Year of the Bull (a High Football Documentary film) 

i was on this team. a large majority of us went on to college and graduated. i did with honors and is now starting a publication company. those coaches helped me become the man i am today. they we dad when there wasn't a dad at home. we needed them. if it wasn't for them, we would not be productive citizens. to you all who don't know the truth, i just wrote it. bulls c/o 2002 #38

I get so tired of weak people saying that these coaches are bad. 1. This was the #5 team in the nation when this was filmed. 2. People do not know about life in inner city Miami need to spend time there and research the area. I have friends and teammates that are from there. You can not be a soft coach coaching in Miami, Fl... 3. These coaches played at the school where they are coaching. These coaches are going to do whatever to make sure their players stay of the street and getnout of the hood. Your fantasy life is different from the reality that others live.

For anyone who thinks the coaches here are bad coaches or are too hard ...you don't know what real love is... My mother grew up on the streets of Jamaica and lived in a wood shack in Kingston Jamaica... She now is a Doctor and runs one of the biggest hospitals in the US. She raised me the only way she knew..she raised me HARD. She is older now and looks back on some of the beatings and the hard times with regret ...but I know she was hard on me because she came from nothing and knew it was her job to prepare me for the world. life is hard... Life is EXTRA hard if your a black man in america and one slip up, or one moment of weakness where you lost control could land you in a cage like an animal. Too much love and kindness from your family makes you soft and weak. You grow up soft and spoiled and learn to rely on their money and their help when things get hard. Too hard and tough of an upbringing and it makes the kid angry and rebellious. You have to find a balance when raising a child... Some Parents think raising a kid is about buying them what they want, keeping them quietly entertained for most of the day and being their "friend" (Please Timmy do your homework...I will get you some Ice cream later if you do! FUCK THAT let my Jamaican mother come home with dishes full in the sink and no homework done...lord jesus may God help you. She would pull her car into the driveway and my heart rate would spike...Mom's Home...oh fuck!!)...The kids grow up and dont fear the parents, they dont know what it's like to wake up at 6 am, cook breakfast, and go work two jobs with no days off and somehow fit in night classes to make ends meet... They dont respect that because they literally dont understand how hard it is...They view their parents like they are equals and talk back and don't listen to sound advice.They listen and respect to their knuckle head friends from school and not their own mother and father who brought them into this world. Kids need to respect and fear their parents a little bit. You can't make something Extraordinary without great effort and great sacrifice... You got parents out here who let the internet, cell phones and the TV raise their kids and then are so confused when they have no control over their kids when they are older. The Coaches in this video are extra hard because they know that football may be the only way out for some kids and if they lose the respect and the fear from the Alpha's they will lose respect and control of the whole group.

note to self: never go to a black mans house and take their remote control. especially if i'm wearing the same clothes he got on

This documentary is a classic

I look at this clip and this is just a microcosm of what we were able to do. I played next to Taurean every game. He was our leader on our defense. We all developed together. Coach Horace gave us the freedom and the edge we needed at the time. Like Coach Max said, "This s#$% should be easy.." It was too easy at times. As a Defense, we could stop anybody. As a D-Line, we were hungry. Coach Horace taught us to play with no regard for our opponents. Coach Max taught us to play as a unit. We could adjust on the fly. I never played with a group of guys like that in my life. We may have lost the Championship game, but we had something special.

@ridedamaverick You asked me what type of man i became. I was the first in my family to attend college. I am a graduate of Florida A&M University's School of Journalism and Graphic Communications. I graduated with a 3.5 G.P.A. I have worked for ESPN, Gannett (company which owns USA Today), WPDE and WCTV in a producer role. The Discipline I received from my coaches helped me get to those places.I never imagined being in the harsh conditions of liberty city that i would have seen the world.

If this doesn't pump you up, then you don't get football. Complain all you want, the results speak for itself. Ranked #1 national highschool champs. 15-20 division 1 athletes. These coaches got everything out of their players. It's obvious.

2021 and Year of the Bull still goes hard, these young bucks dont know about real football.

These new kids these days would have never made it lol. I miss high school football coaches like that

This is how our coaches were in the late 90s, but the Coal fields of WV style. I'd love to have been part of a team with such passionate leaders trying to motivate me.

YO MAMA IN THE FUCKIN STANDS!! Coach's jeans are high and tight

This was one of the first youtube videos I watched. Good memories.

you get arrested now for trying to discipline black youth like this today. but this is the tough love needed sometimes

The cowboys need coaches like this

I love these coaches....this team produced more nfl players than most other high caliber hs teams...Sean spence, t Bridgewater, Eli rogers,amazing amari,I think Marcus forston,Erie Sims?,damnit just go look....so yeah I wish coaches was.mprre like these guys...they put out top prospects consistently.

