Watch the BYU player grab the UNM player in the crotch area with her left hand AND THEN CAME THE HAIR PULL!!!

THEN, the BYU ELBOWED the UNM player RIGHT IN THE HEART AREA AND IN THAT DELICATE SPOT BELOW THE RIBS THAT WOULD HAVE KNOCKED THE BREATH OUT OF MOST OF US AND THEN CAME THE ARM/ELBOW FROM THE UNM PLAYER TO THE BACK OF THE UNM PLAYER.

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I played soccer since a young child in my native Brazil and no doubt that is incident is blown out of proportion. I also laughed at the UNM’s player grabbing the other’s hair but what caused the incident was the BYU player grabbing the trunks and underwear of the UNM player.

Grabbing of the crotch area, especially on a man, would have caused a fight that would have eventually emptied the stands resulting in a riot!

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If such behavior has any common element to it then it should not. If a team is unable to win without their players acting like totals spoiled brats then they should lose. In this case they did and that is wonderful to see. I bet that these types of things are encouraged by the leadership of this team. She should be suspended and her coach fined. This would create a double incentive to see to it that this type of cheating is not allowed. This kind of behavior is malicious and when you watch closely it appears that this girl may need some extended counseling, anger management and issues resolution.

The real embarrassment at UNM is the football team. Put Elizabeth Lambert in charge of the gridiron program – she’s got more cojones than that whiny AD Paul Krebs.

You can look at every contact sport and you will see that more unacceptable violent behavior has been creeping into the play for many years. The time has come for the respective amateur sports governing boards at national and international levels to step up and clean up their respective sports. Officials need to call flagrant fouls as they are supposed to call them. Coaches need to pull players from games when players commit flagrant fouls that go uncalled by officials. Little can or will be done by professional sports governing bodies to help in this regard because blood on the field of play translates into bucks in the till. The professional stance is well documented wherein there is great outrage after an incident for a month or two and then it is back to violent play as usual until the next time a player is mugged on court and left with career ending injuries. So amateur sports organizations, who are you waiting for to clean up your sport? Why not now? If not now, then when? If not by you, then by who?

Thank you for writing this letter. I feel like if more people viewed all aspects of conflict this way we would much easily come to a resolution. I for one will support Lambert in moving past this incident. What’s done is done, now its time to move forward.

On a positive note, i am happy to see some responsibility and disciplinary actions taken as we most definitely cannot say the same for the football program.

• “Grabbing of the crotch area, especially on a man, would have caused a fight that would have eventually emptied the stands resulting in a riot! Elbows are very common! Knees are even more common! Aggressive diving is common! Pushing is common! Tripping is common! And believe it or not, hair pulling is also common. Yes, the UNM player pulled harder than normal but if I would have been grabbed in my crotch, I would have put her in a choke hold!!! The BYU player went over the line too.” **

The BYU player did not grab Lambert’s “crotch” – she grabbed a part of Lambert’s shorts; and the elbow to the rib cage looked rather mild.

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Thank you BYU student for yor forgiveness. While I don’t condone Elizabeth’s actions, I feel that the media scrutiny is ridiculous! She sincerely apologized. Let’s move on.

I can forgive her, she is a young student athlete that retaliated (although wrongly) in the heat of the battle.

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damn! why did she have to apologize? apologizing is a sign of weakness. I may just have to retract my offer of marriage to her. but, what a woman! I LOVE YOU ELIZABETH!

Lobo Fan,

If you believe that Elizabeth Lambert sincerely apologized, you are quite mistaken.

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No, an Al Qaeda member would be celebrated as bringing diversity to the squad.

As for the guy wanting to marry her – don’t you worry that if you ever became a couple and had a fight that you might just wake up missing certain parts of your male anatomy?

Your school is now the laughing stock of the nation.

No class.

Lambert was clearly wrong and should receive some sort of punishment. Retaliation is no excuse. However, she has apologized, profusely I might add, and has been reviled in the international media. At this point there is not much else she can say. Let’s give her a chance to prove that she is a “quality student/athlete.” If she can then we can move on.

