Coach Carter
… watching this movie for the umpteenth time… now’s the scene where they gonna get busted by the coach for sneaking out to a house party.
Coach Carter is the dude who made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team, the Richmond Oilers, for poor academic performance.
“I see a system designed for u to fail.” was the basis for the lockout of his players out of court and into the library. Student athletes were failing because the school, community and families expected them to fail, academically. And because they were expected to fall back on their game.
Another statistic which explains why Carter intervened the way he did: A staggering percentage of students who attended Richmond High end up killed on the streets or in prison.
Watching the Bay Hill game, brought tears to my eyes I could hardly breathe…… it was such a thing of beauty.
One of the other thing i loved about this movie was the song they played at the end…. Hope by Twista featuring Faith Evans.
