you're from e.s.u?
you got that right.
thanks for showin' me around, autumn. i don't meet too many females like you. you got a lotta class. real efficacious. maybe i'll check you out in the fall.
now you know where i'm going and what we're indubitably going to be.
yeh, good to see you guys. what happened to the band and the dancin' honies?
how ya' doin'?
are you serious?
this guy do this kinda shit a lot? they never mentioned this in recruiting.
i don't know.  i left a lot of 'em blank.
yeh.
coach winters asked me to bring it to the meeting. i don't know what for.
i'll see ya at the meeting. take this for me, will ya?
hey, autumn, hold up! what're you doing here? i thought students didn't come back for two weeks.
how about tomorrow night?
what's the matter? i'm not good enough for you all of a sudden? too young, is that it? i'm not, ya know. they held me back a year.
did you have this boyfriend when you showed me around?
yeah, well, it didn't seem to bother you then. i'm willing to overlook it now.
for what?
and you're still with this nigger?
wait a minute. i can at least walk with you, can't i? nothin' wrong with that.
i can keep up. i run the forty in four-four.
darnell jefferson. tailback.
i know. that's why they recruited me.
we'll see. give my best to miss lilly.
what do you mean?
i think i'm just hurt.
when do they give ya the scores on that placement test?
i still don't wanna flunk that test. i wanta get a degree.
hi there. darnell jefferson. i'm a young black man.
i love that motherfucker.
what does that mean? i can't play football?
a tutor? i don't need no tutor.
hey, autumn.
my advisor says i need a tutor. ya know, just to get me over a couple rough spots. i saw your name on this list. i figured if you couldn't keep my attention, nobody could.
not anymore. i asked coach winters to switch us.
yeh he would. i'm a bigger prospect than sherman. he's a lineman on the scout team.
c'mon autumn, you could teach me some real erudition.
what doya mean? i'm improvin' myself. i learn a new word out of the dictionary every day. mendacious, pejorative, antithetical, commensurate.
o.k.  even more reason for you to be my tutor. you already taught me something.
like what?
don't know that much about him. he was off in detroit workin' in a car plant when i was born. got laid off, tried to rob a jewelry store to get us some money. he died in prison. some kinda heart problem.
she was always workin'. usually two jobs. comin' home one night she stopped to get us some root beer. got caught in a gang crossfire. shot three times.  died on the way to the hospital. you want me to write about that?
good, 'cause none of it's true.
had ya goin', didn't i?
sounded more interesting than the truth. my mom took a vacation to chicago when i was 12. never came back. don't know who my dad was.
i started hangin' with the j.b.m., gang-bangin'.  did some time in the hall. reverand wallace saw me playin' football on a juvenile probation team. took me in, got me into high school. only reason they accepted me was 'cause i could play football. sorta like here. football saved my life. i'd be nowhere without football.
yeh, o.k.  thanks. i've seen a lotta shitty things in my life, autumn. that's why i know when i see somethin' good.
sorry.  i lost my football.
the thing i'm most proud of myself for?
just that i'm here. that i'm not dead or in jail.
what's alvin saying to that guy?
he wasn't pumped up already?
hey, some guy just gave me a 50 dollar bill.
but we're not supposed to get any are we?
why not?
can i have this one?
what are you so worried about? you haven't lost your starting job yet.
yeh, well, i got a little encouragement along the way.
bullshit. you meant it. i wouldn't be standing here now, everybody thinkin' i'm a stupid asshole, if i didn't know you meant it. i wanna see you, autumn. not in study hall. not like your student. like somebody to be taken seriously.
i don't need to go paradin'. we'll go someplace different. someplace nobody'll see us.
yeh, you only gained 37 yards on 12 carries.
yes, i figure the key is to go places only white people go. next time we'll go bowling.
plus i saw this in rocky. i never believed a guy who was supposed to be an athlete would skate that bad, but now i know.
you were pretty good for the first time.
he used to play ball for e.s.u., didn't he?
i saw his picture on the wall of fame. you got his eyes. luckily, you didn't get his thighs.
make sure you mean it this time.
yeh, i kinda figured that. i had some trouble on this last part.
i've been listening to you, baby.
c'mon, autumn, we just had a good time, and now you're gettin' all nuts behind this. it's just one test.
whatever you say, teach. i don't wish to be cast in a pejorative light, so i'm dedicating myself to achieving on a level more commensurate with my abilities.
hey, autumn.
is this your dad?
how do you do, mr. haley. i'm darnell jefferson.
thank you. we'll get 'em next year.
math and english.
yeh, i know.
good idea. well, i gotta get goin'. nice to meet you mr. haley.
see you around, autumn.
first time i ever lost a girl and a game on the same day. guess i never really had the girl.
c'mon we gotta get outa here.
been busy.
it wasn't awkward. it was educational. i realized how you see me. i'm good enough to tutor, to go places with, but not to tell your father about.
why not?
he's a good student, he acts right.  he doesn't need football. he's class and i'm not, right?
you don't have to, autumn. i'm everything your dad used to be and don't want you fallin' back into.
you were right before, autumn. i should have another tutor. thanks for everything you did for me.
hey, autumn. how's ray?
monica lambert.
didn't wanta win you over that way.
the test? i hope so. i been workin' pretty hard.
oh, yeah? how's he doin?
what did you say?
you missed that block on purpose, didn't you, asshole.
it's autumn isn't it? that's what this is all about.
shit!
monster block, man. monster motherfuckin' block.
thank you, sir. i got somethin' for you.
my entrance exam. got a 92. coach winters said you got an 87. he looked it up.