Success & Failure

 

- Coach Carter works towards helping his basketball players achieve a high school diploma and to be able to apply to post-secondary. With all of his intentions and actions, Carter's vision was complete. Not only are the basketball players successful in playing basketball as a team, either in the classroom but that they will be successful in life as well. The team won consecutively and were almost undefeated, and even though they had loses, this did not determine anything bad. They were able to move past it and learn from the experience. Coach Carter was a success because not only did he improve their basketball skills but they developed new skills as well.  Coach Carter always kept up to date on how they were doing in school because that is the most important, as well as it was one of the requirements in the contract that they attended every class and achieved a GPA of 2.3 or higher. Carter made sure that these requirements were met before they had the privilege of playing basketball. The team came into realization that they can’t depend on sports to determine their future. Coach Carter was able to inspire them.

 

Failure

- Coach Carter did not want to see anyone fail. One of the biggest challenges that Carter faced is with the team. Everyone had different behaviors about them that he had to unity with. Since Coach Carter is the one in charge, as well as the bigger person who is more straight up, he was able to overtake the situations. Coach Carter had plenty of failures, but the main failure that Carter encountered is in the beginning of the video where some of the players failed to cooperate with him as well as the contract that they signed. After being informed that his team was achieving a GPA that is less than 2.3, he took this into action. This is where Carter took action. Since the team failed to conform to his rules, the team received serious consequences where Coach Carter cancelled multiple games, and this was only until the team brings their GPA up.