Coach Carter

Coach Carter: Coach Carter (Ken Carter) took up a job that was offered to him at his old high school at Richmond High. After careful thinking and talking with his wife, he takes up the job in order to try to help the underprivileged individuals in the neighborhood improve themselves. His main goal was to lead and motivate his student-athletes on the basketball team. From the minute he takes over the team, he gives the athletes a contract that they can sign if they wish to play for the team, which only allows them to participate in games if they attend every class and maintain a C average. Another statement included in the contract is that they are to wear a suit and tie on game days and respect not just their teammates but the coaches …show more content…
His attempt to get the attention of his athletes and community was to lock the gym and cancel the games until there is an improvement in the academic grades of his athletes. Of course, this caused chaos and outrage not just from the athletes but the school and community as well. When Coach Carter denied access to the gym for games, they took him to the school board and when he tried to state that academics are just as important as athletics, he was given an ultimatum, re-open the gym or he was going to quit. He decided when the school-board overthrew his views to quit which resulted in his athletes waiting for him in the gym and explaining to him that his viewpoints were important to them as well. Carter believed in his athletes by not just being athletes, but as students, and as young men. "I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. I came to teach boys, and you became men." Was a very popular quote that I remember from the movie because it showed that not every athletic coach wants just the athletic part of his students to be prominent. His students worked towards improving their grades and when they were back to the required grade average for each individual athlete, they made it to the championship, but they lost the game but they won back the heart of the community and six of the athletes made it to college which five of them won