Chapter 18: Aftermath

"Beep-beep." With Coach Neil's whistle, the training match ended.

"Bang bang." The audience applauded.

"Thank you, thank you." After the Trojans players greeted the crowd, Coach Neil gathered them all.

"Whew." Li Mojie really tried his best in the second half, he was so tired and exhausted that he just wanted to take a good shower, then have a meal, and sleep beautifully.

"Everybody already knows each other, right? The new rookies have already introduced themselves when they first came in the afternoon, and everyone is playing a game now, which can be regarded as a tacit understanding. Coach Neil laughed.

"Hmm."

"Yes." The team members also responded sparsely.

"There's one more thing I have to introduce to you, and that's the new California magician I brought in from St. Gabriel High School - Mojay Lee!"

Coach Neil looked familiar, walked over and put his arm around Mo Jayer's shoulders and said to everyone.

"Uh, hello everyone." Li Mojie waved his hand when he saw this, and said hello again.

"Well, then, this Mo Jie is the core of us in the future, you know? Starting tomorrow, we'll be practicing a series of tactics around him. ”

Coach Neil said as he pulled out a large pile of tactical charts printed on A4 paper from under the tactical board.

"Coach, how is this going to work?" Hood and Richardson next to him shouted.

"yes? Can he do it? ”

"Oh? Why not? Coach Neil pushed his black-rimmed glasses and said slowly.

"We at USC have never had the experience of yellow people as the core!"

"Oh? Can I understand that you are racist? Hood. Coach Neil said, staring at Hood.

At this moment, Charles and the others next to him had already noticed that the smile that Coach Neil usually wore on his face had disappeared.

But Hood, who was already enchanted, continued to argue: "No, I'm not ......"

"Needless to say, there were no black people in the NBA before 1950, and didn't Harvard University have a yellow point guard last year and the year before that?" Coach Neil snapped.

"Thisβ€”" Hood was speechless.

"Also, I'm not here to discuss with you, the matter of discussion is already over during the training match. You're not James, Kobe, even if you were in college, you listened to coaches, you know? Now, I'm on command! It's a notice! Do you know? ”

"Oh, okay."

"Yes, Coach." Everyone reluctantly responded.

"I didn't hear you clearly, do you still want to play in the NCAA? If you want to fight, give me a loud voice! Coach Neil suddenly yelled.

"Yes, Coach!" No matter what they thought in their hearts, everyone shouted together.

"Well, good, disbanded now." Coach Neil said contentedly.

When everyone dispersed, "Mo Jie, wait a minute." Suddenly, a voice stopped Mo Jayer, who was about to go to the shower with Anderson.

"Mo Jie, this is the training plan that several of our coaches have made for you, you go back and take a look, if there is anything inappropriate, you can discuss it with me, if there is no opinion, we will help you complete the training according to the plan in the future."

Coach Neil took out a large pile of A4 paper team and handed it to Li Mojie.

"Oh, okay, Coach." Li Mojie took over this large number of plans, and said in a stunned moment.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, coach, thank you." Li Mojie said sincerely.

"It's nothing, you have the strength."

"Alright, let's go take a shower."

"Well, goodbye coach." Li Mojie waved his hand and said.

It's really different from his previous life, he was also a basketball player at a Chinese university in his previous life, but CUBA and NCAA can't be compared at all, Li Mojie thought to himself.

At the USC Trojans, there are seven coaches, seven yes, assistant coaches, trainers, nutritionists, doctors...... These configurations are not far from those of NBA professional teams. Li Mojie was really taken aback when he learned about it: the gap is here!

In the United States, a strong college basketball team can bring tens of millions of dollars a year to the school through broadcasting and other expenses. There are some strong teams like Duke and Kentucky that can earn about $100 million a year.

There is no salary for playing in the NCAA, only scholarships. There are three levels of membership in the NCAA, with Level 1 and Level 2 schools offering athletic scholarships and Level 3 schools not awarding athletic scholarships.

Correspondingly, the various competitions are also divided into three levels. Under the NCAA, it is a violation for a player to receive any money from a scholarship, which can range from a certain number of games to a cancellation of the entire team's awards for that season.

