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. March 4 (UPI) -- Roel Degamo, the governor of the Philippines province of Negros Oriental, was assassinated and five others also died Saturday in an attack by gunmen, officials said. Actor Charles S. Dutton definitely owned his role in the film and was very inspiring. A lot of people already know the story of Friday Night Lights, in which a West Texas high school fights for the state football title. A few months ago, former Carter coach Freddie James came in to car shop, not realizing Williams worked there. Unlike Evans, Edwards did get to play college football. One Gets 20 Years. Saturday, February 25, 2023 Carter High School Cross-Country Pancake Breakfast at Aubrey's Strawberry Plains! 10:00 AM on Aug 24, 2017 CDT Updated at 12:19 PM on Dec 12, 2019 CST. ", In the film, Hootnick interviews Texas high school football stars who went on to play professionally. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2017. Three-year starter (Offensive Line) at Byron High Schoolplayed under head coach Ben Halder2022 Bear football captaina three-time All-Conference performer, 1st Team (senior season) & Honorable Mention (junior and sophomore seasons). hide caption, The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. "I tell people all the time, I was like Michael Jordan and he was like Scottie Pippen," Armstead says. for hosting @CarterHSFB In 18 years as the head coach at Yates, Booker compiled a 168-37-6 record and guided the Lions to 13 district titles, three state semifinal appearances and one memorable state championship in 1985. With Charles S. Dutton, Vivica A. Carter High is a football movie. First published on August 16, 2017 / 9:40 PM. West, who represented the school in its legal battle to make the playoffs, remembers the politically charged atmosphere at the time. After nearly 55 years of marriage, the two still love to tease each other. I guess it was kind of mutual between Derric and I because we were so close. Just days after winning the state championship, a handful of Carter High players robbed a fast food joint. Twenty years ago, they were Carter High's Three Amigos. Those memories, though, were soon overshadowed by bigger games at Texas Tech. as a senior, was selected as an All-Area honoreeplayed in the 2022 Minnesota High School All Star Gamea six year starter for the Bears wrestling . Thats the reason executive producer Greg Ellis signed on. Yeah, it was difficult. 1988 ODESSA PERMIAN PANTHERS . W.H. ". March 4 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman missing for more than 30 years was found living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, her family and police said. That team, with 21 players who were offered college scholarships, is being called one of the best high school . 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole,' Kendall said. Reflecting On Football And Addiction As 'Friday Night Lights' Turns 25, Why The Race Of The New Football Coach At University Of Texas Matters. Iranians stage protests as dozens more schoolgirls fall ill in suspected poisonings. Full Bio. It was not until football was removed and the hedge, so to speak, was removed that they ventured out and did what they did.. "Everywhere we go, somebody knows me," he says. And there are plenty of tales about James. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Much of his reluctance has to do with his job, which he will only say involves working in a warehouse, mostly night shifts. Published August 25, 2017. Since 2004, I have served the Rialto Community in a plethora of assignments, including 8th Grade . (Lisa Davis/Associated Press). Are ticket costs pricing Houston Astros fans out of Opening Day? It is my extreme pleasure to serve as your site Principal. Carter High hits theaters here Oct. 30. He believed the judge would have alerted the attorneys if he planned to give prison time so that they could consider a jury trial. A native of Tyler, he is a graduate of John Tyler High School, Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin. Carter was stripped of its championship after a court found that it had indeed violated the no-pass, no-play law. Patrick "P.K." Eva James says the movie tells people how it really was back in the late 1980s. In fact, five players served time and one got probation. Governor of Philippine province, 5 others killed in gun attack. Chelsea is an Audience Journalist who promotes Dallas Morning News content on various social media platforms and manages the homepage. If youd asked him then, heknew the story had potential. The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 1985 Yates vs. 1988 Carter would have been a fitting showcase for two of the greatest teams in what was, for my money, the best era of the modern high school game, the years from 1982 through 1989 . FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. Not an investigation into their leading scorer's algebra grade. Director Author Muhammed definitely did a good job with this film and I hope that people . 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"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. ', Noting that six of the defendants were members of a Carter football team that experts rank as one of the best in Texas of the 1980s, Kendall said, 'The typical American male lives vicariously through the lives of football heroes. We always thought that, Wow this would be a great movie, somebody needs to make a movie about this,' Muhammad says. Texas Olympians Are In Tokyo. @luc_brian @Coach_Blocker @LehmanForrest. 