Coach Boone Case Study

I think that coach Boone used some "different" approaches to getting the boy's on his team to come around and look past their ethninc diffrences. They may not have been totally approate but I think with this particular situation they were nessacary. I mean, we're talking about a time when people were still very racist. Their were some of the players that weren't racist at all, which helped the situation a little. Because their were a few guys who didn't want to be racist but were scared of what their buddies thought of them. The real reason coach Boon was so hard on the players, before he even found out that he was going to lose his job if his players lost even one game was because he knew he had a really good team but the division would lead to automatic failure, no matter what. I believe that his way of bringing the team together wasn't nessacarrly pratacial but it was defantly effective and sometimes the partical approach isn't the most effective approach. It's nessary to think outside of the box sometimes. Especially when the "pratical" approach isn't working. It's also nessacary to be fair and coach Boon

He split up the teams by offensive and defensive sides and assigned one "colored" person and one white person to each seat and made this their room assignment as well. After that was the lunchroom scene when he called on "Laustic" (not sure of appropiate spelling of his name) to talk about his roomate "Blue" and asked about "preacher man". Of course the non racist white player "Laustic" knew about his fellow black players, but as coach Boon went ahead and was asking the other white teammates about their black teamates no one could provide any information. So Coach made it a point to assign them all to learn about one player of a different race a day. This Made each player look at eachother as people instead of a