Remember the Titans

[Coach Yoast (Will Patton) has been promised that he will be in the football hall of fame as long as he goes along with the people who are "throwing" the game.  Coach Boone (Denzel Washington) was placed as head coach over him earlier in the film.]

Courage.  Courage is the quality that is shown here.  Coach Yoast had been put in an awkward place when Coach Boone was placed over him as head coach earlier in the year.  He had been nominated too for the High School Football Hall of Fame.  It seemed that everything was going fine until the issue of race was brought in.  So the powers that be, white people, stated that if they allow Coach Boone to lose the game that things will go back to the way things were.  

Coach Yoast you can see is debating in his mind what to do, he wants to be in glory, he wants to be in the Hall of Fame.  But he knows that will come with a cost.  Yoast is not happy with the cost, because he knows that a victory won through ill-goten means nothing.  

It takes tremendous courage to go out to the ref during the game and tell him to call the game fair, even if it requires that he goes to jail too.  Yoast is willing to put his name, and his future on the line for the sake of doing the right thing before God, and man.  It takes courage to go against the grain.  This is a great film to show forth that example.  How often do we accept the status quo of society?  They say that greed is good, that there is nothing wrong with gay marriage, or even that conception is perfectly normal and good?  It takes courage to stand up and say that they are wrong.  It is hard to stand up to the bullies in our schools, since that is an issue as well.  Lets take a cue from Coach Yoast, who is teaching us more than football, but teaching us about how to be fully human.