A couple of the football players went to visit the Chicken Ranch. Dennis was talking to one of the girls at the chicken about the Texas Longhorn game. While they were talking one of the football players set off a cherry bomb. All of the football players started to run towards the truck when the owner of the ranch came out and started shooting. It talked about one of there star recruits quitting the team. Ken Hall quit after not getting the playing time he wanted. Hall came to talk to coach Bryant to try to get back on the team. He was on the verge of tears. Coach gave him one last chancet o show up to practice but he never came. The SWC wanted to lift their probation period but the NCAA would not let them. Right before there big game against the Longhorns Bear did a speech about all of the survivors of Junction that were still on the team. He told the team what he admired about each of the players. All of the survivors came up to Bear and showed him that they still had the mustard seed that he gave them during his first year of coaching them. He told them to give the seeds to him so he could use the for good luck. The Aggies started off to a good start and kept on to win the game. Right after the game, once the Agies won, for the first time in a long time it rained in Junction and ended the drought.
Group Discussion Summary:
- The Texas game was the most important game to the boys
- Cotton Bowl
- How did Bryan view the original Junction Boys
- Bryant became more than just a coach
- How reputations matter
- The positives and negatives of the book
......Thinking Question......
Bryant was very tough on his boys. He made practice brtutal and was not very nice the boys when they were not at practice. Even though Bryant was like this the boys cared deeply about him and he cared for the boys. Has anyone ever been tough on you but yet you knew it was for the better and you loved them anyway?
yeah, my grandpa was tough on us when we were little but it was for the best. My sister and I grew up around him, but my little sister grace didn't and you can really see the difference. She whines a lot about little things and we never did. Shes scared of big animals and what not.
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