How should Lu Yiqi be described?

When he celebrated his forty years of his birthday, he was the editor-in-chief of the sports version of the New York Daily News. He owned a property in Brooklyn. He just said goodbye to his seven-year marriage a year ago - but without children. His parents opened a small convenience store in New Jersey. He still worked overtime until the early hours of the morning and returned to his empty apartment. He was still a member of an ordinary office worker among the nine million people in New York.

He did not think he was one of the top ten outstanding young people in society, but he could also say with certainty that his life was far from miserable and pitiful, and more of it should be... ordinary. Yes, the ordinary life has some ups and downs, but overall it is a boring daily life day after day, which is more than the top and less than the bottom. It is not much different from the thousands of ordinary people in the world. He is in the vast sea of ​​people and is completely swallowed and drowned.

He still loves rugby fanatic and pays close attention to professional league events every weekend, just like thousands of American locals - nfl is the sport with the highest ratings, the highest popularity and the widest popularity of the four major sports leagues in North America. Rugby is the largest ball in the United States.

He once thought, more than once, what would happen if he didn't choose rugby? Or, if he didn't obsessively try to become a professional rugby player, but instead considered other possibilities, such as coaches, what would happen? If he hadn't left rugby, would life be more exciting, more turbulent, and more thrilling? Can life bloom like summer flowers?

But everyone knows that there is no if in the world. Until the "if" really happens.

From November 11, 2019 to November 11, 1997, his life was backed by twenty-two years. From the age of forty to the age of eighteen, he once again became a freshman at Michigan State University and was rushing to work for course reports - because football rookies must stay and organize the training grounds and clean the locker room after training. He had to work overtime to complete the study tasks on time and excellently.

"It seems that I have already developed the ability to work overtime all night long."

After waking up, he was in doubt for a long time:

Everything is like a dream, sometimes real, sometimes illusory, and sometimes between half-dream and half-awake, making it impossible to determine where the boundary of reality is, for fear that it will wake up from the dream in the next second, and then your efforts and attempts will turn into bubbles.

The anxiety of gains and losses continues until the next training - a little distraction on the rugby stadium, which may turn into a tragic accident.

The dizzy feeling of weightlessness and the smell of blood under his nose made him truly awake and 100% sure that he had gotten a chance to start over.

So, when the opportunity comes, how should he choose? Turn around and leave? Keep struggling? Or... open up a new path?

He knew that he chose conservatively step by step and could still have a stable life, or even a stable life envied by countless people, but ordinary, calm, flat, is this really life? Or is it just living? Living for life? No passion/passion, no passion, no ups and downs, no struggle, no struggle, just live by counting days, waiting for the moment of stretching your legs?

He has chosen, tried, and experienced it, but he knows that the stagnant water deep in his heart still has an unextinguished fire, waiting for the phoenix-like nirvana. Now, the opportunity has come, and he is facing a fork in his life again. Should he continue to follow the path of the previous life? Should he continue to choose the safety card step by step? Should he make up for the regret deep in his heart that he has never let go?

In the end, he chose a third party: a professional coach.

His eighteen years of career as a sports journalist not only made him know the players in the NFL League, but also gave him a unique understanding of the league's tactical changes, tactical trends and tactical arrangements. He can always clearly interpret the coach's on-site tactical arrangements and intentions. He is known as the official commentator within the "New York Daily News" newspaper. His keen game interpretation ability has really received many praises.

He still couldn't leave rugby after all, and he was still looking forward to being excited again, but he was still unwilling to be ordinary. Perhaps, he could not become a professional rugby player, but he could still become a professional coach.

But he also knows that it is one thing for fans to watch football, and it is another thing for them to actually go to the stadium to direct the game - fans are called "watching the football with their mouths", which seems to be common in any sports field.

The transition from a professional fan to a professional coach is definitely not that simple, and may even be more difficult than imagined; as for the breakthrough and upgrade from a professional coach to a top coach, it will be another completely different story.

However, now he has a second chance, so everything is possible. Only by doing his best can he know the answer, right?

This time, his parents were unable to stop Lu Yiqi from making up his mind.

