problem for them then I guess we should get used to a lot of luke-warm seasons or worse. And if I have been too critical of any of the Mizzou football team this year, it’s Walter’s defense, so right here watch me congratulate Ryan Walter’s for this impressive SEC shut-out….. but you know what, i’m not too critical of Missouri and in fact if anything I probably seem a little to much like their PR agent.
Good grief tony, are you 12?
You had no trouble ripping the offense the last few weeks but not one good word this week. What’s up?
Wrong. I had trouble trying to see how that was a game “Odom would lose” when the Tigers scored ZERO points in the 2nd half, which was no different than an Odom coached team. Why would anyone rip the offense this week? Besides, I wasn’t ripping the offense, I just said 17 points (all in the first half) wasn’t a great effort against a team who had been giving up 53 points/game. And I wasn’t the only one who felt that way as there were many articles on many Tiger sites not happy with the offensive effort. GA’s offense, yes GA who isn’t even known for offense just hung 45 on that same team today. But you’re 12 so.
Sarah Fuller seems like a really cool person. That was a nice moment.
Mizzou also played its most complete game of the year by far, albeit against an inferior opponent. Good day at Faurot Field.
I can’t remember the last time a Mizzou team had its act together this completely. Offense, defense, and special teams. No silly key penalties on any players. I can’t wait to play Arky. I can’t think of a game that Odom coached where the Tigers looked this good.
I agree , this was an excellent game to put on tape for Odom to see before we play. Very efficient football. Eli vs Barry will be fun to watch for several reasons.
Good assessment. Games at 11 next week if you can make it.
Chances are you can’t even think of a game you ever actually watched period.
Aww boowolfman, are your feeling hurt. Go have a cookie.
Lol, I knew you couldn’t think of one.
Willing to bet the talking heads are gonna compare her to Jackie Robinson or Roberto Clemente.
You do know Robinson and Clemente weren’t the first black and Latino player in baseball, right?
When people think of the color barrier they think of these two gentlemen. So are you down playing their contributions of tearing down walls?
Just as this girl isn’t the first one to suit up in football. You don’t even see your own irony…
She was the first woman in P5 football. This was noted in every source, so what’s your point?
Cola_cock must be suggesting she’s going to become a college great, lead a number of women to playing college football, and end up in the hall of fame. Strong take.
Only if you throw out all the women in the past that participated in men’s NCAA football. See how false this is on so many levels?
Mizzou posters…..so what She came in and squib kicked. You won the dam$ game 41 to 0. I don’t understand all the vitriol about her. It was Vandys choice. At least she agreed to suit up and be there. Maybe she made a difference in number of players available. They probabley could have just postponed. Now you have a fake record because you beat a team that played a girl.
The problem I have with this is she’s not super woman. It feels way more like a publicity stunt by Mason than her helping out the team. But I could very well be wrong. It wouldn’t be the first time.
However, it took a lot of courage to accept the offer and suit up. So congratulations to her and her family because there was some risk and she did exactly what they asked her to do.
Your comment about the only one here that doesn’t make a legit point of some kind. Stop embarrassing the USMC.
Because it only served as a distraction. And the vitriol is at her. Everyone is calling it out for what it was: a side show circus exhibition.
If in 2 weeks, Mizzou played 15 year old twins against Georgia, pretty sure that would be a first, who weren’t capable of being on the field, Georgia would be talking about it. And the question would be “why” with an assessment of Mizzou as to why it occurred. That’s all that is going on here.
Unfortunately, the one play in this game has totally overshadowed the game itself.
Missouri dominated this game the way Alabama used to dominate in the early 1960’s, when the Bear was coaching. Vanderbilt’s offense was completely shut down. It is rare for a P5 team to be shut out these days if they are not playing Alabama. But, for that team to only cross midfield briefly for a couple plays all day and to get less than 200 total yards is a sign that Vanderbilt is not fit to be an SEC member.
