15 Facts About Coach Carter

Coach Carter is a 2005 American biographical teen sports drama film starring Samuel L Jackson and directed by Thomas Carter .

Coach Carter becomes the coach for Richmond High School's basketball team, the Richmond Oilers, having played for the team thirty years earlier.

Coach Carter gives the team contracts to sign and obey, requiring them to sit in the front rows of all their classes, and maintain a 2.

Coach Carter asks the school's staff for progress reports of the players' grades and attendance.

Coach Carter begins a strict, disciplinary training regime for the team, focused largely on conditioning and teamwork.

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Coach Carter agrees, but only if Cruz completes a set number of exercises before that Friday.

Battle's mother Willa visits Coach Carter, asking him to let Battle back on the team and explaining that things have been hard after her older son Antoine was killed.

Coach Carter discovers their absence, crashing the party to round up the team.

Coach Carter berates the boys on the way home, though Cruz points out the team are now winners as Coach Carter intended.

Later, Coach Carter discovers that some players have not been keeping to their contracts, skipping classes and receiving poor grades.

The school board holds a hearing, where Coach Carter explains that sending his players to college and a better life is more important than basketball, and promises to resign if the lockdown is lifted.

Coach Carter prepares to leave, but discovers the team is refusing to play, choosing to continue with their studying and hold to their goal.

Cruz, whom Coach Carter had repeatedly asked "what is your deepest fear, " answers by quoting from A Return to Love.

Coach Carter decides to stay, and the team soon succeeds in their academic goal.

Coach Carter said to him that she had a choice to make and she made it, for herself.