1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,030 [MUSIC PLAYING] 4 00:00:18,010 --> 00:00:21,010 [CHEERING] 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,110 [MARCHING BAND MUSIC] 6 00:00:27,110 --> 00:00:30,150 Summerville was definitely not known for basketball. 7 00:00:30,150 --> 00:00:34,150 This is sort of like football country. 8 00:00:34,150 --> 00:00:35,160 That's what we do. 9 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:36,230 We play football here. 10 00:00:36,230 --> 00:00:38,070 MELISSA CAMPBELL: Boys' basketball 11 00:00:38,070 --> 00:00:40,140 had never seen success. 12 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:42,070 The mascot was a Green Wave. 13 00:00:42,070 --> 00:00:44,020 But in the beginning, there was no wave. 14 00:00:44,020 --> 00:00:44,220 It was just flat. 15 00:00:44,220 --> 00:00:47,060 AJ GREEN: Coach Louis always had a motto about football players 16 00:00:47,060 --> 00:00:49,020 who play basketball, because we're tough. 17 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:51,050 And we always want to bring that toughness 18 00:00:51,050 --> 00:00:51,230 to the basketball court. 19 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:54,220 ANNOUNCER: Pass to AJ Green. 20 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:55,220 Touchdown. 21 00:00:55,220 --> 00:00:56,210 [INAUDIBLE] 22 00:01:00,070 --> 00:01:02,050 Louis was the underdog. 23 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:04,200 Like most firefighters, he roots for the little man. 24 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,120 He roots for the person who hadn't always had everything. 25 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,170 Mulkey saw something in us, because we were a wild bunch, 26 00:01:11,170 --> 00:01:12,070 you know. 27 00:01:12,070 --> 00:01:14,170 I yell a lot and I cuss a lot and I stay on you. 28 00:01:14,170 --> 00:01:17,060 It's because I love you and I want you to do right in life. 29 00:01:17,060 --> 00:01:19,190 AJ GREEN: Coach, teacher, dad-- he filled all those for a lot 30 00:01:19,190 --> 00:01:21,000 of guys, especially myself. 31 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 We're not going to quit on defense, you understand that? 32 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:23,080 Yes, sir. 33 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,140 We're going to keep boxing out. 34 00:01:24,140 --> 00:01:26,040 And we're going to have a lot of this tonight. 35 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,070 It ain't about me. 36 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:28,060 It's about us tonight. 37 00:01:28,060 --> 00:01:29,060 You got it? - Yes, sir. 38 00:01:29,060 --> 00:01:29,230 Let's go. Win on 3. 39 00:01:29,230 --> 00:01:31,030 - Come on, man. - 1, 2, 3. 40 00:01:31,030 --> 00:01:32,200 ALL: Win. 41 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,150 When he would make speeches like that, 42 00:01:35,150 --> 00:01:38,120 he would make anyone want to run through a brick wall for him. 43 00:01:41,010 --> 00:01:44,010 He had greatness on his mind. 44 00:01:44,010 --> 00:01:45,170 He told our young guys that they 45 00:01:45,170 --> 00:01:47,140 had a chance to go on and be the best team 46 00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:50,050 around and win a state title. 47 00:01:50,050 --> 00:01:52,030 I clearly remember Coach Mulkey 48 00:01:52,030 --> 00:01:55,140 once the practice was over, he told us we would win the state 49 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:57,100 championship the next year. 50 00:01:57,100 --> 00:01:59,030 A lot of us looked around, like, 51 00:01:59,030 --> 00:02:00,020 what was he talking about? 52 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:00,220 We thought he was crazy. 53 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:03,150 And then all of a sudden, we started to win at the JV level 54 00:02:03,150 --> 00:02:06,000 and win a lot. 55 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,140 As we actually started to see how things actually could be 56 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:12,010 and how good we actually could be, 57 00:02:12,010 --> 00:02:13,080 it made us push even harder. 58 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:19,050 MARLON PRYOR: That championship game, it 59 00:02:19,050 --> 00:02:21,060 went back and forth pretty much from the opening 60 00:02:21,060 --> 00:02:22,190 tip-off all game long. 61 00:02:22,190 --> 00:02:25,130 The gym was going crazy. 62 00:02:25,130 --> 00:02:26,210 BUSTER SEABROOK: Everybody was cheering, 63 00:02:26,210 --> 00:02:29,210 Louis Mulkey, Louis Mulkey. 64 00:02:29,210 --> 00:02:32,090 Louis Mulkey! 65 00:02:32,090 --> 00:02:33,090 Louis Mulkey! 66 00:02:33,090 --> 00:02:35,110 In that moment, it kind of really, 67 00:02:35,110 --> 00:02:39,050 really, really became clear that Mulkey had become the wave. 68 00:02:39,050 --> 00:02:41,090 Like, he was the wave. 69 00:02:41,090 --> 00:02:44,070 I remember looking at his seat with the firefighter helmet, 70 00:02:44,070 --> 00:02:47,210 and I felt something that said "let's go" in my head. 71 00:02:47,210 --> 00:02:49,230 THOMAS NEWMAN: We had a small lead, a couple of seconds 72 00:02:49,230 --> 00:02:51,170 left, we thought, man, this thing is in the bag. 73 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:52,170 We were kind of looking around. 74 00:02:52,170 --> 00:02:53,210 [WHISTLE] 75 00:02:53,210 --> 00:02:56,200 And then Bruce missed the free throw. 76 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,030 Guy gets the rebound, takes a step or two and throws it up. 77 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,040 All the air left my lungs. 78 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,160 It was just absolute disbelief. 79 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,020 ANNOUNCER: A long 3 goes. 80 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:16,040 MELISSA CAMPBELL: No way that shot went in. 81 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,030 We were all shattered. 82 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:17,190 There's no way. 83 00:03:17,190 --> 00:03:20,020 There's no way possible that this 84 00:03:20,020 --> 00:03:21,050 is how this is going to end. 85 00:03:31,230 --> 00:03:34,140 Boy, it's been a while since we've been here. 86 00:03:34,140 --> 00:03:36,090 Yeah, man. 87 00:03:36,090 --> 00:03:37,070 Good memories, man. 88 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:38,030 All right. 89 00:03:38,030 --> 00:03:38,170 Good memories. 90 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:43,010 Green and gold. 91 00:03:43,010 --> 00:03:43,160 Yes, sir. 92 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,070 Yes, sir. 93 00:03:47,170 --> 00:03:50,180 Look it here. 94 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:52,210 It still smells the same. 95 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:53,180 Yeah, man. 96 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:54,090 Green. 97 00:03:54,090 --> 00:03:54,230 [INAUDIBLE] 98 00:03:54,230 --> 00:03:56,130 Look a little different. 99 00:03:56,130 --> 00:04:01,060 Every time we ran in this gym, whether it was practice, games, 100 00:04:01,060 --> 00:04:03,090 he made sure to always have us look up in these rafters, 101 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:06,040 knowing that there's no banners up here. 102 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,040 And if we kept pushing-- 103 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,180 You see these fans over here. 104 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:11,070 And you see the opposing team warming up. 105 00:04:11,070 --> 00:04:13,120 It just make you want to go harder and just 106 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,170 give it all you got to the end. 107 00:04:14,170 --> 00:04:17,080 No quit-- as he say, no quit. 108 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:18,090 Give it all you got. 109 00:04:18,090 --> 00:04:21,100 It's crazy he predicted two years 110 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:23,000 beforehand that we would actually go out 111 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,200 and win a state championship. 112 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,140 And he sat there and told us, you know, stay out there. 113 00:04:27,140 --> 00:04:28,050 Get on it. 114 00:04:28,050 --> 00:04:30,150 I see this team winning a state championship. 115 00:04:30,150 --> 00:04:32,210 We would always reiterate the fact 116 00:04:32,210 --> 00:04:35,080 that we were going to be the first ones to put one up there. 117 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,030 So it was constant motivation. 118 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:38,100 And it was constant focus. 119 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,130 And it never left our brains that every time we 120 00:04:40,130 --> 00:04:42,050 came in this gym, he would always 121 00:04:42,050 --> 00:04:45,230 tell us to look up at the banners that we don't see. 122 00:04:45,230 --> 00:04:48,010 And if we work hard, when we look back up, 123 00:04:48,010 --> 00:04:49,130 the banners will be there. 124 00:04:49,130 --> 00:04:53,010 Not a lot of people see that, or speak it into existence. 125 00:04:53,010 --> 00:04:56,150 My first year here I coached JV football here. 126 00:04:56,150 --> 00:04:59,070 And it just happened that one of the assistant 127 00:04:59,070 --> 00:05:02,070 coaches out there with us was a guy named Louis Mulkey. 128 00:05:02,070 --> 00:05:04,080 He was an excellent football coach. 129 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,050 I knew that he was going to be a big-- 130 00:05:06,050 --> 00:05:08,180 a big plus in us getting started. 131 00:05:08,180 --> 00:05:12,010 We were basically starting over here with basketball. 132 00:05:12,010 --> 00:05:18,200 I knew he was a very fiery coach and very emotional. 133 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,150 Oh yeah, it would get heated, especially if you weren't doing 134 00:05:22,150 --> 00:05:24,170 what you were supposed to do. 135 00:05:24,170 --> 00:05:25,220 MARLON PRYOR: He'd get in your face 136 00:05:25,220 --> 00:05:27,160 with no problem, no hesitation. 137 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,030 Don't care if your parents are watching. 138 00:05:29,030 --> 00:05:31,090 Right there, all up in your face. 139 00:05:31,090 --> 00:05:33,230 THOMAS NEWMAN: Early on, myself and the players, 140 00:05:33,230 --> 00:05:36,120 we all had to adapt to Louis and his ways. 141 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,150 It was hard at first. 142 00:05:37,150 --> 00:05:38,070 It was very hard. 143 00:05:38,070 --> 00:05:40,110 There were some people that would try to walk away, 144 00:05:40,110 --> 00:05:41,130 and he wouldn't let them. 145 00:05:41,130 --> 00:05:45,050 Louis Mulkey is one of the few people in life 146 00:05:45,050 --> 00:05:47,040 I ever met that could get under my skin 147 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,190 and crawl and live there for a while. 148 00:05:49,190 --> 00:05:52,050 He definitely knew which buttons to push on me. 149 00:05:52,050 --> 00:05:52,220 He always told me. 150 00:05:52,220 --> 00:05:56,080 He was just like, I'm not doing this to be bad at you. 151 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,230 But he was like, you know, long term I 152 00:05:58,230 --> 00:06:00,140 see something in you that you might not 153 00:06:00,140 --> 00:06:02,040 be able to see in yourself yet. 154 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,140 [SHOUTING] 155 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,070 MELISSA CAMPBELL: He would see a lot of times an anger 156 00:06:09,070 --> 00:06:10,210 that he felt like he could challenge, 157 00:06:10,210 --> 00:06:11,220 that he could channel. 158 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:13,020 I really don't think when he looked 159 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:17,090 at them he was always thinking about their athletic talent. 160 00:06:17,090 --> 00:06:19,150 They knew that he was their school dad, 161 00:06:19,150 --> 00:06:24,130 but they knew that he wanted what was best for them. 162 00:06:24,130 --> 00:06:28,000 He just knew who had heart. 163 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,140 He wanted people pretty much came 164 00:06:30,140 --> 00:06:33,220 to give it-- with a fight, integrity, family, 165 00:06:33,220 --> 00:06:36,200 he wanted us to have it. 166 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,180 I'd say there was plenty of coaches around our high school 167 00:06:41,180 --> 00:06:45,030 that didn't think we had a chance, because he took 168 00:06:45,030 --> 00:06:48,120 a lot of kids that they passed over 169 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,070 because they were delinquents. 170 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:52,100 They didn't want anything to do with them. 171 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:54,080 He brought them over to the basketball team 172 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,130 and gave them a chance. 173 00:06:57,130 --> 00:06:59,230 MELISSA CAMPBELL: Some of these boys on the team, especially 174 00:06:59,230 --> 00:07:05,050 the early years, were some rough boys, rough around the edges. 175 00:07:05,050 --> 00:07:08,020 They came from very difficult home lives. 176 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:10,190 Some didn't have power all the time 177 00:07:10,190 --> 00:07:13,090 but would still make it here and practice 178 00:07:13,090 --> 00:07:14,180 and be here for school. 179 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:16,010 And he knew their back stories. 180 00:07:16,010 --> 00:07:19,010 He would meet them where they were. 181 00:07:19,010 --> 00:07:21,160 He always said, I understand what you're going through. 182 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,000 But here's what we need to do if you're going to make it. 183 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,080 Because you do want to make it out of here. 184 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,100 THOMAS NEWMAN: He dated Summerville high school. 185 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:32,150 The players and the kids, you know, they were his kids. 186 00:07:32,150 --> 00:07:35,200 His hours that he had to spend firefighting, 187 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,060 that was his profession. 188 00:07:38,060 --> 00:07:41,200 But any time he was free to be here, that's 189 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,100 the time he enjoyed the most. 190 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,080 MELISSA CAMPBELL: I don't remember ever meeting him, 191 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,050 but I do remember this crazy man in the hallways. 192 00:07:59,050 --> 00:08:00,190 I thought, who is this man bouncing 193 00:08:00,190 --> 00:08:04,130 around and yelling at students and joking with students? 194 00:08:04,130 --> 00:08:06,210 And I had no idea who he was at first. 195 00:08:06,210 --> 00:08:09,130 I thought maybe we just had found a substitute that 196 00:08:09,130 --> 00:08:11,180 had this next-level energy. 197 00:08:11,180 --> 00:08:13,130 And then I realized he was a firefighter, 198 00:08:13,130 --> 00:08:15,000 and it was even more confusing. 199 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,030 I know that firemen work 24 on, 48 off. 200 00:08:18,030 --> 00:08:22,020 But how is he here as often as he is and full of life 201 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:23,090 and energy all the time? 202 00:08:23,090 --> 00:08:26,140 He was very intense and very excitable and he was so wild. 203 00:08:26,140 --> 00:08:28,230 [SHOUTING] 204 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,120 JOSEPH GILES: He came from the fire department 205 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,070 where if you don't follow policy, 206 00:08:34,070 --> 00:08:36,220 if you don't follow regulations, people can literally die. 207 00:08:36,220 --> 00:08:39,140 He brought that same mentality to basketball. 208 00:08:39,140 --> 00:08:42,110 He was in school business, checking on grades, 209 00:08:42,110 --> 00:08:44,020 coming in classrooms. 210 00:08:44,020 --> 00:08:46,210 I remember him busting in-- 211 00:08:46,210 --> 00:08:48,230 I did bad one time on some schoolwork. 212 00:08:48,230 --> 00:08:49,180 And he came in. 213 00:08:49,180 --> 00:08:50,090 I'm sitting there thinking, like, 214 00:08:50,090 --> 00:08:51,070 how does he even know this? 215 00:08:51,070 --> 00:08:53,030 Like, who's telling him? 216 00:08:53,030 --> 00:08:55,220 RALPHIE MOSTELLER: If he found out you did something in school 217 00:08:55,220 --> 00:08:59,050 and he got wind of it, before we got home, 218 00:08:59,050 --> 00:09:00,120 when he was a substitute teacher, 219 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,220 coach used to come to your classroom. 220 00:09:01,220 --> 00:09:04,060 Like, hey, can I have a word with the student athlete? 221 00:09:04,060 --> 00:09:06,010 First thing coach going to do is-- 222 00:09:06,010 --> 00:09:07,100 slap you in the back of your head. 223 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,230 Like, man, what's wrong with you, knucklehead? 