To make the assertion that Lambert’s groin was being grabbed and that she pulled the BYU players hair in retaliation is the biggest bunch of crap I have ever read. I have watched the video over and over and there is no such thing as described above by the juvenile posters above. In basketball, soccer and other sports reaching back to find out where your opponent is and jockeying for position occurs all the time. If you think that what the idiots above inferred is true then you need glasses and to put down the crack pipe.

I have been an sports person my whole life. Playing every sport from baseball to basketball to hockey to football and soccer. these sports were played in leagues out side of school and also played with my cousin. I was a tomboy my whole life and played rough sports with my boy cousins. and never in my life would I expected to see a young women act the way she did. Our kids of today look up to these women as hero’s as they should. they don’t need to see them acting this way on the field. It’s setting a bad example for out younger generation. She was wrong in so many ways. I was very disappointed to see that.

Elizabeth Lambert has been crucified by the media and many others. Her own school has suspended her from associating with her team. I agree that she should serve a game(s) suspension, but she should be allowed to work out with her teammates. Our society can go overboard in meting out punishment. Justice in our society used to be based on tempering justice with mercy. Now, it’s just all about meting out punishment.

How do you defend the indefensible. I don’t condone Lambert’s actions, but I will tell you that she is the type of athlete that I like to coach. Here’s the dirty little secret about top level athletes. They all have a mean streak. Some mask it better than others, but they all want to take your heart out. It’s my job as a coach to help an athlete like Elizabeth channel her passion and competitiveness in a more constructive manner.

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What she deserves is to be prosecuted. It’s clear to anyone that watches that video that Ms. Lambert used force intending to inflict bodily injury.

The BYU players deliberately and repeatedly fouled Elizabeth Lambert while smiling and smerking the whole time. Goaded by their actions, which the referees completely ignored, she lost her temper snd her better judgement. It is a shame that she is the only one punished for poor behavior when the BYU plsyers caused the whole thing, aided by the inexcusable refusal by the referees to disipline them for their poor sportsmanship the entire game.

I love soccer and consider myself a fan! I play the sport and know how it works. Understand this…She has been punished for her actions…MOVE ON! she has apologized, it doesnt matter if she meant it or not, if someone made her apologize or not. She has apologized, she has been punished and thats it!

Do you know who really should be punished as well? THE REFEREE! Miss Lambert should had been sent off and this incident would never had happened. Thats it.

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What is wrong with these kind of people that thinks this is the way to compete? She should be arrested and thrown off the team. She better not be getting any scholarship money.

She SHOULD be crucified by the media – she is a goon. She can’t play so she has to resort to that. She is an embarrassment to her parents, her shcool and the sport. Heaven help whoever marries her… domestic abuse waiting to happen. Only Chris Brown could handle her

Are you KIDDING me?! As the mom of three young girls playing soccer, I personally feel that Elizabeth Lambert shouldn’t be forgiven, she should be banned. What is she teaching the next generation of soccer players? That it’s okay to hit back harder if you get hit first? That thuggery is excusable on the playing field? That losing one’s temper is okay unless you get caught on camera?

Her “apology” was less than sincere, IMO, and doesn’t make up for her on-field behavior. She said she was sorry, oh, how nice of her. She got a suspension, yay. It’s “indefinite” suspension, which IMO, means she’s suspended until the furor dies down enough that UNM can bring her back without seeming to endorse her unsportsmanlike, neo-criminal behavior.

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I’ve been involved as a coach on a high school level. My husband a ref. Because of health, I usually go to just watch now. It is so funny to watch parents as they see only what they want to see and know everything. This is just a game & they can go overboard so it does not surprise me that anger has increased on the field. Refs will not see everything, It is a contact sport but it is a refs responsiblity to control a game and a coaches responsility to control their players. In both the cases of the shorts grab/vs hair pull & elbow/vs elbow and which was first. What Lambert is doing with her right arm that we cannot see behind the back, just before the incidents. Not sure how it started but how she ended it is a problem.

Come on people, she is way too much for this. However the refe should be banned. He just need to red card her after first one or two, and that will stope the rest. After all, she may deserve ban from a few games, but not her sport life.

What a GHETTO THUG. She should be PERMANANTLY BANNED, and arrested for assualt. I’ll bet she wouldn’t pull that crap in any county jail in America,,, what a video clip that would make watching someone beat the snot out of her!!!!!