Mo Isom to tryout for the LSU Tigers Football team

Like I said, she's thes "Best" that we know of. There may be someone better, but who are they? I say give her/them a tryout too.

And what you said about the kickers, you have clearly never seen what a 3rd string kicker on a college football team looks like.

 

not the best that i know of. i have no reason to think she is much better than any similar player at any other soccer team. presumably she is worse than the superior goalkeepers with stronger legs at better soccer school. again, lsu is not a top 25 soccer program.

they look like fellas who can outkick girls. like you said, its not all strength, its lots of things, including experience, of which mo has not a bit. never one kick in a single game at any level. thats not the path to major college athletics.

 

None of what you say is proven by science either. You know we're still in a day and age where people with your thoughts helped shape the schools. There are still schools that push women to home economics instead of letting them go for Physics.

When you set the stage for failure, don't be surprised when you get failure. Some of the smartest people I know are women who refused to accept those stereotypes and worked their ass off.

 

Kicking actually has little to nothing to do with experience. Especially kickoffs. Kicking field goals has the added pressure of the rush, but that is even a "can you handle it or not" proposition. Either you have the mental ability to withstand it or you don't. Some guys have it but lose it. Look at guys like Olindo Mare, Martin Gramatica who go through spurts of being great and terrible at kicking, mostly mental. Once you have the fundamentals kicking is just kicking. After that it's just keeping your stroke, much like a golfer. Look at Thomas Morstead, dude never kicked off before joining the Saints and 2 years later he leads the NFL in touchbacks and sets a record in the NFL for touchbacks. And I know they just moved the kickoffs up to the 35, but they used to do them from the 35 before the mid-90s (and even allowed more friendly 2-3" tees back then), and he beat all those other guys like Lou Groza, Jan Stenerud, etc.

The only reason you see guys with a lot of experience kicking is because they have been allowed to keep kicking because they are good at it.

You clearly know nothing at all about kicking.

 

curiously enough, i do. i read a book about a reporter that tried to make it with the broncos. i am smart and i read alot. i then saw the author speak in brooklyn. i took a date. it was boring. the book is called "a few seconds of panic" and describes in detail what it takes to be a kicker at a high level. experience is really, really important. especially at a level like the SEC with 100 thousand folks watching. you have to be actually know what you are doing. learning to do something at a high level takes work and experience, perhaps even years.

you are wildly, cripplingly wrong and i enjoy it.

if you think a pretty girl who plays soccer can beat out guys who played 50 games or whatever in high school (and are also better at soccer than mo) then i wish you the best, amigo.

 

You read a book about a guy who couldn't handle the mental aspect of being a placekicker.

Congrats.

I think that could have been covered in just an article. Or a tweet. "I wasn't up to it. Maybe I should take up writing instead?"

 

it has and can discuss it further if you like in free speech alley. i am smarter and more knowledgeable than you on this.

 

Actually the majority of what he is saying is completely true and backed by science.

My only issue with it is that he is overgeneralizing and not allowing the possibility of the existence of a statistical outlier.

 

i wasnt serious. kicking is actually quite easy and anyone can do it. my grany kicked for the 49rs in the 70s and she is a deaf mute. the job application just asked for a non drunk with a bus pass.

 

All experience does for a kicker is provide confidence which can be obtained by other means, like alcohol. Of course that does impair some of the other skills needed.

(now I'm off topic, too.)

I've worked ~60 hours this week and I need a break. Have fun with your seemingly sexist (mostly due to the fact that your grasp of the written form of the English language is lacking) tirade of overgenerality.