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Comes to school every day now.
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You take away basketball,
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God knows what he'd be into.
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Yesterday, he canceled
the Fremont game.
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Now, that's the biggest game
of the year.
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I have scouts coming
to watch my boy play.
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- Me too.
- These boys are 16-0.
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This whole school, this whole
community, is behind this team.
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Everybody goes to every game.
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Basketball is the only thing
that these boys have got.
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Are we gonna let Carter come in here
and take that away from them?
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- No!
- I don't think so.
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Not gonna happen.
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- I'd like to make a motion.
- Yes, Mr. Walters?
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I move that we remove Mr. Carter
as head basketball coach.
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Order, please. Order.
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This board does not have
the authority
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to terminate employment
of a staff position.
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Then I move we end the lockout
and let the kids play.
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I second the motion.
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- Okay.
- If I may?
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Yes, Mr. Carter.
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You really need to consider
the message
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that you're sending these boys.
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It's the same message that we
as a culture send to our pro athletes,
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which is that they are above the law.
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Now, I'm trying to teach these boys
the discipline that will inform their lives
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and give them choices.
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If you endorse the fact
that 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds
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don't have to honor the simple rules
of a basketball contract,
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how long do you think it'll be before
they're out there breaking laws?
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Now, I played basketball
at Richmond 30 years ago.
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It was the same thing then.
:31:46
Some of my teammates
ended up in prison.
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Some of them ended up dead.
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I took this job because
I wanted to effect change
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in a special group of young men,
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and this is the only way
I know how to do that.