At three o'clock in the afternoon, Bill, who had finished his English writing class, came to the stadium to be tortured by the school team as agreed.

Although the hardware conditions of Toadun High School are very good, and there are four teaching buildings alone, it is not rich enough to build a standard football field. The so-called stadium is just a flat lawn and green space with a few terraced stands.

This side shows that the football team of Toadtun High School is not strong.

On the lawn, Coach Murphy, two assistant coaches, and nearly 50 official members of the varsity team held a simple welcoming ceremony to welcome the new members.

"It's Bill Ferrari, and when you see his muscles, he's a top-of-the-line sports car." Murphy pulls Bill in front of the varsity team members and asks him to give an impromptu speech.

"I'm Bill and I grew up in a nearby Italian community. Even though my last name is Ferrari, I don't really have a sports car at home. ”

Some of the members of the school team let out a hehe-hey laugh.

"Of course I'm not a mafia."

The laughter was louder.

After that, it's a routine, and I'm happy to join this big family, and I hope to be taken care of.

After a set of processes, it only took four or five minutes.

It was the season of the New York State High School Football League, so Coach Murphy was not polite, and directly asked the 21 starters in the offensive and defensive groups to start offensive and defensive drills, and asked Assistant Coach James, who was in charge of bench player training, to test Bill's three major events and running results, so as to determine Bill's position.

The three major items are bench press, deadlift, and squat, which are the three most comprehensive measures of a person's upper body strength.

In a nearby school gym, Bill basically got the preliminary data after walking around the various machines.

He ran 4.9 seconds in 40 yards, and set a standing long jump of 2.8 meters, bench press 280 pounds, deadlift 355 pounds, and squat 330 pounds.

"Bill, if you don't have systematic training, these results are still okay, quite good." Jaime was amazed.

Bill, who was gasping for breath, asked curiously, "What is my physical condition in a rugby game?" ”

He only knew that 4.9 seconds for 40 yards would be about 13 or 14 seconds for 100 meters.

In front of a professional rugby running back, this result is a bit poor. The top NFL running back can probably run 100 meters in the early 100s.

You must know that the world result of the 100 meters is only 9.58 seconds. Without the era of Usain Bolt and the Five Tigers, running in 9.8 seconds is the 100-meter champion.

In the early tens, for a non-professional track and field athlete, it is already very strong.

Jaime pondered for a moment, "If those asthma patients don't take their medication, you're probably about the same level of fitness as the bench players on the college team." ”

Then he shrugged and shook his head with a "look you know you know."

Bill understands that if he doesn't take medicine and doesn't use technology, he already has a preliminary foundation. Coupled with a huge weight of nearly two hundred and twenty pounds, it is indeed possible to walk sideways in high school football.

Seeing that the new players were interested in continuing to listen, James said a few more words: "Your body and thrust are almost enough to train with the school team, there is no need to deliberately gain muscle and weight, otherwise you can't run and advance, and your grades in the high school league are not enough to apply for a football powerhouse college." ”

"Professional football players generally gain muscle and weight twice, one is to make it to the college team, and the second time is to make it to one of the thirty teams in the NFL. If you want to go the way of a professional footballer, you don't have to do those ...... in high school."

He paused for a moment, then described: "Drugs that hurt the body." ”

Bill understood what he meant, because the United States has a lot of crooked practices attached to professional leagues due to the extremely advanced commercialization of sports, and giving athletes the opportunity to legally manufacture and take drugs is one of them.

For example, the U.S. swimming team, all asthma patients, and the NFL league, which was completely blackened in later generations, are also full of high-tech drugs.

"Taking a career path is one of my options, and I would like to ask how far I need to go if I apply to in-state colleges with rugby. How difficult is it compared to applying with SAT and AP scores? ”

Bill asked.

He is familiar with the set of questions, the SAT has seven test opportunities a year, and he can also handle it, and AP is an Advanced Placement course, so there is no big problem.

But judging by the reactions of Coach Murphy and James, this physical performance should be enough to enter the varsity football team, and it is not impossible to pass this promotion.

Jaime motioned for him to walk as he spoke, and the two of them headed for the lawn outside.

"emm, think about it, according to your previous dropout, it is a bit difficult to get a high SAT score, and the grade point should not be high, as for those social involvement miscellaneous, you can do it in next offseason."

Whether it's the NFL Pro League, the NCAAF, or the state's high school football league, the new season starts in September and ends roughly in December, and the NFL Pro League has a January playoffs, but it's over the course of a month.

In other words, there is no need to play games and train for most of the year, and according to the general experience of high school students who apply for college with sports results, they should go to baseball or basketball next spring and summer.

For example, James, he studied basketball and football in high school, and his grades were good.

But due to salary, injuries and the length of his career, James opted for basketball, which would make more money.

This is not to say that the income of NBA stars is stronger than that of football stars, but the ceiling of playing basketball is high, and the maximum salary of basketball can reach an average of five or six million US dollars per year, but this price is only available to one or two super good quarterbacks in the NFL, and most of the remaining football stars have lower salaries than NBA stars.

After all, the NBA has a team of fifteen, and NFL football has a team of fifty-three.

But the good thing is that football is played less often, once a week during the season, not counting the playoffs, sixteen times a year.

"You're very talented, and my advice is to consider going professional."

Professional football players are generally drafted by college football powerhouses, and since Jaime suggested this, according to his opinion, it should not be difficult for Bill to apply to college with sports results.

"If I want to go to Columbia University and apply with my high school New York State Football League scores, it shouldn't be a big problem!"

Jaime smiled and shook his head, "Columbia, boy, you might as well amplify your imagination a bit." Of course, to secure an Ivy League school, Columbia University is indeed a good choice. Given your physical condition, I would recommend that you play as an offensive winger or as a defensive tackle so that it will be easy to be noticed by the coaches and scouts of the varsity team. ”

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