When Coach Boone wakes his players at 3 AM for a run to Gettysburg, he's not just building physical endurance - he's forcing a confrontation with the deeper battle they're all fighting.
Paul McDonald sits down with Leo Clark (Texas basketball coach) and Conrad Schottel (Colorado) to explore how this 1971 integration story reveals timeless truths about unity, respect, and the courage to have hard conversations.
Leo shares powerful stories from his own coaching experience about breaking down racial barriers through sports, while Conrad unpacks how good authority figures become spiritual fathers. Together, they examine why unity can only come through truth-telling, not truth-avoiding.
This conversation goes deep into the spiritual warfare underneath cultural division and how sports becomes the great unifier when everything else fails.
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