You know, Im a people person, and I just enjoy being around people.. Often described as the high school football game of the century.Although the final score was 24-24, Texas UIL tiebreaker rules determined that Duncanville wa. The seven others sentenced to prison were given terms ranging from 2 to 16 years. Freed from the bonds of time and space, who would win a game between the star-crossed 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys, defrocked Class 5A champions of 1988, and the Houston Yates Lions, undefeated 5A champions of 1985? According to Hootnick, it was "mostly two-parent families, mostly professionals. "I'm getting a chance to give back to the community that I brought shame to, once upon a time," he says. I just have this ceiling. You go out there and you defend your boys. ". Despite all the public attention, you are nothing but a bunch of crimnials who went out, put guns on honest working people, terrified them and took their money. 210 N Carter School Rd, Strawberry Plains, Tennessee | (865) 933-3434. 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. By Laura RiceDecember 22, 20159:45 amArts & Culture, Sports. I just love it, he said. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Single, he attends several Carter games a year and lives down the street from Cowboys teammate Clifton Abraham. It started as a nonfiction book, then it became a movie (with Billy Bob Thornton as the coach) and finally a TV series. Beginning days after the championship and continuing into the summer, several players, along with other Carter students and graduates, committed a string of armed robberies that would cut their futures short. Muhammad was on that 1988 state championship team. It didnt matter where. Each had faced a maximum sentence of 99 years. It was the first in nearly two dozen robberies connected to some players on the team. Not just the best in Dallas or Texas, I would like to say we're the best team ever assembled.. A new film, written and directed by a former player for Carter High, details their triumphant road to the 1988State Championship and the controversy that surrounded the team after they won. Evans got 20 years. View career profiles, stats, photos and video highlights. "It's a Texas legend. A 12th still faces sentencing. It was a historic season that included a national football championship for the predominantly black school, but not without controversy. for hosting @CarterHSFB We would actually say that back then in high school, never to think that one day I would do it but thats exactly what happened.. Eva James says the movie tells people how it really was back in the late 1980s. He scored 30 or more points on three occasions, including a career-high 33 points in the Raiders' 75-59 win over Slippery Rock Dec. 3. Of those 28, eight would go on to the NFL, including linebacker Jessie Armstead. Former state District Judge Joe Kendall in his sentencing of Carter High players. . "The story is so much that you can't print," he says. @luc_brian @Coach_Blocker @LehmanForrest. When Derric Damon Evans entered prison on Sept. 22, 1989, he left behind more than a rescinded college scholarship. In 1986-87, 57 percent of Carter students failed at least one course, as compared to 44 percent at Lincoln, an inner-city all-black school. Get your Permian football updates by valid e-mail address. Before sentencing, Judge Kendall lectured the youths for about 10 minutes, telling them they had no excuse for committing the crimes. Sports. References External links. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top." Courtesy of ESPN Films hide caption Instead of going off to play for college teams,those players went to prison. Interviewing teammates and researching old newspaper stories led him to reflect - which, naturally, he also did in prison. I had to pull myself away because I know if I didn't, I would have wound up getting back to that mode.". Carter High . "He works for an office supply company, I think.". ". . David W. Carter High School; Downtown Montessori at Ida B. PLAINS, Ga. (AP) When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought along those closest to him, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president's public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years. But I think they weren't ready for the adventure to be done. Who wouldn't be proud?". A protective father figure to his Carter players, he led them on to be one of the nation's best high school teams. Actions have consequences, Kendall wrote. Carter High: Directed by Arthur Muhammad. Over the years, he has been asked whether the more headstrong Evans coaxed him into the 33-day spree in which they committed four robberies together. Right now to this day, we're still talking about that class, 1988 Carter quarterback Robert Hall told WFAA in 2013, when he was an assistant coach at Mesquite Horn. You know, like football as long as they were doing football and in football it kept them away from making such bad decisions and choices. I think at some level they were chasing a rush.". Football has taken Robert Hall from Texas Tech to Houston, Amsterdam and Canada. (Ben Torres/Special Contributor). He sells cars at a dealership off Interstate 20, within view of the Carter campus. Russeau was invited to a Dallas showing of the movie but said he wasnt contacted about the film prior to that. Catch up on the day's news you need to know. Example video title will go here for this video. July 21, 2021. Russian defense minister visits front lines as Ukraine's hold on Bakhmut slips. David Barron reported on sports media, college football and Olympic sports for the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in January 2021. 