128 Refreshed
"...Haha, I knew. Win beautifully! Win simply! I knew you could do it 100% to keep all the guys from the University of Texas shut. After losing last year, I was whispering there for a whole year, and now I can finally shut their mouths."
John Alma stood in the garden with his pipe in his mouth and laughed cheerfully. The muddy laughter echoed in his chest, like a muffled thunder in the sky, buzzing, and his whole body trembled slightly excitedly, shaking out the fragments of tobacco leaves and ashes in the pipe. The smile between his eyebrows stretched out, as if even the clouds had turned into a good weather with clear and cool autumn weather.
The unrestrained laughter was a special infectious force, which made Lu Yiqi's mood happy, and he couldn't help but show a bright smile, "Mr. Alma, keep fighting, this is what we are doing, and we will continue. I'm glad you stand on the same front with us."
"Of course, of course! There is absolutely no problem!" Alma leaned towards Lu Yiqi through the lilac tree fence, and whispered in a low voice, "This time it's a lemon cream cake."
Lu Yiqi laughed happily, "Mr. Alma, please be sure to pay attention to sugar intake, otherwise, I don't know if I should continue to win."
"That won't work. At least next week, we must not let the bald bird win! We must beat them, do you understand?" Alma's expression immediately became serious, and his frown brows showed his seriousness and concentration. "It doesn't matter if all the remaining games this year are lost, but they can't work!"
Alma tightened the pipe in her hand, and her knuckles turned white, "Must! Must defeat them! Victory belongs to our wild cats!"
The bald bird is equal to the Jayhawk, which is the University of Kansas Jayhawks, which is an mortal enemy.
"Really? Mr. Alma?" Lu Yiqi squeezed his eyes at Alma, "Is it really okay to lose all the remaining games of the season?"
Alma's expression stiffened slightly, coughed twice, then held the pipe in his mouth, "Noah..." with a smile on his elbow, "Of course, it would be better if you win, and you know, who can refuse victory? You just know what I mean."
"Haha. I understand, Mr. Alma." Lu Yiqi blinked, then stood up straight, "We are still united and sprinting towards victory with all our might!"
After saying that, Lu Yiqi took a step and trotted away from the door. Alma stood behind, grabbed the pipe firmly, and shouted, "Fight, Super Mario! Fight!"
The strange nickname came from behind, causing Lu Yiqi to almost trip over himself, but in the end he still stabilized and trotted towards the school.
The Wildcats were able to defeat the Longhorns with a hearty victory, and the whole city was in full swing, pushing the expectations of the 2007 season to a new high:
First, reverse Auburn University and then defeat the University of Texas. So, does this mean that Kansas State has the hope of winning the Big Four Bowl for the first time? Even just one thought and one hope is enough to make this remote small city turbulent, and almost all residents are cheering and celebrating the party, as if they can feel the atmosphere of Halloween early - and there are still three weeks left before Halloween.
Even the school guards and the parking lot security guards waved to Lu Yiqi from afar, expressing greetings with enthusiasm and smiling faces.
"Good morning, coach."
Lu Yiqi must admit that although it is just the simplest and simplest sentence, it still makes his steps lighter, not only because of the title of "coach", but more because his work has been recognized, and his victory and the team have brought happiness to the city.
Share sadness with others, and sadness will be reduced by half; share happiness with others, and happiness will be doubled - the same is true for happiness and joy.
With a refreshing spirit, Lu Yiqi pushed open the office door and prepared to start a new week of preparations, which would be another tough battle.
The next week, Kansas State University will soon be at home, facing the 100-year-old archenemy of the Kansas Jayhawks.
The University of Kansas and Kansas State University are both public universities. The former is located in Lawrence, downstream of the Kansas River; the latter is located in Manhattan, located in the upper part of the Kansas River, and is separated by Topeka, the second largest city in Kansas. From geographical location to school positioning, from academic research to culture and sports, from fame and reputation to rankings across the United States, both schools are mortal enemies of generations who have fought to the point of blood.
Even if graduates who are separated from the school scope enter society and encounter graduates from hostile schools, they will also despise each other's relationship of mockery and ridicule. The position given by the school background continues to society, and can be called old enemies.
Rugby is no exception.
As mentioned earlier, there are only two NCAA Division I teams in Kansas State, namely the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Kansas State University Wildcats, which also makes the confrontation between the two teams more and more gunpowder. At the same time, Kansas does not have professional teams in the Big Four leagues, and the confrontation between this mortal enemy is an annual carnival feast. All football enthusiasts in the state will never miss this party.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is a bayonet confrontation.
The history of the two teams can be traced back to 1902, which was their first meeting; then, starting from 1911, the two teams will inevitably confront each year, which also makes them the sixth-longest long-term rival in NCAA history, and are hard to solve.
It is precisely because of the attention of the people that the two teams jointly hold the "Governor's Cup" every year, which is a showdown between the two teams in their own right, independent of NCAA.
Unfortunately, neither team was able to reach its peak in the same period, which also made the winners and loses a little spark. The only game closest to the peak duel occurred in 1995. The Jayhawks, who won all seven games in the season, faced the Wildcats with five wins and one loss. The former ranked sixth in the United States, and the latter ranked fourteenth in the United States, and finally ended with the Wildcats sweeping the Jayhawks "41:7".
As of 2019, in the regular season confrontation records, the Jayhawks had the upper hand with 64 wins, 47 losses, and 5 draws; but in the Governor's Cup officially set up in 1969, the Wildcats were far ahead with 30 wins, 19 losses, and 1 draws.
However, the Jayhawks refused to recognize the legitimacy of this record, because in the 1980 game, the Jayhawks were directly punished for controversial punishment, and they still refuse to acknowledge the result of that game.
Chapter completed!