"The number of scholarships they got, the number of guys who went on to play some form of professional football by every measure this was one of the greats," Hootnick says of the school's reputation. Instead of going off to play for college teams,those players went to prison. Rumors at the time were that he had fathered two children with different Carter cheerleaders. Historical Coaches: Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau. Ann Richards declined to sign. If youd asked him then, heknew the story had potential. "That was just four years I kind of wasted," he says. His last job was with a firm that assists in litigation document preparation. ". The REAL 1988 Mojo from Friday Night Lights movie. He says the robberies were "a black eye for the community," but adds, "I think those who were around and are still around feel they got a raw deal - that the justice system extracted more than a pound of flesh from them.". Continue reading "Permian 1988 Football Schedule" Ever, TCU alum and former San Diego Chargers running back LaDanian Tomlinson said in the same documentary. Russia's Lavrov laughed at after saying West started war in Ukraine. He hopes this new movie wont dwell on the robberies and the mistakes his teammates made as much as he says the first Friday Night Lights movie did. 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. Not the ensuing legal battle that nearly kept them out of the playoffs. I was still feeling the sting of that decision, he said. At the courthouse, it simply doesnt matter that you can run the football. The film featured Dallas' 1988 Carter High School football season. "For every action there is a consequence good bad or indifferent," said Campbell. "He works for an office supply company, I think.". DWC Football Coaching Staff. Evans, who was paroled Aug. 22, 1996, says his co-workers don't know about his football or prison past. A high schoolstatefootball championship in Texas is arguably about more than just temporarybragging rights. I guess it was just for paper.". It was the first in nearly two dozen robberies connected to some players on the team. Much of his reluctance has to do with his job, which he will only say involves working in a warehouse, mostly night shifts. But nobody has any ill effects about it.". Dawson, Texas. Saturday, February 25, 2023 Carter High School Cross-Country Pancake Breakfast at Aubrey's Strawberry Plains! Its a guaranteed story that will be told for generations, with arecord that will be likely painted up on a water tower or on a cityswelcome sign. D.W. Rutledge, whose Judson team lost to Carter in the 1988 final, gives Carter the nod, and so does Dan Hooks, whose West Orange-Stark team lost to Yates in 1985. West got early-release signatures from the district attorney, sheriff, board of pardons and paroles and Judge Kendall. There's high school football, and then there's Texas high school football. "I said, 'I guess it's time for me to get a job and make my own money.' Keith Campbell was one of those players. W.H. NFL Coaches. We do not share addresses with any third parties. For one, they beat Odessa-Permian in the state semifinals, not the championship. 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. Some who meet Campbell remark that he would have made a good attorney. The ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "What Carter Lost" premieres at 9:30 p.m. The lanky pass rusher recorded 85 tackles, 25 1/2 for losses, and 20 sacks over the past two seasons. His last full-time employment was a year ago, although this summer he was camp director at Friendship West Baptist across the street from Carter. Additionally, the audio story, as did a previous Web version, state that six Carter High School football players served time in prison. The 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team is receiving some notoriety this week as ESPN's 30 for 30 about the team debuts Thursday. Sports. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Catch up on the day's news you need to know. "They remember that team, but they don't even know I was part of it.". 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. Freshman Stoughton, Mass. See the article in its original context from. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. According to Hootnick, it was "mostly two-parent families, mostly professionals. 'Instead of these young men getting a college education, they will get an education from the TDC,' West said. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. Published August 25, 2017. Russeau, who rose from a shoe shiner to a teacher and administrator, was inducted into the local African American Hall of Fame for his contributions to Dallas education. Iranians stage protests as dozens more schoolgirls fall ill in suspected poisonings. "They talk about that high school team that kicked everybody's ass," he says. Get your Permian football updates by valid e-mail address. ". 2017: Redshirted as a true freshman. There's some debate as to whether that team is better . 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. The 1988 Permian Panthers finished with a 5-1 record (12-3 overall) and were District Champions. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations. Australian cops announce $1B cocaine seizure, country's biggest bust ever. Football is about making good decisions and gambling dont build character. Carter High in Dallas took the statechampionship in 1988, but thisnew film about the team is not all about victory. Find Texas High School Alumni, Reunions, Yearbooks and Class Photos! "I really don't give a [expletive] what people say about me, whether it's true or false.". 