Girl becomes 1st Female to earn a College Football Scholarship

[paladin4ever]

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-4147657493187658825/this-woman-just-became-the-first-to-earn-a-college-football-scholarship/

 

[aZjimbo]

8 minutes ago, paladin4ever said:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-4147657493187658825/this-woman-just-became-the-first-to-earn-a-college-football-scholarship/

 

Funny how slow news travels sometimes.This story is nearly 2 weeks old out in Az. I was going to post then forgot. She also will play basketball. She said the guys on the team treated just like another player with no issues (Basha HS).  

[maxchoboian]

She'll be at DII Adams State, in Alamosa, CO. Alamosa is located in south central CO just north of the New Mexico border. Other than sand dunes and some funky alligator farm, it is desolate.

 

The elevation is over a mile high, so she'll get more distance than usual. The HC is former NFL and Washington State QB Timm Rosenbach. Not a traditionally strong athletic program at all (except in distance running...26 national championships there).

[golfaddict1]

6 minutes ago, aZjimbo said:

Funny how slow news travels sometimes.This story is nearly 2 weeks old out in Az. I was going to post then forgot. She also will play basketball. She said the guys on the team treated just like another player with no issues (Basha HS).  

Obert posts often on AZ football.  Good luck to Becca.  

[Wooderson]

16 minutes ago, golfaddict1 said:

Obert posts often on AZ football.  Good luck to Becca.  

Obert's also a complete imbecile. Has nothing to do with subject at hand, just needs to be said when possible.

[aZjimbo]

16 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Obert's also a complete imbecile. Has nothing to do with subject at hand, just needs to be said when possible.

What did he do to piss you off?

[aZjimbo]

29 minutes ago, Drummer61 said:

Looks like Melvin out on Lake Okeechobee...

I'd stay the heck away from Melvin.

[LiberalDonaldTrump]

Okay so is it not right for a football player to decleat her on a kickoff.... I don't like this one bit... one big hit can be life threatening 

[golfaddict1]

15 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

Obert's also a complete imbecile. Has nothing to do with subject at hand, just needs to be said when possible.

LOL!   You need to post more often.   Sounds like he might be similar to Darren Cooper in NJ and Sondheimer in SoCal...  

[noonereal]

2 hours ago, paladin4ever said:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-4147657493187658825/this-woman-just-became-the-first-to-earn-a-college-football-scholarship/

 

yet another good link, thanks!

[maxchoboian]

1 hour ago, LiberalDonaldTrump said:

Okay so is it not right for a football player to decleat her on a kickoff.... I don't like this one bit... one big hit can be life threatening 

Very unlikely she will be kicking off. Many girls have kicked in high school, almost exclusively PATs and shorter FGs. Very accurate. Not big enough legs to kickoff, though.

[LiberalDonaldTrump]

I'm sorry but there's 2 jobs that I don't think is right for a woman... protecting the president and playing football 

[Wooderson]

8 hours ago, golfaddict1 said:

LOL!   You need to post more often.   Sounds like he might be similar to Darren Cooper in NJ and Sondheimer in SoCal...  

Obert's the type of guy that doesn't fear getting "scooped".  Not because he's so well-connected or so full of hustle that no one is going to get a jump on him, but because if one of the local prep sites does scoop him he's not above swiping that guy's info without giving due credit.  Then when he gets called on it face-to-face he'll claim he's never even heard of that web site, despite similar confrontations taking place year after year.  He's a lazy writer that will turn teams and players into rock stars if they're within a ten-minute radius of his house (Chaparral/Saguaro football, Shadow Mountain basketball, Davonte Neal, transfer QB/PTSD survivor Jack Miller), but if you're outside of his radius he'll compare you to Tim Tebow based on nothing more than your being a big white kid that plays quarterback (did this with Todd Heap's brother Brad-a kid that didn't start at quarterback until his senior year of high school) or Terrell Suggs because you're a 230-pound back like T-Sizzle was in high school (did this with current Chavez back Mike Rogers, who Obert decided wasn't among his 30 best players in the Class of 2018 after stopping just short of calling him the next Terrell Suggs).  Richard Obert is a master of accomplishing less with more.    

