![]() Another example of lack of impulse control occurs when Shooter’s son starts a fight on the court.ĩ. Coach Dale lost his career by losing control for a few seconds and hitting one of his players. The lack of impulse control can lead to tragedy, disgrace, prison, and many other very unpleasant results. What is the importance of “impulse control” and how did a lack of impulse control affect one of the characters in this film? They are described in the ethical principals of Trustworthiness, Responsibility, Respect and Fairness in helping the students mature in allowing adolescents an area in which they can achieve something and, for some, in providing rites of passage from adolescence to maturity (see Rites of Passages Questions in the Learning Guide to Remember the Titans) These are all undercut by an excessive interest in winning.Ĩ. The desire to win sets a context in which the true beneficial lessons of sports can be taught. What is the proper role of the desire to win in high school and college sports? To really make the point that winning isn’t everything, the team would have to lose, but then the box office for the film would have been tiny.ħ. Ethics is being willing to do something that hurts for a principle. ![]() Coach Dale’s courageous actions in putting Shooter’s son on the bench and keeping him there even when one of the other starters fouls out in risking a game to allow Shooter to coach the end of the game and in not pressuring Jimmy to play, are, in the end, not painful. The structural flaw in the film is that the team wins in the end. ![]() The basic message is that winning isn’t everything and that there are many things more important than winning. What is the message of this film about winning in high school sports and what is the serious structural flaw in the film? Examples: teaching the boys teamwork at the expense of winning (at least initially) taking Shooter’s son out of the game when he injured himself and keeping him out even when he was needed on the floor trying to help Shooter.Ħ. He didn’t pester Jimmy and he acted as a teacher to his players, rather than as a coach whose only interest was in winning. What did Coach Dale do (or not do) to win the trust of Myra Fleener? This is shown by the fact that the mother insisted on looking for the firewood, leaving them together.ĥ. To get Coach Dale and her daughter talking and perhaps to begin to have a romantic relationship. Why did Myra Fleener’s mother invite Coach Dale to come to dinner? The answer is that she resented basketball because her family loved basketball excessively and didn’t appreciate a girl who couldn’t participate (in the 1950s there were no girl’s basketball teams) she resented being kept in that small town by her obligations to her mother (who was ill and alone).Ĥ. A follow-up question is why she felt so strongly about this and why she was initially so hostile to Coach Dale. She didn’t want Jimmy’s life to be limited to his achievements in basketball she didn’t want his grieving process to be interrupted by a coach putting dreams of glory in his head. Why did Myra Fleener warn Coach Dale to keep away from Jimmy Chitwood? That is difficult in such a supercharged environment.ģ. The purpose of high school sports is to teach players about ethics and life and to give them an opportunity to mature without risking the destruction of their psyche. When a 17 year old can determine the fate of an adult coach when a daughter feels that basketball is more important than anything she could ever accomplish when what a man did (or failed to do) in high school basketball is the high (or low) point of his life when the most important emotion that townspeople feel when their team does poorly is embarrassment (rather than compassion for the players), there are strong indications that something is amiss. ![]() Was the town’s relationship with basketball healthy? See Discussion Questions for Use With any Film that is a Work of Fiction.Ģ.
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