hansen {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:hansen {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Does it make me a bad person if I point out that the chick kicker at Vandy clunked a squib/grounder that barely made it to the 35 yard line? Or if I think this whole stunt was a cynical ploy by Derek Mason to somehow save his job by being uber woke? Or if I pointed out that half the guys at my tailgate could kick it farther in the air than the all-SEC goalie?
Coach claimed that he wanted that because it was a more natural kicking motion for her which would actually make a lot of sense to me if she was a field player in soccer (where you obviously want to keep the ball down) but whatever. She made FGs of up to 38 yards this week in practice which is probably 10-15 yards shy of what a seasoned college kicker would make in a non-pressure situation but then again she only had 3-4 days to practice before the game. Even if this was a gimmick, it was cool to see a chick do something like this. You would have to be a complete fucking dick or someone with serious small dick syndrome to think otherwise. It’s a shame Vandy is such a dumpster fire of a program because i would have loved to see her try an XP.
EDIT. Might have misread the article. I think she was hitting from the 38yd line which would be a 55yarder.
Or, you might know how hard it is to play on a P5 level and resent a fucking gimmick where the gimmick is clearly not a D1/P5 quality player. If there is a girl who has the leg to put the ball into the end zone or inside the 10 yard line with some decent hang time and hit 75% of her field goals inside of 42 or 43 yards, God bless her, hope she matriculates at BC. But a girl who sucks so bad that they have to design a squib that leaks across the 40 yard line and then award cake and ice cream for everyone during an eleventy billion to nothing beat down at the hands of Mizzou, welp, you’d have to be the cum dumpster of a X-C team to celebrate that sort of mockery of the game.
Lots of assumptions here.
But re: your insult at the end, track and field is the second most participated sport in high school after football. Thus, the difficulty of making a D1 roster, let alone be successful, speaks for itself regardless of whatever stupid remarks you are insinuating.
P.s. didn’t realize Vandy does not have a men’s soccer team so who should have done this then keyboard warriors?
Incensed XC Nerd Hansen is the most amusing of Hansens. Look Dork, I don’t know what to tell you if you don’t see this for the sham/stunt/work activism that it was. I didn’t kick in college, but even I, at almost 50 years of age can kick a football in the air to roughly the 15 yard line (I can also make a FG, albeit barely, from 30 yards 7 or 8 times out of 10). I have never trained as a kicker, stopped playing soccer at age 6 when peewee football became available) and have a kicking career that consists of kicking off twice for Fordham Prep and connecting on two XPs because the soccer guy who normally kicked off hurt himself juggling footballs on the sidelines. I am glad that this was before I stopped returning the Chola’s phone calls because while it was no factor kicking the ball inside Mount St Mike’s 10 yard line on kick offs, the XPs would have been nerve wracking with her yelling at me. I never kicked off once for the high falutin’ prep school that lured me away, albeit temporarily, from the Jesuits. The point is, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about my ability to kick a football and I could have done better. If a middle aged male almost 30 years past his last college football game, who wasn’t a kicker, can at age 50 equal the efforts of the woke publicity stunt that occurred yesterday, I can guarantee you that there is a former high school soccer player or kicker somewhere on campus at Vanderbilt who could have kicked a pop fly inside the 20 and made a FG from 38 yards and the only reason there wasn’t a tryout of such readily available, low hanging talent, is that Derek Mason assumed—incorrectly—that he would not get fired the day after such a heroic display of wokeness. Fortunately for America and decency, the Vandy alumni base is smart, rich Southern guys who don’t buy into that sort of bullshit.
Anyway, you do you and cheer on this woke stupidity to your hearts content, but understand that you know nothing about the game or football locker room dynamics. Competent male kickers are viewed with distrust in a D1 locker room and seen as something a bit outside of the team. I can’t imagine what the Vandy team thought about this, but the fact that Mason was canned the day after is a pretty good indication that the AD got some bad feedback.
