America 1979

Chapter 16 How to choose
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Bill, who finished his English writing class, came to the stadium to accept the torture of the school team as agreed.

Although the hardware condition of Hamatun High School is very good, there are only four teaching buildings, but it is not rich enough to build a standard football field.The so-called stadium is just a flat lawn with a few terraced stands.

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

On the lawn, coach Murphy, two assistant coaches and nearly fifty official members of the school team held a simple welcoming ceremony for new members.

"This is Bill Ferrari. See if he has any muscles. His body is a top sports car." Murphy pulled Bill in front of the school team members and asked him to give an impromptu speech.

"I'm Bill. I grew up in a nearby Italian neighborhood. My name is Ferrari, but I don't really own a sports car."

Some school team members let out a hey laugh.

"Of course I'm not a mafia."

This time the laughter grew louder.

After that, it is routine to say that I am very happy to join this big family and hope to be taken care of.

It took only four or five minutes to complete a set of procedures.

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 training bench players, to test Bill's three majors. Sports and running and other achievements, so as to determine Bill's position.

The three major items are bench press, deadlift, and squat in order. These are the three most comprehensive data to measure a person's upper body strength.

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

Forty yards running in 4.9 seconds, standing long jump 280 meters, bench press 350 pounds, deadlift 330 pounds, squat [-] pounds.

"Bill, if you haven't undergone systematic training, these results are still good, quite good." James marveled.

Bill panted slightly and asked curiously, "What is my physical condition in a football game?"

All he knew was that 13 seconds for 14 yards would be about [-] or [-] seconds for [-] meters.

In front of professional football running backs, this score is a bit poor.The top NFL running backs can probably run [-] meters in just over ten seconds.

You know, the world record in the [-] meters is only [-] seconds.In the era without Bolt and the sprint five tigers, running under [-] seconds is the [-]-meter champion.

A little over ten seconds is already very strong for a non-professional track and field athlete.

James pondered for a moment, "If those asthmatics don't take their medicine, you're probably as good as a bench player on a strong university team."

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

Bill understood that if he didn't take medicine or use technology, he already had a preliminary foundation.Coupled with a huge weight of nearly 220 pounds, it can indeed walk sideways in a high school football game.

Seeing that the new players wanted to continue listening, 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 will not be able to run and push. In high school The league results are not enough to apply to the colleges with strong football teams."

"Professional football players generally gain muscle and weight twice, one is to enter the college team, and the second is to enter one of the [-] teams in the NFL. If you want to take the road of professional players, you don't have to Doing that in high school..."

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

Bill understood what he meant. Due to the extremely developed commercialization of sports in the United States, there are many crooked ways attached to professional leagues, and giving athletes the opportunity to legally manufacture and take drugs is one of them.

For example, the United States Swimming Team, all members are asthmatics, and another example is the NFL league that has been completely blackened in later generations, and all members are also taking various high-tech drugs.

"Taking a career path is one of my choices. I would like to ask, if I apply to colleges in the state with my football scores, what level do I need to achieve? How is the difficulty compared to applying with SAT and AP scores?"

Bill asked.

What he is familiar with is doing the questions. He can take the SAT exam seven times a year, and he can handle it. AP is a pre-university course, so there is no big problem.

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

James motioned for him to walk, and the two of them headed out onto the lawn.

"Emm, let me think about it. Judging from the situation you dropped out of school before, it is a bit difficult to get a high SAT score, and your grade point should not be high. As for the miscellaneous social participation, you can do it in next year's off-season."

Whether it is the NFL professional league, the college football game NCAAF, or the high school football league in the state, the new season starts in September and ends in roughly December. The NFL professional league also has playoffs in January. , but it will be completed in one month.

That is to say, there is no competition and training for more than half a year. According to the experience of ordinary high school students who apply for college with sports achievements, they should play baseball or basketball next spring and summer.

For example, James, he double majored in basketball and rugby in high school, and his grades were good.

But due to considerations of salary, injuries and career length, James chose basketball that can make more money.

This is not to say that the income of NBA stars is higher than that of football stars, but that the upper limit of playing basketball is high. The maximum salary of basketball can reach an average of 6000 million US dollars per year, but this price in the NFL, there are only one or two super powerful quarters. We can see that most of the remaining football stars are paid less than NBA stars.

After all, the NBA has a team of 15 people, and the NFL football team has a team of 53 people.

But the advantage is that there are fewer rugby games, once a week during the season, excluding the playoffs, [-] times a year.

"Your talent is very good. My suggestion is that you can consider taking the path of a professional player."

Professional football players are usually drafted by strong college football teams. Since James suggested this, according to his point of view, it should not be difficult for Bill to use his sports performance to apply for college.

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

James smiled and shook his head, "Columbia University, boy, you might as well amplify your imagination a little bit. Of course, Columbia University is indeed a good choice to ensure that you can get into the Ivy League. Given your physical condition, I suggest you play more." A winger on offense or a tackle on defense, that gets noticed by college coaches and various scouts."

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