Someone post the whole documentary. This is how high school football works in in inner-city Miami. Can't be soft playing ball in Dade. So much is at stake for these players; it's football or the streets.

exactly why MIA always produces top college recruits

These kids today couldn’t handle this coaching 💀

@ridedamaverick First of all, the coaches in this film treated us like human beings. Secondly, the kid accused of rape was not on this team; he was on the team three year's later. And he was never found guilty of the villainous act. I worked hard for my G.P.A. i double majored. why would you disrespect FAMU in such an inappropriate manner? What is your problem? Northwestern has produced doctors, lawyers, fortune 500 company executives, congressman and senators. Do research before you talk.

teddy bridgewater and amari cooper went to this school in Miami

I remember our high school football coaches showed us this gem. Those were some good times.

You can question the coaching methods but you can't question the results... These kids are the ones that make it to the NFL.

So much comedic material in this 😂

This is real coaching. I played basketball high school and aau basketball. My coach played for Bobby Knight. I had that coach from 7th grade all the way up through senior year. I can laugh now but the look on some of those boys faces in the first few practices lol. Those were the same boys though who looked surprised everytime they chewed our asses out lol. Idc it toughened us up and helped mold us into being men.

i use to watch this in highschool before football games

WELCOME TO YOUR MOM'S HOUSE

I went to that school 07-08 year we won state.....Da coaches was tough bruh!!! You gotta understand tha way we was raised, u cant make it to state and come back with nothin less than a state title and thats why we CHAMPS

High school kids looking like grown ass men😂

@1coolguy9 No your wrong. Coach max ( the one in the beginning) works at Miami Central, they just won 6A state championship. The coach who was fighting the player works for UM and before that he worked at Booker T Washington. Schools Wish they had coaches like these to keep there players in line and help them win.

This is a classic!! I remember when they came to Texas and played #2 in nation Southlake Carrol..Mannn Luke was in the crowd and it was lit. #1NW won but it was very unfamiliar to see Southlake take a L tho.

Dope af , really captivating fr.

Back in the days this how football was, this showed the coach who wanted to play and who just wanted to say they were on the team. Their wasn't no parents complaining because they already knew what the peat was. Now, a days anybody can play football, the coaches babying the kids, and parents yelling at the coach. That's why you see teams with coaches like these dominating the game, because they want the kids to succeed and will push them until they got no more in them

Kids miss this kind of love and coaching due to a soft sucker culture in America.

man nobody should hate on this video.all the best players come from coaches like this. All these kids are ready for the next level.its hard to find teams like this anymore cause nowadays if someone did that to their son they would file a law suite. Keep doin what yall doin.

1 minute mark. Ice Harris. Got me hyped to have him at RB coach at the U.

I bought this DVD at a Big Lots in Sacramento as a middle school kid in the early 2000s. It changed my life, and I went on to play football. 🏈

high school football in Miami serious

When You Are A MIAMI NORTHWESTERN BULL, YOU ARE A BULL 4 LIFE... ( BULL 4 LIFE! ) We Take This Saying Very Serious Down Here In Miami. Go Hard or Go Home! No Bull Shit!

Thank you Tom Segura and "Your Moms House Podcast" for putting me onto this

This is what attitude football is about. It makes them tough.

this is the inner city. the ghetto. if havent been here then u will ever understand the coaching nor the culture. these kids arent angels. its tuff love. they werent traumatized from the coaching because what goes on n the community is FAR worst than u can imagine.

i wish we had coaches like this in high school

You accusin' me T. Diddy of stealing pissa? That kid had me cracking up.

man, back in Detroit, had a coach TOUCHED us like that, they would've lost their job. No questions.

I can't do nothing but smile. Brotherhood

Barrington Irving was on this team. First Black pilot to fly a single engine plane around the world. Check his interview out on The Breakfast Club.

we need the full documentary

now thats practice

Teddy Bridgewater went to this school...SKOL!!!!

This type of play is what makes dawgs! Too bad this kind of coaching has disappeared. I miss it!

4:15 always cracked me up

Vinny your dad has gone 52-69 since coaching at FHS...That's good coaching right there.

All of yall who saying they were bullying the players then you really don't understand ands it's probably because you don't play sports. I wish I had a coach that was willing to get fired before he let me act like that. Even though most of the kids might not be successful financially I bet they make up for it in character.

I just watched this documentary last night......Pretty intense stuff! What a shame about what happened to Taurean though.....I would've liked to see him make it after going through all that shit.

You are dead on brotha!! Great observation, well done!

That's some intense ass stuff. Insanely talented kids come out of that program.

Imagine the youth of today trying to deal with this. SOFT

walking on that field is like magical, but they rarely use that field anymore for practicing

My dad asked me did i want to attend MNW due to sometimes living with my grandmother on NW 75 Street. But being my mom and dads house had central air and all of my friends were down south i opted out. Now that im older i wish like hell i did but lords knows if i did i probably would have been a serious street dude with kids at a young age.

