DALLAS -- Ten current and former high school students, including five members of Dallas Carter's Class 5A championship football team, were sentenced to prison terms Friday by a . 'When I compare you with a typical young offender who comes before me, you are especially without excuse,' Kendall added. "Was it difficult? "No, no, no, I was never bitter," he says. Check out the 1988 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Players , Starters and more on Pro-Football-Reference.com. Carter High in Dallas took the statechampionship in 1988, but thisnew film about the team is not all about victory. You stay pretty busy. 210 N Carter School Rd, Strawberry Plains, Tennessee | (865) 933-3434. Reporters noted that another Dallas high school star in the early 1980s, Charles Washington, had his college career interrupted by a prison sentence but went on to graduate from college and be drafted by the Indianapolis Colts last spring. Carter High hits theaters here Oct. 30. Carter met Converse Judson at Texas Stadium, winning the Class 5A Championship, 31-14, to capture the first title for the Dallas ISD since 1950. When Derric Damon Evans entered prison on Sept. 22, 1989, he left behind more than a rescinded college scholarship. Evans got 20 years. Evans served seven years. Updated: Feb 28, 2023 / 04:45 PM CST. It was not until football was removed and the hedge, so to speak, was removed that they ventured out and did what they did.. I never even knew that that stuff was going on until its like they were actually out and basically confessed to the crimes.. "I think that fight for them was not just about wanting to see their football team win, but about resisting being caricatured in a way, and saying, 'We're not cheaters. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the defendants wedged into a corridor outside the courtroom, and several began screaming and throwing their hands into the air after the sentences were announced. The film featured Dallas' 1988 Carter High School football season. Carter High, a movie based on Carter's 1988 football team. This is the story of four of the student athletes whose off the field activities cost them their future. WHERE ARE THEY NOW - Chronicles life after Permian High School for past players and coaches. Gary Salyer and Charles Baker were the coaches. "It was true; what's the big deal? 'Most of you have had religious and moral training, the opportunity for a decent education, and some of you have even been given by God athletic talent that would enable you to receive a free college education. He and wife Eva spend most of their time at church functions. Position Class City Hometown Last School Years; 0 : Layne: Bates: 6-3 : 190 : Quarterback : SR : Pocatello Published August 25, 2017. With ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary What Carter Lost screening Aug. 24, audiences are primed to remember the glory and scandal that surrounded Dallas Carter High School's football team nearly 30 . 'But he (Washington) got six months,' Creuzot said. The seven others sentenced to prison were given terms ranging from 2 to 16 years. Starred for Smyrna High School on both sides of the ball and was named Class 6A Mr. Football after a phenomenal 2022 campaign Selected as the Region 6-6A Defensive MVP this past fall Posted 92 tackles, six tackles for loss, three sacks, five passes defended, three forced fumbles and one interception his senior season Hello, and welcome to Wilmer Amina Carter High School (CHS). The other, mostly white schools fought a legal battle to kick Carter out of the playoffs. It was just the part about the football team and the adversity that we had to overcome, he says,that alone was a movie in and of itself.. "I said, 'I guess it's time for me to get a job and make my own money.' If thats told, hopefully some high school kids that are watching it learn from some of those mistakes and say, thats not a road I want to go down. Kristen Taketa/Staff Writer, Former Carter High School coach Freddie James at the premiere of Carter High at Studio Movie Grill in Dallas. Odessa Permian 1988 Roster. NFL Coaches. So I dont feel anything in particular," Russeau said. For one, they beat Odessa-Permian in the state semifinals, not the championship. Sophomore Stoughton, Mass. Some in the community agreed with West that prison sentences seemed harsh for young men who had made mistakes. Divorced last year, Campbell brags about 10-year-old daughter Kourtney and 8-year-old Kyle, pulling out a scrapbook to show off Kourtney's academic certificates. The documentary points out many inaccuracies in the ways the Dallas Carter story has been told over the years. "It wasn't a rumor, so what?" "It's a Texas legend. In 14 seasons as the head coach at Carter, he went 122-22-3. Sports. One player famously signed his letter of intent to play college ball while lounging in a hot tub, adorned in gold jewelry. . We would actually say that back then in high school, never to think that one day I would do it but thats exactly what happened.. