I felt really bad for the coach!! :(
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djk-930-38279 — 12 years ago(December 02, 2013 08:33 PM)
Yes, he was a complete jerk throughout the movie to all his players! All he cared about was himself and his precious metals!
In the beginning when Lance hurt his knee and had surgery, all he cared about, and asked at the hospital, was, "can he get back this season?"
And when Billy Bob was obviously suffering from a concussion (and too much booze and possibly pre-diabetes), he's sitting there on oxygen, but he makes him go in anyway! Then he starts calling him fat and lazy all the time!
THEN he has the nerve to tell Mox that he'll change his academic records if Mox doesn't play by HIS rules, so he won't get into Brown! Heck, I would have turned him in for that right then and there, before the game!
Then he was gonna give the black player a shot so he would go back in.
That was it! He deserved to be dissed by the entire team! He really got what he deserved, no doubt! I couldn't care less how he felt!
They should have tried harder to take down his statue!
Like they did with Sadaam Hussein's statue!!
There is a new Angel in Heaven and his name is Paul Walker! We will always love you Paul! -
djk-930-38279 — 12 years ago(December 02, 2013 08:37 PM)
Weird, it's not supposed to black all the spoilers out, it's supposed to put the word "Spoilers" in red all across the area. I wonder why it did it this way? Hmmm.
There is a new Angel in Heaven and his name is Paul Walker! We will always love you Paul! -
ed-pilling — 11 years ago(October 12, 2014 05:41 AM)
The coach got what he deserved. Actually now that I think about it he got off easy. He was putting those guys in the game even thou they were hurt. Billy Bob had passed out multiple times and school nurse said he shouldnt play. By playing he was risking perm brain damage. The player that hurt his leg and the coach was going to have pain killers injected so he could play more. He didnt care about them and just wanted that title. Back in HS we had a coach like that. There was one kid that was incredible and that coach put him in every game and never gave him a rest, actually over worked him. He did make pro but after one game his shoulder gave out and he had to quit.
NEWS FLASH:
Just saw it on the news that teenage boy should only pitch twice a week and no more then 50 pitches a game or risk permanent damage to their shoulder. My friend that is what gave out was his shoulder. -
complications123 — 11 years ago(March 01, 2015 06:06 PM)
Taken out of context, yes, it's a bit of a sad scene. An old man with absolutely nothing left can be tough to watch under any circumstances. On the other hand, he's lucky that he didn't end up in prison.
I think that scene was very intentional. We never really see him get his comeuppance, so one last shot of him being tired and broken wrings a little bit of sympathy out of the audience and keeps us from feeling like there are any loose ends. Cinematically, I think it was a pretty smart move.
I watch Varsity Blues from time to time and I always wonder how much of the villain was the coach vs. the town. Did the town's need for FOOTBALL, fuel the coach? Or did the coach's insistence on winning at all costs drive the town into a frenzy? It's easy to see the coach as the agent of evil and he certain did his fair share of wrongs, but it would be interesting to dig into West Canaan's backstory a little further and determine if the coach was a product of West Canaan or if West Canaan was a product of the coach.
Maybe the town drove him until he broke when he played football. Maybe the parents and business owners and school officials dumped ALL of the pressure on him to win. Maybe he considered himself the lynchpin that held this way of life together that so many parents treasured and revered. I don't think his actions were justified, but I think a deeper look might also be in order. It's like talking to an abusive parent only to find out how horribly they were abused when they were childrenit doesn't excuse their actions, but it can soften that perspective of "pure evil" that the movies would have us believe existed. -
Woodyanders — 1 year ago(August 06, 2024 11:58 PM)
I didn't feel bad for the coach at all at the end. The dude was a goddamn abusive and manipulative asshole ****bag prick who totally deserved to go down in flames.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything. -