After the school newspaper's report was published, as Emily expected, it did not cause much response. The reason is actually very simple. First, most Chinese students don’t watch rugby, let alone rugby. They don’t even participate in group activities organized by the school, so the level of attention will naturally not increase.
Second, Lu Ke is just a substitute. There are nearly thirty players sitting on the bench, bustling and dizzying. People are only paying attention to the main roster, the main roster that can bring them victory, rather than a Chinese player joining the bench. To put it bluntly, no one would care if the bench players were updated every week.
For Lu Ke's friends, this is a crucial turning point in life; but for others, it is just an insignificant change on the team's bench. Not to mention Lu Ke, even John, Derek and others did not attract much discussion.
More importantly, on the third day after the school newspaper published it, which was the day before the official start of the new season, an earth-shattering event occurred in the Bruins: the team's absolute main quarterback, Kevin Clift, was receiving... Police investigations and inquiries regarding matters related to domestic violence.
Even in professional leagues, players suspected of criminal cases are bound to be the focus of attention. If necessary, the league will impose additional suspensions for punishment; not to mention the NCAA. In the final analysis, the NCAA is not a professional league. From the perspective of the league's emphasis on academics, It can be seen that they pay more attention to the moral character of students. It's possible for a school to completely suspend a player for the entire season because of a civil case like theft or DUI.
This time, Kevin Kraft was suspected of violently raping his girlfriend many times and was suspected of criminal liability. After the police conducted evidence collection inquiries, the case was officially opened.
After communication and deliberation, UCLA announced a temporary suspension of Clift and forced him to cooperate with the police investigation.
This is devastating news!
In the past five years, the Bruins' competitiveness has never been able to pick up. Finally, the team found a winning formula again last year, and the core of it is Kevin Kraft. Now, before the battle of the new season has even begun, they have lost their absolute leader, and the entire team has suddenly fallen into a leaderless dilemma. As a result, all the fans have fallen into a state of confusion.
What's even more frightening is that they lost their second quarterback first, and then their number one quarterback, so much so that the team's head coach, Rick, reluctantly announced that Kevin Price would serve as the team's starting four. guard.
"In my fourth year of college, I only threw the ball 17 times without any touchdowns." This is the resume of the Bruins' new quarterback. It is really unbelievable, but it has lost its sense of reality because it was too shocking. So ridiculous that he laughed. The season hasn't even started yet and they seem to be surrendering.
Under such circumstances, all the fans were in despair. Who had noticed the news in the school newspaper? He was just a substitute player. Even though he was Chinese, he had no more news value after all. Before Jay's report had time to ferment, a bucket of cold water was poured down, leaving no sparks at all.
This is the whole experience of Lu Ke's name appearing in newspapers for the first time.
In fact, after Kevin Clift was suspended, Darius Bell became the second quarterback, and Lu Ke took over and became the team's third quarterback. However, no one cares about this news. Without Clift, this is the end of the world. Neither Price nor Bell can be the savior of the Bruins, let alone Lu Ke?
But for Lu Ke, it was no big deal that the school newspaper's news reports fell into disuse. It took him two years to go from an amateur to a sparring partner for a professional college team; it took him one year to go from an unknown sparring partner to a substitute for the Bruins; from a minor substitute , it only took him three days to become the No. 3 quarterback.
This is an incredible step forward. He is ambitious but not greedy. He should feel satisfied with the current situation. At least, he can truly start systematic quarterback training, and under the guidance of the system, work steadily and create his own miracles step by step.
A rocket-like rise is certainly gratifying, but down-to-earth polishing of strength can give oneself more confidence. It is precisely because Lu Ke clearly knows how bad his strength is that he starts training more urgently. Otherwise, even if the opportunity to compete does arise and he stands on the field, he will not be able to win, let alone complete the system's competition tasks.
The 2010 NCAA football season officially kicked off. On Saturday, September 11, UCLA faced another Ivy League school, Stanford University, at its home court. The two teams can be called a feud, and it is even considered a "national derby"!
Stanford University has been on a roll in the past two years, sweeping all the teams. Quarterback Andrew Luck, who is just a junior this year, is an absolute star. He took over the team's main quarterback reins as a freshman and became the best offensive player in the Pac-12 Conference for two consecutive years. It is almost difficult to find an opponent in the league. This year, Andrew is also considered to be an All-American. A first-team favorite, he is also considered a favorite for the Heisman Trophy, the highest honor a college football player can win.
