Wait..It Gets Better: Vandy Chick Gave A Halftime Speech

[ShotgunDawg]

Awkward.

I was fine with Vandy playing her, but a halftime speech is bit much by someone that's been on the team for 3 days.

[ZedFedder]

I was fine with Vandy playing her, but a halftime speech is bit much by someone that's been on the team for 3 days.

Absolutely. That’s incredibly ridiculous.

[Johnson85]

I was fine with Vandy playing her, but a halftime speech is bit much by someone that's been on the team for 3 days.

Yup. That's awful. And I also think it was somewhat awful for Vandy to use her to kickoff the second half, assuming she wasn't the best person available (which as it was an ingame decision, seems like there's a decent chance that's the case). I'm sure there are girls soccer players that would be pretty solid and accurate placekickers. But if she didn't have the best leg available, using her just to say they used her because they were a scared they wouldn't have an extra point or fieldgoal seems a little disrespectful. If she had been with the team the whole season, yea, get her a shot at something just like you sometimes do with walkons to reward their hard work. But she had been with the team three days. It wouldn't have been insulting for her to not get a play. Now the first women to play in a DI football game got to play as a gimmick, not because she was the best player available.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yup. That's awful. And I also think it was somewhat awful for Vandy to use her to kickoff the second half, assuming she wasn't the best person available (which as it was an ingame decision, seems like there's a decent chance that's the case). I'm sure there are girls soccer players that would be pretty solid and accurate placekickers. But if she didn't have the best leg available, using her just to say they used her because they were a scared they wouldn't have an extra point or fieldgoal seems a little disrespectful. If she had been with the team the whole season, yea, get her a shot at something just like you sometimes do with walkons to reward their hard work. But she had been with the team three days. It wouldn't have been insulting for her to not get a play. Now the first women to play in a DI football game got to play as a gimmick, not because she was the best player available.

Well she is something no one else on thay team can claim to be, a winner.

[Johnson85]

Well she is something no one else on thay team can claim to be, a winner.

It's not hard to be a winner playing a minor sport at vandy. Those football players signed up knowing they were about to bust their ass for four or five years and if they're lucky, get a 7 win season and a 6 win season and two losing seasons. They presumably mostly could have gone to a successful G5 program but chose a much more difficult route, presumably to either get a degree or to compete in the SEC.

And they get rewarded by having a girls soccer player who hasn't been through the grueling practices or weightlifting and doesn't get hit giving them a speech about cheering near the end of a brutal year for them.

[R2Dawg]

I was fine with Vandy playing her, but a halftime speech is bit much by someone that's been on the team for 3 days.

Ha, Ha, Ha. No PR stunt here. Nothing to see, move along. Ha, Ha, Ha.

Glad some of yall are not running our football program.