Well y’all, I got too excited. I knew watching Hoosiers as a homework assignment was too good to be true. The movie has been pretty much ruined for me by – yup you guessed it – Reaganomics. (kind of).
We had to read a journal article about the film, of course. And it really bummed me out opened my eyes to a couple of things that I’m not completely sold on:
I learned that a 1980s movie about a 1950s event reflected more on the ‘80s and less on the ‘50s. Apparently this is problematic. And racist. (See: Basketball’s great white hope and Ronald Reagan’s America: Hoosiers [1986])
I also learned that in the real story the film is based on, the team that won only did so because there was no shot clock at the time and they would just HOLD THE BALL to slow down the pace of the game. Sometimes they would hold it for three or four minutes before they shot! This is ridiculous and only adds to my general suspicion of people from Indiana.
To sum it up, academia has basically ruined Hoosiers for me.
Have anybody seen Hoosiers recently? What did y’all think of the film?
Meredith R. Allen 
I’m in the same class as you, E465. I had never seen it before this class, and I wasn’t that fond of it even before reading the article. Like the article suggested, the characters on the team kind of blended together. The movie also doesn’t make it clear, at least to me, how what the coach was teaching them helped them to win.
You’d never seen Hoosiers before?! I thought everybody had a middle school coach that taught history and showed it in class for a week straight…?
Although, truth be told, every time I’ve seen it I can never tell the boys apart either – except the short one and the star. It just never seemed to matter before, I guess.