Being national bowling champion and SEC women’s soccer tournament champion does nothing for the bottom line. The national champion baseball program is nice, but it loses over 100K a year. Plus, Tim Corbin isn’t going to be coaching for many more years.
The SEC is all about football and men’s basketball. Football counts for almost all of the revenue, while men’s basketball adds a little. Vandy isn’t drawing too many less fans this year to football games than they did to their final 2019 home football game. Their basketball program used to sell out all the seat for the season by November 1, but it is an afterthought in this market with the Titans until January, and the Predators from November to May or June. The gloried baseball program still draws half of what the Pacific Coast League Sounds draw per night, but only on select nights. On a typical weeknight, the Commodores will draw a couple thousand for baseball, while the Sounds draw 8,000-11,000.
Vanderbilt needs to be responsible and intelligent about its reason for existence, and that does not include competitive athletic accomplishments. It used to be that several thousand fans could be suckered into supporting their teams, but there are better options in this market, and the long-time fanbase has been dying off or getting too old to attend for many years. Even with the #14 stadium by far in the SEC, Vanderbilt cannot fill that tiny stadium if every living alum had a ticket.
The Vandy administration really needs to re-consider its future in scholarship athletics. It’s time to follow the Washington U. and University of Chicago plan and go to Division 3, non-scholarship athletics. Repurpose the football stadium and basketball gym.
But… but… this is THE FIRST TIME Mizzou has EVER played a team with a girl on it!!!!
Wrong again aholes, Mizzou played Colorado in the 90’s with a girl kicker, over 20 years ago now. Amazing how UNhistoric this historic day actually is.
Yes But Katie did not actually get in the game
D3 is a bit harsh. I think vandy would do very well in the G5. They’d go from laughing stock to conference competitors over night.
They want that SEC money though, so they aren’t leaving willingly.
But I agree, vandy should not be in the SEC.
Vandy has some good days on the football field, and they will be back as contenders. Geezzz you guys, as if other programs don’t have bad years. They beat Missouri 3 of the last 8 total history.
Most schools have ups and downs. Vanderbilt is nearly always down. They’ve been in the SEC since it began in 1932. In that time, not only have they never won the conference, they’ve never even won their division. We did it twice in less than a decade.
I’m happy to keep them, we need an easy out every year. But for their sake, I just don’t see why they enjoy getting pummeled every year.
I’m sorry to hear you say that. I went to SLU as well, where my great grandfather played at the turn of the previous century and missed by 7 year playing with the team that threw the first forward pass. They shut down their football program in the 50s? (I always get this wrong so someone will correct me). The school that threw the first forward pass doesn’t have a program. No one goes to Wash U games.
For some programs, sports doesn’t need to dominate, but it can be a part of the student sense of pride and their experience at school. Vandy could have a successful team, but like you said the administration would have to be behind it.
Congrats to the young lady. For all the “men” naysayers, exactly what shortcomings are you overcompensating for?
I’m just curious what the actual “accomplishment” is supposed to be, pooch kicking a ball 30 yards? I know I can do that, right now, without a week of practice, so that’s the “amazing” play we are supposed to be stunned by?
Girls have been trying out for and occasionally being given spots on boys football teams for DECADES now, it’s not that they are being held back, they just aren’t that good at it. It’s NOT a conspiracy from the male patriarchy that you clowns want to believe in, it’s just simple nature that girls aren’t as good at some sports.
Continue believing this nonsense because you watched some Dizney kids show with a girl QB that was tougher than the boys, and you KNOW WHAT’S WHAT. lol
Sure you could bro. You could probably also win an athletic scholarship and an SEC championship on the women’s soccer team. Typing something on the internet doesn’t make it true.
I was third backup kicker and the only soccer style kicker on my team, kicking isn’t all that big an accomplishment, unless you aren’t an athlete, which clearly you are not.
Wait a minute. Third back up kicker? Impressive. In other words, you probably never scored. Was that for your high school football team? And you’re telling us so we’ll be impressed?
Lol
I played LB and Safety, in fact one of the only times I did score was on a kickoff when I hit a kid so hard the ball flew out his hands. It was an easy pickup 6.
