But his incident still follows him around in recruitment, with Allen stating that teams arent recruiting him because of the perception that Im a menace to society.. Its a guaranteed story that will be told for generations, with arecord that will be likely painted up on a water tower or on a cityswelcome sign. Chelsea Watkins. Among those sentenced by state District Judge Joe Kendall were Parade magazine All-American defensive back Derric Evans, who was sentenced to 20 years on each of four armed robbery counts, and running back-defensive back Gary Edwards, who received three 16-year terms. But eventually retirement got to him. In one instance, two star players used a .22 revolver to take $256 and a movie rental that cost $3.24 from a Video Exchange. While Coach Carter has all the trappings of a high school sports movie like Remember The Titans, complete with the savior teacher trope, it doesnt end with the typical victory on the court. Thats close to a third of players on a team that had just over 60 varsity players that season. Brief moderate exercise could reduce risk of early death. So thats the story, the good and the bad. All the other ones I had, I dont know where they went, Wright said. After the Coach Carter movie came out, Ken Carter became a motivational speaker and is the founder of the Coach Ken Carter Foundation which, just like in the movie, focuses on improving the lives of BIPOC students through education, training, and mentoring. Raven is a graduate of New York University and UNC Charlotte. On the field, the team faces an immediate challenge in that every returning player must sit out the season opener, leaving the Lions vastly undermanned in the very first game. Police connected 21 local armed robberies to 10 Carter neighborhood teenagers, six of whom were a part of the football team. It was over with. Like most movies based on true stories, certain characters were invented to serve the story. Released in 1996, he has lived quietly for almost 20 years in Houston, building a steady career in the logistics and office supplies business and serving as a plain-spoken object lesson for the virtues - and pitfalls - of willpower. That team overcame obstacles just to reach the 1988 state title game, and what came after is almost too crazy to believe. New on 77WABC. He has long been devoted to his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, overseeing the local chapter's economic development dealings. Only three players, including longtime national team fixture Ray Chang, were on its 2017 squad, while Angels prospect Alan Carter is the lone player currently in affiliated baseball. In reality, Carter's basketball players did all graduate from high school, with many attending college. ET. On the Debate of the Best team in Texas History, They were one of the handful of most talented teams ever in Texas High School football. It started as a nonfiction book, then it became a movie (with Billy Bob Thornton as the coach) and finally a TV series. It was a historic season that included a national football championship for the predominantly black school, but not without controversy. Focused on East Mississippi Community College in Scooba, Miss., the show captured the win-at-all-costs coach Buddy Stephens, terrific academic counselor Brittany Wagner and a squad of players fighting up from the rungs of small town junior college football to try and earn a shot at the big time. However, when it comes to violating the law, at the courthouse it simply doesn't matter than you can run the football.'. Actors will portray well-known local figures, including. You stay pretty busy. Russeau, who rose from a shoe shiner to a teacher and administrator, was inducted into the local African American Hall of Fame for his contributions to Dallas education. Do I wish I could have gone to Tennessee and to the NFL? Carter served a black, middle-class neighborhood in Dallas. State District Judge Joe Kendall ordered that an 11th youth be sent to a prison boot camp for young offenders. "There is no question that if Carter had been one of the predominantly white schools that was always there, everything would have been handled differently," Hootnick says. Gary Edwards, 17, a football player who played a prominent role in Carter's drive for a state championship, was sentenced to 16 years on three counts. Eva James says the movie tells people how it really was back in the late 1980s. Thats close to a third of players on a team that had just over 60 varsity players that season. 41 dogs rescued from hoarder conditions in Missouri. "I've never gone around worrying about getting in trouble again. He and his girlfriend Jazlyn Douglas lost a child together, while Wrights on-field time was cut short by injuries first concussions, then an ankle sprain and later his attitude in dealing with those injuries. Two other teens would later be arrested in connection with the. That was done. I just love it, he said. To Hootnick, some of the story's unsung heroes are the parents who fought to keep the team in the playoffs. But its really the kind of movie that lets people know that you can make it if you try. Eva-Marie Ayala/Staff Writer, Dallas-set football drama 'Carter High' hits Netflix Novemeber, 2016, Former Carter High star football player Jessie Armstead reflects on the past, Carter High tackles Dallas teams woes head-on, Over two decades later, a chance for public redemption, Scandal taints memories of 'best ever,' the 1988 Carter football team, Robbery spree was 'just for kicks' for 1988 Carter football team, Former players on 1988 Carter football team tried to move on, but shaking past wasn't easy. And so he stands by his story, warts and all, as it unfolds across theater screens beginning today. