Comments on: Liz Lambert: Playing too aggressively or playing to win?

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:22:52 +0000

An aggressive, competitive male would not sucker punch an opponent from the back. She should be banned permanently and lose her scholarship. It’s hard to believe that this is the first time she has demonstrated such behavior. Maybe it was never caught on camera before. She should not be playing in the 2010 season.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:36:15 +0000

To: Leigh Oates – this is the second place I have seen you post inaccurate information. Rachel Fields is a midfielder on the UNM soccer team and was not the defender that cleared the ball that accidently hit the BYU player in the head. As I said before it is irresponsible to name players when you don’t have the facts correct.

By: P. Daven

P. Daven — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:36:46 +0000

Lambert is one very disturbed young woman. She clearly has rage issues and an inability to experience sincere remorse (we call that being a sociopath …). She belongs in jail for her unwarranted physical attacks. The look on her face while she's violently abusing her fellow players is downright terrifying. She also needs some serious anger management and intensive psychotherapy.

Very, very sick, indeed.

Pathetic. Shame on her.

By: Leigh Oats

Leigh Oats — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:55:38 +0000

Says Beth (”November 13th, 2009 12:13 pm”):

“Leigh is correct. Lambert was not the one to kick the ball in the face of the BYU player. Lambert was the one that tripped her, and that trip is the one she was yellow carded. Phew, for a moment I thought I wrongly accusing Lambert of being a dirty player.”

Never mind. And at http://thehoot.net/articles/7049, a page that seems to provide no room for comments from the readers and that’s dated “November 13, 2009″ and headed “Brandeis Hoot” and “Brandeis University’s Community Newspaper”, is this:

“Lambert kicked the ball into the face of a BYU girl who had just been tripped. For this Lambert finally received a yellow card.”

. . . implying that Lambert’s solitary card of either color was for kicking the ball into the face, when the truth is that it was for the trip, and that the kick in the face was committed by a different UNM player.

At the top of the page is this homily: “To acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

By: Dewi

Dewi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:40:58 +0000

Beth – Lambert has been suspended indefinitely – http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4629837. Not sure about the coaching staff.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:02:48 +0000

It is examples such as this as well as the Brandon Spikes eye gouge incident that I wish the presiding league would send a strong signal that this type of behavior will not be tolerated. I don’t think a half game suspension [Spikes] of the player is going to do it. You’re either going to have to suspend the player for the remainder of the season and/or get into the coaches pocketbook with some hefty fines.

Overall, I think big money is ruining college sports. When you have football coaches making millions and their job is heavily dependent on the win/loss column, then you will have some that will take shortcuts and assume a win at any cost mentality. I’m just guessing, but I would say that a women’s soccer coach at a large university salary is in the six figure range.

I also think that some of these college presidents need to step up and say enough is enough as well. However, it has been my observation that the president of the Athletic Association probably has more pull than the president of the college. So, don’t look for any movement on that front…

Brandon Spikes video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WmkqrB2Go

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:13:56 +0000

Leigh is correct. Lambert was not the one to kick the ball in the face of the BYU player. Lambert was the one that tripped her, and that trip is the one she was yellow carded. Phew, for a moment I thought I wrongly accusing Lambert of being a dirty player.

Does any one know if other UNM players were suspended or any actions taken against the ref or the UNM coaches?

By: GOB

GOB — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:34:50 +0000

As a HS girls soccer coach, I can assure you that the coach knew what type of player she was, and I can also assure you that this was not the first time this has happened. This is only making headlines because the game was televised. I bet if you go back and look at game tape for the rest of the season, you’d see the same stuff over and over. By leaving her in the game, he (or she?) was complicit in everything that went on. I’ve had to kick players off teams before because they couldn’t play the game within the rules.

You could argue that one, maybe two of those plays resulted from being “aggressive,” but the vast majority were simply dirty.

Also, whoever made the excuse that the ref wouldn’t have seen the hair pull doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about. On a free kick like that, the ref shouldn’t be staring at the ball, but rather should be in a position to see where the ball is going to be.

By: ScienceTeacher671

ScienceTeacher671 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:17:33 +0000

Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

By: Leigh Oats

Leigh Oats — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:14:13 +0000

Says Beth (”November 12th, 2009 10:16 am”):

“Lambert crossed the lines so many times with the clear intent to hurt –heck forget the hairpulling, my favorite play was when she kicked the ball into the face of the fallen player.”

In fairness to Lambert we should all agree that the video shows that the kicking of the ball apparently deliberately into the face of the fallen BYU player at point-blank range was committed not by the celebrated student of occupational therapy but by one of her colleagues—I’ve read that it was Rachel Fields, but I’m willing to be told that it was a different colleague. The fourth estate has been vague about such details.