224 00:09:08,230 --> 00:09:10,110 You know you shouldn't have been doing that. 225 00:09:10,110 --> 00:09:11,150 He's going to let you know, man. 226 00:09:11,150 --> 00:09:13,090 BUSTER SEABROOK: Say you was talking to a teacher. 227 00:09:13,090 --> 00:09:15,160 Right then and there, say he had just popped up and went, 228 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,050 did he turn in his homework today? 229 00:09:17,050 --> 00:09:18,220 Oh, he was short a couple. 230 00:09:18,220 --> 00:09:21,150 So, Buster, you didn't do what you were supposed to do? 231 00:09:21,150 --> 00:09:22,190 Coach, I was just-- 232 00:09:22,190 --> 00:09:25,160 give me 50 push-ups. Coach! 233 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,000 Give me 50 push-ups. 234 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,030 AJ GREEN: Coach Louis could touch anybody. 235 00:09:30,030 --> 00:09:32,010 I think BJ was probably the biggest one for me, 236 00:09:32,010 --> 00:09:36,120 because I seen BJ grow from a hard head to having real anger 237 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,200 problems and wanting to fight everybody into when Coach 238 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,180 Louis walked in that room and BJ did something, 239 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:42,210 he'd know it was going to be on. 240 00:09:42,210 --> 00:09:44,030 And he understood that. 241 00:09:44,030 --> 00:09:46,220 But Coach Louis had a way to get into him to like nobody-- 242 00:09:46,220 --> 00:09:49,170 nobody could make him calm down the way Coach Louis did. 243 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:56,020 Everybody would not have been able to pull off his style. 244 00:09:56,020 --> 00:10:00,080 You know, I would say at the least it was unconventional. 245 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,100 MARLON PRYOR: If you weren't doing anything in the classroom 246 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:04,180 the right way, he'd definitely take that desk, 247 00:10:04,180 --> 00:10:06,170 put it out in the hallway, bell rings, 248 00:10:06,170 --> 00:10:08,150 all the kids walking by to see you. 249 00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:10,010 Make you sit right there and do your work 250 00:10:10,010 --> 00:10:11,220 in front of everybody. 251 00:10:11,220 --> 00:10:14,120 To him, grades were very important. 252 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:15,210 And if you weren't getting your grades 253 00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:19,050 or getting your schoolwork done, you wasn't practicing. 254 00:10:19,050 --> 00:10:20,200 He was going to pull a desk out of the classroom, 255 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,100 sit it in the gym, and you were going 256 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:25,020 to sit there right at that desk, do your schoolwork, 257 00:10:25,020 --> 00:10:26,170 study, get everything you needed, 258 00:10:26,170 --> 00:10:28,020 while everybody-- watch your teammates 259 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:29,060 practice on the court. 260 00:10:29,060 --> 00:10:30,200 MARQUEL WILLIS: I think six people practiced. 261 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,020 They were like, how are we going to practice? 262 00:10:33,020 --> 00:10:33,180 He didn't care. 263 00:10:33,180 --> 00:10:36,040 That was his way of showing you, like, you 264 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,100 don't just get to play sports. 265 00:10:41,130 --> 00:10:44,000 He knew that most of our players 266 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,110 would not be college athletes, but that all of them 267 00:10:46,110 --> 00:10:48,150 should be college students. 268 00:10:48,150 --> 00:10:51,170 A lot of people expected him just to be a coach. 269 00:10:51,170 --> 00:10:55,070 You know, you're a fireman who's volunteering to coach. 270 00:10:55,070 --> 00:10:58,180 You should just be coming in and showing up for the games 271 00:10:58,180 --> 00:11:01,030 and taking care of the locker room. 272 00:11:01,030 --> 00:11:02,190 But that was never Coach Mulkey. 273 00:11:02,190 --> 00:11:04,170 He was always more than that. 274 00:11:04,170 --> 00:11:06,020 JOSEPH JILES: He was a fireman. 275 00:11:06,020 --> 00:11:06,160 He was a coach. 276 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,100 He wore a lot of hats-- coming off a shift 277 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:11,020 and coming straight to school, no sleep. 278 00:11:11,020 --> 00:11:16,210 It was something that he loved to do, and he gave it his all. 279 00:11:16,210 --> 00:11:19,010 I found that Louis loved people. 280 00:11:19,010 --> 00:11:22,030 And that's one reason he wanted to be in emergency services. 281 00:11:22,030 --> 00:11:25,120 He always told me that if anything happened, 282 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,030 he decided he wanted to be there. 283 00:11:27,030 --> 00:11:28,220 And he wanted to make a difference in someone's life. 284 00:11:28,220 --> 00:11:31,060 MARK DAVIS: Not all firemen start out as little kids 285 00:11:31,060 --> 00:11:32,110 wanting to be firefighters. 286 00:11:32,110 --> 00:11:35,080 I think he'd always wanted to be an educator. 287 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,070 WAYNE MULKEY: You could see in his eyes the fire 288 00:11:38,070 --> 00:11:40,030 and the passion that he had for firefighting 289 00:11:40,030 --> 00:11:41,230 that he did for coaching and teaching. 290 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:45,140 And I think growing up with that and growing up 291 00:11:45,140 --> 00:11:52,220 within sports really helped formed Louis's, I 292 00:11:52,220 --> 00:11:55,120 guess, ideas of how things should be 293 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,230 and the way people should be. 294 00:11:57,230 --> 00:12:01,070 He told us that he wanted us to go out 295 00:12:01,070 --> 00:12:04,200 and be successful because he told us 296 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,120 that he never finished school. 297 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,120 ANN MULKEY: Louis was a mediocre student in school. 298 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,010 He wasn't an A student. 299 00:12:13,010 --> 00:12:16,000 He did not graduate from college. 300 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,040 Over time, when he was working with these kids 301 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,220 and grooming them, he realized the importance 302 00:12:21,220 --> 00:12:23,090 of a college education. 303 00:12:23,090 --> 00:12:26,030 And he stressed that to them. 304 00:12:26,030 --> 00:12:29,090 You've got to get an education. 305 00:12:29,090 --> 00:12:31,220 I think he had seen the mistakes that he had made, 306 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:35,020 and he tried to impart that information on these kids. 307 00:12:35,020 --> 00:12:39,080 He had something to finish, something to prove, 308 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:40,190 something left undone. 309 00:12:40,190 --> 00:12:43,070 So he funneled that into coaching. 310 00:12:43,070 --> 00:12:44,230 He said an education is something that nobody 311 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:46,030 can ever take away from you. 312 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:48,110 And I think that was really what he was trying to instill 313 00:12:48,110 --> 00:12:52,170 in the boys, aside from bringing them up and making 314 00:12:52,170 --> 00:12:53,180 them believe in themselves. 315 00:12:53,180 --> 00:12:56,010 You know, they can become whatever they wanted to become. 316 00:13:06,180 --> 00:13:08,030 Hey! 317 00:13:08,030 --> 00:13:08,170 Come in! 318 00:13:12,170 --> 00:13:15,120 When I got to high school, I was a bit of a troublemaker 319 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:19,050 somewhat, until one day [INAUDIBLE] 320 00:13:19,050 --> 00:13:22,210 sat me down in the office, had a long talk with me. 321 00:13:22,210 --> 00:13:26,120 It was tough to hear him and Coach Newman tell me, you know, 322 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,050 if you don't change, we're kicking you out, off the team. 323 00:13:29,050 --> 00:13:30,160 You won't be no longer a part of this team. 324 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,140 We won't have you around. 325 00:13:34,210 --> 00:13:38,220 It definitely woke me up, made me change myself around 326 00:13:38,220 --> 00:13:43,010 and focus on the bigger task at hand when I was playing ball. 327 00:13:43,010 --> 00:13:45,000 So you're coaching now? 328 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:45,140 Yeah. 329 00:13:45,140 --> 00:13:46,120 That's what I thought. 330 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:47,210 MARLON PRYOR: I know, right? 331 00:13:47,210 --> 00:13:49,190 MELISSA CAMPBELL: Coach Mulkey would be proud. 332 00:13:49,190 --> 00:13:50,140 I enjoy it. 333 00:13:50,140 --> 00:13:51,200 I love it. 334 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,100 It's fun. 335 00:13:52,100 --> 00:13:54,070 Do you all of a sudden open your mouth 336 00:13:54,070 --> 00:13:55,070 and you hear him coming out? 337 00:13:55,070 --> 00:13:56,190 All the time. 338 00:13:56,190 --> 00:13:57,170 All the time. 339 00:13:57,170 --> 00:14:01,110 Probably every practice, game days on Saturday. 340 00:14:01,110 --> 00:14:02,200 I say stuff at practice all the time. 341 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,220 I just gotta catch myself, like, ah. 342 00:14:05,220 --> 00:14:08,080 I sound exactly like him. 343 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,210 The first time in 10 years that a Summerville 344 00:14:10,210 --> 00:14:13,000 basketball team will be 4 and 0 if you win tonight. 345 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:13,160 You understand that? 346 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:14,070 Yes, sir. 347 00:14:14,070 --> 00:14:15,030 And you get after it. 348 00:14:15,030 --> 00:14:15,170 You got it? 349 00:14:15,170 --> 00:14:16,080 Yes, sir. 350 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:17,150 - Everybody, you got it? - Yes, sir. 351 00:14:17,150 --> 00:14:18,060 Let's go. 352 00:14:18,060 --> 00:14:19,130 After having those talks with him 353 00:14:19,130 --> 00:14:21,170 and watching how hard he coached us 354 00:14:21,170 --> 00:14:25,000 and how much he cared for us, it all-- 355 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,230 it all turned out, he was a good guy. 356 00:14:26,230 --> 00:14:29,000 And when I met him, I thought he was great, 357 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,160 because he was ready to go to war to fight for me 358 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,170 so I could play-- 359 00:14:33,170 --> 00:14:37,010 so I could play basketball and softball. 360 00:14:37,010 --> 00:14:40,060 Well, I'm glad after that talk that Coach Mulkey did believe 361 00:14:40,060 --> 00:14:42,060 in you and got you on the right track, 362 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:45,020 because we wouldn't have been together for sure. 363 00:14:45,020 --> 00:14:46,100 [CHUCKLING] 364 00:14:47,190 --> 00:14:49,070 [INAUDIBLE] worked out. 365 00:14:49,070 --> 00:14:51,200 When he met Marlon, Marlon was kind of tough. 366 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,190 He was hanging out with a group. 367 00:14:53,190 --> 00:14:55,100 He was thinking that he was tough. 368 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:57,070 PORTIA PRYOR: He was rough around the edges, 369 00:14:57,070 --> 00:14:59,110 always fighting, getting in trouble. 370 00:14:59,110 --> 00:15:02,190 He was always hanging with the wrong crowd, the bad kids 371 00:15:02,190 --> 00:15:05,040 who just was always in trouble, always 372 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,070 in the principal's office. 373 00:15:06,070 --> 00:15:07,170 THOMAS NEWMAN: He reached a point 374 00:15:07,170 --> 00:15:10,020 that he even crossed Coach Mulkey a little bit 375 00:15:10,020 --> 00:15:12,060 with not doing right. 376 00:15:12,060 --> 00:15:15,230 And we finally got to the point that we had to have a sit-down. 377 00:15:15,230 --> 00:15:19,140 And it was back against the wall time for him. 378 00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:21,020 He was on his last strike. 379 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:22,150 It finally hit him. 380 00:15:22,150 --> 00:15:27,140 Coach, man, I was thinking about him lately. 381 00:15:27,140 --> 00:15:29,040 He coached me hard. 382 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,010 He was there to teach me stuff and guide me. 383 00:15:33,010 --> 00:15:35,020 You know, as I got older, now I'm looking back, 384 00:15:35,020 --> 00:15:37,170 you know, he was preparing me for life, to become a man, 385 00:15:37,170 --> 00:15:38,110 young man. 386 00:15:38,110 --> 00:15:42,060 And he definitely was the perfect father figure. 387 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:44,050 I think he was drawn to the kids 388 00:15:44,050 --> 00:15:46,020 who needed him the most, just like the kids were 389 00:15:46,020 --> 00:15:47,010 drawn to him. 390 00:15:47,010 --> 00:15:49,220 The ones who needed him the most found him. 391 00:15:55,050 --> 00:15:57,010 I'm from a region of South Carolina, 392 00:15:57,010 --> 00:16:01,200 a small country town, no stoplights, no stores around. 393 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,190 Very humble beginning. 394 00:16:04,190 --> 00:16:07,110 DORA GREEN: AJ was in Gregg Middle School 395 00:16:07,110 --> 00:16:09,100 when Coach Mulkey met him. 396 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:13,050 And they had, like, a basketball game, 397 00:16:13,050 --> 00:16:15,020 the students against the staff. 398 00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:16,070 AJ Green. 399 00:16:16,070 --> 00:16:18,100 [CHEERING] 400 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:19,230 I dunked on a teacher. 401 00:16:19,230 --> 00:16:21,070 And it took off from there. 402 00:16:21,070 --> 00:16:24,190 He was like, hey, you want to come on and play basketball? 403 00:16:24,190 --> 00:16:28,050 DORA GREEN: And that's how it began. 404 00:16:28,050 --> 00:16:30,060 He played both sports during that time, 405 00:16:30,060 --> 00:16:31,040 basketball and football. 406 00:16:33,170 --> 00:16:36,230 He saw something special, and he pushed AJ to the limit. 407 00:16:36,230 --> 00:16:39,050 You know, you can do this. 408 00:16:39,050 --> 00:16:41,200 You can be anything you want to be. 409 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,090 I struggled a lot in school with, 410 00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:46,020 like, reading comprehension. 411 00:16:46,020 --> 00:16:49,030 And when I met Coach Louis, he saw something that was wrong. 412 00:16:49,030 --> 00:16:51,010 So I got tested, and they found out I was dyslexic. 413 00:16:54,140 --> 00:16:57,210 I remember, you know, going to different rival high schools. 414 00:16:57,210 --> 00:16:59,070 They would say, AJ can't read. 415 00:16:59,070 --> 00:17:00,140 He's a dummy. 416 00:17:00,140 --> 00:17:02,070 You know, I made the best of that, all right, 417 00:17:02,070 --> 00:17:04,130 because Coach Louis pushed me every day. 418 00:17:04,130 --> 00:17:06,080 You know, you don't have to be embarrassed about that. 419 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,020 They can't do what you do on the field. 420 00:17:08,020 --> 00:17:12,200 So that's why they're chanting these things. 421 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,010 And then from there on, he preached 422 00:17:15,010 --> 00:17:19,060 to me, AJ, treat this schoolwork just like you do on the field. 423 00:17:19,060 --> 00:17:22,040 And that's when everything-- like, 424 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,070 the switch flipped for me. 425 00:17:24,070 --> 00:17:28,020 And Coach Louis helped me overcome all that growing up. 426 00:17:28,020 --> 00:17:30,080 Louis went to school and sat there 427 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,100 all week with him in his class to make 428 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:34,020 sure he was doing his work. 429 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:35,130 THOMAS NEWMAN: If he was going to make it, 430 00:17:35,130 --> 00:17:38,020 he had to get the ship righted in a hurry. 431 00:17:38,020 --> 00:17:40,070 He'd sit right there with him and make sure he's 432 00:17:40,070 --> 00:17:42,140 getting the work done. 433 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:46,150 And I know that AJ appreciated that. 434 00:17:46,150 --> 00:17:48,200 AJ GREEN: You know, at first it was embarrassing. 435 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,150 But he always preached to me, AJ, 436 00:17:50,150 --> 00:17:53,080 you have a God-given talent, athletic-wise. 437 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,030 You know, everybody's not blessed with you. 438 00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:58,060 But you have to work hard in the classroom. 439 00:17:58,060 --> 00:18:02,140 If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't make it. 440 00:18:02,140 --> 00:18:05,220 In a lot of ways AJ saw Coach Mulkey as a father 441 00:18:05,220 --> 00:18:07,210 figure, a friend, a coach. 