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2017. The film featured Dallas' 1988 Carter High School football season. Editor's note: This story was published as the movie 'Carter High' was set to hit theaters. About the time Derric Evans was signing a college letter of intent in a hot tub, he was involved with other Dallas Carter students in a string of robberies. If youd asked him then, heknew the story had potential. 56 overall JUCO player and a Southern Miss commitment, is also ready to rock on defense. I just love seeing those little kids coming across and they reach out and catch my hand and I help them across. He was always confident and carried himself with the little swagger that he has. (He admitted to smoking weed during Last Chance U, which he said helped him battle attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)). Before sentencing, Judge Kendall lectured the youths for about 10 minutes, telling them they had no excuse for committing the crimes. He joined the Houston Chronicle in 1990 after stints at the Dallas bureau of United Press International (1984-90), the Waco Tribune-Herald (1978-84) and the Tyler Morning Telegraph (1975-78). When they fail to honor the contract, he keeps them off of the court despite the teams winning record. ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film, What Carter Lost, premieres Thursday at 9:30 p.m. Streaming Stations: all Podcasts. Teenage boys were sent to prison. ", The legacy of this team is somewhat of a cautionary tale. "I just wanted people to notice me. The film tells the emotionally charged story of one of the greatest and. Sergio Quintana reports. Evans, 44, who in 1988 was talented enough to be considered one of the nation's top high school defensive backs and flamboyant enough to sign his letter of intent while sitting in a hot tub in front of television cameras, served six years of a 20-year prison term for committing four armed robberies in the spring of 1989. So at the end of the day I have something to prove to the world just to get back on top.. A new film, written and directed by a former player for Carter High, details their triumphant road to the 1988State Championship and the controversy that surrounded the team after they won. As the legal wrangling continued through the playoffs, the Carter Cowboys stayed focused and pushed forward to win the state championship. Evans said he came to Houston after being released from prison to live with his mother, who moved to Houston in the early 1990s. SEOUL, March 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's Hyundai Department Store announced it will use AI technology to write its advertising copy starting this month. But its not the kind of football movie that Dallas-based writer and director Arthur Muhammad ever imagined hed be making. You can see somebody like Jessie Armstead go to the highest heights in the game and use that to set themselves up for life. As far as we know, Ken Carter, 61, remains to be a motivational speaker and author today. In fact, five players served time and one got probation. In Coach Carter, Jackson's Ken Carter returns to his former high school, Richmond High, to become the school's basketball coach. 2021 Texas Standard. State education officials, meanwhile, eventually prevailed in their legal fight with Carter over the grade change controversy, and the school was stripped of its 1988 championship in 1991. Former state District Judge Joe Kendall in his sentencing of Carter High players. The 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team stormed its way to a state championship -- only to be brought down by an armed robbery scandal which sent half a dozen players to prison.. Today I will be talking about Friday night tykes and where they are now. According to Hootnick, it was "mostly two-parent families, mostly professionals. I would appreciate it if you commented . 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Starring movie icon Samuel L. Jackson as real-life high school basketball coach Ken Carter, and tells the story of how he changed the lives of the student-athletes on the basketball team at an inner-city high school in Northern California. Solomon: DeMeco Ryans the right coach at the right time, 3 pressing questions facing new Astros GM Dana Brown, Jabari Smith Jr. growing up in NBA with an assist from his father, Poor parent behavior is driving high school sports refs away. With the exception, he said, of a speeding ticket, he has kept a clean record ever since. The film's director, Adam Hootnick, said he made the documentary because he felt the Carter story was never fully told. In the end, five Carter players served time in prison. DALLAS (CBS11) A private screening of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary "What Carter Lost," was held at the Texas Theatre on Wednesday night. So though hes 78 and often uses a cane to walk, James has spent the last three years working as a school crossing guard in South Dallas, a few miles east of his beloved Carter High. That same fearlessness I had on the football field, I translated that when I got out of the penitentiary into the business side. It's the true story of the 1988 Dallas Carter football team, the manner in which it won - and lost - a state championship and the subsequent descent into crime by some of its most talented athletes. So the way that those parents were undercut after everything they did to keep that team on the field and to try to put forward their version of who they were to have that all undone, you know, I think that's the story that's never been told.". Ken Carter is still very much in the full stride of his career having continued his work as a motivational speaker and author since the mid-'00s. