The Glory Road Analysis

The Road Less Traveled The Glory Road, an amazing movie that illustrates the hardships that a biracial team faced to be viewed as equals in the college basketball league. With just the teams skills and a coaches steadfastness in the face of racism, they were able to show that anyone should be allowed to play basketball. Through out the film there is a perfect example of expressive and instrumental leader, as well as an authoritarian leader. In addition, there were many examples as to decisions being made where race was a factor for one reason or another. For starters, there was one character that had stood out to me. He was dominantly an instrumental leader and had a hint of expressive leadership as well. This character was the coach of the Texas Western college, Don Haskins. The reason why I believe he was a hybrid type of leader is because during the scene where the team played against East Texas State University, Haskins managed to instrumentally keep team focused on the court to beat them. Then when they returned to their hotel Haskins expressively kept the team together by showing them that …show more content…
Race played a major role in the decision that Don Haskins had to make for the teams final game. He had to decide as to whether or not only the African American players would play the whole game. At first it may have seemed unfair to the Caucasian players because the team made it to the finals as a whole and therefore should play together as a whole. However, to really change peoples views of African Americans abilities to play basketball, Don had to only play the African American players in order to show everyone, that they could not only compete but beat the opposing team thus changing the course of sports history which was overall a positive