442 00:18:07,210 --> 00:18:10,000 DORA GREEN: Like the big brother he never had. 443 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,020 When I was younger I lost my older 444 00:18:15,020 --> 00:18:16,050 brother in a car accident. 445 00:18:19,010 --> 00:18:21,130 They were on their way to a carnival 446 00:18:21,130 --> 00:18:25,050 at Beech Hill Elementary, and somebody ran them off the road. 447 00:18:27,220 --> 00:18:31,090 My aunt was driving, lost control of the car, hit a tree. 448 00:18:31,090 --> 00:18:32,100 You know, my brother got killed. 449 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:35,010 My aunt got paralyzed from the waist down. 450 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:38,030 My two older cousins had plates in their legs. 451 00:18:38,030 --> 00:18:41,220 And I didn't have one scratch. 452 00:18:41,220 --> 00:18:45,120 Having AJ losing his brother at an early age, 453 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:49,070 it kept him humble and it made him a better person 454 00:18:49,070 --> 00:18:51,230 and try to always do the right things. 455 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:54,120 AJ GREEN: When I met Coach Louis, told him the story. 456 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,190 And he was like, you're blessed. 457 00:18:55,190 --> 00:18:57,210 And you know, my parents told me from day one, you're blessed. 458 00:18:57,210 --> 00:18:58,200 You're here for a reason. 459 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,090 And Coach Louis made me understand 460 00:19:01,090 --> 00:19:03,090 that in the bigger picture. 461 00:19:03,090 --> 00:19:07,180 I think losing his brother at that young age 462 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:09,060 was really difficult for him. 463 00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:14,010 And in a way it opened up a spot for Coach Mulkey to step in. 464 00:19:17,050 --> 00:19:22,230 Me and Coach Louis had an unbelievable bond together. 465 00:19:22,230 --> 00:19:29,200 He-- if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be where I'm at today. 466 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,060 [SNIFFLING] 467 00:19:37,110 --> 00:19:39,170 I never had a father in my life and a guy, 468 00:19:39,170 --> 00:19:42,070 like, as someone you could talk to on a personal level, 469 00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:44,200 somebody you can call, you can talk to, 470 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,160 somebody you can just sit on with, 471 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,200 like he really cared and talked to you as a father. 472 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,110 So I mean, that guy put a big impact on my life. 473 00:19:52,110 --> 00:19:54,140 ANTWON PENDARVIS: My mother, she worked two jobs 474 00:19:54,140 --> 00:19:56,110 and wasn't able to pick me up one night. 475 00:19:56,110 --> 00:19:58,140 And he actually drove me home. 476 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:00,020 When he did that, I was like, yeah, 477 00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:04,180 he really cares about us-- not just me, but us as kids. 478 00:20:04,180 --> 00:20:07,050 You don't get a lot like him. 479 00:20:07,050 --> 00:20:10,050 You don't get-- 480 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:20,020 You don't get that. 481 00:20:20,020 --> 00:20:21,130 You don't get people like him. 482 00:20:25,060 --> 00:20:25,210 Sorry. 483 00:20:30,010 --> 00:20:33,120 Just to have somebody who gives that much god 484 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,200 damn care about you-- 485 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,100 I lived in the projects. 486 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:39,170 He the only coach who ever came to get 487 00:20:39,170 --> 00:20:42,070 me from out the projects. 488 00:20:42,070 --> 00:20:45,070 He would come to my house and get me for practice. 489 00:20:45,070 --> 00:20:46,220 He would do those things. 490 00:20:46,220 --> 00:20:49,220 And none of them other coaches did that stuff. 491 00:20:49,220 --> 00:20:53,130 This the old infamous Haven Oaks, where I grew up at. 492 00:20:53,130 --> 00:20:54,110 They were no projects. 493 00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:56,040 It ain't the same as it used to be. 494 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,140 But that's my building right there. 495 00:20:58,140 --> 00:20:59,210 If I stayed on the other side-- 496 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:00,210 [INAUDIBLE] stay over there. 497 00:21:00,210 --> 00:21:02,160 Oh, ain't none of this was here when I grew up. 498 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,210 THOMAS NEWMAN: Ralphie and Courtland 499 00:21:03,210 --> 00:21:05,210 were part of the team, very talented players. 500 00:21:05,210 --> 00:21:08,190 But man, it was a struggle to keep them right. 501 00:21:08,190 --> 00:21:11,230 And as a matter of fact, there was times 502 00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:13,230 we had to let both of them go. 503 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:19,050 And Louis was like, well, let's give them another chance. 504 00:21:19,050 --> 00:21:20,140 And I said, I don't know. 505 00:21:20,140 --> 00:21:22,210 And Louis went to bat for them. 506 00:21:22,210 --> 00:21:24,050 I'm on the stairs of the project. 507 00:21:24,050 --> 00:21:25,020 I'm in the projects. 508 00:21:25,020 --> 00:21:26,140 I'm on the stairs, chilling with [INAUDIBLE].. 509 00:21:26,140 --> 00:21:28,040 And he gets out and comes up there. 510 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,130 And the whole time you're walking down, what's going on? 511 00:21:31,130 --> 00:21:32,040 What's going on? 512 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,000 You're not going to come? 513 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,180 You're not going to come? 514 00:21:34,180 --> 00:21:36,110 You're part of this team still, man. 515 00:21:36,110 --> 00:21:38,140 I know you can't play stuff like this. 516 00:21:38,140 --> 00:21:41,120 And I'm telling him, Coach, man, you know, 517 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,130 I'm not with it right now. 518 00:21:42,130 --> 00:21:45,030 Like, I don't get to play, man. 519 00:21:45,030 --> 00:21:48,100 Like-- and he sat down with me on the project steps. 520 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:50,010 And all the boys left or whatever. 521 00:21:50,010 --> 00:21:50,230 And it's just me and Coach. 522 00:21:50,230 --> 00:21:52,230 And it's like, man, listen. 523 00:21:52,230 --> 00:21:54,090 Don't worry about none of that. 524 00:21:54,090 --> 00:21:55,220 These boys love you. 525 00:21:55,220 --> 00:21:58,010 They love that you still come out here 526 00:21:58,010 --> 00:21:59,020 even though you can't play. 527 00:21:59,020 --> 00:22:00,160 You come out here every day. 528 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,060 You at practice every day. 529 00:22:02,060 --> 00:22:04,020 You-- whatever, you're here. 530 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:06,060 When he got done talking to you. 531 00:22:06,060 --> 00:22:07,100 That shit resonated with you. 532 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:12,180 And all that stuff, man, like, you just feel-- 533 00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:14,190 it's like he just gave you all his energy. 534 00:22:14,190 --> 00:22:16,110 Ain't none of them come out there in the projects 535 00:22:16,110 --> 00:22:17,040 to come and get me. 536 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,200 That man did. 537 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,080 THOMAS NEWMAN: I know they appreciate that. 538 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,100 Because both of those guys, you know, just looking back at it 539 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:25,010 now, they were little rascals in high school. 540 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:26,150 And they know that. 541 00:22:26,150 --> 00:22:28,130 They were very lovable as players, 542 00:22:28,130 --> 00:22:29,160 and they were good players. 543 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,190 But there were some nights and some practice 544 00:22:32,190 --> 00:22:34,120 issues and things, you just said, listen, 545 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:36,060 man, we're done with you. 546 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:38,040 And Louis wouldn't let them go. 547 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,180 He was going to continue to punish them and give them 548 00:22:40,180 --> 00:22:43,020 another chance but let them know that, you know, 549 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:44,190 they were right at the edge of not getting 550 00:22:44,190 --> 00:22:45,230 to be a part of this anymore. 551 00:22:45,230 --> 00:22:47,050 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 552 00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:50,010 And right here this boy get locked up. 553 00:22:50,010 --> 00:22:51,170 I'm running down the street. 554 00:22:51,170 --> 00:22:52,220 They bucking him. 555 00:22:52,220 --> 00:22:54,200 Somebody would come to the classroom. 556 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,060 Hey, man, Ralphie, Ralphie getting locked up. 557 00:22:57,060 --> 00:22:58,020 Ralphie what? 558 00:22:58,020 --> 00:23:00,020 RALPHIE MOSTELLER: One of my worst things 559 00:23:00,020 --> 00:23:04,020 just period, before the game, man, 560 00:23:04,020 --> 00:23:06,110 I was going to make a sale. 561 00:23:06,110 --> 00:23:08,050 I was doing some things I shouldn't have did. 562 00:23:08,050 --> 00:23:10,020 And Coach already warned me, man, like, 563 00:23:10,020 --> 00:23:11,140 yo, you in hot water. 564 00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:13,170 I've seen your name on the narcotics list. 565 00:23:13,170 --> 00:23:15,050 You need to chill out. 566 00:23:15,050 --> 00:23:17,100 And me, I didn't listen to nobody. 567 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:19,210 I still wanted to do what I wanted to do. 568 00:23:19,210 --> 00:23:20,150 Trying to make money. 569 00:23:20,150 --> 00:23:23,220 I wanted to buy nice clothes, a TV, a Playstation. 570 00:23:23,220 --> 00:23:24,180 I didn't have that. 571 00:23:24,180 --> 00:23:26,170 So that's what I wanted. 572 00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:29,090 And before the game, I think it was Hilton Head we was playing, 573 00:23:29,090 --> 00:23:31,160 man, I went and was handling my business, 574 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,200 and unfortunately got pulled over. 575 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,210 Yeah, that's where that shit happened at, man. 576 00:23:36,210 --> 00:23:38,150 I remember when I pulled out of Somerset that day, 577 00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:40,220 right before that game, man, I got 578 00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:44,140 pulled over with all that bud and money in my pocket. 579 00:23:44,140 --> 00:23:46,110 RALPHIE MOSTELLER: This is literally right before the bus 580 00:23:46,110 --> 00:23:47,230 was about to load. 581 00:23:47,230 --> 00:23:49,120 I seen the rest of the team at the store 582 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:53,040 getting candy and drinks and all to go for the ride. 583 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,190 And there I was in the car. 584 00:23:54,190 --> 00:23:56,110 I saw Coach Newman ride past, man. 585 00:23:56,110 --> 00:23:58,020 Coach T Newman, man. 586 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:00,100 I seen him, oh, that's-- 587 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:01,200 I'm like, oh, man. 588 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,060 I done messed up now. 589 00:24:03,060 --> 00:24:04,080 Yeah, police came. 590 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,090 They pulled us over. 591 00:24:05,090 --> 00:24:09,050 I had a half a pound of stuff in my pants. 592 00:24:09,050 --> 00:24:09,190 Pretty bad. 593 00:24:09,190 --> 00:24:11,030 He shouldn't have been there. 594 00:24:11,030 --> 00:24:12,130 If maybe we would have been like, 595 00:24:12,130 --> 00:24:14,060 hey, man, you don't need to make that move. 596 00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:16,180 Or hey, Ralph, man, you don't think that's not a good idea? 597 00:24:16,180 --> 00:24:18,130 Right before the game. 598 00:24:18,130 --> 00:24:19,220 I don't know what I was thinking, man. 599 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:21,030 Ralphie's arrest was definitely 600 00:24:21,030 --> 00:24:22,080 a tipping point for him. 601 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,200 And it took away the positive thing that he had 602 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:27,160 and the positive influence that Louis was on him every day. 603 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,100 That's Coach Mulkey. 604 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:29,160 You've got to learn from this. 605 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,120 But not only he-- 606 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,160 he never bashed him one time. 607 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,210 Any other coach in that situation-- 608 00:24:35,210 --> 00:24:37,020 He would have gave up on you, man. 609 00:24:37,020 --> 00:24:38,180 --any of that, that man was kicked off the team. 610 00:24:38,180 --> 00:24:39,210 He would have let you go, man. 611 00:24:39,210 --> 00:24:40,160 I promise you. 612 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,220 He was trying to save us, man, keep us on track. 613 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:44,040 Going crazy and stuff. 614 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,080 He saw that potential in us, man. 615 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,100 That was an angel, boy. 616 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:49,200 We had an angel walking on this earth like many others. 617 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,090 But that was our angel. 618 00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:53,090 Like, that was our man. 619 00:24:53,090 --> 00:24:56,050 Coach still fought for me and gave me a chance. 620 00:24:56,050 --> 00:24:57,170 Don't give up on this kid. 621 00:24:57,170 --> 00:25:00,050 And I came back that year, and they still-- 622 00:25:00,050 --> 00:25:01,010 I tried out again. 623 00:25:01,010 --> 00:25:02,050 They still let me came back. 624 00:25:02,050 --> 00:25:04,060 Louis was like his own guidance counselor. 625 00:25:04,060 --> 00:25:05,150 You know, not just punishing people. 626 00:25:05,150 --> 00:25:07,170 He knew how to talk to kids the right way 627 00:25:07,170 --> 00:25:10,010 to help them out with issues they were having too. 628 00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:13,100 He took kids that had had terrible backgrounds 629 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,150 and were heading nowhere and had already been into some trouble 630 00:25:16,150 --> 00:25:18,220 in either middle school or early high school 631 00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:20,130 and still got them turned around. 632 00:25:34,110 --> 00:25:38,190 Summerville was a diverse school. 633 00:25:38,190 --> 00:25:45,200 But when Louis started coaching, he never saw color in the kids. 634 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:51,080 Louis didn't care about skin color or where you came from. 635 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,120 It was based off of your character and your talent. 636 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,090 THOMAS NEWMAN: White kids, Black kids-- that 637 00:25:56,090 --> 00:25:57,120 didn't make any difference. 638 00:25:57,120 --> 00:25:58,230 He wanted everybody to get along. 639 00:25:58,230 --> 00:26:01,020 We would go to basketball camp, and it 640 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:02,160 was time for room assignments. 641 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,070 And the kids would say, well, I'm staying with so-and-so. 642 00:26:05,070 --> 00:26:06,180 And Louis said, no, you're not. 643 00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:08,220 And Louis would put the Black kids and the white kids 644 00:26:08,220 --> 00:26:09,210 in rooms together. 645 00:26:09,210 --> 00:26:11,050 We would sit at tables. 646 00:26:11,050 --> 00:26:13,130 And this is football season or basketball season. 647 00:26:13,130 --> 00:26:16,080 But we would sit at tables for pregame meals. 648 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,220 He'd make the kids mix it up and make 649 00:26:17,220 --> 00:26:19,160 the Black kids get in right-- 650 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,060 he did all that stuff the right way. 651 00:26:22,060 --> 00:26:25,110 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: I remember a time he sat us down 652 00:26:25,110 --> 00:26:28,210 to teach us love and respect, because it was actually 653 00:26:28,210 --> 00:26:30,070 Martin Luther King's birthday. 