The Glory Road Movie

The movie I decided to watch was Glory Road. I have watched The Blind Side many times before so I wanted to watch something different for this project. Both videos have the same points in which they are involved in society. Both involve race and ethnicity. Both movies were based on real life stories.

Glory road is about a coach who is low on resources to seek out new players for his basketball team. The coach puts his own personal money into recruiting these new players. The new players he was looking for were people with talent, and he looked past the color of the player’s skin. He ends up finding seven new players. All of which were black. He saw the potential in all of them; however, they didn’t work well as a team. Despite all of the administration being against the coaches’ decisions they allowed him to continue. He coached the team hard to get them to work together. He pushed them harder than they wanted to work. He saw the potential in them. He made everyone pay for each others mistakes. He told the players to leave if they weren’t willing to work hard enough.

When it came to the basketball games, the team was able to win and continue to win. Then it came to a point where they were losing, the coach allowed the players to play their kind of game. And they ended up still winning. As they got further along in the games the team encountered more and more racism. As this happened more, and more players were worried for their life.

The worst part of the whole thing was the coach of the Kentucky team.

He was the most racist person in the movie. He made stereotypes towards the players like that they are fast and can jump high. This made me upset, but this was turned around when the Miners coach told the players to do exactly opposite of the stereotypes. This threw off Kentucky’s coach and the Miners ended up winning the championship game. The crowd was actually cheering for the Miners at the end. This is different from when the players use to enter the court get called names, and have food and drinks thrown at them by the crowds. The team ended up losing their first game because they were worried for their safety. The coach told them that losing shows that they have given up. He ended up deciding to only play the black players in the final championship. The white players understood the reasoning and they were actually for

it.
In the ending scene with the players getting off of the plane was a very happy moment. They won the championship and are returning home to people that are happy with their win. The town use to be against the black players, but after seeing them win their ideals changed. The best part was finding out what ended up happening with the players. Many of the players ended up staying in El Paso. The players ended up doing things that black people never really got the chance to do before.
This movie showed how this team made a change to sports and society in times today. There are now more black players and other players of different ethnicities in all sports. We in todays society don’t judge or question the race of the players involved. We care about the talent and effort put towards the game. This movie showed this accurately and I am a huge fan of it. I’m glad that there are people out there that stand up for the minorities. The coach was a great example of people that need recognition. This movie wasn’t about underdogs at all, it was about race and how race was shown before people of color were widely accepted in sports.