"If I had organized the game against Auburn from the beginning, how should I arrange the tactics? Going further, if I had organized a team to compete for the remaining games of the 2007 season, what kind of tactical system and style do I want to be? What kind of head coach do I want to be?"

This is a key issue that Lu Yiqi is thinking about and must think about.

The position of the head coach in any sport, any professional team, is crucial. Excellent ability and accumulation of experience are indispensable. Sometimes it also requires some courage and means. EQ beyond IQ is also indispensable. Rugby is more prominent due to the complexity of the entire project.

In the position of the head coach, there are two positions: offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator. Below are quarterback coaches, wide receiver coaches, tight end coaches, offensive front coaches, running back coaches; defensive front coaches, linebackers coaches, and defensive second-tier coaches - a few teams will also distinguish cornerback coaches and safety guard coaches in detail; in addition, there are special service coaches, physical coaches, and private players coordinators to make adjustments at any time.

Generally speaking, there are about 12 core members of the entire coaching team, and different teams have different arrangements; and in the NFL professional league, different positions will also be equipped with subordinate teams, such as assistants, intern coaches, and auxiliary coaches. The number of the entire team can easily exceed 30 people, which is not uncommon.

In other words, the head coach of rugby may need to lead a team of thirty people, and the key role of the head coach is equivalent to the brain of the entire team:

The ideas and framework of the entire tactical system, the strengths and weaknesses of the entire team, the ideas and policies of the entire team building... and so on, all need to be determined by the head coach. Only when the head coach establishes the entire system can the coach team operate in division of labor and cooperation.

It is precisely because of this that the growth system of the head coach of a rugby is very large and very complicated. There are generally two ways to become a head coach of an NFL professional team: the professional league route and the NCAA route, but no matter which route, the time and experience accumulation are particularly important. Normally, it often takes ten to fifteen years to win the opportunity to take charge of the professional team's coach.

The same is true for Lu Yiqi.

Three years of professional team internship, three years of college team quarterback coach, and one year of college team offensive coordinator. He has accumulated seven years of experience. Now he is in his eighth year and is also his second year of offensive coordinator, but he can only be regarded as "just starting out".

If it weren't for Ron Press's heart attack, according to normal rules, he might have to stay in the offensive coordinator position for one to two years, and then look for opportunities to become the head coach of a university team, then look at his team-leading performance, and make his resume stand out, so that he can enter the professional league as the head coach position.

The most important key is that Lu Yiqi is a Chinese.

As the number one sport in the United States, football has a profound influence. Many Asian immigrant descendants have begun to join the sport one after another. You can see many Asian faces in the NCAA field, including players and coaches; but after entering NFL, it is rare.

To be precise, so far, no Asian head coach has appeared, and even the offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator are hard to find. A few teams may have an Indian or Korean auxiliary coach, but that's all.

This also means that if Lu Yiqi wants to become the head coach, he still has a very, very long road to wait in the future.

The most legendary coach in NFL's long league history is Sean McVay, who became the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams in 2017.

The young man, born in 1986, attended the University of Miami and worked as a wide receiver; when he graduated from college at the age of 22, he became a wide receiver coach assistant for the professional team Tampa Bay Buccaneers; a year later, he went to the Florida Teeth Elephant of the secondary league UFL to serve as a game tactical coordinator and wide receiver coach; another year later, he won the job of the NFL professional team Washington Redskin, and spent a full seven years here, from a tight end coach assistant to a tight end coach to an offensive coordinator, rising step by step.

In 2017, McVeigh's tenth year of transfer to become a coach. After the interview, he successfully won the position of head coach of the NFL professional team Los Angeles Rams.

First, before that, he had never had the experience of being a head coach; secondly, when he was in office, he was only 31 years old, setting the youngest head coach record in NFL. What is even more incredible is that in 2017, McVeigh led the Los Angeles Rams to win 11 wins and 5 losses, and returned to the playoffs, which won McVeigh’s honorary title of coach of the year in 2017.

McVeigh wrote a shocking myth.

But even McVeigh has been working hard for ten years, and Lu Yiqi, who is only 28 years old, is just entering his eighth year. Obviously, he still needs to continue working hard.

This is precisely the reason why Lu Yiqi is in an awkward situation.

Indeed, he needs to calm down and prepare for the next game, and the opportunity is only reserved for those who are prepared, but how should he "prepare"?

He is just an interim head coach, and his current official position is still an offensive coordinator. The Kansas State Wildcats are still a team of Long Pres, which also means that he does not have the right to build the entire team according to his own ideas. To put it bluntly, if Pres comes back this week, he must retreat to the position of offensive coordinator, let alone build a tactical system, and even the right to arrange tactics within the Pres tactical system is gone.

The problem is that Pres' tactical system has many conflicts with Lu Yiqi's philosophy.

If Lu Yiqi is just an offensive coordinator, then he will build corresponding tactics according to Pres' tactical intentions and invest in the game based on this; but if Lu Yiqi is the head coach - even if it is temporary, he is more inclined to start the game in his own way to win.

So, when he was preparing for the war again, Lu Yiqi had to face a dilemma, so he was a little unfocused in reading the materials in the first hour, because the tactics derived from divergent thinking were easy to hit the wall; coupled with Mo Latimer who was eyeing him, he could not determine what his attitude was at present, which made Lu Yiqi start to doubt:

Are you too ambitious?

Just won a game and then tried to build his own tactical system in the team - but does he really have a tactical system and qualities?

"Knock."

The knock on the door disrupted Lu Yiqi's thoughts, which made him feel a little irritable. The other party pushed open the door of the room without asking for permission, which made Lu Yiqi even more impatient. He turned around suddenly, and then saw a figure in a suit and tie - no, it should be two figures in suit and tie, one after another, and walked into the office:

Who is the Athletic Secretary and… the other one?
Chapter completed!