654 00:26:30,070 --> 00:26:34,200 And text message was going around school, kind of 655 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,040 like an African-American joke. 656 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,090 And he got wind of it and absolutely 657 00:26:41,090 --> 00:26:45,130 just went irate, because he did not stand with that at all. 658 00:26:45,130 --> 00:26:48,010 He kind of really wanted to let us know, like, you know, 659 00:26:48,010 --> 00:26:50,020 we're better than that. 660 00:26:50,020 --> 00:26:53,010 He knew that with what was going on and some of the things 661 00:26:53,010 --> 00:26:56,020 that were being said, showing the actual speech and sitting 662 00:26:56,020 --> 00:27:00,180 in the room had to be a lead-in to a way to alleviate 663 00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:03,080 the problem that was being had. 664 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,230 And it's just another one of those-- 665 00:27:05,230 --> 00:27:08,180 I mean, if there was a book written, 666 00:27:08,180 --> 00:27:10,160 it would be "100 Ways of How to Deal 667 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,180 With Issues" by Louis Mulkey. 668 00:27:16,010 --> 00:27:17,220 RALPHIE MOSTELLER: It was an uphill battle for Coach, man. 669 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:19,210 A lot of people didn't really care for him. 670 00:27:19,210 --> 00:27:20,220 They didn't understand him. 671 00:27:20,220 --> 00:27:22,040 I don't think they understood why 672 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,060 he was doing what he was doing. 673 00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:25,070 JAKE JENKINS: He was the first coach that really fought 674 00:27:25,070 --> 00:27:27,010 for putting a Black quarterback on the field 675 00:27:27,010 --> 00:27:30,170 because he saw greatness in the kids. 676 00:27:30,170 --> 00:27:36,010 He knew that, you know, the Black athletes who 677 00:27:36,010 --> 00:27:40,160 were talented enough and smart enough to lead Summerville 678 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:45,000 in not only academics but also in athletics, on the field 679 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,000 and on the court. 680 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,100 One in particular, he knew that this guy could 681 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:53,080 be the great quarterback that Summerville 682 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,010 needs to take this to the next level 683 00:27:55,010 --> 00:27:56,110 and win the state championship. 684 00:27:56,110 --> 00:27:58,190 But he couldn't play quarterback on varsity because 685 00:27:58,190 --> 00:28:03,060 of the racial divide of a Black kid 686 00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:05,070 shouldn't be in that position playing quarterback. 687 00:28:05,070 --> 00:28:06,160 Back to the politics. 688 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,060 There's Summerville. 689 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,110 THOMAS NEWMAN: Summerville is a very old school and 690 00:28:10,110 --> 00:28:12,150 traditional town and school. 691 00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:14,190 Some of the administration and just some 692 00:28:14,190 --> 00:28:18,160 of the teachers in general, sometimes they would not 693 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,130 understand Louis's ways, thought that Louis 694 00:28:22,130 --> 00:28:24,230 was showing preferential treatment to people 695 00:28:24,230 --> 00:28:26,040 that didn't deserve it. 696 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,130 I won't say exile, but sometimes he 697 00:28:28,130 --> 00:28:31,140 was exiled from coaching football because 698 00:28:31,140 --> 00:28:36,070 of his personal beliefs that the playing field was equal, 699 00:28:36,070 --> 00:28:38,070 no matter what your race was. 700 00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:41,010 So he got a lot of pushback from that. 701 00:28:41,010 --> 00:28:43,200 And I think that drove him to do more. 702 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,070 Regardless of what all they tell you, 703 00:28:46,070 --> 00:28:49,020 they didn't like this man, because that man 704 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:51,080 liked Black people. 705 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,030 There were a lot of things that shouldn't have been going 706 00:28:55,030 --> 00:28:57,020 on over there at that school. 707 00:28:57,020 --> 00:28:58,100 And he knew it. 708 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:01,030 And he was determined to turn it around. 709 00:29:01,030 --> 00:29:03,160 Back in my days at Summerville, 710 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,010 there was a lot of scholarship offers or letters to intended 711 00:29:07,010 --> 00:29:10,110 school for multiple sports, various sports-- soccer, 712 00:29:10,110 --> 00:29:14,180 basketball, baseball, football, just for being African-American 713 00:29:14,180 --> 00:29:16,030 in Summerville. 714 00:29:16,030 --> 00:29:17,220 You wasn't given that opportunity. 715 00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:20,180 And you were very lucky if you had somebody 716 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:23,000 to go to bat for you and go beyond 717 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 to find out what was going on. 718 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,190 Coach found letters himself in the trashcan 719 00:29:28,190 --> 00:29:30,130 of his student athletes. 720 00:29:30,130 --> 00:29:32,130 And he's wondering what the hell is going on. 721 00:29:32,130 --> 00:29:36,120 He would take it upon himself to take those letters to them 722 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,220 and make sure they got those letters, make sure they took 723 00:29:38,220 --> 00:29:42,210 their college visits, make sure their parents knew 724 00:29:42,210 --> 00:29:44,040 what was going on. 725 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,000 So that alone just identified his character as a person. 726 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,130 Coach was a unique individual, man. 727 00:29:50,130 --> 00:29:53,170 He knew how to get on that level with you and talk to you 728 00:29:53,170 --> 00:29:57,000 and vibe with you and make you feel like he's one of you. 729 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:57,200 You know what I'm saying? 730 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,050 He wasn't above you. 731 00:29:59,050 --> 00:30:01,000 He didn't act like he was high and mighty 732 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,030 because he's a captain in the fire department. 733 00:30:04,030 --> 00:30:06,060 He's going to talk to you, and he's going to treat you 734 00:30:06,060 --> 00:30:08,070 and give you what you give him. 735 00:30:08,070 --> 00:30:09,120 He was rough and rugged like that. 736 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,040 I love that man. 737 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,220 I respect that man to death. 738 00:30:12,220 --> 00:30:15,170 PATRICIA TOLIVER: I think that Coach Mulkey approached 739 00:30:15,170 --> 00:30:17,040 people for who they were. 740 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,100 You know, he saw their heart and he saw their needs. 741 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:21,210 He didn't look at them like, this is a Black kid, 742 00:30:21,210 --> 00:30:25,030 this is a Hispanic kid, this is a white kid, 743 00:30:25,030 --> 00:30:26,160 this is an Asian kid. 744 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,150 And he responded to them in that kind of way. 745 00:30:30,150 --> 00:30:33,150 So they never felt judged by him. 746 00:30:33,150 --> 00:30:36,220 And he was able to confront them in a way 747 00:30:36,220 --> 00:30:38,100 that they would accept. 748 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:39,230 We got [INAUDIBLE]. 749 00:30:43,220 --> 00:30:46,030 His thing was about being tough-- 750 00:30:46,030 --> 00:30:48,120 mentally tough, physically tough, 751 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,100 listening to your coaches. 752 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:54,130 He coached the way that he knew he was. 753 00:30:54,130 --> 00:30:57,020 AJ GREEN: We had a lot of rough kids, no dad. 754 00:30:57,020 --> 00:30:59,230 And you get that Black male to respect you, 755 00:30:59,230 --> 00:31:01,160 you're doing something right, because that's 756 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,170 not going to happen every day. 757 00:31:05,170 --> 00:31:07,190 We believed that Coach was preaching the right things. 758 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,000 A lot of good stories on these buses, man. 759 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,010 He had a vision of what he saw and how he saw it. 760 00:31:28,010 --> 00:31:30,170 It was definitely something that he talked about from day one, 761 00:31:30,170 --> 00:31:35,130 is just being the men that he wanted us to be. 762 00:31:35,130 --> 00:31:37,070 And there was a step-by-step program 763 00:31:37,070 --> 00:31:38,080 that came along with it. 764 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,010 So definitely it was something that he believed. 765 00:31:41,010 --> 00:31:43,190 And before other people can believe something, 766 00:31:43,190 --> 00:31:44,180 you gotta believe it. 767 00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:45,220 And he believed it first. 768 00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:47,090 And we all bought into the system. 769 00:31:47,090 --> 00:31:48,130 He saw the bigger picture. 770 00:31:48,130 --> 00:31:49,170 He understood. 771 00:31:49,170 --> 00:31:51,210 You know, he saw it before anybody else did. 772 00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:55,010 Before we even saw it ourselves, he knew. 773 00:31:55,010 --> 00:31:58,160 So he would always try to prepare us for the next level, 774 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,200 because he knew that we were going to the next level. 775 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,090 He really cared about us as kids, not just as basketball 776 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:08,190 players, which is a lot different than most coaches 777 00:32:08,190 --> 00:32:11,110 that you run into. 778 00:32:11,110 --> 00:32:13,190 He knew that you had to depend on each other. 779 00:32:13,190 --> 00:32:15,090 It wasn't a one-man show. 780 00:32:15,090 --> 00:32:17,090 Coach Mulkey's expectations of them 781 00:32:17,090 --> 00:32:21,000 sort of drove them in a way, because they knew, they 782 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,060 did not want to disappoint him. 783 00:32:23,060 --> 00:32:26,100 MELISSA CAMPBELL: Sometimes I wonder if they knew how hard it 784 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,220 must have been for him to manage the full-time firefighting 785 00:32:29,220 --> 00:32:33,080 job and all the demands of that, and then to come in here 786 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:38,050 and be so energetic and so ready to tackle them, 787 00:32:38,050 --> 00:32:41,190 so focused on taking care of his kids. 788 00:32:41,190 --> 00:32:44,090 You know, Coach Louis was taking me to the fire station 789 00:32:44,090 --> 00:32:47,020 sometimes and, you know, preached to me about being 790 00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:50,040 a brotherhood and the life-and-death situation that 791 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,000 he puts himself in each and every week, 792 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,180 that he's relying on his brother to protect him, 793 00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:58,040 and then doing that vise versa. 794 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,050 The fire service is a lot like sports. 795 00:33:01,050 --> 00:33:03,170 And that's why Louis was drawn towards the fire department. 796 00:33:03,170 --> 00:33:05,180 And that's why he loved sports also. 797 00:33:05,180 --> 00:33:07,180 And that's why he succeeded in both-- 798 00:33:07,180 --> 00:33:10,070 because he knew both of them were team building. 799 00:33:18,090 --> 00:33:20,140 MARCUS MORRIS: Plenty of times when we got to practice, 800 00:33:20,140 --> 00:33:24,070 he was coming in and he was still in his fire gear, 801 00:33:24,070 --> 00:33:25,050 still in his blue suit. 802 00:33:25,050 --> 00:33:27,170 I still remember him now just coming 803 00:33:27,170 --> 00:33:30,110 in and getting ready to go get changed to come to practice. 804 00:33:30,110 --> 00:33:32,180 I know for me, it made me want to care 805 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:34,120 more about what we were doing. 806 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,090 If these buses could talk, the stuff 807 00:33:37,090 --> 00:33:38,200 they could tell on us, man. 808 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,100 The stuff they could tell. 809 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:43,230 The bus ride was the way we build, you know, you laugh, 810 00:33:43,230 --> 00:33:45,040 you have some of your good times. 811 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,000 It brought us together. 812 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,180 It showed us how on those distances we really got close 813 00:33:49,180 --> 00:33:50,110 and we really talked. 814 00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:52,120 You got to learn people as an individual. 815 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,140 You know, you had to learn your family. 816 00:33:54,140 --> 00:34:00,030 Nobody ever sat just with the same person on bus rides. 817 00:34:00,030 --> 00:34:01,120 It was always a switch-up. 818 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,040 But those bus rides were times where, you know, 819 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,100 we got to know each other even closer. 820 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:08,120 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: You could feel it, that we were actually 821 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,170 a real family, a real brotherhood, 822 00:34:10,170 --> 00:34:14,020 and still to this day, I would do anything for those guys. 823 00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:15,150 We left it all on the bus. 824 00:34:15,150 --> 00:34:16,180 We left it all on the bus. 825 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,070 Of course, do you remember how many times we came 826 00:34:39,070 --> 00:34:40,110 up here after practice, man? 827 00:34:40,110 --> 00:34:41,230 Boy, too many times, bud. 828 00:34:41,230 --> 00:34:43,050 Good old Tastee Freez. 829 00:34:43,050 --> 00:34:44,150 Too many times, bud. 830 00:34:44,150 --> 00:34:45,180 Yeah. 831 00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:46,080 For Coach. 832 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,070 One more time for Coach. 833 00:34:47,070 --> 00:34:49,200 One of our favorite places to go 834 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,050 because of the school being so close to it 835 00:34:52,050 --> 00:34:53,060 was the Tastee Freez. 836 00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:54,180 MARLON PRYOR: He'd bring us lunch, 837 00:34:54,180 --> 00:34:57,050 bring us food from Tastee Freez across the street, 838 00:34:57,050 --> 00:34:59,100 bring it to the classroom, have a meet-up, 839 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:01,080 say everybody sit down, and eat in the classroom. 840 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,010 MELISSA CAMPBELL: But while we were eating, 841 00:35:03,010 --> 00:35:05,230 he was also forging relationships. 842 00:35:05,230 --> 00:35:08,000 It was a down time. 843 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,030 And, of course, I always say that boys, 844 00:35:11,030 --> 00:35:12,020 you feed them and love them. 845 00:35:12,020 --> 00:35:13,230 They're very easy. 846 00:35:13,230 --> 00:35:16,170 MARLON PRYOR: Beat about what's going on with our lives, 847 00:35:16,170 --> 00:35:19,000 how everyone is doing, how are you doing. 848 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,180 It wouldn't be so much of what's going on on the field, court, 849 00:35:22,180 --> 00:35:23,230 classroom. 850 00:35:23,230 --> 00:35:26,210 We'd sit down and just have heart-to-hearts. 851 00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:28,140 Man, you've been a killer on the streets, man. 852 00:35:28,140 --> 00:35:29,180 You know our parents was gone. 853 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:30,160 A long time. 854 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,030 We've been pretty much raising ourselves. 