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. His old school apparently didnt buy in to that line of thinking, as Texas Tech offered him the opportunity to return, an opportunity that he accepted. Six players from that team, a few of them stars, were sent to jail following a series of arrests for armed robbery. Ukrainian drone crashes 60 miles from Moscow, prompting Putin military order, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid, concedes defeat, Musician Ben Kweller announces death of 16-year-old son, Nordic stars bring sex, terrorism, murder to U.S. streaming, 36 killed, 85 injured in Greece train crash. None of the students depicted in the movie are actual students that Ken Carter coached during his time at Richmond, other than his own son Damien, played by Robert Richard. But he was also known for his compassion and dedication to get students on track to college and some even to the NFL. March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday amid ongoing special counsel investigations into the potential mishandling of classified documents by two presidents. Carter said he realized how serious things were when his little brother searched his name online. March filled with assortment of astronomy events. Fifa mobile fell off so hard only sellable players now are high rated icons and toty's and 107 players sitting on 17 mill with 999+ people selling and the event is not making it better the next event they need to make good fodder packs or the market will be ruined Before the crossing guard gig, James would organize outings for neighborhood seniors so they could pass the time telling stories to each others. Frankly, I was shocked, recalled West, who also represented Edwards in his criminal case. "KD" was by far one of Last Chance U 's all-time personalities, providing endless wise-cracking during a season where there wasn't much to laugh . "It's a Texas legend. People are going to start taking em from you.. Looking back on their involvement while serving time, Edwards and Evans came to a similar conclusion to their mindset while being a part of the football team. It didnt matter where. That team also produced three NFL players. 98 junior college player in the 247Sports Composite, Carter shows all the potential of a dominant defensive tackle, which is why he was signed by Penn State out of high school. So thats the impact that I wanted to leave.. "That personality followed me off the field, which caused me to get into trouble and make some bad decisions. But after the season, a group of Carter students that included Edwards, Evans and four teammates committed a string of armed robberies before being arrested and sentenced by a judge who told them, "If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole.". This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Yeah, I wish that had happened. Im trying to get you Im trying to get you scholarships, Stephens said. In reality, they had freshman, junior varsity, and varsity teams, all of which Carter coached during his five years at Richmond High. This is just part of the story of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary What Carter Lost, which premiered Aug. 24. Last Chance U was something of a surprise phenomenon last year as the show opened on Netflix to rave reviews. If you look in the media, my names just some person who does bad things, a person who just doesnt make great decisions, Rivers said. He has been a contributor to Dave Campbell's Texas Football since 1980, serving as high school editor from 1984 through 2000 and as Managing Editor from 1990 through 2004. Starring movie icon Samuel L. Jackson as real-life high school basketball coach Ken Carter, and tells the story of how he changed the lives of the student-athletes on the basketball team at an inner-city high school in Northern California. That firestorm began when Russeau moved player Gary Edwards from one algebra class where the teacher insisted Edwards was failing to another that used a school improvement plan system implemented by the principal. Carter prevailed in court and beat Converse Judson 31-14 for the Class 5A state title. Urban and suburban schools had just begun to play each other, he said, which brought out racial tensions. We're not thugs.' 'I do not know anybody who has gone off to TDC who has come back and become a productive citizen.'