Lol 5:42 when the coach runs at him he is like "Al right, all right, all right..." and like runs away.

@ridedamaverick I also got into college due to my academic accomplishments. It wasn't just football. the game served as a spring board to enter rooms and make connections you may never make. and If you want to discuss anything with me, I will be in Tallahassee very soon. I am speaking to a panel of FAMU students on September 9th from 3pm - 6pm.

I went to northwestern and i can tell you that football is a serious thing in south Florida, especially in Miami. These coaches have known some of the players for much longer time than the 4 years they spend in high school. for some they are the only male figures in their lives and quite possible the only people that can get through to them.

I was laughing about the coming to disrespect someone house and mentioning grabbing the remote control 😂

THIS SHIT IS BIG TIME!!!

DROP KICK ME!

playing pop warner on the west coast of florida near fort myers shit was easy. But everytime we had to go play Richmond, Palmetto, or Richmond we get crushed and now I see why. Them boys have no fear

that was Tim ice Harris talking about it mama in the stand now coaching at brooker t. Washington

Where can I watch the full documentary

i was actually on this team. those coaches taught us how to be men. LIFE is tough, so they had to instill tougness, so we could fight and survive. A lot of us are college graduates. (for many, the first to achieve such a task.) THANK YOU to my coaches for those moments that instilled discipline and character.

Real life isn’t nice either. Coaches like this get ya ready.

Northwestern football program is no JOKE, COACHES have these kids ready every game. Yo i,m from ATL an i want to see them play

Totally here because of twitter

#2 was funny as hell!!! lmao

Some of you don't get it. Lots of these kids are from the hood. These coaches keep them in line. Not only that, but these guys are the biggest dynasty in High School football. Go look at the kids they send to D1 schools and how many they have sent to the NFL. It's no joke. That is how they have to run it with these kids, otherwise the kids would take over. BTW, Taurean Charles was kicked off the Florida football team for multiple problems. Should have gotten his head in check.

where can I buy the full documentary?

some players need to be shouted at,others need a quiet chat,depends on the individual,their way obviously works 'cause they have two championships,the players respond to them,they're good coaches

The West In 2002 lost to Apopka in the 6a title game.

@dNice420 You can adapt just fine to who you're coaching without insulting them and call them garbage. I'm not saying the coaches should never let a harsh word fly out of their mouth, but when it's aimed at the kids as an insult then that isn't "adapting" but it's stooping down to a lowly level. A coach can be firm but affirming at the same time. I'm not saying it's an easy job, but it's the right way to do it.

They would be District Runner-Up and Regional Champions with a 10-4 record. Would later win a state championship in 2006 and 2007

He is in Cali working on an acting/modeling career and mentoring young athletes.

I have this DVD and use to watch it all the time when I was in little league football. STL little league football use to be this intense

This is how teams win games forreal

i need this is big time where can i find it

these coaches=good team u see how they react to this its amazing

The coach in the beginning use to be my coach at central and he is that crazy ALL THE TIME. He use to slap the shit out of us without helmets

This was Last chance U before Last Chance U 😅

Those kind of coaches don’t even exist anymore. Even if they wanted to be that way they wouldn’t allow it.

he sounds like my middle school coach when were losing games. but he aint smack no body. he was a good coach i see him every day at my high school

Alumni 2011 We Need Those Coaches Back Seriously!!! -.-

Rest in Peace to Horace Morris.

I'm frm pittsburgh Pa....a football city fosho 💯 but florida different especially back then watching this documentary use to have me hype rs o yeah can't forget dat name T Diddy is crazy😂😂

Northwestern High is one of the worst academic schools in the country. Miami Northwestern High School was labeled a "dropout factory" in a Johns Hopkins University study of retention rates of students from their freshman to senior year. It has a retention rate of just 41%, meaning that only 41 out of every 100 entering freshman will complete all four years of high school and obtain a diploma.

I'm surprised this has so many thumbs downs. Everything you said is true. Most likely the will not all be signed and for those who aren't what are they to do with memories of coaches screaming at them, calling them worthless?

I still randomly yell out at work “ why the defense not workin’”

Once every ten years haha most schools would be lucky to have a player him come along in the schools entire history

could you upload the entire movie? id really like to see it

works over 10 state championships

Some observations. First, regarding the comments: Defenders of the coaches have the same reasons as the defenders of Bob Knight; that the coaches "made us into men". I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the comments or tactics. It's just an observation. Second, I remember then-Chief Crew commenting on the movie, and how "this kind of coaching behavior is not acceptable". The comments were made in the aftermath of the 2006 scandal, and 5 years after the movie.

Someone needs to download this