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. Two months ago, he joined a mentorship program at Carter started by assistant principal Stonie Arbuckle, a classmate in 1988. hide caption, The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. But the record books dont tell the story of their success. "I tell people all the time, I was like Michael Jordan and he was like Scottie Pippen," Armstead says. The team initially had to forfeit the games Edwards played in, but its playoff eligibility was reinstated for the first postseason game. The Cowboys were stripped of the State title after it came to . 5. Longtime Illinois high school sports historian Robert Pruter reminds that many college and NFL Hall of Famers were not high achievers in high school. March 4 (UPI) -- Five people, including two children, were killed in an early morning house fire in Rockland County, N.Y., authorities said Saturday. 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole,' Kendall said. If you even have any thought of having a family, you need to make sure you watch every decision that you make now - because your children will also pay the consequences for what you do.' Reflecting On Football And Addiction As 'Friday Night Lights' Turns 25, Why The Race Of The New Football Coach At University Of Texas Matters. 10 Texas Athletes Are Sentenced to Jail Terms for Robberies, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/us/10-texas-athletes-are-sentenced-to-jail-terms-for-robberies.html. It Was Money for Prom Night, Some of the youths had testified that they had committed at least one robbery each so they could have extra money for prom night. Eva-Marie Ayala/Staff Writer, Mesquite Horn offensive coordinator Robert Hall during football practice at John Horn High School in Mesquite. When the ensuing trial was over, Edwards was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Additionally, the audio story, as did a previous Web version, state that six Carter High School football players served time in prison. @coachjoshheupel. And there are plenty of tales about James. The game is over. 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. 1988 ODESSA PERMIAN PANTHERS . In 14 seasons as the head coach at Carter, he went 122-22-3. I guess it was kind of mutual between Derric and I because we were so close. Editor's note: This story was published as the movie 'Carter High' was set to hit theaters. The work of education requires support from the entire community, and Carter High is committed to partnering with businesses, nonprofits, civic clubs, religious organizations and other groups that want to invest their time, talent and resources in students. 2022-23 . Carter later was forced to forfeit the 1988 season, in which it won a state title, for grade tampering. March 4 (UPI) -- Texas Republicans on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to censure U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes supporting same-sex marriage and gun control bills that broke party lines. Not an investigation into their leading scorer's algebra grade. Get your Permian football updates by valid e-mail address. March 4 (UPI) -- Australian police on Saturday revealed the details of an operation that intercepted $1 billion worth of cocaine in the country's biggest-ever drug bust. Sitting at the kitchen table of his DeSoto home, he patiently retraces the grade controversy, the robberies, prison. DALLAS -- Ten current and former high school students, including five members of Dallas Carter's Class 5A championship football team, were sentenced to prison terms Friday by a . Many of them talk in the documentary about how much they lost and how they've tried to rebuild their lives. Dallas, Texas. 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. A 22-21 district loss to Midland Lee resulted in a coin flip to decide post-season advancement. At the courthouse, it simply doesnt matter that you can run the football. Texas GOP censures Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes on guns, marriage equity. Edwards watches today's NFL cornerbacks and is convinced he had the tools to make it. "All my friends had already gone to college and were working," he says. Anyone can read what you share. DALLAS The drama surrounding the 1988 Carter Cowboys took over 25 years to go from the high school football field to the big screen. He joined the Houston Chronicle in 1990 after stints at the Dallas bureau of United Press International (1984-90), the Waco Tribune-Herald (1978-84) and the Tyler Morning Telegraph (1975-78). TIME CAPSULE . Judge Kendall said he was a ringleader. Some who meet Campbell remark that he would have made a good attorney. A native of Tyler, he is a graduate of John Tyler High School, Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin. He was a wide receiver who served seven-and a-half years of a 25-year sentence for armed robbery. A judge has sentenced 10 current and former high school athletes to prison terms of up to 25 years for their roles in numerous armed robberies in the Dallas area over the past year. NFL Coaches. East Carter had boys team before 1992. The ensuing media cycle put Texas high school football in the national spotlight. ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film, What Carter Lost, premieres Thursday at 9:30 p.m. Five days after winning state, three football players robbed a Jack in the Box at 2:30 a.m., pantyhose pulled over their heads. "It was true; what's the big deal? "Somebody like Jessie, he doesn't worry because he's probably got enough money," Evans says of Armstead, who played 12 NFL seasons and is a New York Giants special assistant.