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations. He signed with the University of Houston. Permian won 12 games, while suffering three losses, in the 1988 season. In 18 years as the head coach at Yates, Booker compiled a 168-37-6 record and guided the Lions to 13 district titles, three state semifinal appearances and one memorable state championship in 1985. He believed the judge would have alerted the attorneys if he planned to give prison time so that they could consider a jury trial. A judge has sentenced 10 current and former high school athletes to prison terms of up to 25 years for their roles in numerous armed robberies in the Dallas area over the past year. So the level of attention and adoration and intensity around that experience for a lot of people, that's the top. TIME CAPSULE . Then after the championship win, the title and all of the accolades were stripped from the team when six of it's players were convicted and sentenced in a string of robberies throughout the Dallas area. Previous Seasons All-Time Roster. 0 by Odessa Permian, 1994; Arlington Lamar, 1988; Aldine MacArthur, 1986; Abilene Cooper, 1969 and Galena Park, 1964 CLASS 5A RECORDS, 1951-2022 Originally 3A (1951-79), then 4A (1980-2013) and now 5A (2014-22) Longtime Houston coach Ray Seals, whose Milby team lost 51-0 to Yates and who scouted the Cowboys in 1988, gives the nod to the Lions. Emily Ochsenschlager and Jessica Smith produced and edited this interview for broadcast, and Nicole Cohen adapted it for the Web. The REAL 1988 Mojo from Friday Night Lights movie. Director Author Muhammed definitely did a good job with this film and I hope that people . Dennis Parker, who attended the 1985 Yates-Permian game, coached the Marshall team that lost to Carter in 1988 and lost twice to Permian in 1989, said Carter was the best because it had such speed on defense. / CBS Texas. The sentences were handed down before a courtroom packed with relatives of the 12 defendants, one of whom received a deferred sentence and one of whom was sent to a Texas Department of Corrections 'boot camp' for 75 days. Though West said he and Kendall are friends today, he said he did not speak to Kendall for two years after that. "I didn't have respect for the law at that time and now I look at life in a more humble way," said Campbell. Kendall declined to be interviewed for this story, other than to compliment the skills of defense attorneys West and Creuzot. "What Carter Lost . She graduated from the University of North Texas in 2017. (Ben Torres/Special Contributor). 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Over the course of one month in the spring of 1989, six Dallas Carter players, including Edwards and defensive back Derric Evans, were charged with committing a series of seven armed robberies in Dallas before being arrested. "My two main regrets, first is the people I let down," he says. ET Thursday on ESPN and will take a detailed look at the fabled 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team. With the Thursday night premiere of the ESPN documentary "What Carter Lost," the time has come to revive one of the great sports bar/barbershop debate topics of Texas high school football. "I didn't need to be rehabilitated because I was aware of my mistakes and knew I would never do anything like that again. Staff researcher Molly Motley Blythe contributed to this series. After several phone conversations, Evans agrees to a sit-down interview in Houston, then reschedules twice, then decides not to do it. Released from prison on Aug. 13, 1993, he enrolled at Texas Southern. March 4 (UPI) -- Australian police on Saturday revealed the details of an operation that intercepted $1 billion worth of cocaine in the country's biggest-ever drug bust. "Other than Nebraska, when I was coaching at North Texas, I never coached against a faster team," Parker said. I had to pull myself away because I know if I didn't, I would have wound up getting back to that mode.". The team initially had to forfeit the games Edwards played in, but its playoff eligibility was reinstated for the first postseason game. Evans, who was paroled Aug. 22, 1996, says his co-workers don't know about his football or prison past. I know I have the ability to grow beyond it, but it remains there.". Actors will portray well-known local figures, including former state District Judge Joe Kendall and now-state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas. And at a time when it seems the game is always in the cross-hairs, director Arthur Muhammad says Carter High isnt trying to show football in a bad light. West got early-release signatures from the district attorney, sheriff, board of pardons and paroles and Judge Kendall. He really missed being around students. He was in prison when two years of legal wrangling over his algebra grade ended with the University Interscholastic League stripping Carter of the state title. Russian defense minister visits front lines as Ukraine's hold on Bakhmut slips. