He observes practice from the outside, however, and starts to see complacency and selfishness overtake the team – the effort is not there, and players, namely Lanear, start to develop egos and show up late for practice, or not at all. Spring practice begins in April 2004 without Coach Ladouceur. This tragedy causes Cam to question his faith even more. On the way home, TK stops by a party to pick up his cousin while waiting outside, he is shot by a couple of kids who were upset that they had lost to him in a basketball game earlier in the day. TK convinces Cam that it won’t happen and the two boys agree to enroll at Oregon together.
Kelly gets angry and asks why, to which Cam replies that everyone he loves dies and he didn’t want that to happen to Kelly. To Kelly’s dismay, Cam tells him that he’s decided to go to University of Miami instead.
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TK reminds Cam that they had made a pact as kids to use football as a way out of their dangerous neighborhood, and that opportunity was now here – the University of Oregon had offered both of them a full scholarship. Meanwhile, Cam’s mother has passed away and his teammate, Terrance “TK” Kelly, finds Cam at a friend’s house mourning. Ladouceur steps down as head coach of De La Salle shortly thereafter his wife believes that this will allow him to spend more time with the family and more importantly, be a father to his son Dan, not a coach. His doctor tells him that he’s lucky to be alive but that he needs to take it easy, meaning he cannot coach until his health recovers. When Coach Ladouceur returns home from his visit to Colvin’s home, he suffers a heart attack. Cam begins to question his faith in Christianity and asks the coach why this would happen how could it be in God’s plan to leave him and his younger brother alone in this world? Coach Ladouceur responds that he and his brother are not alone – they have him and 60 other brothers on the football team that love them. When outgoing Senior Cameron Colvin tells Coach Ladouceur that his sick mother only has days to live, Coach visits Cam at his home.
Angered, De La Salle vows to play the 5 conference games they are required to play, then fill out the rest of the schedule with other top-ranked high school football teams from across the country. Lastly, De La Salle’s conference rivals complain about the unfair advantage they have in recruiting all the best players from the region, and highlight stats on the average margin of victory to back up their claim. Head coach Bob Ladouceur receives job offers from colleges, but dismisses them without discussing the opportunities first with his wife. With the graduation of the seniors, juniors Tayshon Lanear, Chris Ryan, and Danny Ladouceur (the coach’s son) bicker about who will fill the leadership void as team captains on next year’s team.
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However, a series of events as the season winds down foreshadow a troubling 2004 season. When the Game Stands Tall, based on a 2003 book of the same title, begins with the montage of the De La Salle High School Spartans’ record setting 151 win streak and the high of winning the 2003 California State Championship.
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