855 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:34,110 So then he'll grab us, grab hold of us. 856 00:35:34,110 --> 00:35:35,010 Do this. 857 00:35:35,010 --> 00:35:36,230 Yeah. 858 00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:39,180 And like any other coach would have gave up on you, man. 859 00:35:39,180 --> 00:35:41,200 Would have kicked us off the team, 860 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,060 would have did this and that. 861 00:35:43,060 --> 00:35:44,120 He gave me countless chances, boy. 862 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,060 I know that. 863 00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:47,080 I've been talking to them boys. 864 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,010 Were you telling me you're coaching now? 865 00:35:49,010 --> 00:35:50,120 Everybody is coaching now. 866 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,150 That man done made thousands of coaches, 867 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:54,000 and he don't even know. 868 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,230 Man, I got pictures of them boys, man. 869 00:35:55,230 --> 00:35:56,130 Word. 870 00:35:56,130 --> 00:35:57,030 Original. 871 00:35:57,030 --> 00:36:00,020 Original number 10. 872 00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:02,090 Original number 14. 873 00:36:02,090 --> 00:36:05,090 That's classic Mulkey right there. 874 00:36:05,090 --> 00:36:06,110 COURTLAND MORRISSETTE: I've never 875 00:36:06,110 --> 00:36:09,030 met a man like him, never. 876 00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:11,090 There is no one that I could compare to him. 877 00:36:11,090 --> 00:36:14,080 Like, I get chills when I talk about him. 878 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,040 Big ups to Coach, man. 879 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:17,080 One time for one time. 880 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,210 One time for the big guy. 881 00:36:18,210 --> 00:36:21,230 A lot of things we did was off the basketball court, 882 00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:24,140 and I think that's what helped us grow so much, 883 00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:28,060 was just the fact that we did things away from basketball. 884 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,130 Man, check this out, man. 885 00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:31,090 This damn-- old shoes. 886 00:36:31,090 --> 00:36:32,150 This boy got them? 887 00:36:32,150 --> 00:36:34,020 They dusted off. 888 00:36:34,020 --> 00:36:35,010 He got them. 889 00:36:35,010 --> 00:36:36,130 [CHUCKLING] 890 00:36:36,130 --> 00:36:40,130 The old Summerville Nike-- 891 00:36:40,130 --> 00:36:42,170 Blood, sweat, and tears in these. 892 00:36:42,170 --> 00:36:44,140 Blood, sweat, and tears in these right here. 893 00:36:44,140 --> 00:36:46,010 We went and put our names on them. 894 00:36:46,010 --> 00:36:47,210 We went [INAUDIBLE]. 895 00:36:47,210 --> 00:36:49,150 Coach got tired of us trying to be different, man. 896 00:36:49,150 --> 00:36:50,140 Everybody wearing different-- 897 00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:52,130 Everybody wearing different Nikes and Reeboks. 898 00:36:52,130 --> 00:36:54,130 I can't believe I still got these, man. 899 00:36:54,130 --> 00:36:57,180 Man, you got to clean them up and put them on one time, man. 900 00:36:57,180 --> 00:36:58,180 Yeah. 901 00:36:58,180 --> 00:36:59,090 Green Wave. 902 00:36:59,090 --> 00:37:01,060 Green Wave, baby. 903 00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:02,180 Green and yellow. 904 00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:05,020 THOMAS NEWMAN: A lot of times with teachers and coaches, 905 00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:08,080 they try so hard to gain the affection of the young people 906 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,050 they're teaching or coaching that a lot of times they 907 00:37:10,050 --> 00:37:11,040 lose their respect. 908 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,130 But Louis had their respect but also their affection 909 00:37:14,130 --> 00:37:16,190 because they knew what he would do for them. 910 00:37:16,190 --> 00:37:18,110 They knew he would go the extra mile, 911 00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:21,060 and he would do whatever they needed from him. 912 00:37:21,060 --> 00:37:22,210 He would provide that if he was able to. 913 00:37:22,210 --> 00:37:24,060 DWAYNE SIMMONS: He was something special. 914 00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:26,220 He had-- you know, to be able to do everything he was doing 915 00:37:26,220 --> 00:37:28,190 and make everybody feel special. 916 00:37:28,190 --> 00:37:30,030 MARLON PRYOR: A lot of people definitely 917 00:37:30,030 --> 00:37:33,150 didn't realize how great of a person Mulkey was 918 00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:37,120 and how much he touched the souls of not just 919 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,100 the athletes but the community. 920 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:40,190 DWAYNE SIMMONS: He believed in us more 921 00:37:40,190 --> 00:37:43,050 than we believed in ourselves. 922 00:37:43,050 --> 00:37:46,100 Like, he knew we had what it takes 923 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:49,230 to win state championship. 924 00:37:49,230 --> 00:37:51,100 We still didn't even believe it. 925 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:54,180 People was not thinking about basketball here in Summerville. 926 00:37:59,230 --> 00:38:02,170 The hallway, the infamous hallway before we went 927 00:38:02,170 --> 00:38:04,170 out them doors right there. 928 00:38:04,170 --> 00:38:07,100 This is the infamous hallway right here. 929 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:11,000 This hallway-- we get to look at the opponent over there, 930 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,100 walk out that way, and then that's when we war ready 931 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,190 when we get out there, man. 932 00:38:14,190 --> 00:38:16,050 This locker room, oh. 933 00:38:16,050 --> 00:38:17,220 Somebody gets a game ball [INAUDIBLE].. 934 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,210 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: Everything he said actually moved people. 935 00:38:24,210 --> 00:38:28,020 And a lot of coaches, when they they'll talk to you 936 00:38:28,020 --> 00:38:32,060 or have a speech to a team, you can't really feel it. 937 00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:33,210 But he'd make you want to go out there. 938 00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:37,160 And I remember at times we would dive for a basketball 939 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,110 and hit the brick wall and somebody would 940 00:38:39,110 --> 00:38:40,200 have a knot on their head. 941 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,100 They'll get up and get right back to it because he 942 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:45,160 made us so tough and want to succeed 943 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,040 and made you realize that there's four other people 944 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,140 on the court depending on you. 945 00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:54,190 Man, I remember, our JV tournament, man. 946 00:38:54,190 --> 00:38:56,220 We lost the night before. 947 00:38:56,220 --> 00:38:58,040 Man, we played so hard. 948 00:38:58,040 --> 00:38:59,190 But he didn't come down hard on us. 949 00:38:59,190 --> 00:39:02,000 He just let us know, we've got to come back tomorrow, 950 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,210 you know what I'm saying. 951 00:39:03,210 --> 00:39:05,100 Bring it even more, you know what I'm saying? 952 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:08,090 Don't be too hard on yourself, but tomorrow bring it. 953 00:39:08,090 --> 00:39:12,000 He said that there's something special about you guys. 954 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,070 And I do believe that you will win state championship. 955 00:39:16,070 --> 00:39:16,210 My guys. 956 00:39:20,130 --> 00:39:23,230 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 957 00:39:28,170 --> 00:39:30,030 There's that camera. 958 00:39:33,010 --> 00:39:35,140 Hey, ain't no smiling going on today. 959 00:39:35,140 --> 00:39:37,050 We got bills to take care of. 960 00:39:37,050 --> 00:39:38,090 You understand that? - Yes, sir. 961 00:39:38,090 --> 00:39:38,230 Let's go. 962 00:39:45,190 --> 00:39:48,050 ANN MULKEY: Two weeks before Louis died, 963 00:39:48,050 --> 00:39:52,180 he said, Mom, I never want to leave Summerville. 964 00:39:52,180 --> 00:39:57,160 He said, I want to eat, sleep, and die here. 965 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,120 And that was very strange to me. 966 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,140 It gives me chills every time I think about it, almost 967 00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:05,020 like a premonition. 968 00:40:05,020 --> 00:40:07,150 In fact, one of the guys that worked with him 969 00:40:07,150 --> 00:40:09,050 on the basketball team said, I just 970 00:40:09,050 --> 00:40:12,180 had that feeling that Louis had that premonition. 971 00:40:12,180 --> 00:40:16,070 And that was Tillman Millhouse who said that. 972 00:40:16,070 --> 00:40:17,120 He said, I'm going to be a fireman. 973 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,040 I'm going to be the best fireman. 974 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,060 He said, but Mr. Millhouse, when I go out, 975 00:40:21,060 --> 00:40:23,070 I'm going out with a bang. 976 00:40:23,070 --> 00:40:30,080 MAN (ON RADIO): Dispatch at Engine 11 [INAUDIBLE] 977 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,070 ANN MULKEY: About 6:30 that night, 978 00:40:33,070 --> 00:40:36,140 I asked him if he was coming home in the morning 979 00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:39,190 or going straight to the school from the fire station. 980 00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:42,000 He said, no, I'm coming home. 981 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,150 I'll see you in the morning. 982 00:40:43,150 --> 00:40:47,050 And that was his last words to me, because shortly after they 983 00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:48,050 went over to the fire. 984 00:40:51,070 --> 00:40:59,120 MAN (ON RADIO): Engine 12 [INAUDIBLE] 985 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,090 HOWARD ARMSTRONG: I arrived on the scene. 986 00:41:01,090 --> 00:41:03,070 I was the [INAUDIBLE] on the scene. 987 00:41:03,070 --> 00:41:07,180 During the fire, I saw the firemen going in, 988 00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:09,050 which confused me. 989 00:41:09,050 --> 00:41:11,130 The dispatch came back over and said 990 00:41:11,130 --> 00:41:14,080 they had a call that someone was trapped in the building. 991 00:41:18,180 --> 00:41:20,220 When I got the call that Louis was missing, 992 00:41:20,220 --> 00:41:23,130 I immediately got in my car and raced to the incident. 993 00:41:23,130 --> 00:41:26,040 I saw a column of smoke in the sky, and I knew this was bad. 994 00:41:29,180 --> 00:41:33,150 And this is where the fire, I think, starts to make the jump. 995 00:41:34,190 --> 00:41:37,100 Is everybody out where you are? 996 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:38,040 No, sir. 997 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,010 We still have guys in there. 998 00:41:40,010 --> 00:41:41,110 I did get a call. 999 00:41:41,110 --> 00:41:47,070 And he said, we want you to know that Louis, Louis is in there. 1000 00:41:47,070 --> 00:41:50,190 And it's hard seeing the flames and knowing what was going on. 1001 00:41:50,190 --> 00:41:52,180 BILLY PEREZ: Once we got to the scene, 1002 00:41:52,180 --> 00:41:54,080 they said it was very chaotic. 1003 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,040 By that time, it was just an inferno. 1004 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,040 I've covered hundreds of fires. 1005 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,190 But I began to feel something different. 1006 00:42:02,190 --> 00:42:05,140 There was something different about this fire. 1007 00:42:05,140 --> 00:42:08,140 CHRIS DIGBY: As soon as I saw how serious the fire was 1008 00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:11,090 and how big of a deal it was, I knew in my heart 1009 00:42:11,090 --> 00:42:13,010 that Louis was going to be there. 1010 00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:14,130 Any time something like that happened, 1011 00:42:14,130 --> 00:42:16,020 I was always a little bit nervous 1012 00:42:16,020 --> 00:42:17,020 because he was like that. 1013 00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:19,110 But he always came out on the other side of it. 1014 00:42:19,110 --> 00:42:20,010 I could chance. 1015 00:42:22,180 --> 00:42:26,170 [INAUDIBLE] anybody from 15? 1016 00:42:26,170 --> 00:42:31,090 We went in that building not knowing how outgunned we were. 1017 00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:33,110 The day before the fire, we had basketball camp. 1018 00:42:33,110 --> 00:42:36,060 I think we won three or four games that night. 1019 00:42:36,060 --> 00:42:37,030 We came back. 1020 00:42:37,030 --> 00:42:39,000 Everybody was in a good mood. 1021 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,100 We're flying high. 1022 00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:44,040 Everybody is at 100 right now. 1023 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,210 Everything had seemed like a big fairy tale. 1024 00:42:46,210 --> 00:42:47,140 Good evening. 1025 00:42:47,140 --> 00:42:49,060 We have some breaking news to tell you. 1026 00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:52,090 That fire is burning at the Sofa Super Store 1027 00:42:52,090 --> 00:42:53,150 on Savannah Highway. 1028 00:42:53,150 --> 00:42:56,040 Massive fire, West Ashley, at a furniture 1029 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,190 store with intense heat threatening a neighborhood. 1030 00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:10,020 You can only imagine when it's the real deal 1031 00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:14,080 and the amount of smoke and heat and just the maze. 1032 00:43:20,110 --> 00:43:24,130 This is telling all the firemen inside to get out. 1033 00:43:24,130 --> 00:43:26,210 I thought I was going to die in the building. 1034 00:43:26,210 --> 00:43:28,170 And I ran out of there. 1035 00:43:28,170 --> 00:43:32,070 And you know, for me, it became a sense of, 1036 00:43:32,070 --> 00:43:35,030 I'm just going to fight until the end. 1037 00:43:35,030 --> 00:43:37,210 And I was lucky enough to fall on a fireman, 1038 00:43:37,210 --> 00:43:38,220 and he helped get me out. 1039 00:43:38,220 --> 00:43:40,080 REPORTER: Tragedy in Charleston. 1040 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,100 Right now, emergency workers are searching the rubble 1041 00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:47,090 for firefighters who were last seen fighting a monstrous blaze 1042 00:43:47,090 --> 00:43:48,130 at a West Ashley business. 1043 00:43:48,130 --> 00:43:51,060 ANN MULKEY: I was sitting here all night watching the fire 1044 00:43:51,060 --> 00:43:52,130 and listening. 1045 00:43:52,130 --> 00:43:54,070 And I saw Louis. 1046 00:43:54,070 --> 00:43:59,220 He was standing looking at the fire, in his T-shirt, 1047 00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:03,150 and he's holding on to his coat. 1048 00:44:03,150 --> 00:44:04,230 People were calling. 1049 00:44:04,230 --> 00:44:06,140 And I said, he's fine. 1050 00:44:06,140 --> 00:44:07,140 I've seen him. 1051 00:44:07,140 --> 00:44:08,080 He's OK. 1052 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,010 He's OK. 1053 00:44:09,010 --> 00:44:11,100 But they knew that he was not OK. 1054 00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:19,210 ELAINE LEWIS: I clearly remember the day of the fire. 1055 00:44:19,210 --> 00:44:22,080 A co-worker and I were standing on the hallway. 1056 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,160 I was getting ready to lock up the school. 1057 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,160 I clearly heard Louis' voice down in the gym 1058 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,040 just yelling and yelling. 1059 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:33,020 And I said, why is Louis yelling at those kids like that? 1060 00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:37,040 So I proceeded to come down the hallway to look into the gym, 1061 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,110 and no one was in there. 1062 00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:41,000 And my coworker, she told me, she said, 1063 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,200 Ms. Lewis, Louis is not here. 1064 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,170 So all of a sudden when we left out the gym, 1065 00:44:45,170 --> 00:44:46,210 I happened to look up. 1066 00:44:46,210 --> 00:44:50,170 And I saw two white shadows go out the side door of the gym. 1067 00:44:54,130 --> 00:44:58,080 When I saw the news, I knew that Louis was in that fire. 1068 00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,220 RUSTY THOMAS: Get everybody out of the building. 1069 00:44:59,220 --> 00:45:02,000 We still can't find the Captain of 15. 1070 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,030 While I was watching the news, I 1071 00:45:04,030 --> 00:45:06,010 got a call from one of our coaches 1072 00:45:06,010 --> 00:45:09,040 that they were unfortunately very, 1073 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,130 very certain that Louis is one of the guys missing 1074 00:45:11,130 --> 00:45:13,040 at the fire. 1075 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,070 I remember getting out of class and pulling it out, 1076 00:45:15,070 --> 00:45:18,160 and I had missed phone calls and text messages from everybody. 