December 21st, after nine o'clock in the evening.

"Open the door for me, Hani!"

Yevgeny, who was dragging a fir home, loudly asked his wife to open the door to the storage room for him.

"This tree is so beautiful, how much did you buy it?" When the wife came out of the bedroom, she first walked up to her husband and played with the undecorated Christmas tree, but this caused Yevgeny's displeasure.

"Hurry up, there's an ABC show tonight that we're interviewing the Mangroves, and I want to see what the lads have to say about me."

The wife then stopped her movements, first opened the door for her husband, and then Yevgeny, who was 1.92 meters, stuffed the fir he was carrying into the storage room, and then he hurriedly ran to turn on the TV and tune in to the corresponding channel.

“…… I was raised by my uncle and aunt when I lost my parents when I was a child......"

After Yevgeny's wife cleaned up the storage room, she walked to the TV and watched it with her husband.

"Haney, I know him, that close-end of your team. I'll tell you, this is a good boy, and I've seen in several newspapers about him playing games with elderly people in nursing homes. ”

The wife brushed her hair and smiled at Yevgeny who was lying on the sofa.

The coach, who has been in the industry for many years, naturally understands the cattiness, but he doesn't point out, "In the newspaper? Which newspapers? You find it for me, I'll see. ”

Although judging from this interview program, Bill's agency team is working hard to manage the positive image of Eighty-Eight, Yevgeny clearly heard that something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, I'll look for this guy after I finish the interview."

The near-end in the TV is handsome and confident, and even his wife wants to look at it twice.

The third question from the moderator was Bill Ferrari's future career plan, and the interviewee answered it in a decent manner, and when the handsome face returned to the school team members who served as the backdrop, the wife walked to the clutter pile at the dining table, where the newspapers she used to read at breakfast were piled up.

"Here, that's probably it."

A few minutes later, the wife handed three newspapers to her husband.

After Yevgeny took it, he glanced at it and shook his head repeatedly, and sure enough, it was exactly what he expected.

"What's wrong? Any questions? His wife was confused by his actions.

"The problem is big, his brokerage team is either inexperienced, or greedy for his money, and actually publicizes it on this kind of paper media."

In front of his wife, Yevgeny did not hide much and directly pointed out what was wrong with this approach.

"I still don't understand, is this Ferrari doing something wrong?"

"It's not that it's wrong, it's just that you don't find the right audience. Rugby surpassed baseball because of the popularity of television, and the rest of the target audience sat in front of the television, except for the fans who watched the game live. So the part of the people who read the newspaper didn't overlap much with the football fans, and Bill's money seemed to be spent in vain. ”

He explained to his wife.

"Then you can tell him the truth and precautions in this! You are an industry insider, you know a lot, don't let this young man take a detour. Because of Bill's handsome face, his wife has a very good opinion of him, and hopes that her husband can help the close end more.

"I think about it, he seems to have said that he was going to take his family to Hawaii for Christmas this year, so he should still be in San Francisco for the next two days, and I will go to him tomorrow and make it clear." This kid probably didn't understand what he said last time. ”

Parker 10's regular season has been played, but several bowls are still being prepared, and the media will not release their No. 1 team until all the games are played this season.

If you act fast, you might be able to take advantage of this year's selection.

……

"Fortunately, your call was on time, and I was ready to go to the airport tonight."

At noon on the 22nd, Bill Ferrari met with Yevgeny, who had asked him to meet, in a restaurant.

"God bless you, otherwise you will lose a lot of honor this year."

After making sure that no one around could hear their conversation, Evgeny directly asked Eighty-Eight to lean over, and the two exchanged words in a low voice.

"Which one is your brokerage looking for?" ICM or CAA, I don't expect you to look for WMA, that company charges too much, you won't spend that much money on this. ”

ICM and CAA are both Hollywood agencies, with the former being known as International Innovation Management and the latter being an innovative artist agency. Both were founded in 1975 and are mainly engaged in film and television, music, publishing and other industries, but also do the business of sports stars.

As for the WMA, it is the well-known William Morris Agency, which was founded in 1898 and is currently the largest agency in Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin, Al Jossen, Marlon Brando and other well-known film and television figures are his clients. WMA has three offices in the United States, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and two offices in Europe.

Yevgeny's idea is very simple, since there is an obvious loophole in Bill's announcement, then his agency team naturally cannot come from the industry giant WMA, but can only be the newly emerging ICM or CAA.

He personally gravitates towards CAA, an agency that has been hot lately but has little experience running sports stars.

"Neither, I formed my own team."

Yevgeny had a good relationship with himself, and Bill told the truth honestly.

The coach's old face suddenly became wonderful, and doubt, surprise, incomprehension, and contempt took turns to control his facial features.