[noonereal]

13 hours ago, maxchoboian said:

Very unlikely she will be kicking off. Many girls have kicked in high school, almost exclusively PATs and shorter FGs. Very accurate. Not big enough legs to kickoff, though.

It was a great marketing move to give her the scholarship  because I never heard of Adams State before and never would have. 

Smart AD, resign him. 

[paladin4ever]

I hadn't heard about Adams since these guys attended. 

 

 

[paladin4ever]

Home of the Adams Atoms! Heck of a team. A little unfocused when challenged by liquid heat.

 

[maxchoboian]

1 hour ago, noonereal said:

It was a great marketing move to give her the scholarship  because I never heard of Adams State before and never would have. 

Smart AD, resign him. 

 

18 minutes ago, paladin4ever said:

I hadn't heard about Adams since these guys attended. 

 

 

Two guys of note (to me) who played there are Don Cockroft, and my best friend growing up. My friend was a big-hearted, undersized WR who had a propensity for getting into trouble; Cockroft ended up kicking for the Browns. That's about it, other than a bunch of other guys I've known over the years who gave Alamosa a shot. Not sure any of them stayed there to now call it home.

[thc6795]

14 hours ago, LiberalDonaldTrump said:

I'm sorry but there's 2 jobs that I don't think is right for a woman... protecting the president and playing football 

Bro, I have met and served in combat with women that would eat your lunch. In fact CPL T ( don't want to give her last name) held the Camp Lejeune rifle range score. She still might. She was also a 5th degree black belt. Top it off she looked like she was in the Air Force.

As for women playing football? What do you have against lingerie football?

[golfaddict1]

10 hours ago, Wooderson said:

Obert's the type of guy that doesn't fear getting "scooped".  Not because he's so well-connected or so full of hustle that no one is going to get a jump on him, but because if one of the local prep sites does scoop him he's not above swiping that guy's info without giving due credit.  Then when he gets called on it face-to-face he'll claim he's never even heard of that web site, despite similar confrontations taking place year after year.  He's a lazy writer that will turn teams and players into rock stars if they're within a ten-minute radius of his house (Chaparral/Saguaro football, Shadow Mountain basketball, Davonte Neal, transfer QB/PTSD survivor Jack Miller), but if you're outside of his radius he'll compare you to Tim Tebow based on nothing more than your being a big white kid that plays quarterback (did this with Todd Heap's brother Brad-a kid that didn't start at quarterback until his senior year of high school) or Terrell Suggs because you're a 230-pound back like T-Sizzle was in high school (did this with current Chavez back Mike Rogers, who Obert decided wasn't among his 30 best players in the Class of 2018 after stopping just short of calling him the next Terrell Suggs).  Richard Obert is a master of accomplishing less with more.    

I think we all now have a taste with this read...

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/04/26/rb-zidane-thomas-seeks-3-000-yard-season-centennial/306566001/

I'm immediately thinking... what gives, I thought Thomas has a hardship case in the summer as per his last article about him.  Sure enough, it's still up in the air and yet here he is fluffing 3000 yards?  14 game slate or 10 game slate for 3K... and with STA on the menu, good luck.  If he misses 4 games, he'll just have to avg. 300 a game to get there. 

Well it was nice to read about the team anyways and what a clever way of mentioning the OL twice... four of five and then later, four-fifths.  That's talent!  

Centennial returns four of its five starting offensive linemen. And coach Richard Taylor calls Thomas the best running back he has coached. And that speaks volumes because Taylor has had some of the state's best running backs – the Hughes brothers and Timmy House come to mind – come through Centennial in the last 15 years.

Thomas has a lot of help around him. Quarterback Ruben Beltran and running back Alex Escobar return along with four-fifths of what was a young offensive line last season.

[LiberalDonaldTrump]

2 hours ago, thc6795 said:

Bro, I have met and served in combat with women that would eat your lunch. In fact CPL T ( don't want to give her last name) held the Camp Lejeune rifle range score. She still might. She was also a 5th degree black belt. Top it off she looked like she was in the Air Force.

As for women playing football? What do you have against lingerie football?

