Remember the titans

This week when we watched remember the titans I realized why I liked this movie the first time I saw it.

After we discussed the leadership displays in this movie we realized that every person on the team must have been a leader, willing to work with a mixed race team at the time.  The person I thought showed th biggest display of leadership was the new coach.  He stated many times that he wanted the players to work as a team and wanted them to stick together.  At first he forced them to get to know eachother.  He was there to win and knew it took the players to work as a team to do so.  In the beginning he didnt even want to take the original coaches job because he thought he should have had to earn the position.
He really let the team know what he expected of them and I really admire him for forces cooperation among the team.  My favorite scene is when he reaches out to louiy privately about his grades and makes him feel important enough to succeed in life and do well in school.
   As for Louiy, he was the first one to see no color differentiation on the team.  He came right in and joined as the only white kid on the first day and was there to have fun.  He states "I dont have any people," claiming to be white trash.  He sat with the black guys the first day of school and showed the others it was perfectly okay to do so.  He is honest, 'self aware', and shows no shame in being who he is.  He was the first, in my opinion, to bring the team together.