1077 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,000 I opened up one from one of my friends. 1078 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,220 And he was like, bro, you've got to come over to the house. 1079 00:45:21,220 --> 00:45:23,020 Like, just come over. 1080 00:45:23,020 --> 00:45:23,210 Like, what's going on? 1081 00:45:23,210 --> 00:45:24,220 Like, what's up? 1082 00:45:24,220 --> 00:45:26,150 He's like, yo, Smokey. 1083 00:45:26,150 --> 00:45:27,110 They can't find him. 1084 00:45:27,110 --> 00:45:30,090 I'm like, what are you talking about, can't find him? 1085 00:45:30,090 --> 00:45:34,150 Reports first came that Louis was missing. 1086 00:45:34,150 --> 00:45:36,230 He was the first one over time. 1087 00:45:36,230 --> 00:45:39,030 Other voices started coming over the radio. 1088 00:45:39,030 --> 00:45:42,010 MELVIN CHAMPAIGN: In Jesus' name, amen. 1089 00:45:48,030 --> 00:45:49,140 HOWARD ARMSTRONG: This is what you're 1090 00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:52,160 seeing-- the fire tornado, I call it, where 1091 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,190 it's really whirling around. 1092 00:45:54,190 --> 00:45:56,110 It's nothing but flames and smoke. 1093 00:45:56,110 --> 00:45:58,120 And everything is so intense. 1094 00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:59,230 Everything is on fire. 1095 00:45:59,230 --> 00:46:02,200 MELVIN CHAMPAIGN: Which way out? 1096 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,040 I need some help out! 1097 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,010 MICHAEL FRENCH: Mayday. 1098 00:46:07,010 --> 00:46:08,110 RUSTY THOMAS: Everybody out. 1099 00:46:08,110 --> 00:46:09,110 Everybody out of the building. 1100 00:46:09,110 --> 00:46:11,080 We still can't find the Captain of 15. 1101 00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:12,060 JONATHAN TYRELL: I'm inside. 1102 00:46:12,060 --> 00:46:13,000 Can you help, please? 1103 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,140 DISPATCH: You're inside? 1104 00:46:14,140 --> 00:46:15,120 Whereabouts? 1105 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,120 JONATHAN TYRELL: At the back. 1106 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,110 DISPATCH: Oh, at the back? 1107 00:46:18,110 --> 00:46:21,110 HOWARD ARMSTRONG: And this was the actual last two 1108 00:46:21,110 --> 00:46:25,210 firemen that actually made it out of the structure. 1109 00:46:31,020 --> 00:46:33,000 ANN MULKEY: The chief and the coroner 1110 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,230 came in and said, write your dentist, his name, 1111 00:46:36,230 --> 00:46:40,010 and the dentist's name down. 1112 00:46:40,010 --> 00:46:43,100 And the chief was saying, well, they've 1113 00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:46,200 been transported to different hospitals, 1114 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,180 making us think that maybe there were alive. 1115 00:46:50,180 --> 00:46:53,100 And that's the way you took it, the way he put it out there. 1116 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:56,230 And then my husband just yelled, for God's sake, 1117 00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:58,220 tell us if they're alive or gone. 1118 00:46:58,220 --> 00:47:00,020 TILLMAN MILLHOUSE: And it came back 1119 00:47:00,020 --> 00:47:01,220 to me that Mr. Millhouse, when I go out, 1120 00:47:01,220 --> 00:47:03,030 I'm going out with a bang. 1121 00:47:03,030 --> 00:47:09,010 And when I heard the tape, I could hear Louie's voice say-- 1122 00:47:09,010 --> 00:47:11,050 I think he said, mayday, mayday. 1123 00:47:11,050 --> 00:47:12,010 LOUIS MULKEY: Mayday! 1124 00:47:15,110 --> 00:47:18,030 Car 1. 1125 00:47:18,030 --> 00:47:20,010 Tell my wife I said-- 1126 00:47:20,010 --> 00:47:22,120 CHIEF: Go ahead. 1127 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:23,120 LOUIS MULKEY: I love you. 1128 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,010 Well, nine of America's bravest 1129 00:47:38,010 --> 00:47:39,150 losing their lives on a single night 1130 00:47:39,150 --> 00:47:41,070 in Charleston, South Carolina. 1131 00:47:41,070 --> 00:47:43,010 An inferno at a furniture warehouse 1132 00:47:43,010 --> 00:47:48,080 described by one witness as a tornado of flames. 1133 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:53,050 JAKE JENKINS: Carrying him outside from the building, 1134 00:47:53,050 --> 00:47:54,230 it was painful. 1135 00:47:54,230 --> 00:47:57,170 It was a sense of, this is unreal. 1136 00:47:57,170 --> 00:47:59,170 I couldn't believe this has happened. 1137 00:47:59,170 --> 00:48:04,000 MARK DAVIS: I ask myself every day, how did I make it out when 1138 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,050 Louis was a better firefighter? 1139 00:48:06,050 --> 00:48:09,130 He was stronger, probably smarter, 1140 00:48:09,130 --> 00:48:12,180 and he had so much to live for 1141 00:48:12,180 --> 00:48:15,030 [SOBBING] 1142 00:48:17,140 --> 00:48:18,170 COURTLAND MORRISSETTE: Like, what 1143 00:48:18,170 --> 00:48:19,210 do you mean Coach Mulkey gone? 1144 00:48:19,210 --> 00:48:23,050 I'm like-- I'm hysterical now, because we 1145 00:48:23,050 --> 00:48:24,120 knew something was going on. 1146 00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,050 And, like, I'm shaking. 1147 00:48:26,050 --> 00:48:27,180 It's like-- it's crazy. 1148 00:48:31,070 --> 00:48:33,060 So we just kind of all sat there. 1149 00:48:36,190 --> 00:48:38,170 We're just, like, waiting-- like, waiting for his name 1150 00:48:38,170 --> 00:48:39,200 to pop up across the screen. 1151 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,140 Like, yeah, they found him. 1152 00:48:41,140 --> 00:48:45,160 I could not console him. 1153 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,030 He just kept screaming and saying no, no. 1154 00:48:49,030 --> 00:48:51,040 Louis can't be gone. 1155 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,230 But you know, I told him. 1156 00:48:54,230 --> 00:48:59,010 If Louis had been in that fire, I said, you know that was him. 1157 00:48:59,010 --> 00:49:01,230 He was going to be first in, last out. 1158 00:49:01,230 --> 00:49:04,230 And all we could do was just sit on the phone and just pray 1159 00:49:04,230 --> 00:49:08,140 and cry and just think about why did it happen 1160 00:49:08,140 --> 00:49:11,130 and how did it happen. 1161 00:49:11,130 --> 00:49:16,130 I just hung up the phone, and I immediately called his phone. 1162 00:49:16,130 --> 00:49:17,200 And he didn't answer. 1163 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:22,060 He always answered for me, no matter what he was doing. 1164 00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:26,070 And I remember calling his phone again and just 1165 00:49:26,070 --> 00:49:29,210 listening to his voicemail. 1166 00:49:29,210 --> 00:49:32,070 I was-- I was shocked. 1167 00:49:32,070 --> 00:49:37,020 I feel like a person like Coach Mulkey, 1168 00:49:37,020 --> 00:49:39,140 with people like that in this world, 1169 00:49:39,140 --> 00:49:40,210 they don't come around often. 1170 00:49:40,210 --> 00:49:44,040 Losing a person like that, it just shook up the atmosphere. 1171 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,060 I was crushed. 1172 00:49:46,060 --> 00:49:48,130 I had just seen this man. 1173 00:49:48,130 --> 00:49:50,090 I had just seen him at my graduation. 1174 00:49:50,090 --> 00:49:52,170 I had just seen his big smile. 1175 00:49:52,170 --> 00:49:53,190 I just hugged this man. 1176 00:49:53,190 --> 00:49:57,010 I just-- and just like that. 1177 00:50:00,190 --> 00:50:03,150 DWAYNE SIMMONS: I lost a piece of me. 1178 00:50:03,150 --> 00:50:05,030 I bawled my eyes out. 1179 00:50:05,030 --> 00:50:06,070 The last thing I was thinking about 1180 00:50:06,070 --> 00:50:08,150 was playing basketball or sports. 1181 00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:27,130 It was-- it was devastating. 1182 00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:32,060 MARCUS MORRIS: I could just remember just going-- 1183 00:50:32,060 --> 00:50:34,160 going to my bed, putting my head on my pillow, 1184 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:39,070 and just kind of letting out for a while, you know, crying. 1185 00:50:39,070 --> 00:50:40,120 I just didn't have any words. 1186 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,130 It just-- it was too real for me, the fact 1187 00:50:43,130 --> 00:50:47,100 that he wasn't going to be there anymore. 1188 00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:50,010 And it was probably one of my most emotional days of my life, 1189 00:50:50,010 --> 00:50:51,090 I could say. 1190 00:50:51,090 --> 00:50:53,190 They were just devastated. 1191 00:50:53,190 --> 00:50:55,080 They were in tears. 1192 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,090 They could not function. 1193 00:50:57,090 --> 00:50:58,210 They were just devastated. 1194 00:50:58,210 --> 00:51:02,160 It was like every one of them seemed to feel like they had 1195 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,200 lost, like, a piece of them. 1196 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,080 WAYNE MULKEY: The largest loss of firefighters since 9/11. 1197 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,190 So it impacted not only the local community, 1198 00:51:11,190 --> 00:51:17,190 but across the US, all the fire departments, 1199 00:51:17,190 --> 00:51:19,000 even internationally. 1200 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:22,180 We were getting calls and messages from fire 1201 00:51:22,180 --> 00:51:24,000 departments across the world. 1202 00:51:30,090 --> 00:51:36,200 I think that was the point where he became my hero. 1203 00:51:43,190 --> 00:51:49,180 Listening to the radio calls and talking to the firefighters 1204 00:51:49,180 --> 00:51:52,090 afterwards and the stories from the guys 1205 00:51:52,090 --> 00:51:55,210 that were there with him and knowing what he did. 1206 00:51:55,210 --> 00:51:57,230 BILLY PEREZ: He was always trying to think ahead. 1207 00:51:57,230 --> 00:52:02,090 And I think that was probably went in the directions 1208 00:52:02,090 --> 00:52:06,220 and think, once you guys got inside. 1209 00:52:06,220 --> 00:52:10,180 You know, he was managing. 1210 00:52:10,180 --> 00:52:12,010 He was coaching. 1211 00:52:12,010 --> 00:52:17,140 He was he was trying to flank to the left and cut the fire off. 1212 00:52:17,140 --> 00:52:23,180 You realize how special that person was, even 1213 00:52:23,180 --> 00:52:24,190 if you didn't see it before. 1214 00:52:31,020 --> 00:52:34,060 ANN MULKEY: The funeral was on a Sunday. 1215 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:37,100 It was the hottest day we'd ever had. 1216 00:52:37,100 --> 00:52:41,100 And it was amazing to ride down the road 1217 00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:45,010 and see people standing alongside the road and flags 1218 00:52:45,010 --> 00:52:48,000 when we got to the cemetery. 1219 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,140 People couldn't believe the number 1220 00:52:50,140 --> 00:52:52,050 of people that were there. 1221 00:52:52,050 --> 00:52:54,170 MARK DAVIS: Whenever Louis' body was brought, 1222 00:52:54,170 --> 00:52:57,030 that was the closest I came to breaking down, 1223 00:52:57,030 --> 00:52:59,090 that realization that I would never see him again, 1224 00:52:59,090 --> 00:53:01,020 I would never pick on him again, you know, 1225 00:53:01,020 --> 00:53:03,190 that we would never have those friendly rivalries. 1226 00:53:03,190 --> 00:53:07,010 It's like losing nine of your best friends. 1227 00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:12,050 MELISSA CAMPBELL: And we all met, and we all walked 1228 00:53:12,050 --> 00:53:14,030 in holding hands together. 1229 00:53:14,030 --> 00:53:16,030 And it was a powerful time. 1230 00:53:16,030 --> 00:53:19,150 Just hearing multiple different people just giving 1231 00:53:19,150 --> 00:53:23,020 their stories about how Mulkey touched their life, for me, 1232 00:53:23,020 --> 00:53:26,040 it just kind of made me sit back and really 1233 00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:32,140 think about how much this one person really meant to my life. 1234 00:53:32,140 --> 00:53:37,140 For a long time, just not really 1235 00:53:37,140 --> 00:53:43,030 believing it, questioning, you know, faith and life and why. 1236 00:53:43,030 --> 00:53:44,160 THOMAS NEWMAN: I think any time, no matter 1237 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,120 how strong your faith is, I think sometimes 1238 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,040 you can be tested a little bit. 1239 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,030 He was so young, and he was doing so much good 1240 00:53:50,030 --> 00:53:53,210 for our young men and for our community and extreme grieving 1241 00:53:53,210 --> 00:53:57,010 period of a solid week we didn't go to basketball camp. 1242 00:53:57,010 --> 00:53:59,170 We stayed away from basketball for a week. 1243 00:53:59,170 --> 00:54:02,140 When he was gone, there was some fear for them 1244 00:54:02,140 --> 00:54:04,120 that they might not be able to create 1245 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,060 his intensity, his energy without him being there. 1246 00:54:07,060 --> 00:54:09,170 That person you knew who always had your back 1247 00:54:09,170 --> 00:54:12,180 and looked out for you is not here no more. 1248 00:54:12,180 --> 00:54:14,170 So what do you do? 1249 00:54:14,170 --> 00:54:17,140 MARLON PRYOR: These first couple of days, it's like, we were 1250 00:54:17,140 --> 00:54:19,230 pretty much bodies in the gym. 1251 00:54:19,230 --> 00:54:21,200 We were here, but we weren't physically-- 1252 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,030 I mean, we weren't mentally here. 1253 00:54:23,030 --> 00:54:24,060 Physically we were here doing it. 1254 00:54:24,060 --> 00:54:27,100 But we could tell the way the atmosphere 1255 00:54:27,100 --> 00:54:30,210 was, everyone missed him. 1256 00:54:30,210 --> 00:54:33,110 Without having Mulkey was almost like not 1257 00:54:33,110 --> 00:54:34,220 having part of your heartbeat. 1258 00:54:34,220 --> 00:54:38,130 I remember the first day we got back on and practiced, 1259 00:54:38,130 --> 00:54:40,170 it was bad. 1260 00:54:40,170 --> 00:54:42,220 Because, like, we were missing something. 1261 00:54:42,220 --> 00:54:45,040 We were missing our spark. 1262 00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,190 We lost some games, and everyone were 1263 00:54:48,190 --> 00:54:51,180 not sure how to continue the season 1264 00:54:51,180 --> 00:54:53,080 and how to finish strong. 1265 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,020 And it was tough. 1266 00:54:55,020 --> 00:54:56,180 You had mixed emotions. 1267 00:54:56,180 --> 00:54:59,170 We were having basketball practice a couple of months 1268 00:54:59,170 --> 00:55:00,190 after he passed. 1269 00:55:00,190 --> 00:55:03,180 And we weren't playing good at all. 1270 00:55:03,180 --> 00:55:06,130 And I remember Coach Newman yelling 1271 00:55:06,130 --> 00:55:08,040 at us, my dad yelling at us. 1272 00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,180 And it's just a bad day. 1273 00:55:09,180 --> 00:55:13,110 Out of nowhere, the fire alarm comes on, 1274 00:55:13,110 --> 00:55:16,020 and a basketball comes from the back hallway. 1275 00:55:19,060 --> 00:55:20,190 That's weird. 1276 00:55:20,190 --> 00:55:21,150 And then the ball comes. 1277 00:55:21,150 --> 00:55:23,210 And you're like, man. 1278 00:55:23,210 --> 00:55:26,190 Everybody just looked up and like-- this is Coach Louis. 1279 00:55:26,190 --> 00:55:28,010 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: Right then we knew 1280 00:55:28,010 --> 00:55:31,000 that it was Coach Mulkey telling us, like, hey, 1281 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:32,160 you guys need to get it together. 1282 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,160 And he held onto that ball. 1283 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,150 He didn't put it back on the rack. 1284 00:55:36,150 --> 00:55:40,220 And we kept the ball throughout the whole season. 1285 00:55:40,220 --> 00:55:42,210 MARLON PRYOR: It was a lot of emotion. 1286 00:55:42,210 --> 00:55:46,130 And the fire department, they saw the emotion in us. 1287 00:55:46,130 --> 00:55:49,000 They saw the emotion in the guys and how they were out there 1288 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,100 knowing that when you looked at that bench, 1289 00:55:51,100 --> 00:55:53,030 he was no longer sitting there. 1290 00:55:53,030 --> 00:55:54,230 Then they brought out the helmet, the helmet 1291 00:55:54,230 --> 00:55:59,020 with his number, the helmet that symbolized him to bring 1292 00:55:59,020 --> 00:56:01,100 to our games so we could put on that bench 1293 00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:03,180 and not just knowing that, oh, he's no longer here 1294 00:56:03,180 --> 00:56:05,020 but his spirit is here with us. 1295 00:56:08,190 --> 00:56:13,060 Seeing the helmet in his seat that he always sat in, 1296 00:56:13,060 --> 00:56:16,170 it was always a sense of confidence boosting. 