28 - universal randolph, 1963-90 28 - dallas carter, 1982-09 27 - wichita falls, 1937-63 *26 - southlake carroll, 1997-22 After looking this up it sure seems to be 100% accurate. You stay pretty busy. In fact, five players served time and one got probation. But its really the kind of movie that lets people know that you can make it if you try. Eva-Marie Ayala/Staff Writer, Dallas-set football drama 'Carter High' hits Netflix Novemeber, 2016, Former Carter High star football player Jessie Armstead reflects on the past, Carter High tackles Dallas teams woes head-on, Over two decades later, a chance for public redemption, Scandal taints memories of 'best ever,' the 1988 Carter football team, Robbery spree was 'just for kicks' for 1988 Carter football team, Former players on 1988 Carter football team tried to move on, but shaking past wasn't easy. Five days after winning state, three football players robbed a Jack in the Box at 2:30 a.m., pantyhose pulled over their heads. Football Home; Teams; States; Scores; . Of those 28, eight would go on to the NFL, including linebacker Jessie Armstead. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. "It wasn't a rumor, so what?" He really missed being around students. Sleva authored one of, if not the best, rebounding seasons in Raider history, pulling down a PSAC-leading 12.4 boards per game. 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Royce West, D-Dallas, the attorney who represented Edwards during the grade controversy and criminal trial. He received a 20-year term for his involvement in four robberies. 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. God has a plan for my life, and this is it.". He slumped in his chair after his sentence was announced. It set the whole city on fire," said defense attorney John Creuzot, who represented one of the players. We put em on a pedestal, and then we wonder why they fall off, Hansen said in What Carter Lost.. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2017. But if you look at the real team's journey to the 1988 state title, you'll find a story about race and the pressures young athletes face a story Adam Hootnick explores in his documentary What Carter Lost. Not the racial tensions of the time. Test scores were among the lowest in the district and . Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Evans, who was paroled Aug. 22, 1996, says his co-workers don't know about his football or prison past. As he issued each sentence, screams rang out from the courtroom. Eight-time APSE award winner; 2016 National Headliner Award; 2018 Celeste Williams Texas Sportswriter of the Year; 2021 NSMA Texas Sportswriter of the Year. 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. Urban and suburban schools had just begun to play each other, he said, which brought out racial tensions. The film featured Dallas' 1988 Carter High School football season. 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. "What Carter Lost . 0 by Odessa Permian, 1994; Arlington Lamar, 1988; Aldine MacArthur, 1986; Abilene Cooper, 1969 and Galena Park, 1964 CLASS 5A RECORDS, 1951-2022 Originally 3A (1951-79), then 4A (1980-2013) and now 5A (2014-22) "I'm getting a chance to give back to the community that I brought shame to, once upon a time," he says. The players included: Edwards, who had the disputed algebra grade; Derric Evans, who announced his college commitment in the hot tub; Keith Campbell, who got the longest sentence; Patrick P.K. Williams; Aric Andrews; and Carlos Allen. He was surprised a film was made so long after the fact and that he and others still in the area weren't contacted about the script. So though hes 78 and often uses a cane to walk, James has spent the last three years working as a school crossing guard in South Dallas, a few miles east of his beloved Carter High. 5. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. I just have this ceiling. 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. Divorced last year, Campbell brags about 10-year-old daughter Kourtney and 8-year-old Kyle, pulling out a scrapbook to show off Kourtney's academic certificates. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. During the 1980s Carter High School in Dallas, Texas was a football powerhouse. It's been 30 years since the 1988 Permian Panthers football team took the field. The defendants were hustled from the courtroom by sheriff's deputies and did not comment. I think at some level they were chasing a rush.". "The other thing is, for everything that I think I could have been excellent at doing, I can't be. 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Gary Edwards says he talks to Evans a couple of times a year. 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. This is the 6th year for our courts at ECMS. So the level of attention and adoration and intensity around that experience for a lot of people, that's the top. He wonders what might have happened if Judge Joe Kendall had given him probation, or if he had gotten out of prison in two years. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The team initially had to forfeit the games Edwards played in, but its playoff eligibility was reinstated for the first postseason game. And I think we share in some of the responsibility for that a great deal, actually. I was younger, he says. It was just the part about the football team and the adversity that we had to overcome, he says,that alone was a movie in and of itself.. Millions of Texans have rare diseases. Actor Charles S. Dutton definitely owned his role in the film and was very inspiring. Only Gov. Gary Salyer and Charles Baker were the coaches. 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.' 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 . 2022-23 . It started as a nonfiction book, then it became a movie (with Billy Bob Thornton as the coach) and finally a TV series. The joke was the student parking lot was a heck of a lot nicer than the teacher parking lot.". AT HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM: Debate class - Yates or Carter? My story is unedited.". Just days after winning the state championship, a handful of Carter High players robbed a fast food joint. 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. But before Carter could even make it to the title game, it was hit with a roadblock off the field. The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. I don't want to tell my story that way. In the film, Thornton tells his team that to win state, they'll have to beat "a team of monsters" from Carter High School in Dallas (which they fail to do). The official 2019 Football Roster for the . Carter High, a movie based on Carter's 1988 football team. This Reporter Wants To Bridge The Gap. 