Synopsis: A college basketball coach faces the dilemma of (1) breaking the rule of not offering any kind of financial compensation for recruited players or (2) not getting good enough players.
Appraisal: Its central issue is exposed in a clear, almost didactic way; the events unfold into a logical albeit predictable conclusion. In a nutshell, the film is set as a theorem concerning a certain rule in academic sports which forbids schools from providing athlete students with payments (except scholarships of course); the rule is bent in practice by most coaches, with all sorts of advantages given to them either in cash or in goods by some anonymous persons. The demonstration is done ad absurdo: a coach who can't win gives in to the money-and-gifts recruiting system only to find out he has no control over things afterwards.
Rating: 46
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