[00:03.78]
[00:05.40]when the armies of emotion
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[00:10.95]go out to fight
[00:14.02]
[00:16.75]but while the earth
[00:19.62]
[00:21.23]sinks to its grave
[00:24.45]
[00:27.12]you sail to the sky
[00:30.38]
[00:31.17]on the crest of a wave
[00:35.20]
[00:47.85]They say you the coach.
[00:50.00]
[00:50.55]Bert Cotton.
[00:52.15]
[00:52.73]Tony Hamilton, but everybody just calls me big Tony.
[00:56.28]
[01:00.53]Hey, big Mike! Check it out.
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[01:05.04]Not even locked!
[01:06.84]
[01:08.15]White people are crazy.
[01:10.30]
[01:14.02]I promises my mama boo, on her deathbed
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[01:16.81]That I'd get my son Steven outta public school
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[01:18.87]And into a church school.
[01:20.56]
[01:20.61]I appreciate that, Tony. But I'm not involved with admissions.
[01:24.69]
[01:25.38]This figured maybe I'd come to talk to you,
[01:27.85]
[01:27.90]Seeing as you might need some players.
[01:31.00]
[01:31.20]What kind of sport is he playing?
[01:32.55]
[01:32.60]Anything with a ball. Boy's good, too.
[01:35.71]
[01:35.96]Classes start in a week.
[01:38.01]
[01:38.01]It would have to be for the next semester.
[01:40.06]
[01:40.24]I know, what you're thinking, coach. But,
[01:42.65]
[01:42.65]look here, I got money, alright?
[01:44.54]
[01:44.84]See I'm mechanic at wilson's auto t'other side of town.
[01:48.54]
[01:48.76]Look, what if somebody drops out or moves?
[01:52.04]
[01:52.33]Could they get in then?
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[01:54.35]"They?" you only mentioned one son.
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[01:56.83]That's right, Steven. But there's another boy.
[02:00.08]
[02:01.07]-Another boy? -Yeah.
[02:03.12]
[02:06.69]Big Mike.
[02:08.19]
[02:08.36]Sleeps on my coach from time to time.
[02:10.21]
[02:10.26]It's a bad deal. You know, his mama's on the crack pipe.
[02:12.94]
[02:12.99]He ain't got nobody else.
[02:14.89]
[02:14.94]He just wanted to come along for the ride.
[02:16.85]
[02:16.90]-They're here? -Yeah.
[02:19.00]
[02:19.60]The little one is Steven
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[02:23.17]And the big one...
[02:24.89]
[02:24.94]Big Mike.
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[02:35.15]Swish!
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[02:39.48]Mike!
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[02:43.13]Come on!
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[02:51.45]Mother of god....
[02:53.30]
[02:54.55]Steven Hamilton's paperwork looks acceptable to me.
[02:57.40]
[02:57.45]And I believe he would do fine.
[02:59.70]
[02:59.75]-but this other kid... -Big Mike.
[03:01.76]
[03:01.81]Michael Oher gives us no reason to believe it,
[03:05.35]
[03:05.75]Based on his record, that he would be successful here.
[03:09.02]
[03:09.28]How bad could it be?
[03:10.58]
[03:10.63]We're not exactly sure how old he is due to lack of records.
[03:14.31]
[03:14.36]He has a measured iq of 80. Which is 6th percentile.
[03:17.92]
[03:17.97]His grade point average begins with zero.
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[03:20.98]Zero-point-six.
[03:22.37]
[03:22.42]Everyone passed him along
[03:24.52]
[03:24.57]They gave him d's so they could hand
[03:26.86]
[03:26.86]their problem off to the next school.
[03:29.22]
[03:29.89]It's a brave kid.
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[03:34.03]For wanting to come here.
[03:36.21]
[03:36.26]For wanting a quality education.
[03:38.65]
[03:38.70]An education denied him by the poor
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[03:40.93]quality of the schools he's attended.
[03:43.30]
[03:43.37]I tell you most kids with his background
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[03:44.99]Wouldn't come within two hundred miles of this place.
[03:47.25]
[03:47.30]Coach Cotton, we understand your interest
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[03:49.89]in this young man's athletic abilities.
[03:52.36]
[03:52.52]Now, he wouldn't be able to play sports
[03:54.10]
[03:54.10]until he got his grades up anyway.
[03:55.49]
[03:55.54]Forget sports!
[03:57.49]
[03:57.76]Look at the wall.
[03:59.59]
[03:59.64]Christian.
[04:00.85]
[04:00.90]We either take that seriously or we paint over it.
[04:04.35]
[04:04.68]You don't admit Michael Oher because of sports,
[04:07.98]
[04:08.35]You admit him because it's the right thing to do.
[04:11.75]
[04:56.93]Class, this is Michael Oher and he's new here
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[04:59.61]So I expect you all to make him feel welcome.