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Did you play for Herman Boone? If not, then all your doing is repeating allegations. As I said all of the coaches I played for during that exact time span could have been accused of abusive behavior as it was the style of the day. Also, I loved the movie and felt it was a reality based representation of exactly what we dealt with in the 68/69 seasons as the black HS was shuttered and integration was forced on all of us. We learned how to become a team and some of my friends lost their starting positions to better athletes. BTW it was a joke when I asked if he was available.
Give me a little credit; I knew you weren't serious about hiring Boone.
As for the rest, based on everything I know from living there and knowing the people who worked with and played for him I believe it. I never saw or heard anyone defend him and he never denied it. Feel free to believe whatever you want.
And I can assure you the movie, while entertaining, was not an accurate representation of the city or the high school. (For starters the school was interegrated before the movie takes place, as was the football team.) Maybe that's how the city was where you were, but that's not what Alexandria was like in 1971.