LSU Football: Fans Should Be Proud of Mo Isom

There is no problem with having a girl on your football team if she’s Mo Isom.

Most of you will think I’m biased for taking that stance because I interviewed and did a story on her a few weeks ago, but I’ll honestly say that she has won me over with her passion, desire and skill.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, because I thought it too: a girl on the football team, really?

A girl playing on LSU’s football team and in the SEC could be classified as borderline insane, and when I first heard that LSU had a female trying out for the football team, my first thought was ‘no way, that’s a publicity stunt.’

I was like some of you out there and was completely against it, but then I found out it was one of LSU’s soccer players.

Growing intrigued, I decided to give this girl a chance and looked Isom up. What I found out was that she was the LSU soccer player that nailed a goal-to-goal strike in a soccer match that was all over ESPN a couple of years ago.

My research intensified, and after reading about her and finding out that she’s kicked a 50-yard field goal, I knew that she was taking this seriously and she had some skill. But I still had my doubts.

That was, until I met and talked with Isom.

She is a devoted and intelligent individual who is not taking this opportunity lightly. Through the struggles that she’s encountered, including her dad committing suicide and Isom almost dying in a wreck that had her broken physically and hanging by her seat belt, Isom has the mental strength to make LSU’s football team.

She’s using this opportunity to spread her story and share her faith in God, and I think that’s pretty awesome. She's been on grand stages like Fox and Friends, where she has represented herself and the football program with class.

Whether Isom makes the team or not, she’s had the opportunity of spreading her remarkable story. And she’s somewhat lifted the spirits of the LSU faithful, who have endured a rough 2012 with the loss to Alabama and the recruiting class not being as great as we'd hoped.

Like it or not, a girl is trying out for LSU’s football team, and as a traditionalist and purist of the sport, in this one scenario, I have absolutely no problem with it.

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