'Most of you have had religious and moral training, the opportunity for a decent education, and some of you have even been given by God athletic talent that would enable you to receive a free college education. I never even knew that that stuff was going on until its like they were actually out and basically confessed to the crimes.. Dawson High School Bulldogs. Hide/Show Additional Information For Jay Carter . You go out there and you defend your boys. 3 children killed, 2 hospitalized in North Texas domestic incident, At least 5 dead following year's first severe spring weather outbreak, 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'True Romance' actor Tom Sizemore dead at 61, Dozens killed, injured as Jakarta fuel depot fire engulfs neighborhood. ESPN has set a late August premiere date for a documentary about one of the most infamous high school football teams in Texas history. A protective father figure to his Carter players, he led them on to be one of the nation's best high school teams. A state championship convincingly earned on the field was lost 25 months later by unanimous vote in an Austin boardroom. But nobody has any ill effects about it.". WHERE ARE THEY NOW - Chronicles life after Permian High School for past players and coaches. Come out and support Carter High School Cross-Country!!! "My kids are like, 'Dad, you know everybody.' During a phone interview, Evans says there is a reason he has rebuffed reporters since giving prison interviews to The Dallas Morning News in 1989 and 1991 and to author H.G. Williams served three years in prison. The others got anywhere between 13 to 25 years. (Ben Torres/Special Contributor). Davis High School Panthers. Evans got 20 years. Williams met and married his wife, Latrina, soon after his release - and his return to the church. March 4 (UPI) -- China needs to increase its military budget to "fulfill its responsibility as a major country," a Beijing official said Saturday ahead of the nation's annual National People's Congress. Editor's note: This story was published as the movie 'Carter High' was set to hit theaters. He has long been devoted to his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, overseeing the local chapter's economic development dealings. But that 1988 Permian Panthers . But before Carter could even make it to the title game, it was hit with a roadblock off the field. Find Classmates and Graduates from TX Share this Find Your School . But the record books dont tell the story of their success. I am a former NFL football player, he says, 11 years with the Dallas Cowboys and the last year with the Oakland Raiders.. "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. He sells cars at a dealership off Interstate 20, within view of the Carter campus. State District Judge Joe Kendall ordered that an 11th youth be sent to a prison boot camp for young offenders. Sixty-two varsity players thrilled and galvanized and brought pride to their community, but six of them caused embarrassment and grief. Instead of going off to play for college teams,those players went to prison. Russeau was invited to a Dallas showing of the movie but said he wasnt contacted about the film prior to that. Submit a Comment. Muhammad was on that 1988 state championship team. I think it shows football actually as the hedge, Muhammad says. "I'm glad I did go to prison," he says. Over the course of one month in the spring of 1989, six Dallas Carter players, including Edwards and defensive back Derric Evans, were charged with committing a series of seven armed robberies in Dallas before being arrested. Edwards watches today's NFL cornerbacks and is convinced he had the tools to make it. Challenges went beyond players gambling. 'But he (Washington) got six months,' Creuzot said. To this day, former Principal Clarence C. Russeau insists Carter did nothing wrong in regards to the eligibility controversy. The film is centered on the 1988 Cowboys of David W. Carter High School in Dallas, a team that fought through racial prejudice and a grades controversy to claim the 5A state title, only to be rocked when six of their players were involved in an armed robbery and the grades issue stripped them of their title. For the last year, he has worked on a soon-to-be-released book, Carter Boyz. At the end of his term, Campbell was sent to the Allred Unit near Wichita Falls, where he saw Evans for the first time in nearly seven years. In a previous photo caption, filmmaker Adam Hootnick's last name was misspelled as Hootnik. It was like, 'Hey, I'm down with you for whatever because I know you're down with me.' July 9, 2021. Houston, Texas. ''In six months' time,'' the judge said Friday, the teen-agers ''committed more armed robberies than Bonnie and Clyde did in a lifetime. 61. In 2004, I joined the Rialto Unified School District after teaching for four years within the Los Angles Unified School District. