Ken Carter: The Richmond High School Basketball Team

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The film begins with Ken Carter, a former star player at Richmond High School and now a successful business owner, comes back to his old high school and takes the job as a new basketball coach. He requires all his players and their parents to sign contracts to play. The contracts include terms like maintaining a 2.3 GPA, attending and sitting in the front row of all classes, obeying a dress code on game days, etc. Some of the boys leave. He trains the others and turns the team to an undefeatable high school basketball team in the tournament. When he discovers that some of the members rarely attend their classes and have poor academic results, he locks the gym, cancels the games, and forces the players to go to the library and study. Later,

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