"If you want to save more money, you won't hire a USC graduate to do it yourself! I guess it's still the kind of person who can't find a job in Hollywood. ”

"No, it's from our school, and I know an Italian girl who is helping me build my personal image."

Bill was a little embarrassed, "Coach, what are you looking for me for?" If it were an agency team, I personally thought it would be like this, this girl would only help me promote my college and pre-career ......."

He told his coach about his original plan, which made Evgeny's expression even more exciting.

"What can I say about what you're doing?" The coach had no choice but to pull out the three newspapers from his satchel and point to the place where Bill Ferrari was reported and showed them to the owner.

"What's wrong with that?" Mr. Ferrari didn't understand the coach's move, "Don't look at this slap in the face, but this is the front page, and it cost me 800 dollars for this point." ”

He gestured to an eight, and Yevgeny was even more speechless, so he could only rub his face with his right hand so that he would not collapse.

“Boy！ Our audience is the people who watch the game in front of the TV, not the antiques who hold the newspaper at breakfast in the morning. What role can this newspaper play, even if he has tens of thousands of copies sold and hundreds of thousands of copies sold? If it weren't for the show team last night who sorted out your information and sent it over, the host would have asked you about going to the nursing home so coincidentally? ”

When the team players are on the show as a whole, the team manager will also use various ways to assist, Bill doesn't know this, and he thinks that he and Sofia did a good job to make last night's effect.

"So what should I do?" Sensing that something seemed wrong with his actions, Bill humbly asked.

Listen to people's advice and eat a full meal!

"You go to Los Angeles in the past two days to find CAA, an innovative artist agency, and find a professional agent who specializes in sports, your Sophia, she can be your personal assistant, the agent is okay, she has too little experience, it's completely nonsense."

Evgeny thought for a moment and added again: "Remember, you don't have to sign a contract with the CAA, the NCAAF has a rule that college athletes are not allowed to have an agency contract. The NCAAF has always been a genius when it comes to making stupid moves. Let your uncle sign with CAA, and immediately run this year's first team of rugby after signing. ”

Bill pulled a pen and paper out of his bag and quickly jotted down the main points the coach said.

"According to your performance, it's a bit difficult for the media to select you into the first team in the United States, it costs too much money, after all, our red and white team didn't even make it to the Rose Bowl this year, but Parker Ten still has the gold content, and there is no problem with you being selected for the first team in California."

"Don't underestimate this, in the long offseason, the first lineup selected by influential big media can get a lot of heat, at least those show hosts and news anchors can add a few titles when introducing you. When you play next season, the commentator will be able to say a few more words about you. Maybe just these two sentences can make you dozens or hundreds of fans more per game, and the cumulative amount is not a small amount. ”

"The main thing the draft camp does is a physical test, at most a 40-yard sprint, a 225-pound bench press, and the rest doesn't have much weight. Your post-season awards this year and your performance next year are the key to your draft pick, and pro teams also like star players with their own fans, which will bring in more revenue. ”

Evgeny is well aware of Beal's slippery style of play, having played the entire season in '82 without an injury, and will not be a reckless man at '88 next year, so the impact of injuries on his draft pick can be ignored.

"Is this important? I think I'll be able to get picked in the middle of the second round. In the first round, most professional teams were quarterbacks and college star running backs, or top cornerbacks, wide receivers, or whatever, and the close end had a lower round and pick. ”

Bill questioned it, and he didn't really like it.

"Alas, you've been making the mistakes of the first generation of sports stars." Having said all this, Yevgeny is also a good person to the end, "Now it is different from before, because of the change of rules, the importance of wide receivers is starting to catch up with or even surpass that of running backs, and you round up equals wide receivers, and your own strength is strong." In the past two years, the image has worked well, and I have brushed my face in the media, and I think you can rush to the top half of the first round. The most talked-about part of the draft camp was the top pick and the first round pick on the first day. This is a great benefit for your career and fame. ”

Mr. Ferrari had no idea what he had said in the first half of the paragraph, but the idea of raising his reputation went straight into his mind.

"I'm going to Los Angeles tonight after I pick up my family and get the brokerage contract done before Christmas."

Only then did Yevgeny look satisfied, "By the way, I heard you just say that you are going to brush your face in the affirmative action movement, which is not a good idea. The fans who watch rugby in the south are serious racists, and playing affirmative action will turn them off at you, which is a big fan plate, don't lose it. It's not bad for you to go to a nursing home, and to build your image of being close to your family and the elderly and infirm, you can dig deeper in this area. ”

He added a few more points, and Bill naturally wrote them all down.

PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket and ask for a monthly pass.

(End of chapter)