Authority Figures In The Film, Coach Carter

The movie “Glory Road,” is the stereotypical disney sports movie. The movie is about a college basketball team that had recruited more black than white players, the team was not supposed to win many games but they quickly went right past their expectations, and went all the way to being the best team in college. The movie is based on a basketball team in 1966. Texas Western won the NCAA basketball championship while only playing the black players, instead of the usual one black person on the court at a time. This movie takes place right in the middle of the segregation era between whites and blacks. So coach Haskins decision to go out and

In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that community's effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boone's promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together as a team. He wanted the two races to become a team. Around that time, there was a lot of racism and a lot of schools were segregated, so the players obviously didn't get along with each other at first. A lot changed when Boone replaced Yoast

Throughout the film we, see both the coach, individual players, and the team as a whole face numerous psychological obstacles which they overcome to reach the final. The film is based highly around racism and racial divides within basketball. Throughout the film we can see a constant battle with the idea of Perception, and how both player and overcome this. In order to form the 1966 championship winning team,

Even though they were very much adjusted to one another and got along so well when they got back home, nothing had changed. When they saw white teammates talking to black teammates everyone starred and no one understood. Coach Boon was not surprised to see how people were acting but he was shocked to find out that when the school gave him the head-coaching job it was because they had to and if he lost a game then he was fired. The people who hired him said that they didn’t even think that he would have made it out of camp.

Sports psychology deals with the mental and emotional aspects of physical performance. It involves describing, explaining and predicting attitudes, feelings and behaviours in an attempt to improve performance. In the film 'Coach Carter,' directed by Thomas Carter, sport psychology is used effectively to enhance the performance of a high school basketball team. However, this improved performance is not limited to the basketball court, it extends into the classroom where the students use goal setting, motivation, concentration and confidence control, ultimately to become accepted into college, avoiding a life of drugs, gangs and prison.

The film wasn’t about that 13-0 record and winning a state championship, but the struggle that came with it and all the hardships they had to deal and get past. Racism, prejudice, compassion and love were all key aspects of this film as shown. The racism, prejudice of the team when they first met was severe and had been changed. The love and compassion came as the team grew to become one unit and love each other and be able to become something more powerful than they could be by themselves.

His teaching styles were very unintentional but you could tell what he was doing. Since he had experienced a similar situation when he was once on a team, he had wanted to give his team a different form of coaching that they wouldn’t have had expected at Richmond High School. Coach Carter did a very exquisite job at portraying these learning styles, knowing that there could have been consequences to a certain amount. It was gratifying to see that Coach Carter would do anything for his team, win or lose, he wanted them to come out successful and at least learn something even if it was a

“ ‘For a while I expected you to be like Jeremiah’. She told him. ‘ Actually you’re a better athlete - but you don’t have the discipline or the respect to play. You don't respect me, and you don't respect the team’. Mandela’s expression remained blank. He didn’t respond. ‘get out.’ Luma told him. ‘Don’t call me coach, don’t ever call me again’” (St. John 219). Luma had to kick Mandela off the team because he was not following the team's rules. For there to be a strong team there can not be player that are not following the rules, and she can not just not kick him off because he is good player. Luma had to be disciplined and stick to what she said even though she lost a good player. Sometimes in life there will be rules that do not always make sense but that does not mean you do not have to follow them. “ ‘prince’ she said. Addressing the Liberian Veteran with a head of braids.’ If your hair is not cut by the first day of practice, you’re off the team’” (St. John, 108). What Luma is trying to do is tell the kids that sometimes in life there are going to be rules that do not make sense but that does not mean you do not have to follow them. She is preparing the kid for the real world because no one is going to help them later on they are just going to have to follow the rules even if they do not make

Coach Carter is a 2005 movie which was based upon a true story. The movie underlines the social structure and stratification of life in the American ghetto. The theme of the movie is the outcome of such societal boundaries on this group of students who play basketball; how it outlines their life, affects their social life and also their life goals. The movie depicts a Structural-functionalist of society

Based on a true story, the film follows the story of the 1971 T.C. Williams newly merged high school football team overthrown with a new coach, Herman Boone. Boone is immediately met with scrutiny from the former coach and white team members for his culture as an African-American. Boone takes the team on a camp as a bonding/training exercise in attempt to get the team up to

Fear. the one rule about fear is fight of flight. You either run away from the problem or face it head on. In the movie the boys were afraid that they would lose their starting positions and asked to coach to save their spots. Also some of the Coaches were afraid that they would lose their jobs to black Coaches. Mr. King was afraid he would be killed, attacked, or even fail to complete his mission. Though both in the movie and Mr. King fought instead of choosing flight.

The coach Don Haskins once said in the movie:" Your dignity's inside you. Nobody can take something away from you, something you don't give them." In my opinion, it means that nobody can make you feel bad or ashamed about yourself unless you let them to. In the movie, we can see many examples of this saying. To start off, when the Texas Western come in one of the game, unlike the players of the other team, who were all white, they didn't get applaud as much. This episode didn't put them down but reenforced them. They didn't let the supporters and the other players take their dignity and their confidence. Another example would be when they found their hotel room filled with blood and messages of death. Even if they were in choc, they played

A good coaching style and personality are the foundation behind a successful coach. In the movie Coach Carter do Ken Carter accept a new challenge, to become the new head coach for an awful basketball team, that’s having tremendous problems with dreadful results, criminality and bullying. Carter changes the team, their structure and the player’s way of being, which ends up making them a successful team. But what is the secret about his great success? And which coaching strategies do he use to make the team successful?

The film “Coach Carter” demonstrates many great examples of good communication between coach and athlete. I will point out a few examples of good communication from the film and I will explain why the examples I discuss demonstrate characteristics of effective communication. I will use a few excerpts out of the communication chapter of our text book, Chapter 11. I will use these excerpts from Chapter 11 of our text book to explain why the examples/quotes from the film, that I have pointed out, demonstrate good communication skills. The film “Coach Carter” is a great film about a high school basketball team that is located in a bad area of town. The

In the movie Coach Carter, the protagonist, Coach Ken Carter is heavily impacted by his surroundings, which turned him into an honest and respectable adult that wishes to give back to his community. He takes the difficult task of training a basketball team to try to give them a brighter future. Because he too grew up in a violent and poor neighborhood, Coach Carter knows how to interact and teach his team about values and commitment. Coach Carter opposes many of the stereotypes established by his community, for example the casual use of slang. Unlike his team, Ken Carter believes that the use of vulgar language is demeaning as shown by this quote from the film.