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top." A grade-changing scandal and accusations of player ineligibility tainted their championship run that almost didn't happen, because of rulings made by state athletic officials. Mojo's state title run was cut one game short after a 14-9 playoff loss to Dallas Carter. The official 1989 Football Roster for the University of North Carolina Heels But its really the kind of movie that lets people know that you can make it if you try. Eva-Marie Ayala/Staff Writer, Dallas-set football drama 'Carter High' hits Netflix Novemeber, 2016, Former Carter High star football player Jessie Armstead reflects on the past, Carter High tackles Dallas teams woes head-on, Over two decades later, a chance for public redemption, Scandal taints memories of 'best ever,' the 1988 Carter football team, Robbery spree was 'just for kicks' for 1988 Carter football team, Former players on 1988 Carter football team tried to move on, but shaking past wasn't easy. DALLAS As South Oak Cliff heads to the 5A state championships this weekend, many in Dallas are celebrating, but its also reminding a lot of people of David W. Carter High School, commonly referred to as Dallas Carter. As the legal wrangling continued through the playoffs, the Carter Cowboys stayed focused and pushed forward to win the state championship. Full Bio. Texas GOP censures Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes on guns, marriage equity. The others got anywhere between 13 to 25 years. He noted the 21 holdups were more than those attributed to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who terrorized the South during the 1930s. In the late 19th and . The 1988 Cowboys playoff season was highlighted by accusations of grade manipulation of a player, the team being declared ineligible several times during the . Freshman Stoughton, Mass. Most prominent among those sentenced were Evans, who was picked by UPI as one of the nation's top 100 college football prospects last spring and signed with the University of Tennessee, and Edwards, the center of a grading controversy that almost cost Carter its chance at the 5A playoffs last season. "I dont let anything worry me.. Evans, who was paroled Aug. 22, 1996, says his co-workers don't know about his football or prison past. (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer). "Somebody like Jessie, he doesn't worry because he's probably got enough money," Evans says of Armstead, who played 12 NFL seasons and is a New York Giants special assistant. March 4 (UPI) -- Texas Republicans on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to censure U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes supporting same-sex marriage and gun control bills that broke party lines. Dallas Carter High School players Gary Edwards (left) and LeShai Maston celebrated their team's victory over Odessa Permian during the State UIL semi-final game in Austin on December 10, 1988. DALLAS -- Ten current and former high school students, including five members of Dallas Carter's Class 5A championship football team, were sentenced to prison terms Friday by a judge who told them, 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole.'. For information on the 2017 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "What Carter Lost," click here. The REAL 1988 Mojo from Friday Night Lights movie. July 27, 2021. Longtime Illinois high school sports historian Robert Pruter reminds that many college and NFL Hall of Famers were not high achievers in high school. Catch up on the day's news you need to know. Carter High: Directed by Arthur Muhammad. Many of them talk in the documentary about how much they lost and how they've tried to rebuild their lives. Beginning days after the championship and continuing into the summer, several players, along with other Carter students and graduates, committed a string of armed robberies that would cut their futures short. Anyone can read what you share. ". "I tell people all the time, I was like Michael Jordan and he was like Scottie Pippen," Armstead says. DALLAS (CBS11) A private screening of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary "What Carter Lost," was held at the Texas Theatre on Wednesday night. But the last thing he told me was, 'Don't take it personally, man.' Despite all the public attention, you are nothing but a bunch of crimnials who went out, put guns on honest working people, terrified them and took their money. "The story is so much that you can't print," he says. Courtesy of ESPN Films The 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team is receiving some notoriety this week as ESPN's 30 for 30 about the team debuts Thursday. Not an investigation into their leading scorers algebra grade. The case went before Kendall, who rejected pleas for leniency and ordered most of the defendants to prison for sentences that ranged from two to 25 years. My story is unedited.". 2017 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Example video title will go here for this video. In truth, the football team from Carter High School was a . Only Gov. Part of his beat was covering the Dallas Carter Cowboys, who are the subject of an ESPN documentary set to air this week ( What Carter Lost, Thursday 9:30 p.m. EST). "After the roller coaster of this season and postseason," Hootnick explains, "you had a few guys on that team really, to my mind, inexplicably going and joining an armed robbery ring for pretty much no reason. March 4 (UPI) -- Roel Degamo, the governor of the Philippines province of Negros Oriental, was assassinated and five others also died Saturday in an attack by gunmen, officials said. His last job was with a firm that assists in litigation document preparation. "That was just four years I kind of wasted," he says. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Not the racial tensions of the time. He says, "These guys talk about the fact that no matter how far they went after playing big time Texas high school football, there was no crowd that felt more intense, there was no game that felt bigger than their biggest games in their Texas high school careers. It would be the first of 21 robberies that police connected to 15 Carter neighborhood teenagers, including six from the football team. "The other thing is, for everything that I think I could have been excellent at doing, I can't be. The film featured Dallas' 1988 Carter High School football season. 10 Texas Athletes Are Sentenced to Jail Terms for Robberies, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/24/us/10-texas-athletes-are-sentenced-to-jail-terms-for-robberies.html. I think Im losing them. Full Bio. After looking this up it sure seems to be 100% accurate. Dallas, Texas. Evans says. During the 1980s Carter High School in Dallas, Texas was a football powerhouse. Initially, Evans seemed glad to see him. Frankly, I was shocked, recalled West, who also represented Edwards in his criminal case. Ellis, the executive producer, told The Monday Morning Quarterback that he hopes viewers will take a similar message away from the film. During a phone interview, Evans says there is a reason he has rebuffed reporters since giving prison interviews to The Dallas Morning News in 1989 and 1991 and to author H.G. We try to tell our young kids now, the decisions you make are going to affect you a long time.. Houston, Texas. 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Sentenced one by one, most of the defendants hung their heads as the judge ruled. The lanky pass rusher recorded 85 tackles, 25 1/2 for losses, and 20 sacks over the past two seasons. Before, she was a Research & Archives Associate and wrote about the historical happenings from the The News' archives. West, who represented the school in its legal battle to make the playoffs, remembers the politically charged atmosphere at the time. D.W. Rutledge, whose Judson team lost to Carter in the 1988 final, gives Carter the nod, and so does Dan Hooks, whose West Orange-Stark team lost to Yates in 1985. MLB legend makes surprise appearance at Astros' Spring Training, Houston is ugly, and I've never felt more at home, This is what Houston looks like from space, Oops! He has long been devoted to his fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, overseeing the local chapter's economic development dealings. "I'm proud of Gary. The movie has several Dallas ties. . In the end, five Carter players served time in prison. "What Carter Lost" (CBS11) It was a historic season that included a national football championship for the predominantly black . July 21, 2021. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top.". "They talk about that high school team that kicked everybody's ass," he says. There's some debate as to whether that team is better . Thats definitely still part of the film, but its not the main focus. The Mesquite Horn offensive coach and quarterback who once led Carters team to victory remembers his high school days fondly it was the time, he says, he really felt like he was playing for the community. His bio doesn't mention a father, but Evans says he has attended several A&M games this season. 2022-23 . Often described as the high school football game of the century.Although the final score was 24-24, Texas UIL tiebreaker rules determined that Duncanville wa. Former state District Judge Joe Kendall in his sentencing of Carter High players. "He works for an office supply company, I think.". "I'm glad I did go to prison," he says. Yates' coach Luther Booker was a molder of men. Carter, a field artillery officer by training, also happens to be a defensive disrupter. See the article in its original context from. Chelsea is an Audience Journalist who promotes Dallas Morning News content on various social media platforms and manages the homepage. Garrick Damon Evans-Williams was born 13 days later. Not the racial tensions of the time. Hometown / High School; 1: Bill Franklin: DB: 6-2: 190: Fr. Lincoln Heights, OH / 2: Roney Harris: QB: 6-1: 180: So. Keith Campbell, 18, received a 25-year term for his involvement in four robberies. FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. Interviewing teammates and researching old newspaper stories led him to reflect - which, naturally, he also did in prison. "Nothing wrong with that. 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That firestorm began when Russeau moved player Gary Edwards from one algebra class where the teacher insisted Edwards was failing to another that used a school improvement plan system implemented by the principal. It would be difficult for anybody. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. But while this is a film about some football players making some bad decisions, its also a film about many other players who didnt go down the wrong path. We're not thugs.' "I really don't give a [expletive] what people say about me, whether it's true or false.". 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole,' Kendall said. Its a story thats been re-told in Dallas over and over, and on the national stage, too: first in Buzz Bissingers book Friday Night Lights, which chronicles the Odessa-Permian Panthers 1988 season, which saw them defeated by Dallas Carter in the state semifinals; then in the 2004 film adaptation of Bissingers book, which arguably painted the Cowboys as more villainous than they actually were; then in Carter High, a 2015 film about the 1988 season from the Cowboys perspective; and finally, in What Carter Lost.. he says of his kids. Carter served a black, middle-class neighborhood in Dallas. Football has taken Robert Hall from Texas Tech to Houston, Amsterdam and Canada. There's some debate as to whether that team is better than the 1985 Yates team that steamrolled opponents on its way to a state championship. Get the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond. @coachjoshheupel. It was like, 'Hey, I'm down with you for whatever because I know you're down with me.' 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Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Clarence Russeau Jr. near Routh Street in the State Thomas neighborhood where he grew up. Overall Score 40.47 /100. You dont even get a chance to think about the past, trying to think about the present, he said. View career profiles, stats, photos and video highlights. Additionally, the audio story, as did a previous Web version, state that six Carter High School football players served time in prison. Are insane ticket costs pricing Astros fans out of Opening Day? Health issues have slowed the 91-year-old down, but Russeau usually makes it to his Thursday night bible classes and the occasional fundraising gala. ", In the film, Hootnick interviews Texas high school football stars who went on to play professionally. @Vol_Football. The greatest high school football team that has ever been assembled. Yeah, it was difficult. Twenty-eight players on the 1988 team got collegiate football scholarships. Nothing could deter the Cowboys on their way to winning the state championship that year. Tanell Evans, a standout track performer for Lancaster, now competes for Sam Houston State. According to the Texas Birth Index, Tanell Derica Evans was born Oct. 19, 1989. East Carter had boys team before 1992. Not the ensuing legal battle that nearly kept them out of the playoffs. Comments (-1) Tweets by DALLASCARTERFB. Others said they had spent the money on trips to an amusement park, food and athletic shoes. No one would have fathomed that the state title victory on Dec. 17, 1988, would be Evans' last organized game. The work of education requires support from the entire community, and Carter High is committed to partnering with businesses, nonprofits, civic clubs, religious organizations and other groups that want to invest their time, talent and resources in students. Freed from the bonds of time and space, who would win a game between the star-crossed 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys, defrocked Class 5A champions of 1988, and the Houston Yates Lions, undefeated 5A champions of 1985? The Cowboys were stripped of the State title after it came to . Volume 2 30 for 30: Shorts Full Schedule ESPN Films. Historical Coaches: Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau. In one instance, two star players used a .22 revolver to take $256 and a movie rental that cost $3.24 from a Video Exchange. 1994 Roster # Player Position Birthday Hometown High School Height Weight; 1: DeWayne Carter: WR: 4/21/1973: Orchard Lake, MI: St. Mary's Prep: 6'1" 192: 2: Ty Howard: CB, DB: 11/30/1973: Active Coaches: Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Mike Tomlin, Pete Carroll. He received a 20-year term for his involvement in four robberies. Mayor: HISD has two optionsclose school or be taken over, Rare photos show 2 ocelots crossing South Texas road, Eric Gordon trade looking better and better for Houston Rockets, Willie Nelson pays lovely tribute to another country legend, This Texas Hill Country town is the new, cooler Fredericksburg, Hiker takes 'once-in-a-lifetime' photo at Brazos Bend State Park. If SOC wins Saturday morning, it would officially be the first Dallas Independent School District team to win a state championship since 1958. But its not the kind of football movie that Dallas-based writer and director Arthur Muhammad ever imagined hed be making. On offense, he said, Yates likely would have had a slight edge. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. Instead, his grades were changed to make him pass that class. Get your Permian football updates by valid e-mail address. Not an investigation into their leading scorer's algebra grade. Evans, 44, who in 1988 was talented enough to be considered one of the nation's top high school defensive backs and flamboyant enough to sign his letter of intent while sitting in a hot tub in .