Against The Grain

It only happened once. And it never happened again. Maybe that’s because Southern Miss video director Chris Hooley is too busy doing her job to let her status as the first woman in her position in Division I-A college football become an issue. There was a time when an NFL scout came to visit her video office for film on some potential NFL prospects. He made a rather unnecessary comment about her not belonging in a man’s game and then slipped in a couple of other snide remarks. When Hooley’s boss heard about the incident he not only called the scout on the carpet but later that Hooley day received an apology from the scout’s boss. “A lot of the scouts I talk to enjoy coming here to watch tape,” Hooley says. “A lot of other schools are getting into, too, but we shoot both end zones for games and scouts love to watch our tape because they can do a better job of scouting our