1297 00:56:16,170 --> 00:56:19,160 When times got tough sometimes on the court, 1298 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,120 you know you could always look up and glance at that helmet 1299 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,040 and just know-- you could see him there, 1300 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:25,100 and you can hear him what he would 1301 00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:27,200 be telling you in your head. 1302 00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,120 MELISSA CAMPBELL: As they began to play, 1303 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,040 as they tried to pick up and create 1304 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,070 a new normal for themselves, the family came back together. 1305 00:56:34,070 --> 00:56:35,180 We never weren't a family. 1306 00:56:35,180 --> 00:56:38,000 We were always a family, but so much 1307 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:43,120 stronger now because we'd been through this tragedy together. 1308 00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,040 We all felt that each and every day 1309 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,010 we stepped on that court that he was there. 1310 00:56:48,010 --> 00:56:50,200 He was right there with us every step of the way. 1311 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,020 THOMAS NEWMAN: The team remembered 1312 00:56:53,020 --> 00:56:56,120 that there was a mission involved from Coach Mulkey. 1313 00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,100 And that mission was you were going to win the state 1314 00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:00,190 championship your senior years. 1315 00:57:00,190 --> 00:57:02,160 Leading up to the playoff run, I mean, 1316 00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,160 we would have team meetings, you know, 1317 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:09,100 film study trying to prepare us for each and every week. 1318 00:57:09,100 --> 00:57:13,010 We were still the underdogs. 1319 00:57:13,010 --> 00:57:16,010 And we were still not picked to win. 1320 00:57:16,010 --> 00:57:18,160 And then, you know, we started hitting our strides each 1321 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,100 and every week. 1322 00:57:19,100 --> 00:57:20,140 It ain't about me. 1323 00:57:20,140 --> 00:57:21,220 It's about us now. 1324 00:57:21,220 --> 00:57:22,130 Fight. 1325 00:57:28,020 --> 00:57:30,140 I clearly remember the game against Sumter. 1326 00:57:30,140 --> 00:57:33,040 It was at the Citadel, and it was one game 1327 00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:37,000 before the championship game. 1328 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,020 MARLON PRYOR: That semi-final game was definitely a dogfight. 1329 00:57:40,020 --> 00:57:42,080 It went back and forth pretty much from the opening 1330 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,010 tip-off all game long. 1331 00:57:44,010 --> 00:57:46,030 The gym was going crazy. 1332 00:57:46,030 --> 00:57:48,150 AJ GREEN: Buckets after buckets after buckets. 1333 00:57:48,150 --> 00:57:49,170 You know, he calls a timeout. 1334 00:57:49,170 --> 00:57:52,040 And like, you know, guys, we need some stops. 1335 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,200 And everybody looked at the helmet. 1336 00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:59,110 The whole arena was decked out with Louis Mulkey hats. 1337 00:57:59,110 --> 00:58:03,140 And they just started chanting his name, Louis Mulkey. 1338 00:58:03,140 --> 00:58:06,080 [CHANTING] 1339 00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:10,100 And I remember talking in the middle of a sentence-- 1340 00:58:10,100 --> 00:58:11,220 you know, what we're doing, offense, 1341 00:58:11,220 --> 00:58:13,050 defense, whatever it was. 1342 00:58:13,050 --> 00:58:15,040 And I just stopped. 1343 00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:16,150 And they stopped. 1344 00:58:16,150 --> 00:58:17,150 And we just listened to it. 1345 00:58:17,150 --> 00:58:20,140 I didn't say anything else. 1346 00:58:20,140 --> 00:58:22,150 That still gives me chills. 1347 00:58:22,150 --> 00:58:24,200 MARCUS MORRIS: That moment, it kind of really, really, 1348 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:28,040 really became clear that Mulkey had become the Wave. 1349 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,030 Like, he was the Wave. 1350 00:58:30,030 --> 00:58:32,130 MELISSA CAMPBELL: We went from an atmosphere 1351 00:58:32,130 --> 00:58:34,140 where we weren't a basketball school 1352 00:58:34,140 --> 00:58:36,010 to really the whole school. 1353 00:58:36,010 --> 00:58:38,070 Because he impacted so many students, 1354 00:58:38,070 --> 00:58:39,190 the whole school bought in. 1355 00:58:39,190 --> 00:58:43,110 And we had gone from "there's no way they can do it" 1356 00:58:43,110 --> 00:58:48,030 to "look at us, we're winning." 1357 00:58:48,030 --> 00:58:49,180 CHRIS DIGBY: Momentum was building, 1358 00:58:49,180 --> 00:58:51,110 and we were having success again. 1359 00:58:51,110 --> 00:58:54,120 And a wave of excitement throughout our community 1360 00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,030 was building. 1361 00:58:55,030 --> 00:58:58,200 And it showed up when there were butts in the seats with people 1362 00:58:58,200 --> 00:58:59,210 there to watch our games. 1363 00:58:59,210 --> 00:59:02,000 And the gym was packed night in and night out. 1364 00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:12,160 DEONTE RUSSIAN: Leading up to the state championship, 1365 00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,220 it was hectic, man. 1366 00:59:15,220 --> 00:59:20,210 Entering South Carolina Gamecock Stadium, it was unreal. 1367 00:59:20,210 --> 00:59:21,230 Like, we're here again. 1368 00:59:21,230 --> 00:59:24,010 ANNOUNCER: The class 4A boys match-up 1369 00:59:24,010 --> 00:59:29,050 has Spartanburg squaring off against Summerville. 1370 00:59:29,050 --> 00:59:31,080 And Coach Newman just wanted to remind 1371 00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:34,040 us what we was doing it for. 1372 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,110 We had one goal, and that was to win. 1373 00:59:36,110 --> 00:59:37,180 Win it for Coach Mulkey. 1374 00:59:37,180 --> 00:59:41,220 ANNOUNCER: The Summerville Green Wave [INAUDIBLE].. 1375 00:59:41,220 --> 00:59:43,220 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: It's definitely an energy I've never 1376 00:59:43,220 --> 00:59:46,020 felt before playing basketball. 1377 00:59:46,020 --> 00:59:47,070 There was a magical feeling. 1378 00:59:47,070 --> 00:59:51,080 It felt like, wow, we were here, this moment. 1379 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,090 DEONTE RUSSIAN: When you're in the state championship game, 1380 00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:54,220 everything is magnified. 1381 00:59:54,220 --> 00:59:56,130 The lights are on you. 1382 00:59:56,130 --> 00:59:57,210 It's bright, shining bright. 1383 00:59:57,210 --> 00:59:59,080 Kind of looking at you in the face, like 1384 00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:00,120 it's-- what you going to do? 1385 01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,080 I remember before that game, there was no speech. 1386 01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,200 We all cried like babies, and we all touched his helmet. 1387 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,230 It was on after that. 1388 01:00:09,230 --> 01:00:15,200 ANNOUNCER: Number 22, senior forward, AJ Green. 1389 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,110 And the remainder of the Green Wave. 1390 01:00:18,110 --> 01:00:20,220 The energy the people brought was amazing. 1391 01:00:20,220 --> 01:00:25,190 And I'm getting numb and chills just thinking about it. 1392 01:00:25,190 --> 01:00:27,230 The atmosphere was crazy. 1393 01:00:27,230 --> 01:00:29,220 Every possession counted. 1394 01:00:29,220 --> 01:00:34,000 Turnover, fouls, everything counted. 1395 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,120 MARCUS MORRIS: I remember one play, 1396 01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,130 Branden passed a bounce pass to me. 1397 01:00:37,130 --> 01:00:40,030 And I caught it on the baseline, went up and laid 1398 01:00:40,030 --> 01:00:43,100 it up to put us up, I think. 1399 01:00:43,100 --> 01:00:44,190 As soon as I hit the basket, the crowd 1400 01:00:44,190 --> 01:00:47,020 erupted, just because we needed anything to kind of pull 1401 01:00:47,020 --> 01:00:49,100 us away at that point in time to give 1402 01:00:49,100 --> 01:00:52,100 us a little bit of cushion. 1403 01:00:52,100 --> 01:00:54,100 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: I turned over the ball twice. 1404 01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:57,110 I made two bad passes, and I never really did that before. 1405 01:00:57,110 --> 01:00:58,170 And I got down on myself. 1406 01:00:58,170 --> 01:01:00,210 I remember looking over at his seat 1407 01:01:00,210 --> 01:01:02,040 with the firefighter helmet. 1408 01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,090 And I felt something that said "let's go" in my head. 1409 01:01:10,140 --> 01:01:12,210 But we couldn't put them away. 1410 01:01:12,210 --> 01:01:14,020 We were going buckets for buckets, 1411 01:01:14,020 --> 01:01:16,160 and we did start to panic a little bit. 1412 01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,120 It was like, you know, this game is a super-close game. 1413 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:19,210 Anybody can take it. 1414 01:01:19,210 --> 01:01:21,210 ANNOUNCER: Oh, nice move by Robinson. 1415 01:01:21,210 --> 01:01:22,210 Now gets it inside. 1416 01:01:22,210 --> 01:01:23,170 Perfect pass. 1417 01:01:23,170 --> 01:01:24,230 It's off the mark. 1418 01:01:24,230 --> 01:01:27,150 Second follow by [INAUDIBLE] goes, though. 1419 01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:30,010 And Spartanburg takes the one-point lead. 1420 01:01:30,010 --> 01:01:35,060 MELISSA CAMPBELL: And then it got really tight at the end. 1421 01:01:35,060 --> 01:01:38,230 The pressure was overwhelming at times. 1422 01:01:38,230 --> 01:01:40,090 ANNOUNCER: Quick pass up the floor. 1423 01:01:40,090 --> 01:01:41,070 Shot. 1424 01:01:41,070 --> 01:01:42,050 [INAUDIBLE] 1425 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:46,120 We had to come back. 1426 01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:47,110 We had to take the lead. 1427 01:01:47,110 --> 01:01:50,120 And it came down to, we're up one. 1428 01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,190 ANNOUNCER: Number 18, passing outside. 1429 01:01:52,190 --> 01:01:54,150 Quentin Miller passes up the 3. 1430 01:01:54,150 --> 01:01:55,110 A 2 now. 1431 01:01:55,110 --> 01:01:56,030 It's off the mark. 1432 01:01:56,030 --> 01:01:56,180 No good. 1433 01:01:56,180 --> 01:01:58,220 Had a small lead, a couple of seconds left. 1434 01:01:58,220 --> 01:02:00,080 We thought, man, this thing is in the bag. 1435 01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:02,020 We're kind of looking around. 1436 01:02:02,020 --> 01:02:03,200 ANNOUNCER: But now with a chance of scoring 1437 01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:06,200 the final points for the Green Wave here tonight. 1438 01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,120 And then Bruce missed the free throw. 1439 01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,050 ANNOUNCER: 0.7 seconds left. 1440 01:02:11,050 --> 01:02:13,010 Vikings, desperation 3. 1441 01:02:13,010 --> 01:02:14,130 And it goes in. 1442 01:02:14,130 --> 01:02:16,060 Can you believe it? 1443 01:02:16,060 --> 01:02:19,090 No way he just made that shot, right at the buzzer. 1444 01:02:19,090 --> 01:02:21,100 And I just fell to my knees-- 1445 01:02:21,100 --> 01:02:22,030 we didn't finish. 1446 01:02:22,030 --> 01:02:24,160 We didn't finish like Coach Louis wanted us to finish. 1447 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,050 MELISSA CAMPBELL: I thought we had this. 1448 01:02:26,050 --> 01:02:27,190 I thought we won the game. 1449 01:02:27,190 --> 01:02:28,220 And then this happened. 1450 01:02:28,220 --> 01:02:32,160 THOMAS NEWMAN: I felt a tremendous amount of guilt, 1451 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:34,060 not only to lose it that way-- 1452 01:02:34,060 --> 01:02:35,190 I feel like we let some people down. 1453 01:02:35,190 --> 01:02:36,180 We let the kids down. 1454 01:02:36,180 --> 01:02:37,140 We let Louis down. 1455 01:02:40,150 --> 01:02:42,040 MELISSA CAMPBELL: We already lost Coach Mulkey. 1456 01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:46,050 How can I possibly console them? 1457 01:02:46,050 --> 01:02:48,100 ANNOUNCER: All kinds of crowd control 1458 01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:51,050 problems here, as everyone is running onto the floor. 1459 01:02:51,050 --> 01:02:53,150 People crying, just tears-- like, no way we didn't just 1460 01:02:53,150 --> 01:02:55,090 lose to a buzzer beater. 1461 01:03:03,020 --> 01:03:05,040 ANTWON PENDARVIS: You know, coming so far and then 1462 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,220 something so important to us, you know, 1463 01:03:06,220 --> 01:03:10,030 fall out your fingertips, you know, it hurts. 1464 01:03:10,030 --> 01:03:13,060 MARCUS MORRIS: I have my hands on my head just saying no. 1465 01:03:13,060 --> 01:03:14,090 Like, there's no way. 1466 01:03:14,090 --> 01:03:16,160 There's no way possible that this 1467 01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,030 is how this is going to end. 1468 01:03:19,030 --> 01:03:20,150 THOMAS NEWMAN: They didn't know what to think 1469 01:03:20,150 --> 01:03:22,140 at first, completely let down. 1470 01:03:22,140 --> 01:03:24,090 They thought that they didn't do enough. 1471 01:03:24,090 --> 01:03:27,010 I'm standing like, man, this ain't real, man. 1472 01:03:27,010 --> 01:03:28,080 Like, they can't lose like that. 1473 01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,140 I did not notice the referees at all. 1474 01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:34,200 ANNOUNCER: There is no mistaking the fact a long 3 goes. 1475 01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:37,230 The question is, was it in time? 1476 01:03:37,230 --> 01:03:41,120 I want to say that I blacked out in that moment. 1477 01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:42,160 THOMAS NEWMAN: I was trying to get 1478 01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,040 as close to them as I could. 1479 01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,140 Because even though the other team was jumping around, 1480 01:03:47,140 --> 01:03:50,170 there was still the situation at hand-- 1481 01:03:50,170 --> 01:03:55,040 for the kid to catch the rebound, take a dribble or two, 1482 01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,060 and then launch the ball, it was going 1483 01:03:57,060 --> 01:04:00,070 to be darn near impossible that it was going to be good. 1484 01:04:00,070 --> 01:04:01,210 It just-- the emotion of the moment 1485 01:04:01,210 --> 01:04:03,090 made it seem like it wasn't good. 1486 01:04:03,090 --> 01:04:05,170 But I also had a pretty strong feeling that it 1487 01:04:05,170 --> 01:04:08,030 was after the light went off. 1488 01:04:08,030 --> 01:04:10,110 ANNOUNCER: The officials talking. 1489 01:04:10,110 --> 01:04:12,190 Huge crowd. 1490 01:04:12,190 --> 01:04:15,050 It does not go. 1491 01:04:15,050 --> 01:04:16,140 It does not count. 1492 01:04:16,140 --> 01:04:20,170 Summerville wins the 4A state title. 1493 01:04:20,170 --> 01:04:22,160 And there is disappointment all around. 1494 01:04:25,070 --> 01:04:29,110 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: And our crowd went from crying to cheering, 1495 01:04:29,110 --> 01:04:31,070 and their crowd went from cheering to crying. 1496 01:04:31,070 --> 01:04:32,070 It's just a flip-flop. 1497 01:04:32,070 --> 01:04:33,120 It was just like the whole game. 1498 01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,010 You couldn't have scripted it any better. 1499 01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:37,130 VAUGHN PENDARVIS: Then the celebration began. 1500 01:04:37,130 --> 01:04:39,140 You know, the goal was accomplished. 1501 01:04:39,140 --> 01:04:42,110 It was like-- that was like, golly. 1502 01:04:42,110 --> 01:04:44,170 Like, the writing was on the wall. 1503 01:04:44,170 --> 01:04:46,050 Like, some things is destiny. 1504 01:04:46,050 --> 01:04:48,230 Like, you can't compete with that. 1505 01:04:48,230 --> 01:04:51,080 I was playing for Coach Mulkey and God. 1506 01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:52,090 That wasn't going in. 1507 01:04:52,090 --> 01:04:53,140 But it did. 1508 01:04:53,140 --> 01:04:54,110 Coach Mulkey came through. 1509 01:04:54,110 --> 01:04:55,110 And I wasn't good. 1510 01:04:55,110 --> 01:04:56,160 And I just looked to the sky. 1511 01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:57,190 Like, thank you. 1512 01:04:57,190 --> 01:04:59,030 Thank you, Coach Louis. 1513 01:04:59,030 --> 01:05:00,050 And we all knew that was him. 1514 01:05:00,050 --> 01:05:02,190 ANNOUNCER: The Green Wave win the 4A 1515 01:05:02,190 --> 01:05:08,030 boys' title in a [INAUDIBLE]. 