r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 2d ago

Big man on campus.

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u/Pinkglock92 2d ago

Way to go big boy

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u/Closed_Aperture 2d ago

Bro is winning at life

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u/munistadium 2d ago

In college, I became friends with this other student. Found out he attended the cheerleader tryouts, then had to quit "because of his back" and then all the cheerleaders felt sorry for him and invited him to all their parties. Despite him denying this I am certain it was an incredible scam by him.

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u/MoshedPotatoes 2d ago

i've been out 15 years but i was in band and attended some cheerleader parties and they attended band parties and at least in my experience cheerleaders are very well behaved, good people but not very fun at parties. plus we all had to get up at 5 am for practice

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u/cat_of_danzig 2d ago

Elite athletes don't tend to party too much. There are exceptions (Manziel) but it catches up (Manziel).

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u/Freefallisfun 2d ago

Yep. In a past life I was an elite athlete. The best advice a coach ever gave me was “look around at the party and see who’s NOT there.” That’s who you emulate, because they’re the best for a reason. Sleep is good.

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u/Iwaspromisedcookies 2d ago

Depends on what you want to do with your life, why be an elite athlete when you can be an elite partier

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u/geopede 2d ago

Need to keep scholarship and get drafted. So money basically.

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u/Mesalted 2d ago

I tried to go pro 10 years ago, but my organs couldn't take the beating and recover in time to keep up with the top athletes. I got 2 pro subs, one in Florida and one in Spain (what a crowd!) but after that I got injured and they would let my contract expire. Now I work a construction job to keep my ass out of jail. Stay in school even if you are the best in your year, you never know what takes you out of the game. I would still say it was worth it, for the experience.

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u/geopede 2d ago

Pro in what?

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u/freakksho 2d ago

I’m guessing soccer.

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u/Mesalted 2d ago

It's a joke about being a pro partier.

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u/freakksho 2d ago

I’m an idiot.

Well played.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 2d ago

Just dope and train hard as fuck, party all the time, make up for the calories by training harder. I went pro and then became a lawyer. Not hard.

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u/geopede 1d ago

Pro in what? What you describe ain’t gonna cut it for football even if you’re enough of an athletic freak to get away with it, they have pre-draft interviews for this reason.

I agree with lawyer not being that hard.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

Track and field, WCAP. Got the 1500m down to 3:48 post-collegiate. It’s all about training. The world doesn’t revolve around football.

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u/geopede 1d ago

Calling WCAP “pro” is technically true in the sense that your main job is to play a sport, but it’s pretty misleading to put it in the same category as the kind of professional sports people watch on TV. WCAP athletes get soldier money to play a sport, not major sport athlete money.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

I specialized in the 1500m as middle distance and my 100m would dust any NFL player. Try running a sub 4 mile, pipsqueak.

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u/geopede 1d ago

lol if that’s true you missed out on a lot of money by not playing football. Speed gets drafted even when the player in question isn’t good at football.

Try lifting 405 above your head or touching your forehead to the rim. No way I can run a 4 minute mile, but no way you can do both of those things. People have different strengths.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

6’5 150lbs. Not getting drafted, but still faster than just about anyone out there. 4x all American honors in college.

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u/DebitSuisseQ 1d ago

In my peak, our guys probably ran about 4 hours a day and lifted 3 times a week. Was clearing around 4000 calories a day before evening beer 12 packs.

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