Compared to Stanford University, UCLA's record in recent years has been truly disastrous. Despite this, the national derby is still full of excitement, and Bruins supporters are eagerly looking forward to the team's surprises and upsets.
However, the reality is cruel.
Kevin Price made his first team start in his career, and his performance was like sleepwalking. Not only was he unable to complete any touchdowns, but his passing success rate was also less than 40%, and he even contributed twice. In the end, the team ushered in a humiliating defeat with a huge score of "0:35", and watched the enemy retreat with dignity.
The season has barely begun and alarm bells are already ringing.
However, for Lu Ke, it was the first time in his life that he sat on the bench and watched a game, feeling the cheers and shock of the audience. The excitement of his blood boiling and his body boiling was firmly imprinted in his mind and became a This gave him the motivation to train more diligently. He longed for the day in the future to be able to stand on that field, open his arms, and truly feel the heat and madness at the center of the world.
He firmly believes that this day will not be too far away.
In the following days, Lu Ke devoted himself wholeheartedly to training. Even Kevin Price did not trouble him anymore, because his trouble was on the court, and it was not Darius who he needed to face. The competition with Lu Ke is the pressure exerted by his opponents. Not only to keep his main position, but also to keep his career, he must exert all his strength and go all out.
After returning from the training camp, Lu Ke completed another daily training task and received a basic point, but then Lu Ke discovered that the daily training task had finally changed.
The number of training items that need to be carried out every day has increased from five to twenty-five.
It includes a lot of strength training such as bench press and squats. It can be seen that the system believes that Lu Ke urgently needs to increase his body's resistance ability. Even if he is not a bulldozer like a defender, at least he cannot be pushed/knocked down so easily.
It also includes a lot of technical training such as passing and footwork. Polishing quarterback skills is a long and arduous process, and there is no room for laziness. However, on top of the basic technical training, five-yard passing, Skill training such as fifteen-yard passing or spot-on passing. This also means that Lu Ke gradually started to become professional.
The number of consecutive days to complete the training program also doubled to fourteen days.
This also means that the persistence period has become longer, the difficulty has become greater, and the probability of obtaining basic points has also begun to decrease. Within fourteen days, any oversight on any day, or even any oversight at any point, may result in the task being cleared and starting over.
Now Lu Ke finally understands why among the previous six people, and even the previous hosts of other systems, some people have failed. After years of training, no negligence is allowed, no laziness is allowed, and one breath may be enough. Resulting in starting from scratch. Even though Lu Ke was full of confidence, as the system revealed the follow-up tasks step by step, he gradually began to feel the pressure——
Because clearing the task and starting over is exactly what Lu Ke can't bear now.
He is already a senior this year. The rookie training camp in March 2011 and the draft at the end of April are the last opportunities. If he misses it, then he can only become a free agent and want to stand out among the vast crowd and enter. In the professional league, the difficulty of becoming a professional player is not only doubled, it can even be said to be ten times, or even a hundred times.
He needs to prove himself in the game, but he also needs to enrich himself in terms of strength. Every day, this is crucial!
From the second week of September to the first week of December, for a full sixteen weeks, Lu Ke did not miss any training day and strictly complied with every requirement of every training in the system. If it cannot be completed, then after the training, Lu Ke will continue to practice more until it is completed.
William and Logan became Lu Ke's best training partners. In fact, not only them, but Derek and Wilder also occasionally joined their training, which made the boring training become interesting. Because of Lu Ke's persistence and hard work, they even gave him a nickname, "Bloody Bambi"——
The origin of the nickname was during a training session. Lu Ke bumped his nose and started to bleed. However, he did not notice it immediately and still threw himself into the training. As a result, it was everywhere, including his jersey, shorts, palms, and cheeks. , shoes, looking like they just returned from a massacre.
As a result, the title Bloody Bambi spread like wildfire, and even the absolute main players in the first echelon jokingly called Lu Ke this way.
After sixteen weeks of hard training, Lu Ke's gains are undoubtedly huge. His basic skills have finally been corrected, including passing gestures, stepback steps, kick-off postures, etc. As long as he persists in the future, these technical movements It will be a part of him for the rest of his career - if he has one.
In addition, during the sixteen weeks, Lu Ke gained a total of eight basic points, plus one basic point gained in the week at the end of the training camp, which means that he now has nine basic points, which sounds like Like heavy weapons.