On the one hand, he still played under the Spartans tight end coach Pat Shulmoore, tirelessly learning the ever-changing tactical execution on the field; on the other hand, he began to concentrate on learning tactical arrangements and game ideas from the head coach's legendary coach Nick-saban, and learn from the basics to become a coach.

In fact, rugby and football have many similarities. Both sides attack and the other side defend, and the final goal is to score in the goal. However, there are differences in specific execution.

A professional football team includes fifty-three players, which will be divided into offensive groups, defensive groups and special service groups. Each group exists independently, with its own eleven fixed players and relatively fixed substitute players. Generally speaking, players in the offensive group will not participate in defense because the defensive group also has their own fixed members; while the components of the special service group are relatively complex, mainly composed of substitute members, with members of the offensive group and defensive group.

The entire game is played in a round-based manner. When the home team's offensive team comes on the court, the away team will be the defensive team and start a matchup. On the contrary, when the away team's offensive team comes on the court, the home team will send a defensive team to play. When the offensive fails, free kicks, re-starts, etc., the two sides will send a special team to play and confront each other.

It can be seen that the offensive tactical system and the defensive tactical system exist independently, unlike football, where only eleven players are present, and all offensive and defensive conversions occur between these players, which also makes the game changer faster and the coach's on-the-spot command speed may not be able to keep up.

But football matches are different. Because it is a round-based contest, there is a forty-second tactical adjustment time before each offense and defense begins, which puts higher requirements on the coach's on-site command and tactical arrangement; at the same time, it also puts forward strict requirements on the coach's tactical literacy - 20,000 tactical combinations, which is a very, very huge tactical library.

In four years of college, he followed Nick Shaban and Pat Shulmoore, focusing on polishing himself in the offensive team; after graduating from college, under the recommendation of the head coach, he went to the Philadelphia Hawks in NFL, and interned under Andy Reid (andy-reid), and rotated in the quarterback group, defensive forward group, and defensive second-tier group for one year.

After spending three seasons in the Professional League, Andy Reed's recommendation letter gave him his first official job as a professional coach:

Returning to his alma mater, Michigan State University, he worked as a quarterback coach.

After spending three seasons at Michigan State University, Kansas State University, with full sincerity and good conditions, allowed him to go to Manhattan as offensive coordinator - Manhattan, Kansas, known as the "Little Apple". So, last year, in the offseason in 2006, he joined the Wildcats with the new head coach Ron Prince, who officially took over the offensive team coach.

That was a year ago.

During this offseason, the Kansas State University Wildcats, which still had not improved much last season's game results, began training early, looking forward to welcome the new season with a new look. Whether it is senior or first-year students, they all trained carefully under the leadership of Pres and sprinted toward the new goal.

However, just three days before the opening of the 2007 season, Pres, who had been preparing for the game all night long, was sent to the hospital due to a sudden heart attack.

The doctors were unable to determine Pres' condition, and they still needed further observation, but it is certain that it is a foregone conclusion that it is a matter of absence from the opening match.

In a hurry, Lu Yiqi, as the offensive coordinator, was appointed as the interim acting head coach, responsible for directing the opening game.

Everything was too hasty and too hasty. Everything was tilted down like a heavy rain in the middle of summer. He had no time to think about it and hurriedly followed Pres' tactical arrangements - he had no time to make adjustments, and he had no time to overturn the original tactical arrangements. Adhere to the original tactics and be a temporary puppet coach. This is the only thing he could do in a panic situation.

But this cannot be an excuse either.

In the first half, his on-site command was a disaster. He could clearly read the opponent's tactical intentions, but he looked forward and was unable to make targeted arrangements. His blank head made him look like a soulless marionette and had no idea what he was doing.

So, they fell behind, and he was not surprised that they would fall behind because the on-site command could not keep up with the rhythm of the game, and the rigid tactics could not form a confrontation, and then the momentum and situation of the game were tilted towards the opponent's side. This was a matter of course.

So, what should he do?

Live a lifetime, worked hard for ten years, ran for ten years, struggled for ten years, but found that I seemed to be in trouble again?
Chapter completed!