The Group Process In The Film Remember The Titans

I decided to observe the group process of the characters in the movie, “Remember the Titans”. The movie takes place in Alexandria, Virginia, where high school football is a big deal to everyone in the town. The students of T.C. Williams were used to being an all white school. After hearing the big decision that the school board had made, the students and people of the town have to get used to the major change of integrating blacks into the school, and having an integrated football team as well. This event caused a major uproar among the white football players and the town’s people because racism was a huge problem during this time.
Before Coach Boone took the position, the group had certain norms and accepted the norms of being an all white

He is the African American coach that was offered the head-coaching job over Coach Yoast. Boone felt hesitant about taking the position at first because he felt unwelcomed within the community and by the white teammates. The white teammates were holding a grudge against him because they felt as if he was taking the role of their previous coach, and they didn’t want to listen to a new superior. Despite not feeling wanted by many people, he remained polite and respectful to others that were acting in the complete opposite way towards him. Coach Boone made it clear that he knew that there was an obvious conflict among the teammates for multiple reasons. His way of dealing with this conflict was his plan of making the team go to a summer camp for football. During the summer camp, he uses his authoritative power to set the tone (or norms) for the staff and team. He relies on his position of head coach to accomplish his goal of providing structure and order within the group. The summer camp was a way of getting the team to actually get to know each other and not let their prejudice thoughts get in the way of learning about one another. Coach Boone had each of the teammates room with someone of the opposite skin color and forced them to know everything about that person. By the end of the summer camp most of the teammates were getting along. On the bus ride home it shows them all getting along, singing together, and having a good

Coach Yoast was the previous head coach, who was greatly respected by the community and his athletes. When he found out that Coach Boone was replacing him his first instinct was to apply for other head coaching positions at other high schools. Despite the fact that he had heard back from many of the places he applied to, he decided to accept the assistant coach position under Coach Boone. The parents of his players that he previously coached thought the idea of him taking the assistant coach position and working under Boone was crazy, but Yoast decided to do it to support the players. I think that by Coach Yoast swallowing his pride and deciding to work under Coach Boone, it sets an example for the white players by showing them that they aren’t any better or deserve any special treatment more than the African American players just because of their skin color. Yoast’s major role within the group was supporting Coach Boone. He knew how his teammates were and when Boone was caught up in the idea of winning and pushing the players too far, Yoast naturally became his conscious and reminded him that he can’t be doing that. As the movie developed Coach Yoast began to respect Coach Boone and his way of coaching more and