Again, EXACTLY!
So you have nothing logical, scientific, practical, or even just, to say so you take the low ground and call the writer “overcompensating”. Your lack of a case is why the stunt today was ethically, morally, and practically wrong.
Most impressive part was where the Mizzou player managed to run thru Vandy’s team and she was the last line of defense and made the tackle. LOL. She was not the one to be the first one. That’s the problem. If she had been recruited kicker, there is no one who would not be questioning “why?” with her. But you know, Auburn could really step up the game by giving scholarships to some ladies to play football and I hope they do :)
What’s the big deal about the young lady kicking a football? She was invited by the football staff. She didn’t force this to happen. We all know why she was there. Chalk it up to the bizarre 2020 and COVID attrition. Big deal at this point. This is an asterisk season anyways , with plenty of historical “first” moments. Shoot, just 4 months ago we didn’t know if we were even gonna have college football this year. There’s a bunch of cry- babies on here that need to show some gratitude for SEC football during this pandemic.
Btw , great team dominance today. Good to be above.500 for the first time this year! Kudos to the staff and players. Three games left with two at home. I like our chances ……. MIZ—
“She didn’t force this to happen.”
I don’t think anyone is blaming her, she certainly didn’t orchestrate the media circus. In her post interview she was relatively humble just saying she hoped she was an inspiration not trying to turn it into some Joan of Arc crusade that the media was obviously pushing.
One of the big deals is that when you use novel or irregular or unexpected or non-traditional ‘stunts’ to try to promote things that are wrong, unfair, impractical, or disrupting of ‘honorable’ traditions. You do harm to campaigns for change that might be just and needed in the future.
Congratulations Wolfman! You just described how other Mizzou & SEC fans view your long-winded, lack of common sense soliloquies that you spew regularly. Usually cringe-worthy.
In your own words,
“….you use novel or irregular or unexpected or non-traditional ‘stunts’ to try to promote things….”. This how we all feel when we read your posts.
The good news is that my opinion, your opinion or anybody else’s doesn’t matter at the end of the day. All is fair and life moves on. That’s the” big deal.”
It’s a football board, it was promoted as historic, it’s going to get talked about. And reading the board, nobody is holding her accountable nor blames her. But they are talking about it, it’s legitimacy, the motivations for why it happened.
I enjoyed Mizzou beating the sh#t out of vandy much more than the publicity stunt. Kuddos on the squib kick but really who cares after getting assaulted like that. To me it equates to nothing more than the fan drilling one from half court at halftime and then back to what really matters after
Unfortunately, Fuller saved Mason’s job. He knew what he was doing. She is a great soccer player, but Mason knows he is in hot water and needed a scape goat. As liberal as Vandy and their leadership is, he will be praised. She did what was asked of her on the kickoff. Okay good for her, she is coachable. Mizzou dominated Vandy, that’s the storyline and should be.
So any time a coach is on the hot seat, all they need to do is add a girl to the line up and their job is saved?! Wow man, Mason just hacked the system! No head coach will ever be fired ever again! Them libs will never catch on!
And yet here you are showering praise on them when most of us are capable of understanding that the only “history” that matters in this business is the history that gets recorded in the win column. But hey, why would that surprise me? You follow a team who almost almost lost to a hapless Vanderbilt team whose only on-field excitement was this staged publicity stunt. Be honest with yourself. Does this happen if Vanderbilt isn’t a complete and utter tire fire on the field this year? Maybe Bama ought to try it out next week…oh, wait…
We won 41-0, and you consider that “almost losing”. My goodness you are retarded.
I’m guessing you also think trump won the election…LMAO.
“You follow a team who almost almost lost to a hapless Vanderbilt team whose only on-field excitement was this staged publicity stunt.”
Did you watch the game? You might want to check the box score and delete and apologize for this comment.
Black and Gold, I tend to agree with you. The positive publicity for Vanderbilt is huge. Sarah Fuller will be on talk shows for the next couple of weeks and she was a big story on a number of websites. Mason going to be fired at some point but this may have given him as least one more year.
