Thursday, May 13, 2010

Radio

Mrs. Jones: [voiceover] Here in the upstate, things don't change much. Fall means football season. Being married to a coach means measuring things mainly by wins or losses. Except for that one year.

Mrs. Jones: It's bad enough when a parent misses a parent-teacher conference. But it's worse when the parent's a teacher.
Coach Jones: The parent's a teacher, he knows how his kid's doing. He doesn't need a conference to tell him that.

Mrs. Kennedy: There's a whole lot out there that's right. Don't mean we always do it.

Coach Jones: You're willing to do that. Take the blame for someone else? You're a better man than me. I'll tell ya that.

Principal: Young man, students do not tell me what I do and do not hear.

Coach Jones: Radio did not sell you out, son. There are plenty of other people willing to do that.

Coach Jones: You take him out of the school, you mind as well take his life from him.

Mrs. Jones: [voiceover] In that moment, my husband was prouder than if his team had won a state title. Radio was now officially a part of Hanna and a part of our lives forever. So if you happened to be in Anderson on a Friday night in the fall, get there early. You'll see the man they call Radio leading the Yellow Jackets onto the field. Radio's in his fifties now and he's the most beloved coach Hanna's ever had. Harold Jones, well, he was recently inducted into the South Carolina Coaches Hall of Fame. He's retired from teaching but still maintains his special friendship with Hanna's favorite 11th grader.

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