LaQuita Taylor
Submission #2
2/29/16

Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as voluntary activities undertaken by a company to operate in an economic, social, and environmentally sustainable manner. The school board’s decision to make Coach Boone the head coach over Yoast, who was the more seasoned coach, was a prime example of this. The school board was trying to please the black community by doing this. The town of Alexandria was currently in an uproar over a shop keeper shooting a young black man in his store. The school board did this because there were a lot of schools integrating but keeping the head coaches white. At the time this was an appropriate decision to make to keep the community from rioting like the really big cities. Boone handled the situation like a man. He respectfully declined at first, but with urging and acceptance from the black community he accepted the position. Before he had the first team meeting, he went to Coach Yoast and apologized for taking the position. Coach Yoast was not very accepting at first but, after camp and seeing what Boone was trying to do, he came to respect him. Even after receiving the head coach position Boone still faced problems. As the season began he was told that if he lost one game he would be fired.
When Coach Yoast was approached about his Hall of Fame nomination and what he had to do in order to be inducted into the Hall of Fame he was conflicted. He had come to like Coach Boone and this caused an ethical dilemma. He wanted to and deserved to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. For the members of the Hall of Fame committee to demand that he throw a game intentionally caused a major problem for Yoast. He had to deal with some demons during the game they wanted him to throw. On one hand he could throw the game and get inducted into the Hall of Fame, on the other he could do the right thing and coach the team to victory. In the end he chose to do the right thing. He dug in his heels and stood up for Coach Boone and the team. He got fed up with the way his boys were being treated on the field. He went to the official that was calling against the Titans and told him he didn’t care if he went down with him. If he didn’t call a fair game he would go to the papers. He went back to the bench and told his boys to in so many words destroy the other team’s offense. He then looked at Boone and told him to run up the score. He didn’t care that he lost the nomination into the Hall of Fame. He could look at his daughter and his team knowing that he had done the right thing.
Were there any alternatives? Possibly. He could have gone to Boone beforehand and told him what was going on. He could have told them no from the get go. He could have went ahead and let the Titans lose. Looking at the film and watching how Yoast was with his daughter he could not have done the wrong thing and looked at his daughter and team with any ounce of dignity.