I also thought Sarah Fuller is amazing and I think to myself how difficult it would be to do a different Division 1 sport after only a weeks preparation and walk out there in front of a national television audience and perform. Pretty amazing.
That’s too bad because I’ve seen Mason coach some good football games. I don’t pretend to know if he’s the best man for Vandy or not but I’ve enjoyed attending a game in Nashville and I wish the Commodores success in the future .
Luckily, your comment didn’t age well. James Franklin may be available. Hope your AD is reaching out to him.
I swear, some of you guys must have been struck out as a kid in little league by a girl or lit up by a girl in Pop Warner and are still suffering emotional damage to your fragile ego. Vandy needed a scholarship kicker to fill in and this lady got to make a little history in the process. Sure it was just a squib kick, but it was also what the coach called. It is not her fault they were shut out and had no other chances to show what she can do.
it was dismissive and wrong and exploitive.
and false, Vandy didn’t need a scholarship kicker to do anything. They had many students, already on the roster, who met the NCAA requirements and SEC requirements to participate in College football yesterday. All of those students went to football training everyday with the just idea that they might earn a chance to kick the ball at least one time before they graduated, or catch a pass, or block an opponents, etc..
It is only dismissive and exploitive if she can’t do the job or there is a better field goal kicker waiting on the bench. The fact of the matter is you have no idea if that is the case. You assume that is the case, but unless you have been attending the Vandy practices recently, you don’t know. Also, since she only had the chance to kick a squib kick, none of us will know her skills, whatever they are. That said, I have seen video of a woman soccer player from the national team kicking 45 yard field goals. What is truly sad is how obsessed you seem to be with denigrating this young lady for accepting an opportunity that you have no idea whether she she is deserving of or not.
Wow. I’m ashamed of some of my supposed co-alumni.
There is nothing more I wanted this weekend than to crush Vandy (sorry) but when #32 took the field my whole family jumped off the couch and cheered. And if we had lost, and she kicked the winning point, I would have also cheered.
To the people celebrating her- thank you for your class! For those so upset a woman got to suit up and do something you find her undeserving of, please think about why a strong, capable woman scares you so much.
Well said
I commend Sarah Fuller for her courage to accept the challenge and go on a national stage with little preparation and not back down. It takes a lot of personal fortitude to do that. I also personally feel it was pretty cool.
But I also feel that Coach Mason’s job is in jeopardy because of lack of wins and he would do anything he can to give himself more time and deflect from his poor won-loss record. Positive publicity like this for Vanderbilt is worth many thousands of dollars and would make him look really good to the people in charge. I feel like this was a publicity stunt as much as anything.
However, it has nothing to do with being scared of “a strong, capable woman.” I have two daughters and I taught them both to be self reliant in life and not be afraid of any challenge.
I know some of the people posting here love to grab their megaphones, stand on a soap box, and call people names and pin labels on them but did any of them even try and think there may be a different motivation for Mason inviting Fuller to kick? Of course that would mean practicing tolerance for the opinions of others which some posters might find impossible to do.
let’s hear a reason right now, because they are all false on their natural foundation.
You should consult Webster’s dictionary for the definition of “capable,” because it isn’t failing epically at something but receiving praise because you are a woman and the media has made you the face of a misguided civil rights movement. Do you think a woman could play linebacker or quarterback? Or are you in fact going to realIze the physiological differences between women and men and drop the woke nonsense? I suppose third option, you could tell an outright lie and say that you do. Are you outraged when a man hits a woman? Why? If there are no physical differences between genders, then that situation would seem to be the equivalent of two men engaging in a physical altercation which ordinarily would warrant no special attention.
No one is suggesting women have the physical prowess that men possess. No one is suggesting that women should play at LB or QB. All that happened was a woman kicked a football. Pretty sad how shook you are over this. I sincerely hope you don’t have daughters, cuz you sound like you’d be a horrible father.