. After nearly 55 years of marriage, the two still love to tease each other. Thats definitely still part of the film, but its not the main focus. The seven others sentenced to prison were given terms ranging from 2 to 16 years. "Anybody can make a mistake, and it can cost you," Evans said. Jackson went on to stress the importance to him of seeing a sports movie that emphasized the value of education for young high school athletes, as so few of them go on to have professional sports careers. represented Evans, said they were shocked by the stiff sentences. Kendall, a former Dallas County prosecutor, lectured the 12 teenagers for 10 minutes before sentencing them for a string of 21 armed robberies committed last spring. He actually was a former Richmond High School basketball player, setting the scoring record at the school, which his son Damien who really did withdraw himself from private school to play for the Oilers went on to break. Teens are shown engaged in the act of armed robbery, pointing guns at the employees of various . When I came to him with the idea of doing the movie, I told him I wanted to show what really happened. So I dont feel anything in particular," Russeau said. Johnson performed well in the spring, and Kiffin has said hes in competition for Florida Atlantics starting job heading into fall camp. Additionally, keep an eye on quarterback Vijay Miller, who started the first game of the season and had a few positive moments in Last Chance Us second season. Attorney General Garland to testify before Senate on Justice Department activities. Think a Gen-Z Friday. Carter began a successful career as a basketball analyst for ESPN, a co-host of "the NBA 2Night," and is currently an analyst on NBA TV. The movie is based on the 1998-1999 season lockout, which made national news. Among those sentenced was Derric Evans, 17 years old, an all-America defensive back last year at Dallas Carter High School who lost a full scholarship to the University of Tennessee. I am a former NFL football player, he says, 11 years with the Dallas Cowboys and the last year with the Oakland Raiders.. Reflecting On Football And Addiction As 'Friday Night Lights' Turns 25, Why The Race Of The New Football Coach At University Of Texas Matters. I thought North Shore in the mid-90s was close, too. If you want to see Carter High you may have to search it out its been in limited releaseandproducers are still working on a broader distribution deal. And there are only 62 junior college players currently ranked in the 247Sports Composite. 'But he (Washington) got six months,' Creuzot said. A grade-changing scandal and accusations of player ineligibility tainted their championship run that almost didn't happen, because of rulings made by state athletic officials. It would be the first of 21 robberies that police connected to 15 Carter neighborhood teenagers, including six from the football team. One of the players from the 1998-1999 season that Carter coached was Courtney Anderson, who became an NFL tight end and played for the Oakland Raiders, the Detroit Lions (the team both Eddie Brock and Axel Foley support), and the Atlanta Falcons from 2004 to 2007. The 1988 Carter team is one of the most memorable tales of Texas football. One Gets 20 Years. The senior guard is having a record-setting career at Colorado School of Mines. Actions have consequences, Kendall wrote. The No. I move on." Instead, the message is that both the movie and the real Ken Carter taught their students is that sports aren't all that matters. It was not until football was removed and the hedge, so to speak, was removed that they ventured out and did what they did.. I think that a lot their secondary including Derric Evans, who signed with Tennessee in a hot tub was very talented. The graduation rate for student-athletes in Richmond was low, and Carters basketball players all graduated during his time as coach from 1997 to 2002. He signed with the University of Houston. But it would be a surprise if East Mississippi C.C. In another, the boys robbed a Mexican restaurant for $11,000. "It's a story that needs to be retold," he said. He was surprised a film was made so long after the fact and that he and others still in the area weren't contacted about the script. Le'Shai Maston was a really intriguing player because he was all over the field and so active. That story will be told Thursday when ESPN premieres its latest 30 for 30, What Carter Lost.. At the courthouse, it simply doesnt matter that you can run the football. Some figures from the Carter High School saga look back on those days: Still devoted to kids Coach Freddie James retired from Dallas ISD two decades ago, finally able to travel and work on his wife's honey-do list. But the real issue for opponents was not many people could stop the pass rush. A Florida State transfer, Johnson made headlines before leaving Tallahassee for all the wrong reasons after he was booted from the team after assaulting a woman at the bar. He often refers to her as Vivica now, after actress Vivica Fox who plays her in the movie. Emily Ochsenschlager and Jessica Smith produced and edited this interview for broadcast, and Nicole Cohen adapted it for the Web. Parents need to know that Carter High is a 2015 movie based on a true story about a group of players for a championship football team whose lawbreaking actions off the field drastically altered their lives. Former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis worked as executive producer, and former Carter High football player Arthur Muhammad wrote the script. Related: The 5 Best Sports Movie Coaches Of All Time (& The 5 Worst), Despite playing larger-than-life roles like Nick Fury in the MCU, the Coach Carter true story makes this role one of Samuel L. Jackson's finest. Lucas Black - Mike Winchell A still from the 2015 movie 'Carter High' about the 1988 Dallas-area football team mired in controversy. As the combine starts, the Texans are on the clock and the pressure mounts to solve their quarterback problem, writes Brian T. Smith. But that 1988 Permian Panthers team, if you remember, didnt actually become champions. David Barron reported on sports media, college football and Olympic sports for the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in January 2021. The Coach Carter true story is what helped the sports movie classic reach its iconic status. Permian is one of two large 5A high schools, the other being Odessa High School. Parents, teachers and school officials fought back, and in the end Carter was allowed to play. Not an investigation into their leading scorers algebra grade. 