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The Air Up There Jimmy Dolan Analysis

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The Air Up There Jimmy Dolan is an ambitious young assistant college basketball coach. He coaches for his Alma Mater, St. Joseph. Dolan has a lot of history with the St. Jo Bulls. He was their star basketball player back when he was a part of the team and he even led them to a National Championship back in 1981. But do to a career ending knee injury Jimmy lost all chances of becoming a professional basketball player. It is obvious that Jimmy somewhat blames the basketball program there at St. Joseph for his misfortune. When we get to meet the Bull’s head coach, Coach Fox, it is apparent that he feels bad for Jimmy. As if he knows that he is somewhat to blame. The relationship between Coach Fox and Jimmy Dolan is not what I would picture your typical head …show more content…

The way Jimmy Dolan comes into Africa offering an American education and promises of a professional basketball birth assuming that these Wannabi will jump at the chance. He believes that offering this kid a life in America and “the deal of a lifetime” would cause these African tribes men to jump for joy. The first basketball player Jimmy is faced with is a huge athletic African man who immediately shows huge amounts of interest in going back to America and being in the NBA. Jimmy can tell that this man’s agent is just in this for the money so Jimmy disregards this guy and continues in search of the six foot eight inch super athlete he spotted in the video. Eventually Jimmy Dolan arrives in Wanabi where he finds his guy; the kid from the video. Unfortunately he is faced with a problem. Nobody likes him or trusts him here. Saleh’s father, also the chief of Wanabi doesn’t think that it would be best for him to go back with Dolan. As a father he is just wanting what is best for his child but also as a chief he wants what is best for the village, and having Saleh gone would take a toll on the

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