Blue Chips (1994) on Netflix
The Western University Dolphins are no longer winning, and coach Pete Bell is under pressure. He cannot land recruits, and rival programs are said to pay players, which the rules forbid.
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Plot summary
In Los Angeles, Pete Bell coaches the basketball team at Western University. The program is not winning as it once did, and Bell has trouble recruiting the top high school players he needs. He learns of allegations that other college programs give recruits improper financial incentives, which college rules prohibit. Boosters are said to be behind those payments, and Bell is under pressure from all around.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blue Chips (1994)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Blue Chips had been in development since 1981, bouncing from Time Life Films to MGM and then to 20th Century Fox, where studio head Joe Roth put the script into turnaround. Sherry Lansing got it back at Paramount and had it greenlit, then introduced the project to William Friedkin, who was her husband.
- Tates Locke claimed the movie was actually inspired by his 1982 book Caught in the Net, co-written with Bob Ibach, which detailed Locke's own transgressions as a college basketball head coach, primarily during his time at Clemson.