It's free cable soft porn ,,, pretty much it 

[ChimpGrip]

3 hours ago, thc6795 said:

Bro, I have met and served in combat with women that would eat your lunch. In fact CPL T ( don't want to give her last name) held the Camp Lejeune rifle range score. She still might. She was also a 5th degree black belt. Top it off she looked like she was in the Air Force.

As for women playing football? What do you have against lingerie football?

I still don't think we'll ever see a woman in the NFL or even a major college program. But yes there are some tough women who serve our nation. 

[Wooderson]

On 4/27/2017 at 8:45 AM, golfaddict1 said:

I think we all now have a taste with this read...

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2017/04/26/rb-zidane-thomas-seeks-3-000-yard-season-centennial/306566001/

I'm immediately thinking... what gives, I thought Thomas has a hardship case in the summer as per his last article about him.  Sure enough, it's still up in the air and yet here he is fluffing 3000 yards?  14 game slate or 10 game slate for 3K... and with STA on the menu, good luck.  If he misses 4 games, he'll just have to avg. 300 a game to get there. 

Well it was nice to read about the team anyways and what a clever way of mentioning the OL twice... four of five and then later, four-fifths.  That's talent!  

Centennial returns four of its five starting offensive linemen. And coach Richard Taylor calls Thomas the best running back he has coached. And that speaks volumes because Taylor has had some of the state's best running backs – the Hughes brothers and Timmy House come to mind – come through Centennial in the last 15 years.

Thomas has a lot of help around him. Quarterback Ruben Beltran and running back Alex Escobar return along with four-fifths of what was a young offensive line last season.

Yup, I had a sense of deja vu reading that story the first time regarding Centennial's offensive line, and sure enough there it is.  

What got me about that article was that he was incapable of writing about a five-time state championship program without making comparisons to guys that previously played at Centennial (or their dad).  No independent thoughts or assessments on anyone's talent, just...comparisons to other guys.  He's writing about one of the state's most successful programs yet can't do ten-minutes of research to come up with anything other than "Zidane Thomas is a good running back, just like the Hughes brothers and Tim House (three guys that haven't played a down at Centennial since 2009".  That's lazy.

The article he wrote about McClintock the next day (http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/2017/04/27/corbin-smith-dips-into-past-restore-mcclintock-pride/306982001/) is even worse, as McClintock hasn't been relevant for close to thirty years.  If you don't want to take the time to read it, here's my condensed version:

"Hey, remember McClintock?  They were really good in the Eighties, huh?  Well Coach Corbin Smith wants them to be good again.  Coach Smith is the son of late UofA coach Larry Smith; he was pretty good in the Eighties too.  Coach Smith has brought back some of McClintock's past greats, like Art Greathouse (remember how good he was in the Eighties?) and Chris Colter (he wasn't good in the Eighties, but his brother Cleveland sure was).  McClintock's players are committed to bringing back the Charger tradition, because they want to be good too."

If I were to do my CliffNotes version you'd see references to their DC being a good DC for Mountain Pointe, and how another coach was a good player at Brophy.  All told in the McClintock spring football preview we get the mention of TWO players that will play for the Chargers in 2017.  Again, lazy writing, and a story no different than the "Make McClintock Great Again" Obert wrote when they brought in their last head coach (seriously, here's Obert's write-up about the last coach who was trying to bring back the Glory Days at McClintock...http://usatodayhss.com/2015/tempe-mcclintock-going-back-to-its-football-roots-to-restore-tradition).  Obert has his pet subjects-namely the Scottsdale schools-and apparently McClintock's resurrection is one of those.

The legit Arizona high school football guys are Jason Jewell at the Arizona Scout page, Brad Cesmat's crew at Sports360AZ.com, Chris Eatton at GridironArizona (not a lot of formal articles but good Twitter content), and Jason Skoda from Ahwatukee Foothill News.  These guys do a lot of heavy-lifting and are also not afraid of addressing contrarian opinions (Scott Bordow at AZCentral is a solid columnist who isn't afraid of addressing those with consenting views.  Obert, Ralph Amsden with Rivals, and some of the AZPreps365 writers (Andy Morales is the big culprit here) are thin-skinned and behave as if they are beyond reproach.