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FOOTBALL ISSUE VOL. 103, NO. 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 BY ADRIAN BROADDUS problems and my junior year The Prospector I was injured, messed up my back, which led to some weight Th e overwhelming smell of hot dogs being cooked on a gain,” he said. “When I came charcoal grill fi lls the UTEP back, I still had that weight gain, grounds with a delightful so I was benched. You can’t smell, the echoing sound of pout. Coaching up the younger the drumline front bouncing guys and going into my senior through the walls of the school season, I thought I couldn’t go leading up to the stadium out this way.” means exactly one thing— So with the help of Hernandez, football season is back. he fought through the adversity For most who make their way and planned to lose the to the Sun Bowl for any given weight. Both of them picked Saturday morning football up boxing for cardio exercises game, UTEP football feels like a and it helped Elmendorff move true Texas tradition, unique in around better. He claimed to its own way. have gotten back to the level he Th e stadium is hugged by once was as a freshman. a mountainous surrounding, And it was all because of his with stands that allow cheers love for one thing—football. to literally recoil off its natural “Derek Elmendorff is (a surroundings, making the player who has improved the noise almost deafening when it most),” said head coach Sean gets loud. Kugler. “He wasn’t giving us As they embark on their 100th the production that we needed year in program’s existence, the and he kind of made a life’s UTEP football (0-1) team will choice that he was going to take on Rice on Saturday, Sept. 9. change his body, he was going For senior guard Derek to change his mentality, and Elmendorff , this matchup instead of going the other way means more than just a game and blaming everybody else he or a win. blamed himself. He had a great Th is game means his return camp so I’m looking forward to to not only the gridiron, but him starting. I’m proud of that also the starting job as a guard. kid for where he has taken his “It’s always exciting, fi rst career. He took it by the horns home game. It’s a little more and did it himself.” personal for me now—being LEZ / THE PROSPECTOR Elmendorff grew up from Á benched and coming back,” he humble beginnings in El Paso, said. “I haven’t felt that jittery— where he understood how truly that, ‘okay, I’m starting’ feeling diffi cult it was to make it big in the Sun Bowl for about two in the sport of football and the years now. It’ll be a little fresh work he needed to put in in for me, but once the fi rst play order to exceed in the sport. is over, you’re a football player At Franklin High School, he and it’s time to battle.” was able to step foot and play DESIGN BY ALEJANDRA BY DESIGN GONZ Battling is something he learned to do during the 2017 on the UTEP turf annually off -season. Aft er his impressive when his team would take on freshman campaign, where Coronado and played at the he made the All-Conference Sun Bowl. list, Elmendorff did not see “I would always look up and the playing time he hoped for say ‘wow, this is going to be my during his sophomore and future.’ I was so excited,” he said. junior campaigns. Gift ed with a massive size for In fact, he oft en had to watch a high school lineman and an from the sideline as his good inclination to work hard at the friend and partner on the line, sport, he was recruited by the standout guard Will Hernandez Miners to play for them at the would play and improve colligate level—something he throughout the two seasons. always wanted. “Coming in, Will Hernandez “You know how they say in and I were starting our freshman Texas football is considered a year. I had some personal religion? It’s that sort of see FOOTBALL on page 6 CHECK OUT THE WEEKLY PROSPY PODCAST ON SOUNDCLOUD PAGE 2 SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OPINION ADRIAN BROADDUS , 747-7477 Girls love fantasy football too 100 years, but where are the women? BY ELENIE GONZÁLEZ throughout game day to assure you BY LESLIE SARIÑANA play and score in a state champion- There is no rule in the NFL that sug- The Prospector put out your best lineup for the week. The Prospector ship game (2016). Melton has accom- gests that women can’t try out for the Another cool aspect of playing plished all of this before even graduat- Fall is just As we celebrate NFL. The official rule states: All hu- around the fantasy football is the fun and 100 years of ing high school. With her graduation man beings are eligible, as long as they corner, and creative team names players come UTEP football date set in 2018, Melton still has one are three years out of high school and more high school football season to go for many, up with. Pop culture usually has a big we take the have a usable football skill set. Even it means a and there’s no doubt she’ll do great. influence on the names, and players time to recog- with its “inclusion” rule, women have variety of Another player to note is Brooke like to incorporate it with figurative nize all of the never played football professionally. things. While men who have Liebsch. She became her school’s first language. One of my favorites last year This does not, however, mean that some are played in or- female quarterback in 2015. She went was “Better Call Jamaal,” an homage to anxiously ange and blue on to become the first female to make there is no other place for women in waiting for the hit AMC show “Better Call Saul.” over the pro- it to the U.S. National Development the NFL. In fact, there are a handful of Halloween or The name Jamaal is in reference to gram’s history. Games in Arlington, Texas, last year. female coaches in the NFL. the return of the pumpkin spice Jamaal Charles, who played for the Not once throughout this celebration This year, at only 16 years old, she reg- Kathryn Smith made history back in latte, others like myself are ready Kansas City Chiefs last year and is will you hear about women. istered with the Women’s Football Al- 2015 as the first full-time female coach liance and picked up the title of rookie for the NFL to officially kick off. now with the Denver Broncos. Football is a male-driven sport with in the league. In 2015 she became the starting quarterback for the KC Titans Not that I don’t enjoy watching ESPN, a popular site used to play, no visible traces of women—even first female to have a full-time posi- college football or even high school all of the marketing involved for the women’s team. In her first year playing has a policy that bans players whose tion in NFL history. Kathryn Smith football, but I have always preferred games is geared toward men. It’s im- she managed to take her team to the team names are vulgar. the NFL. It was just the way my father portant to highlight the women who first round of the playoffs, not some- was named the Bills’ quality control- raised me. One of my favorite fantasy football have defied stereotypes and joined thing many can say. special teams coach. For years now, I have heard talk events I look forward to each year men on the field and on the sidelines. College football is more competi- Before her, Jen Welter was the first- about fantasy sports and fantasy are the draft parties, where food and There are plenty of women who have tive than high school football, but ever female assistant coach to be football in particular. I would hear drinks are plentiful. Not every league performed great feats in football, yet that doesn’t mean its lacked female brought on to the league. Welter was about it while watching Sports Center has a party, but it is something that they’re unheard of. Sports media tar- involvement. the first woman in NFL history to gets a specific audience and doesn’t do or read about it on social media, and helps build excitement among the This year we’ve seen Rebecca coach.