The definition of Ripple Effect according to our text is, “A chain reaction that begins in one part of a system and spreads across an entire system.” In the movie Hoosiers, one can see an example of the Ripple Effect take place within the townspeople. With the team’s star player not returning, there are many opinions and suggestions being made as to how the Hickory Huskers should be coached. When the new coach Norman Dale seems to brush the opinions of the townspeople away, they become hostile and agitated with him. George Walker, who is the obvious leader of the concerned townspeople, decides that he will step in and become the assistant coach. When George is denied the role of assistant coach, there is immediate hostility. George rallies fellow parents and townspeople to observe practices and gets them riled up about the new coaching techniques Coach Dale uses. When Coach Dale decides to recruit the town drunk as his assistant coach, George convinces the people to go as far as taking a vote to get Coach Dale removed from his position. The anger and frustration from one person ended up radiating throughout an entire town, and although some people may have never acted on their feelings, the actions of one man caused the Ripple Effect of actions through many. The Ripple Effect doesn’t always lead to a negative outcome. At the town meeting to have the coach voted out of his position, Myra Fleener, who is a fellow teacher at Hickory High, stands before the people and tells them that she believes that Coach Dale deserves to stay. With Myra being the caretaker of Jimmy Chitwood, the boy who was the star player, some of the townspeople start to rethink their voting decisions. After Myra’s speech, Jimmy himself stands up and says that he will play for the team, but only if the new coach stays, this immediately makes most of the people want to change their votes and keep Coach Dale. This example shows another form of the Ripple Effect, showing that if one person takes a stand others will follow.
The perspective of input, throughput, and output can be used to analyze Coach Norman Dale’s team. Coach Dale’s team can be seen as a system, where interconnected parts work together to as a whole. Each member worked together along with the coach to become whole as a team. A system is composed of using input, throughput, and output. Input is defined in our text as “Resources that come from outside a system, such as energy (sunlight, electricity), information (internet, books), and people (a new group member).” The input in Hoosiers Hickory High School’s basketball team was Coach Dale, his new assistant coach Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch, and his different coaching style. Throughput is defined as “The process of transforming input into output to keep a system running.” This is where the team establishes norms, rules and roles. The Huskers learned their strengths and weaknesses, they followed the coach’s rules and techniques and stayed focused. The definition of output is “The continual results of the groups throughput (the transformation of input), such as decisions made, solutions created, and projects completed. The teams output was using the norms, rules, and roles they had set to ultimately win the state championship.
Within his team, Coach Norman Dale did establish boundary control. Boundary control is defined in our text as “Regulation that determines the amount of input and this influence from outsiders in a system”. Coach Dales establishes a closed system. He removes the distractions from the team such as the team member who only wanted to whisper and talk during the practice and by removing George from the court as an assistant coach. Coach Dale does not allow people into his closed practices, he also coaches the boys to do as he says and to follow only the techniques that he has taught them, not to listen to the crowd or to what others may say. He establishes these boundaries to keep his team members focused and disciplined, to have one goal in mind and one path to that goal. After one of the team members goes against the rules the coach has set up and after he benched him for the rest of the game, Coach Dale sits the boys down in the locker room and asks them to really think about whether or not they want to be a part of the team. He tells them that his rules are "the law, absolutely and without discussion!" The Huskers basketball team experienced all four t phases of Tuckmans group development. The four phases are forming, storming, norming, and performing but they do not always take place in this order.