1516 01:05:08,030 --> 01:05:11,080 THOMAS NEWMAN: Greatest state championships ever. 1517 01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:13,020 The trophy was huge, of course. 1518 01:05:13,020 --> 01:05:16,100 You know, that solidified us winning the championship. 1519 01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:19,220 But just as important to us was being able to raise up 1520 01:05:19,220 --> 01:05:23,010 the actual fire helmet and just to say, you know, Mulkey, 1521 01:05:23,010 --> 01:05:23,150 we did it. 1522 01:05:23,150 --> 01:05:27,110 It was surreal in even all the way down to how it ended. 1523 01:05:30,030 --> 01:05:31,220 It was like a fairy tale ending. 1524 01:05:31,220 --> 01:05:34,070 ANN MULKEY: Basically a miracle. 1525 01:05:34,070 --> 01:05:37,220 Here was my son Louis predicting that this 1526 01:05:37,220 --> 01:05:39,070 is not your year this year. 1527 01:05:39,070 --> 01:05:42,130 But next year is going to be your year. 1528 01:05:42,130 --> 01:05:44,150 And it was their year. 1529 01:05:44,150 --> 01:05:48,120 It was just amazing to know that he knew that. 1530 01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,120 In his heart, he knew that. 1531 01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,010 And he told them. 1532 01:05:52,010 --> 01:05:53,230 That wave became a tidal wave. 1533 01:05:53,230 --> 01:05:57,080 I'd say that coach Mulkey's legacy 1534 01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:59,220 and what he left behind definitely 1535 01:05:59,220 --> 01:06:01,150 taught us many things through life. 1536 01:06:01,150 --> 01:06:05,050 And the fact that no matter what's going on, 1537 01:06:05,050 --> 01:06:07,050 there's always good that comes out of it. 1538 01:06:17,150 --> 01:06:20,190 When we got back to Summerville, instead of going 1539 01:06:20,190 --> 01:06:24,140 right to the school, we took a detour to the grave site 1540 01:06:24,140 --> 01:06:25,170 where Louis was buried. 1541 01:06:32,020 --> 01:06:33,100 MARLON PRYOR: Everyone got there, 1542 01:06:33,100 --> 01:06:34,190 gathered around in silence. 1543 01:06:38,020 --> 01:06:41,200 Since we sat our medals onto the grave and let him know, 1544 01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:43,030 hey, we won this championship for you. 1545 01:06:43,030 --> 01:06:45,030 We got the job done. 1546 01:06:45,030 --> 01:06:47,000 AJ GREEN: He saw this in us. 1547 01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,070 We didn't see this in ourselves. 1548 01:06:49,070 --> 01:06:53,170 He made us a believer, and that's all because of him. 1549 01:06:53,170 --> 01:06:55,110 THOMAS NEWMAN: And it was just a very 1550 01:06:55,110 --> 01:06:59,110 powerful moment to see young men handling their emotions 1551 01:06:59,110 --> 01:07:00,020 so well. 1552 01:07:13,230 --> 01:07:17,080 ANN MULKEY: 2016 I got a call one 1553 01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:18,230 afternoon from Miss Campbell. 1554 01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:25,040 And she says, can you come to the school? 1555 01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:26,140 And I said, yeah. 1556 01:07:26,140 --> 01:07:27,080 What's wrong? 1557 01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:28,070 She said, nothing. 1558 01:07:28,070 --> 01:07:29,110 Can you come over now? 1559 01:07:29,110 --> 01:07:30,060 And I said, sure. 1560 01:07:41,170 --> 01:07:42,200 That's awesome. 1561 01:07:45,150 --> 01:07:46,230 And she took me in the gym. 1562 01:07:54,010 --> 01:07:59,110 The minute that she walked in, she just covered her mouth. 1563 01:07:59,110 --> 01:08:03,140 ANN MULKEY: And I saw this beautiful picture of Louis 1564 01:08:03,140 --> 01:08:04,120 all over the wall. 1565 01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:08,100 And I just-- it touched me. 1566 01:08:08,100 --> 01:08:10,040 It really made warm my heart. 1567 01:08:12,180 --> 01:08:14,220 They called the gym the Firehouse. 1568 01:08:14,220 --> 01:08:15,180 That's awesome. 1569 01:08:20,050 --> 01:08:21,050 Oh, my god. 1570 01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,000 When you get a gym named after you, 1571 01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:29,190 you've got to have some kind of major impact. 1572 01:08:29,190 --> 01:08:30,220 And that's major. 1573 01:08:30,220 --> 01:08:32,020 That is major. 1574 01:08:32,020 --> 01:08:35,080 This is the house he built. [INAUDIBLE].. 1575 01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:38,130 THOMAS NEWMAN: The firehouse couldn't be a better name 1576 01:08:38,130 --> 01:08:40,230 for a guy that-- you know, Louis was a captain 1577 01:08:40,230 --> 01:08:42,150 in the fire department. 1578 01:08:42,150 --> 01:08:45,130 I mean, that was a big part of his life. 1579 01:08:45,130 --> 01:08:49,190 And he spent a lot of hours in this gym. 1580 01:08:49,190 --> 01:08:52,100 AJ GREEN: In that gym, we did the right thing. 1581 01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:55,100 You know, we might not be perfect men once we leave 1582 01:08:55,100 --> 01:08:58,070 there, but we understood that once we hit that gym, 1583 01:08:58,070 --> 01:08:59,070 we are a brotherhood. 1584 01:08:59,070 --> 01:09:00,170 And we're going to put everything 1585 01:09:00,170 --> 01:09:02,010 on the line for each other. 1586 01:09:02,010 --> 01:09:04,110 I know he knew the boys loved him. 1587 01:09:04,110 --> 01:09:14,130 But I don't think he understood the power, yeah, of it. 1588 01:09:14,130 --> 01:09:17,180 Perfect ending, yes. 1589 01:09:17,180 --> 01:09:20,210 And I was just so proud of it. 1590 01:09:20,210 --> 01:09:26,180 And I'm sure he would be so proud. 1591 01:09:26,180 --> 01:09:27,160 He would be. 1592 01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:30,120 So many kids are watching and learning. 1593 01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:31,030 For sure. 1594 01:09:31,030 --> 01:09:32,100 And looking up to him. 1595 01:09:32,100 --> 01:09:33,000 For sure. 1596 01:09:37,020 --> 01:09:42,180 I just-- oh, god. 1597 01:09:42,180 --> 01:09:45,170 So many memories. 1598 01:09:45,170 --> 01:09:47,140 Good, bad, and indifferent. 1599 01:09:47,140 --> 01:09:52,120 No matter what people are going to remember how jovial he 1600 01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,130 was and cutting up with, you know, 1601 01:09:55,130 --> 01:09:58,230 his friends and his students. 1602 01:09:58,230 --> 01:10:04,150 But I really hope that they will eventually understand what he 1603 01:10:04,150 --> 01:10:09,150 was trying to achieve in getting the students to believe 1604 01:10:09,150 --> 01:10:13,030 that they can go on and go to college 1605 01:10:13,030 --> 01:10:16,030 and get the education that they want to get and get 1606 01:10:16,030 --> 01:10:17,070 the jobs they want to get. 1607 01:10:17,070 --> 01:10:19,140 JAKE JENKINS: He was one of those people that helped 1608 01:10:19,140 --> 01:10:25,180 the kids be able to have the right GPA and pass, you know, 1609 01:10:25,180 --> 01:10:29,040 the SAT test or ACT to be eligible to get into college. 1610 01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:33,150 So that's where his influence was greater than just being 1611 01:10:33,150 --> 01:10:35,120 on the basketball court or the football field, 1612 01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:37,080 was the academic side of it. 1613 01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:41,050 An education is something that they can never take from you. 1614 01:10:41,050 --> 01:10:44,220 But sometimes you've got to push to get it. 1615 01:10:44,220 --> 01:10:48,040 And hopefully the students will always remember that 1616 01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:50,230 and continue to strive to try to achieve 1617 01:10:50,230 --> 01:10:52,060 those things for themselves. 1618 01:10:57,130 --> 01:11:01,230 MARCUS MORRIS: I go occasionally just to talk to him, 1619 01:11:01,230 --> 01:11:04,010 let him know, you know, I'm still thinking about him. 1620 01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:07,100 I still think about all the times 1621 01:11:07,100 --> 01:11:12,000 that we had, still think about all the joy, really. 1622 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,070 That's mainly-- when I do go is what I talk to him 1623 01:11:15,070 --> 01:11:16,030 about all the good times. 1624 01:11:19,130 --> 01:11:22,020 MARLON PRYOR: I go to his grave site a lot. 1625 01:11:22,020 --> 01:11:23,160 I just sit there and have conversations 1626 01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:28,090 with him about him helping me, the great things he did 1627 01:11:28,090 --> 01:11:30,190 and getting me out of the life-- 1628 01:11:30,190 --> 01:11:34,000 the route I was headed. 1629 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,210 AJ GREEN: I feel like he's still watching me. 1630 01:11:35,210 --> 01:11:38,080 People don't understand what he meant to me. 1631 01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:45,100 But to have him saw what he saw in me at that early age-- 1632 01:11:45,100 --> 01:11:49,060 and it just kills me because I'm here because of him, 1633 01:11:49,060 --> 01:11:51,090 and he's not here to share this with me. 1634 01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,230 BRANDEN MILLHOUSE: Every time I come home, first thing I would 1635 01:11:56,230 --> 01:11:59,150 do is go by his grave site, just to see how he 1636 01:11:59,150 --> 01:12:01,210 was and actually bring flowers. 1637 01:12:01,210 --> 01:12:05,050 And I'd spend time just talking to him, 1638 01:12:05,050 --> 01:12:06,120 letting him know what's going on. 1639 01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:12,150 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 1640 01:12:16,030 --> 01:12:17,130 THOMAS NEWMAN: We decided that every four 1641 01:12:17,130 --> 01:12:20,100 years, that'd be a good time to check in with everybody. 1642 01:12:20,100 --> 01:12:24,080 DWAYNE SIMMONS: So we remember, you know, the good times. 1643 01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:26,210 It's a good remembrance to come every leap year that we 1644 01:12:26,210 --> 01:12:30,070 get together and just kind of get to sit back and talk, 1645 01:12:30,070 --> 01:12:33,230 you know, about the past, about what everybody's doing now. 1646 01:12:33,230 --> 01:12:35,110 THOMAS NEWMAN: Really enjoyed watching 1647 01:12:35,110 --> 01:12:36,160 them grow into young men. 1648 01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:41,120 Seeing a lot of my peers that he's touched actually 1649 01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:42,160 get into coaching. 1650 01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,020 And I see their coaching style is similar to his. 1651 01:12:46,020 --> 01:12:49,020 And how they raise their kids is similar to the way 1652 01:12:49,020 --> 01:12:51,050 that he was hard on them. 1653 01:12:51,050 --> 01:12:52,220 And every time I see the green and gold 1654 01:12:52,220 --> 01:12:55,110 and his football number, that number 4, 1655 01:12:55,110 --> 01:12:57,230 it always brings back memories. 1656 01:12:57,230 --> 01:13:01,140 BUSTER SEABROOK: Because of his character and his morals 1657 01:13:01,140 --> 01:13:03,150 and what he instilled in us, he still lives on. 1658 01:13:03,150 --> 01:13:04,230 He lives on every day. 1659 01:13:04,230 --> 01:13:10,190 A lot of his characteristics are in many of us-- the work ethic, 1660 01:13:10,190 --> 01:13:15,140 the determination, the wisdom, the strength physically, 1661 01:13:15,140 --> 01:13:19,130 mentally, pride, the humility. 1662 01:13:19,130 --> 01:13:22,100 There's thousands of people who live on through him, 1663 01:13:22,100 --> 01:13:25,050 and especially me. 1664 01:13:25,050 --> 01:13:27,190 MARLON PRYOR: He inspired me to do-- 1665 01:13:27,190 --> 01:13:28,120 I would just look-- 1666 01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:31,020 I would look to him and say, what would he do? 1667 01:13:31,020 --> 01:13:33,110 How would he get through this situation? 1668 01:13:33,110 --> 01:13:35,200 You know, just look to him for advice, 1669 01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:37,090 see if I could get answers. 1670 01:13:37,090 --> 01:13:38,110 He would push me. 1671 01:13:38,110 --> 01:13:40,010 I'm doing great. 1672 01:13:40,010 --> 01:13:41,050 I'm doing wonderful now. 1673 01:13:41,050 --> 01:13:42,170 Yeah, I got three kids. 1674 01:13:42,170 --> 01:13:45,190 A value I take from Coach, you instill in them, 1675 01:13:45,190 --> 01:13:48,110 do anything, do everything you can. 1676 01:13:48,110 --> 01:13:49,210 You're going to be the best you can. 1677 01:13:49,210 --> 01:13:54,010 Give your effort, put your values out, have heart, fight, 1678 01:13:54,010 --> 01:13:56,010 and you're going to come out on top. 1679 01:13:56,010 --> 01:13:56,190 It's destiny. 1680 01:13:56,190 --> 01:13:58,060 That's just what it is. 1681 01:13:58,060 --> 01:14:03,110 What I took from him was giving it your passion, 1682 01:14:03,110 --> 01:14:04,170 being passionate about something, 1683 01:14:04,170 --> 01:14:05,130 you know what I'm saying? 1684 01:14:05,130 --> 01:14:08,220 Just really being me, because I was 1685 01:14:08,220 --> 01:14:10,210 somebody who needed discipline. 1686 01:14:10,210 --> 01:14:16,040 And I tried to really instill that as a father to my kid. 1687 01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:18,190 THOMAS NEWMAN: Louis, his legacy is definitely 1688 01:14:18,190 --> 01:14:20,210 living on in our community. 1689 01:14:20,210 --> 01:14:22,030 And it's showing up. 1690 01:14:22,030 --> 01:14:24,160 For me still, to spend time with the players 1691 01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:27,200 that played for him, they'll say things and do things. 1692 01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:30,090 And it's the same words that Louis 1693 01:14:30,090 --> 01:14:33,100 used when he would talk to them and send them messages 1694 01:14:33,100 --> 01:14:35,080 and had a big impact on all of us. 1695 01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,090 It still does. 1696 01:14:37,090 --> 01:14:39,210 Everybody that came from our program 1697 01:14:39,210 --> 01:14:44,110 is still passing on the Green Wave torch, creating waves. 1698 01:14:44,110 --> 01:14:48,140 I feel like I'm a part of the legacy because of Coach Louis. 1699 01:14:48,140 --> 01:14:50,130 I am the man who I am today. 1700 01:14:50,130 --> 01:14:54,120 He taught me to the dedication, the hard work, the sacrifices 1701 01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,010 that I had to make just to get where I am. 1702 01:14:57,010 --> 01:14:59,010 I remember we used to have these conversations-- 1703 01:14:59,010 --> 01:15:02,080 like, AJ, one day when you make it, 1704 01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,130 all I want, we just want to ride in the sports car together. 1705 01:15:05,130 --> 01:15:09,110 AJ Green is definitely a part of his legacy. 1706 01:15:09,110 --> 01:15:15,050 And the higher he goes, the more Mulkey's name follows. 1707 01:15:15,050 --> 01:15:19,150 He's the first person I think of when I score a touchdown. 1708 01:15:19,150 --> 01:15:20,130 That's the first person. 1709 01:15:20,130 --> 01:15:22,090 I'm like, what'd Coach do? 1710 01:15:22,090 --> 01:15:24,160 CHRIS DIGBY: The ripple effect is real. 1711 01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:27,100 And Louis was making waves back then. 1712 01:15:27,100 --> 01:15:28,190 And the ripples of those waves are 1713 01:15:28,190 --> 01:15:30,180 still seen today in a big way. 1714 01:15:30,180 --> 01:15:32,080 BUSTER SEABROOK: I think that pertains just 1715 01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,080 to all of us moving forward. 1716 01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:38,040 Like I said, us as adults now, just keep hitting 1717 01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:39,080 them with different waves. 1718 01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:42,130 THOMAS NEWMAN: His legacy people still talk about. 1719 01:15:42,130 --> 01:15:46,150 So it's not something that when we lost Louis and those guys 1720 01:15:46,150 --> 01:15:50,100 graduated and went on their way that people stopped 1721 01:15:50,100 --> 01:15:51,150 talking about Louis Mulkey. 1722 01:15:51,150 --> 01:15:52,150 That never happened. 1723 01:15:55,140 --> 01:15:56,170 RALPHIE MOSTELLER: His legacy goes 1724 01:15:56,170 --> 01:16:00,110 on to families and generations and generations. 1725 01:16:00,110 --> 01:16:02,100 Right now in Charlotte, LA-- 1726 01:16:02,100 --> 01:16:04,230 I know people everywhere he touched. 1727 01:16:04,230 --> 01:16:07,180 If he could only see what his impact 1728 01:16:07,180 --> 01:16:09,210 was, I know he'd be happy, man. 1729 01:16:09,210 --> 01:16:11,180 I know he's smiling right now. 1730 01:16:11,180 --> 01:16:12,090 He got to be. 1731 01:16:12,090 --> 01:16:15,080 MARCUS MORRIS: I definitely think that he still watches us. 1732 01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:17,120 He's still proud of what we do. 1733 01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,130 And I still think he gets his laughs out now. 1734 01:16:20,130 --> 01:16:22,020 He's still a big kid up there. 1735 01:16:26,090 --> 01:16:29,150 THOMAS NEWMAN: His name will be in infamy around here forever. 1736 01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,190 [MUSIC PLAYING]