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Relive the 2013 Kilpatrick Mustangs football season. In the opening scene, a sobering fact appears on-screen: 120,000 juveniles are incarcerated in juvenile detention centers. There, Willie gets into a verbal confrontation with a prisoner named Kelvin Owens, who is from a rival gang.When Porter hears about Roger’s death, he becomes frustrated with the ineffectiveness of their program. After being taunted by Coach for several failed attempts, Willie finally gets angry enough that he knocks the coach over, and everyone cheers.The next day, the team surprises Coach Porter with flowers for his dying mom. Willie Weather’s girlfriend Danyelle visits, and she storms out after she witnesses Willie acting like his old self and threatening violence against another inmate. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph..Clear early followed by mostly cloudy skies overnight.

The one constant that helped me thru all that bullying and teasing in my childhood where I did not experience it though was in the various sports that I played, thanks to the great coaches that I had that would not condone bullying or any other forms of harassment.His motivation for returning to coach the high school football team?Because his younger brother had become one of the drug addiction statistics in the very small town, was arrested and sent to jail for 9 years for heroin use/distribution. Everyone seems committed, works hard, and follows the coach’s program until an overweight player, Jamal Evans, quits because it’s too tiring. Curry shared based on his circumstances losing his father by kindergarten, mother passing away before his senior year and brother falling victim to drug addiction that he would be treated differently by members of the team, but Patric ensured he treated no differently than of the other players he coached.In lieu, as a result of the culture that he developed, when Curry’s team maters found out he did not have a place to live, his team mates offered him coaches to sleep on.“(My) Sports (Coach, Patric Morrison,) is the reason why I am resilient”Sadly the Kilpatrick football program by founded by and coached by Sean Porter in Malibu in 1990, the program a juvenile corrections officer created to stop the vicious circle of going back to gang, drugs and criminal activity is in jeopardy.His story was shared in the movie Gridiron gang, and his role was played by Dwayne Johnson, how he took the initiative to create the only juvenile detention facility to be permitted to have a team in the school/community system.“They have trouble responding to authority, being a member of a team and accepting criticism … We do it my way, not your way, your way got you here.”In addition to the football program, Kilpatrick also added basketball and soccer programs as well but all sports programs are now in limbo as the dated facility is being torn down and plans for the new facility do not include sports programs but many of the former players, camp residents are working on appeal to ensure sports programs continue in the new facility.Another example of a coach that transformed a high school basketball program, and many argue the school itself, was Ken Carter, who returned back to his former high school in 1997 to become the head coach for small honorarium only.He did so, as he knew the benefits that basketball had done for him, having the opportunity to play collegiately and get a degree.The true story came to the big screen several years later, in the movie called “Coach Carter” where Samuel Jackson plays the role of Ken Carter.One of the first things he does each season is get all the players and parents to sign a contract that requires them to honour academic and behavioural standards, two of which were;He also asked the school principal to share the report cards of all his players and when he found out that several were not meeting the GPA and even failing their courses, he shut down the basketball team until they received tutoring to get their grades back on track.This was the end of their “winning” season, but it was more important for Ken that the players understood the importance of focusing on their education so they could go on to college than to take the easy route out and merely finish high school (if they even graduated)During the movie based on the true story, Ken asks his players over and over again what is your deepest fear, each time the players would shake their heads “huhhh”?This is not only my favorite part of the movie when one his players who struggled with drugs, violence associated with being a member of gangs provides the answer to the question;The poem shared by the player, Our Deepest Fear, is one of my all-time favorites, written by Marianne WilliamsonAs a result of having all of his players and parents buy-in to his focus on education, all the players did commit to get their grades up and not only bucked the trends of not graduating from high school but several went on to college.Prior to taking over the basketball program, 50% of the student athletes were not graduating and the overall student population at the school grades were dead last in the state of California.There are so many other great examples out there of GREAT coaches who are doing great things, and focusing on developing character of their athletes and teaching life lessons that will transfer to their non-sport activities later in life.The reason why each of these examples resonate with me is I was very, very fortunate to have great coaches and teachers do the same for me as a grew up playing the myriad for various organized sports, as well as teachers who did the same.Many of the coaches who knew that I had lost my father at a young age who took me under their wing like Patric Morrisson for so many young men in high school to help them learn core life lessons to overcome the adversity in their small town.Those that provided words of wisdom when I was going down the very same path due to many “friends” I had in junior high who were getting involved with drugs, criminal activities that the lessons I learned from those coaches steered me away from.