Seriously name one sport, any sport, where the women would beat the men? Swimming? No. Track? No. Ever come across a woman who can throw a 90 mile an hour fastball? No. Maybe gymnastics because the sport is also largely upon critique. But even then, it’s not an apples to apples comparison when you consider that the women don’t do the rings. That said, I don’t mean that to disparage the women. Viewing them separately from the men doesn’t demean what they do, it just takes into account actual common sense and physiological differences between genders.
You can’t advance justice, acceptance, and awareness by using false scripts. You can only bring about the best future by judging new ideas on their true merit. It should concern a lot of people that this fake winning of a starting role on a men’s football team is being applauded by anyone. Do you think any group in society is justified in using an untruth to displace anyone from their more appropriate place in an endeavor? It doesn’t advance the interest of successful women to teach them that they can be elevated by failing to honor fundamental fairness or ignoring the reality of our human-ness having a two sex orientation,… that we all not only need, but celebrate. “Some” activities are highly appropriate for one sex exclusively, but not so when mixed with the other. You do harm to our ideas of social justice and appropriate relationships when you want to ignore this for one person’s or one groups benefit. And more harm when you minimize other peoples
well founded support of such.
“Fair minded people”, are undeserving of you accusing them of being scared, see how you had to play the false label of fear to try to get around justification that it’s ok to short-circuit winning jobs based on the fact that they are created specifically for men/women, and in this case real ability.
You completely abandon all women who want their own athletic activities where men can’t compete for those positions. Because in the minds of those who think this is cool, men should think it cool to have a representative of their sex on every women’s sport roster, or 50% of the starting roles there, one example, volleyball team…. and just because they are not women.
They don’t abandon them, like most things, they just apply a double standard. It’s totally okay for women to have their own sports but not men.
I’m glad you and your daughters had a special moment. She didn’t belong on the field. Not because she’s a woman but because she wasn’t a capable kicker of a football. She maybe a great soccer player but it didn’t translate. Not because of an intentionl squibb kick to protect her but because we watched her practice. She had no familiarity with kicking a football. I’m sure someone attending Vanderbilt, not on the team, had more capability. And it is possible, we’ll see her next year, she will have practiced with a football, and the results could be very different. I don’t blame Sara Fuller. Offered the opportunity, go for it. The problem is that the opportunity was offered just to offer it. The problem you have is that you see it as some sort of anti-woman protest. She wasn’t capable of the job and it was an obvious virtual signal. Don’t tell your daughters though. Let them celebrate it.
I appreciate your thoughtful and measured response. That’s a fair argument, but consider the circumstances. We’re in the middle of a pandemic and they were in a pinch. They needed a scholarship athlete who can kick. Maybe she wasn’t perfect, but they needed something serviceable. I don’t believe they just made her an offer willy-nilly.
I don’t expect her to stick around long, and I don’t expect we’ll see any other females on a football field any time soon because it’s unlikely they’ll beat out a guy for the job.
It is only dismissive and exploitive if she can’t do the job or there is a better field goal kicker waiting on the bench. The fact of the matter is you have no idea if that is the case. You assume that is the case, but unless you have been attending the Vandy practices recently, you don’t know. Also, since she only had the chance to kick a squib kick, none of us will know her skills, whatever they are. That said, I have seen video of a woman soccer player from the national team kicking 45 yard field goals. What is truly sad is how obsessed you seem to be with denigrating this young lady for accepting an opportunity that you have no idea whether she she is deserving of or not.
Was at the game and watched her practicing. It was a gimmick. She was not familiar with kicking a football. Now if that young lady from the national team had been out there, maybe a different story and reaction. They could have found someone on campus with more ability and familiarity than she had.
This will be a trivia question to which very few will remember the answer. Glad she got her name in wikipedia but we’re not going to see females flood into football and it maybe decades before we see another. The Browns had a little person (he was referred to as a midget in the day) play for them back in the 50s because of the strike zone. There was no flood of little people after he played. In fact, none. Let’s accept this for what it was, and move on.