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top." Courtesy of ESPN Films hide caption But there was trouble during that season's playoffs when questions arose about a Carter player's algebra grade. The movie has several Dallas ties. Carter was ultimately stripped of its 1988 state title, and there's no doubt that the Carter community's fight to defend its reputation got a lot harder because of what those young men did. Staff researcher Molly Motley Blythe contributed to this series. Carter met Converse Judson at Texas Stadium, winning the Class 5A Championship, 31-14, to capture the first title for the Dallas ISD since 1950. "It wasn't a rumor, so what?" Not the racial tensions of the time. Evans says. I move on." 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. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the defendants wedged into a corridor outside the courtroom, and several began screaming and throwing their hands into the air after the sentences were announced. "But I havent thought about it really. The official 1986 Football Roster for the University of North Carolina Heels . Advocates are pushing for legislation to help them. Aside from the Southern Methodist University "pay-for-play" scandal that resulted in the program's so-called "death penalty" in 1987, the tale of the rise and fall of Dallas Carter was arguably the biggest football story to come out of Dallas in the 1980s. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top.". Mojo's state title run was cut one game short after a 14-9 playoff loss to Dallas Carter. "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. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. 1990 Football Roster; 1989 Football Roster; 1988 Football Roster; 1987 Football Roster; 1986 Football Roster; Search for: 1994 Ohio State Football Roster. By Laura RiceDecember 22, 20159:45 amArts & Culture, Sports. The book "Friday Night Lights" is about a group of high school football players in Odessa, Texas, a town where football is king and Friday evenings are gospel. It was real hard then, and I hope that people pick that up, she said. Permian won 12 games, while suffering three losses, in the 1988 season. A still from the 2015 movie 'Carter High' about the 1988 Dallas-area football team mired in controversy. But he was also known for his compassion and dedication to get students on track to college and some even to the NFL. Sleva authored one of, if not the best, rebounding seasons in Raider history, pulling down a PSAC-leading 12.4 boards per game. 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. He lives in Garland, but hasn't strayed far from his high school roots. He signed with the University of Houston. Evans served seven years. In the end, five Carter players served time in prison. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations. Sitting at the kitchen table of his DeSoto home, he patiently retraces the grade controversy, the robberies, prison. The team initially had to forfeit the games Edwards played in, but its playoff eligibility was reinstated for the first postseason game. Former state District Judge Joe Kendall in his sentencing of Carter High players. Hide/Show Additional Information For Clarence Carter . Study suggests bempedoic acid reduces cholesterol, risk of heart attack. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Before the crossing guard gig, James would organize outings for neighborhood seniors so they could pass the time telling stories to each others. 'Instead of these young men getting a college education, they will get an education from the TDC,' West said. Nothing could deter the Cowboys on their way to winning the state championship that year. DALLAS (CBS11) A private screening of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary "What Carter Lost," was held at the Texas Theatre on Wednesday night. Mojo made it to the State Semifinals, where the playoff run would come to an end with a 14-9 loss to Dallas Carter at Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. Teenage boys were sent to prison. Russia's Lavrov laughed at after saying West started war in Ukraine. Former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis worked as executive producer, and former Carter High football player Arthur Muhammad wrote the script. Frankly, I was shocked, recalled West, who also represented Edwards in his criminal case. The players were arrested, tried and convicted. 2022 Football Roster. "What Carter Lost . Not the racial tensions of the time. More recently its taken him as a high school football coach from Grand Prairie to Frisco to Mesquite. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. 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Then after the championship win, the title and all of the accolades were stripped from the team when six of it's players were convicted and sentenced in a string of robberies throughout the Dallas area. With ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary What Carter Lost screening Aug. 24, audiences are primed to remember the glory and scandal that surrounded Dallas Carter High School's football team nearly 30 . "My two main regrets, first is the people I let down," he says. Unofficially, they would be the second team to do so, after the Dallas Carter Cowboys beat Converse Judson at Texas Stadium 31-14 in 1988. He went to the state semifinals in 1982 and 1990 and won the state title in 1988. Two months ago, he joined a mentorship program at Carter started by assistant principal Stonie Arbuckle, a classmate in 1988. As for any school, for kids that are young and immature, youre gonna see some great things athletically and then youre gonna see some decisions that were made due to greed and things that were not positive, he said.