Forming is the process of gathering members, in Hoosiers, the forming stage takes place when Coach Dale meets the members for the first time. When he meets the team, there are two disrespectful boys speaking while the coach speaks, after being called out, the two boys decide to leave and not be a part of the team. Member diversity is a part of the forming stage. The only real diversity between the members is their height, where one of the members gets made fun of for being short. Storming is the second stage. Storming is when the group begins to feel tension, both primary and secondary. Coach Dale’s team feels primary tension when he teaches them new drills that they have never done before, they feel nervous and flustered with the unfamiliar techniques. During the first game, when using the new techniques the team is behind, one of the members decides to go against what the coach has taught him and he resorts back to his old techniques that with which he is comfortable, because he does this, Coach Dale makes him sit out leaving his team short one person to teach them all a lesson. Norming is the process of regulating the group. In this stage, norms are established. One of the norms that Coach Dale sets is that the ball must be passed 4 times before shooting. The team begins to know their drills and they begin to work smoothly together. The last stage is the performing stage, where the team takes all they have learned and worked for and they ultimately work together knowing each other’s strengths and weaknesses to win the state championship. Hypercompetiveness is defined as an excessive emphasis on defeating others to achieve ones goals. A good example of hypercompetiveness in Hoosiers is during the sectional game against Terhune, a fight break outs when Jimmy is shoved after attempting to make a basket, being upset, Everett punches the opposing teams player which causes a fight to break out between both teams. During the fight, Everett is pushed into a trophy case, cutting his shoulder and needing stitches. The following game, Everett plays until he is pushed by a player on the opposing team which causes his stitches to open up, hypercompetiveness comes to light whenever Coach Dale tries to force Everett to play with his opened wound for fear of losing the game. Coach Dale comes to his senses and resorts to playing his shortest player who ends up surprising everyone. There are four leadership styles in the Hersey and Blanchard Situational Perspective model, they are telling style, selling style, participating style, and delegating style. Telling style is when there is a high task and low relationship emphasis. Coach Dales exhibits telling style when he walks out on the townspeople in the barbershop and when he informs then that they are not welcomed at the practices,. He is straight forward and focuses strictly on his coaching and practice, he doesn’t explain to them why and he doesn’t care as to whether or not they are happy about it, he doesn’t form that relationship with them. Selling style has a high task and high relationship emphasis exhibits selling style when he works with shooter to become sober. Shooter has an obvious love for basketball and his son, Coach Dale invests his time and effort with Shooter to help not only make shooter a better person but to help Shooter and his Everett to have a better relationship. Coach Dale tells Shooter that he can be his assistant coach but he has to be sober, this shows Dales compassion and it has a high relationship emphasis because it’s extremely personal. Coach Dale gets himself kicked out of one of the games just to give Shooter the opportunity to coach the team by himself. As a leader he is taking his eyes off of himself and helping to benefit another member of the group. Participating style has a low task high relationship focus, this can be seen whenever Myra finds out about Dales past. Throughout the movie it is evident that Dale has a crush on Myra. When she finds out the reason as to why Dale has come to a small town and that he was suspended for attacking a player, she tells him that she appreciates the way that he hasn’t tried to get Jimmy to join the team. At this point in the movie it becomes obvious that the two have a sort of connection, and it seems to be clear that Coach Dale knows that she could tell everyone what she has discovered but he’s not going to stop her because he likes her. At the town meeting when Myra goes up in front of everyone she decides to fight for Coach Dale and shows focus on the relationship. Delegating style has low task, low relationship emphasis, this style is where the leader lets the group make the decisions. This style can be seen whenever Coach Dale first meets the team, he says if you want to go then you should go, he leaves it all up to the players. Throughout the rest of the movie, he is pretty much in control of his team and has a closed system style of leading. Hoosiers is based off of a true story 1954 Milan High School basketball team, there mascot was the Indians. The real coach named Marvin Wood, was only 26 when he brought the team to state, he wasn’t an older man. Wood did replace a coach in real life, but it wasn’t because he died. According to Chasing the frog. Com, The coach’s name that he replaced was “Coach Herman "Snort" Grinstead, who was fired for ordering new uniforms against the superintendent's orders.” In real life, the star players name was Bobby Plump, and he didn’t sit out for half of the season, he played the entire time. In the movie there are only 6 players, in real life there were ten. Hoosiers screenwriter Angelo Pizzo said he based Dale off of Indiana University's coach, Bobby Knight. "I utilized Knight's offensive philosophy: four passes before a shot," says Pizzo. According to ESPN, “Coach Marvin Wood measured the height of the hoop at Butler University's enormous Hinkle Field House, where the 1954 state finals were played (and where Wood himself played in college). Coach Wood did this to "cast out their fear" by illustrating to his players that although the field house was much larger than their hometown gymnasium, everything about playing basketball was the same. Rev. Daniel Motto spoke of this moment at Wood's funeral in October of 1999, saying that when he saw this scene in the movie Hoosiers, it was then that he realized the film was truly inspired by Wood.” The scenes for the final game in the movie were shot at Butler University's Hinkle Field House, which was where the real life events behind the Hoosiers true story took place. The announcer at the championship game in the movie, Hillard Gates, is the real life announcer who did the 1954 championship game. The real championship game was won 32-30 against the Muncie Central Bearcats. I believe that my sources are credible because they are some of the top news broadcasters in the world. ESPN is the leading sports network, and New York Daily is one of the leading news papers in New York.

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