Y9 P.E assignment – Glory Road
1. The movie Glory Road, filmed in 2006 was inspired by a true story of Texas Western's Coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), who led the first all-black starting line-up team to the 1966 NCAA national basketball championship title. In the beginning of the movie the Coach Haskins has a lot of trouble putting a team together, the Texas Western school has a poor basketball program and he is unable to recruit good white players to the team as no one wants join the Texas western team as it has a bad reputation. Coach Haskins then travels to Northern cities to recruit talented black players from the streets to play for his team. The black players struggle adjusting to his style of coaching, and not play by the rules of …show more content…
Coach Haskins doesn’t care about colour or gender when he evaluates his players all he cares about is their level skill. He is a very stubborn person and going against everyone’s advice. Proving them wrong in the end. He is also a very strong minded person blocking out all the negative comments about his team.
The players of the Texas Minors would have felt a mix of different emotions, most of them had travelled across state to a new school to play basketball with a team they just met, some of them could be scared as they had no idea how this school would reacted to all the black people coming in. On the other hand the white players on the team would have felt angry that they had to play with black players. As the movie progressed everyone became a team but all the players started getting abused at games for being so good. But they did not give up and in the end it payed off.
Most of the community was racist and hated the idea of an all-black team winning the NCAA they were all clouded in their hate to see how hard these players worked to get to this level. The black player’s parents were so supportive. They were the ones who convinced their sons to go in the first place they watched every game and it was a big step in the black community with some of the younger kids being a looking up to the
1. The movie Glory Road, filmed in 2006 was inspired by a true story of Texas Western's Coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), who led the first all-black starting line-up team to the 1966 NCAA national basketball championship title. In the beginning of the movie the Coach Haskins has a lot of trouble putting a team together, the Texas Western school has a poor basketball program and he is unable to recruit good white players to the team as no one wants join the Texas western team as it has a bad reputation. Coach Haskins then travels to Northern cities to recruit talented black players from the streets to play for his team. The black players struggle adjusting to his style of coaching, and not play by the rules of …show more content…
Coach Haskins doesn’t care about colour or gender when he evaluates his players all he cares about is their level skill. He is a very stubborn person and going against everyone’s advice. Proving them wrong in the end. He is also a very strong minded person blocking out all the negative comments about his team.
The players of the Texas Minors would have felt a mix of different emotions, most of them had travelled across state to a new school to play basketball with a team they just met, some of them could be scared as they had no idea how this school would reacted to all the black people coming in. On the other hand the white players on the team would have felt angry that they had to play with black players. As the movie progressed everyone became a team but all the players started getting abused at games for being so good. But they did not give up and in the end it payed off.
Most of the community was racist and hated the idea of an all-black team winning the NCAA they were all clouded in their hate to see how hard these players worked to get to this level. The black player’s parents were so supportive. They were the ones who convinced their sons to go in the first place they watched every game and it was a big step in the black community with some of the younger kids being a looking up to the