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runs Radio out of Hanna.

At least I know where you stand.

Radio. That's the O.

Big, round circle.

Yeah, you try it now.

Come on, it's all right. It's okay.

There you go, take the pencil.

You can do it, I know you can.

That's it.

There.

Look at that. You did it.

Congratulations. Good job.

Radio right there. Radio right there.

- Hey, look who's back.

- What's up, Jimmy?

Johnny, welcome back, man.

What's this?

He brought that in a little while ago.

Sorry Coach Jones got mad at you.

He got real mad.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah. Real mad.

Jackets playing tough D.

And there's a steal by Walker!

Honeycutt calling the play

as the Jackets walk it up the floor.

Two!

Jackson has it in the corner.

Finds Clay, who drives foul line!

Great pass to Cunningham.

Underneath for an easy 2.

All right!

Johnny Clay, doing it all tonight.

Down the floor, up the score!

We want 2!

Now Clay from deep.

Good!

Johnny Clay has 17 points.

And that's the end of the first half

with the score:
Hanna, 39, Easley, 34.

That's a good first half, boys.

That's a good first half.

You gonna stick around?

Save my seat.

- All right, bring me a drink, will you?

- Yep.

I talked to Mr. Tucker

and his colleagues...

...and we all agreed that we should

get together and have a meeting.

Well, I don't want to talk about him.

Harold.

I know what you're thinking.

- I thought we were together on this.

- I must find the best possible solution.

- It's not about who...

- What is it about?

You remember asking me

where all this was going?

Do you?

I still don't know.

But I do know this. I won't sit back and

let Frank Clay make the rules on this.

Clay saves it off the tip.

Underneath to Henry.

Great teamwork! And the Jackets

go up by 7.

Clay off the screen. Jumper!

Good!

Johnny Clay in the zone now.

Easley working the ball upcourt.

And Clay with the steal.

Great pass by Clay to Greer

for the easy 2.

And the Jackets are running away

with this one.

Feels good, don't it? Feels real good.

Settle down, settle down, settle down.

Now, I've coached a lot of basketball

over the years.

But I've never had a team play better

than you all did tonight.

Johnny Clay, it's nice having you back.

- Yeah, it is.

- It's good to be back.

Good. Good.

We're still in this race, so rest up

tomorrow. We'll hit it hard Monday.

All right? Get some sleep.

- Play him, you got a shot.

- Believe it.

- There's my boy.

- Always a pleasure to see you.

- Good game, son.

- Thirty-two.

What's with all the passing?

With the defense they were playing,

you could have gone for 50.

You gotta take advantage

of these chances, son.

- Bye, everybody.

- See you, Radio.

Bye, Johnny. Bye, now.

See you later.

What's that?

It's nothing.

Look, son, we got a whole lot

to look forward to next year.

And I don't want anything or anyone

getting in the way. You understand?

Radio's not the one getting

in the way, Dad.

That Frank, he's just scared

you got it in for his son, is all.

When Gloria was a baby,

I never left her alone.

Wherever I went, I made sure

Edith stayed with her.

I forgot to tell you Honeycutt called.

Yeah, some of the parents asked for

a meeting with Lou on Sunday night.

Just Lou?

Yeah, I don't think they're interested

in your side of things, do you?

No, I guess not.

What the hell kind of a father...?

What the hell kind of a father

are you?

Hell. Maybe the whole thing's

just a big mistake.

Radio would've been better off

if we'd just gotten him some help.

Help? And what you've been

giving him has been...?

Couldn't have been easy

on you and Mary Helen...

...me spending all this time

with Radio.

Harold, wait.

You can't believe that's been

a mistake, you being with Radio.

- You've been so great for each other.

- Yeah, well, look where it's got us.

Where it got you is a school

full of kids that love him.

And Mary Helen feels the same way.

And anything that Frank can do or say

won't change anything.

It's never a mistake to care

for someone.

That's always a good thing.

Right?

- Thank you, Reverend.

- God bless you.

God bless you.

That was quite a sermon.

Indeed. Praise the Lord.

- God bless you, Radio.

- Praise the Lord.

- Coach.

- Praise the Lord.

I love that sermon.

I like that.

All hands are Jesus' hands

I like that.

I like the way everybody singing.

Yeah, that was a nice service.

A nice service.

I need to talk to you

about a little something here.

You remember telling me

about being in 11 th grade?

You talking about Mrs. Winniver.

Yeah, I like Mrs. Winniver.

There's been some talk about

maybe you going on to 12th grade.

That'd be something, wouldn't it?

You know, have you graduate.

Radio, listen to me.

Put your... Take your radio d...

Radio, put your radio down.

Look at me. Look at me.

There's nothing wrong with moving on.

Everybody gets to it eventually.

No. No, I like the 11 th grade.

I like the 11 th grade.

No. No.

I do the menu in the morning.

I say, "We're gonna have

hamburgers and mashed potatoes."

And then I see people in the hallway,

I say, "Hey. No running.

Everybody, no running." Everybody

know that's Radio. I'm there.

Everybody like that.

They say, "Hi, Radio!"

All right, listen. We'll talk about it

when we get closer to the fall.

Let's not worry about it right now.

Radio like the fall.

That's when football come.

It's football. We'll exercise,

and everybody have T-shirts on.

And Coach Honeycutt, he be,

"Let's see some Hanna spirit!"

Yeah. Hey, coach, you say,

"Let's get the quarterback."

And Radio, he defense coach.

I'll be defense coach.

That's right. We'll go all the way.

- That's right, Radio.

- We gonna go all of the way.

Because we got the spirit.

We gonna go all the way.

We gonna go all the way.

This man is a disruptive force

in our community...

...and represents a threat

to our students.

Thank you, Mr. Clay.

Okay, Okay. I understand how

some of you might be feeling.

All I am asking is that if we decide

that there's no other way around this...

...that we dole out as little hurt

as possible.

Fine. Honeycutt, is there anything

you'd like to add?

- Evening, Del. Don.

- Harold.

- Evening, everyone.

- Evening.

Hi, Lou.

- How you doing?

- I'm good. I'm good.

- How are you?

- Good.

I was gonna call you.

- You got a crowded shop tonight, Del.

- Yeah, coach.

I think y'all know my wife, Linda,

and my daughter, Mary Helen.

- Evening.

- Evening, ma'am.

Well, I had a talk with Radio

this morning.

I told him, in not so many words, that

we might be looking at some changes.

It didn't take long to see

the more I talked...

...the more he didn't understand me.

We got a lot of that going on around.

When I was playing, I had a coach...

...he used to tell me to keep

my priorities straight.

He'd say, "Son, you figure out what's

important.

You push everything else aside."

I love football.

I love everything about it.

I love Friday nights when

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