The NCAA clearly states that schools are absolutely not allowed. Pay the players wages or give money to the players privately in the form of red envelopes. If discovered, both the school and the player will be severely punished, ranging from a ban to disqualification for an entire year.

Although NCAA players are not allowed to take money to play, there is not a penny of salary. Even so, promising stars are more than willing to join the NCAA as the perfect springboard to the professional arena.

This controversial issue of "pay for play" has actually been raised by many people, such as Barkley and Russell, who have more than once criticized the NCAA as a way to make money from students.

However, at present, it is difficult to reform, the interests are too involved, and it is certain that the players will be dissatisfied psychologically, and some if they are from poor backgrounds, they are probably grateful at the beginning, but when they become famous, they will inevitably have dissatisfaction after becoming popular, which is also one of the reasons why many players leave after playing for 1 year. They don't want to be exploited, they want to make money early, and it can be a difference of millions a year.

The annual salary of an NCAA basketball coach is tied to the team's record, and the better the team's record, the more salary and bonuses they will pay.

Every year, the coach of the top 64 teams in the United States has at least one and a half months of salary of more than one million dollars. is like the famous old K coach, this old guy's annual salary + commission can reach tens of millions of dollars. The rest, like Coach Neil, even if not as much as Coach K, are all around three to five million dollars. So these people would rather be coaches in college than go to the NBA and serve the millionaires.

Therefore, the team with a high record makes so much money, and does not have to pay the players' salaries, so naturally they have to spend some money to improve their performance, and the top management is not a fool, if they only make money and do not spend money, then there will be no money to be made. For example, in order to snatch some celebrities like Aaron Gordon who were famous in high school, you must promise some benefits, and it is easy to get caught if you send money directly, but scholarships, gifts, job arrangements for family members, travel season tickets and other overt and covert things can definitely be given.

Li Mojie sighed, I don't want such a complicated thing, it's important to play well.

When Li Mojie was about to leave, a sweet female voice suddenly came out again: "Handsome guy, you played very well!" ”

Hey, that pretty girl.

I saw a tall yellow woman, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, shoulder-length black hair like silk satin, slender phoenix eyebrows, a pair of eyes like stars like the bright moon, a delicate nose, pink cheeks and slightly dizzy, dripping cherry-like red lips, flawless goose egg face red, tender snow skin is strangely beautiful, light body, refined and elegant.

"Hey, are you looking stupid!" A kawaii girl who looked like Tang Yan next to her stood on tiptoe and waved in front of Li Mojie and said.

"Well, I'm meeting again." Li Mojie said in Chinese.

"Yes, yes!" Li Yayi also said in Chinese.

"Hey, you two know each other!" Zhou Meiqi exclaimed.

"yes." The two said in unison.

"Hey, what's going on?" Zhou Meiqi said ambiguously.

"Oh, it's just nothing, I'll talk to you when I get back." Li Yayi pulled Meiqi's clothes and said coquettishly

"Well, we just met yesterday." Li Mojie said honestly.

"Oh?" Maggie asked without bullying me for reading less.

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" Li Mojie looked at the two girls and asked incomprehensibly.

"It's nothing, I'm just here to encourage you, the Chinese abroad, everyone knows each other, leave a LINE or FACEBOOK account." Maggie said.

"Ah, Maggie, this" "Hurry up, Ai. ”

"Ah, okay." Li Mojie hurriedly took out his mobile phone and stared at Li Yayi and said.

"Well, when I'm done taking a shower, let's eat together." After exchanging accounts, Li Mojie paused and said.

"Aren't you an athlete? It seems like your basketball team has prepared a special sports meal for you, right? Li Yayi asked.

"Oh, well, yes, I forgot, but you can come and try it." Li Mojie invited.

"That's inconvenient."

"It's nothing, other people come here a lot." Li Mojie explained.

"Ah, that." Li Yayi hesitated.

"Don't do that, go try it and see what the athletes eat." Maggie took Yayi's hand and shook it.

"Well, soon, you wait for me in that restaurant, and I'll be right there." Li Mojie shook his hand and said.

Good things come in pairs, and it seems that this single dog is also about to get rid of the single after becoming the core of the Trojans.