No Go for Mo—for Now

Don’t fit an LSU football jersey for Mo Isom just yet.

The alumna, former , and current LSU grad student learned Tuesday that she did not earn a spot on the Tiger football team as a kicker during a .

“Wonderful meeting w/ Coach Miles. Received great constructive feedback. Will continue working my hardest w/ the team thru Spring&Summer & see where I stand in August,” Isom tweeted Tuesday. “There is still much to this journey & I will not give up on my dream.”

The Northeast Cobb woman was one of several students who kicked for two days last week to try to earn nonscholarship roster spots. After , she .

Coach Les Miles said four guys already on his roster are better than anyone who tried out last week for the national championship contender, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.

In Isom’s case, the problem isn’t the kicking but the tackling, Miles told the newspaper. “We count on our kicker making some tackles, and it's just not something I'm comfortable she's ready to do.”

At 6-foot-1 and 190 pounds of muscle, Isom is about the same size as other LSU kickers, according to the official roster. Drew Alleman, who was the placekicker for the team in 2011 and will be a senior in the fall, is 5-foot-11 and 183 pounds, and starting punter Brad Wing is 6-3 and 184 pounds. James Hairston, who handled kickoffs, is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds.

Still, Miles welcomes Isom to keep working out with the team and to try again when practice starts in August, and that’s what she plans to do.

CBS This Morning is expected to run a story on Isom at 8:45 this morning on Channel 46 (Channel 9 on Comcast cable). (Update: The national story was broadcast at 8:48 a.m. and is embedded above.)

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