oach Boone and Coah Yoast exhibit leadership qualities in a different way. Coah Boone reveals authority and confidence when he is coach, regardless of he is black in the community, he divides both the races of players to sit and sleep together at the camp no matter what race they are in which he hopes that it would unite the players. He wants them to be familiar and understand each other as a team. On the other hand, Coah Yoast also uncovers adroit and responsibility with regards to racism, when
Plot Summary In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all state imposed segregation in public schools. In the beginning of the movie the narrator, later to be known as Coach Bill Yoast’s young daughter Sheryl, discusses the transition from segregated schools to mixed races at T. C. Williams High School located in Alexandria, Virginia. The movie expands on many different smaller issues that are centered on the main issue of hatred of race, The african American
Coach Bill Yoast doesn’t resemble coach Herman Boone, he believed that his players’ needs and personal interests should be supported and would result in success. Therefore, I don't think he follows just one leadership style. The idea that successful leaders adjust their styles based on the development of followers, or players in this case, as indicated by their performance in a given situation. In addition, his leadership style has noticeable notes of servant leadership in it as well. Servant leadership
Bill Yoast is a single father, coach, a Hall of Fame nominee, and a well-respected member of his community. His demeanor is reserved, confident, compassionate, and supportive. In most situations, Yoast is the one who listens and empathizes others. He looks for opportunities to provide healing, awareness, and growth within the team and community. Additionally, Yoast empowers his players to make decisions for themselves. His background and position reveal the type of leadership style which differs
Boone who was black. Therefore, the district demoted the high school football head coach and hall of famer nominee, Bill Yoast, who was white. This demotion cause outraged in the school, within the football team and the community. As the movie progressed, we see racism in uncertainty with one significant leadership lesson that a common goal and a little trust can bring
opportunity to look at the development stages of leadership over the course of a season. The movie takes place at a high school in Virginia in 1971. The school replaces its current Caucasian football coach – Bill Yoast with an African American coach – Herman Boone. Herman Boone as the head coach and Bill Yoast as the assistant coach form a successful football team through struggles and racial issues between team members and the people of the town they lived in. This analysis will identify the different stages
small school in Virginia, Coach Boone and assistant coach Bill Yoast played by Will Patton begin by introducing their two captains, Gerry Bertier and Julius Campbell. News of the new head coach and integration of the school had sent the town into a complete uproar. Having black students walk the halls with white students hadn’t been an option until now and to add to the tension of integration in the school current head coach Bill Yoast was forced to step down to assistant after having a hall of
Coach position of the currently employed Head Football Coach Bill Yoast. Since the school was still predominantly white the students and athletes were in an uproar about the schools integration plan in which resulted in the football players refusing to play unless they had their original coach back. Since Bill Yoast could not be Head Football Coach due to the integration Herman Boone was able to come to a compromise allowing Bill Yoast to be the assistant coach. The beginning of this movie takes
appointed head coach at a predominately white school, recently integrated. He is married and has two young daughters in a nuclear family. • Coach Bill Yoast, former head coach, and now the assistant coach, defensive coordinator. He is a single-parent family raising a daughter. He was nominated to Virginia High School Hall of Fame. • Sheryl Yoast, nine and a half-year-old daughter of Coach
teach the players. He made sure the team knew that from the first meeting in the gym. The white part of the team showed up subsequently late and Coach Boone was infuriated. Coach Bill Yoast was trying to make a statement that he was not going to be beneath anyone, especially a black man. Coach Boone had to let Coach Yoast that this is his team and he could easily dismiss him at anytime, because he was questioning his authority.