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole,' Kendall said. Williams attributed his involvement in the robberies to a desire for attention. Football is about making good decisions and gambling dont build character. Players in Bold are currently in the league. Related: Hustle: Every NBA Player In Adam Sandler's Netflix Movie. Carter High in Dallas took the statechampionship in 1988, but thisnew film about the team is not all about victory. Finally, Coach Carter changed the varsity Oilers' win record to 16-0 before the lockdown. It set the whole city on fire," said defense attorney John Creuzot, who represented one of the players. According to the real-life Ken Carter, the freshman, junior varsity, and varsity teams were all 13-0, which was the best start in school history. on a championship team in 2015. Each had faced a maximum sentence of 99 years. He went straight from high school to prison, and he left without work experience or marketable skills, so his first few years on the outside were difficult ones. The No. In fact, Muhammad said, none of the 10 Carter players involved in the armed robberies returned to prison after they were released. Heres a look at where each of the stars of the second season of Last Chance U are now. Throughout the season, references are made to Carters struggles with depression and anxiety, and hes a hit-or-miss presence for much of the year. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Welcome to Titletown High, Netflix docuseries that followed the lives of teenagers on the football team at Valdosta, the country's all-time winningest high school program. The other, mostly white schools fought a legal battle to kick Carter out of the playoffs. ''In six months' time,'' the judge said Friday, the teen-agers ''committed more armed robberies than Bonnie and Clyde did in a lifetime. Judge Kendall said he was a ringleader. "Carter High" is being released Friday for theaters in Dallas and Houston, and its backers are hopeful of nationwide release in November. A native of Tyler, he is a graduate of John Tyler High School, Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin. "After the roller coaster of this season and postseason," Hootnick explains, "you had a few guys on that team really, to my mind, inexplicably going and joining an armed robbery ring for pretty much no reason. Carter/Fulton high schools. Carter also owns and runs Prime Time Publishing and Prime Time Sports, which offers sports marketing services. 'When I compare you with a typical young offender who comes before me, you are especially without excuse,' Kendall added. But even after a great season and after Wagner said she hadnt seen any EMCC players still penalized for their previous transgressions before heading to campus the offers didnt materialize. (Lisa Davis/Associated Press). Almost two decades later, the story of Ken Carter is still ranked as one of the best basketball movies ever made and the story of the real Ken Carter is just as inspiring. His decision to lock the gym and forfeit games until the players raised their GPAs was unpopular with the community, but when it made national news, then California Governor Gray Davis called him a hero and came to the Oilers first game after improving their grades. Carter Family FILE - Lillian Carter is flanked by her sons Jimmy, right, and Billy as she met them down at Billy's gas station, where the Carters and neighbors cleaned fish prior to a town cookout . "I don't think you can fall much further," Hootnick says, "and I say that in part because of the level of the pedestal that, as a Texas high school football star, that's almost as big as it gets. 42 overall junior college player in the 247Sports Composite. It was real hard then, and I hope that people pick that up, she said. That highlight went viral and even made SportsCenter, with Stephens pointing out Wright at a practice and stating, Hes the one that I think is special.. Muhammad was on that 1988 state championship team. This is one of the best teams in high school football history and yet this is a team that nobody knows from Friday Night Lights," said Hootnick. He wont be in Boca Raton by himself. But in a sentencing memorandum he wrote at the time, he explained that he would not give special treatment because the defendants played football and would issue a sentence consistent with other offenders who had committed multiple robberies. But I think they weren't ready for the adventure to be done. And so to fall from grace like that, that's a long way down.". The Mesquite Horn offensive coach and quarterback who once led Carters team to victory remembers his high school days fondly it was the time, he says, he really felt like he was playing for the community. A 12th still faces sentencing. He scored six points on 3-for . Others said they had spent the money on trips to an amusement park, food and athletic shoes. Others reacted with joy because they believed young troublemakers had gotten what they deserved. 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