Reflection Of The Movie Coach Carter

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In the movie Coach Carter, the story really gives a great example of how to guide, discipline, lead, direct, and also counsel your team or group. Coach Carter was a man who came and took over as a head coach of his old high school, Richmond High. Once he was there it was obvious the guys there on the team had some serious issues academically, and also with discipline, which proved to give Carter the perfect opportunity to bring out his famous contracts. Throughout the story he showed incredible courage, patience, integrity, while building trust and assembling one of the greatest high school teams in history. Coach Carter tended to teach his men basketball team values along with discipline. The way he coached them was very hands on. He …show more content…

At first most of them were skeptical of him as a coach, but that changed very quickly once they started winning games. When it came to the principal and even the teachers they did not care about the schooling ideas. They just thought of him to be there solely to coach basketball. He changed everyone’s opinions by sticking with it and fighting through oppression. He showed his integrity by not giving in to what society was ok with, and that is with the young men just getting by and letting basketball in high school be the highlight of their life. He decided to show them ways to where basketball was just the beginning of the many highlights of their lives. The team fed off of his leadership by showing their own integrity, after the counsel had said Carter must open the gym. He decided to resign saying that he could not back up a message saying that high school basketball is more important than going to college. As he walked to the gym to clean his desk, he walked on to the court and saw all of his players sitting in desks studying and getting tutoring on center court. One stated, “We are going to finish what you started, sir.” The team made sure they all got back on track with grades and they all took the court together as a team of men. He developed them as men by giving them goals, rules, and regulations that they must abide by in order to stay out of jail and to go to college and have better lives than that of their parents. Throughout the movie his discipline and integrity helped get all of his students to college. He built great men and gave them the blueprint to better lives than where they were

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