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 . But, then again, I could be wrong. Editor's note: This story was published as the movie 'Carter High' was set to hit theaters. Interviewing teammates and researching old newspaper stories led him to reflect - which, naturally, he also did in prison. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top." The 1988 Carter High School football team seemed invincible. It was a historic season that included a national football championship for the predominantly black school, but not without controversy. He went to the state semifinals in 1982 and 1990 and won the state title in 1988. The players were arrested, tried and convicted. Permian did end up winning a state title the following year, going 16-0 in 1989. Are insane ticket costs pricing Astros fans out of Opening Day? March 4 (UPI) -- Five people, including two children, were killed in an early morning house fire in Rockland County, N.Y., authorities said Saturday. Sentenced one by one, most of the defendants hung their heads as the judge ruled. In 2004, I joined the Rialto Unified School District after teaching for four years within the Los Angles Unified School District. Elementary School; William A. Blair Elementary School; William Anderson Elementary School; William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically . Williams served three years in prison. East Carter had boys team before 1992. The Panthers lost to Marshall 13-12 in a non-district game. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All Teams Schedule: Week of Feb 20 - Feb 26 . Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Record: 14-0-1 Head Coach: Freddie JamesWK Team SC Team SC ; 9/2 : x Dallas Carter 3: 21: P Tyler d: 7: 9/10 : x Dallas Carter v: 25: T Killeen v: 24: 9/16 : x Dallas Carter v: 31: m FW Wyatt y: 0: 9/30 : x Dallas Carter v: 34: T Dal South Oak Cliff d: 7: 10/8 : . Patrick "P.K." The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Carter won the state title but the story doesn't end there. David Barron reported on sports media, college football and Olympic sports for the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in January 2021. Garrick Damon Evans-Williams was born 13 days later. But in a sentencing memorandum he wrote at the time, he explained that he would not give special treatment because the defendants played football and would issue a sentence consistent with other offenders who had committed multiple robberies. This is one of the best teams in high school football history and yet this is a team that nobody knows from Friday Night Lights," said Hootnick. Official website; This page was last edited on 10 February 2023, at 04:04 (UTC). He played two seasons but left after a coaching change and didn't graduate. Carter High in Dallas took the state championship in 1988, but this new film about the team is not all about victory. "I didn't see how they could do that. They werent a bunch of cheap-shot chop-blockers either, as the movie would suggest. Newest . So thats the impact that I wanted to leave.. Baseball; Golf; Lacrosse; Swim & Dive; Tennis; Track & Field; Athletics Department His story exemplifies the 1988 Carter Cowboys' conflicting legacy. 'Derrick got five years. Volume 2 30 for 30: Shorts Full Schedule ESPN Films. A protective father figure to his Carter players, he led them on to be one of the nation's best high school teams. "We were young. The seven others sentenced to prison were given terms ranging from 2 to 16 years. Sixty-two varsity players thrilled and galvanized and brought pride to their community, but six of them caused embarrassment and grief. 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. High Schools. Carter High School. Judge Kendall said he was a ringleader. It would be difficult for anybody. No one would have fathomed that the state title victory on Dec. 17, 1988, would be Evans' last organized game. In the late 19th and . March 4 (UPI) -- Bempedoic acid taken alone reduces cholesterol and heart attacks in patients who can't tolerate statins, according to a clinical research published Saturday in New England Journal of Medicine.. Five, including 2 children, killed in early morning New York house fire. But as he did welding work for the next couple of weeks, Campbell recalls that "he and I had no conversation. 2021 Texas Standard. The reality of the Carter High School football team, often described as one of the most talented collections of players in the history of football-crazed Texas, is told in "What Carter Lost ," an ESPN 30 for 30 film directed by Adam Hootnick and airing at 9:30 p.m. Thursday. I was voted 11th Region Boys Co-Coach of the Year in 2001 and 16th Region Boys and Girls Coach of the year in 2012. I've always thought that the presence of the late, great Johnny Bailey would have turned the tide in Yates' favor. "They remember . Williams met and married his wife, Latrina, soon after his release - and his return to the church. The team made famous by Buzz Bissinger's book "Friday Night Lights" faced enormous expectations. You dont even get a chance to think about the past, trying to think about the present, he said. "That means a lot to me. 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. More recently its taken him as a high school football coach from Grand Prairie to Frisco to Mesquite. He and wife Eva spend most of their time at church functions. . The school's grading system was called into question when Carter's starting cornerback Gary Evans' algebra grade was altered from a 68 to 72 due to what was deemed as a teacher violating grading procedures. LEADER OF THE LIONS: Yates' coach Luther Booker was a molder of men. China cites need to boost military spending as People's Congress meets. The Mesquite Horn offensive coach and quarterback who once led Carters team to victory remembers his high school days fondly it was the time, he says, he really felt like he was playing for the community. Example video title will go here for this video. One Gets 20 Years. "When you look back over 20 years, there's a reason for everything," West says. "The real story never comes out. 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. 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