It was impossible to put everything I found on the internet about Glory Road in one post.
Here’s part two of it

Some tidbits about Austin’s character (Jerry Armstrong) in the press

Much like in "Remember the Titans," the white players and the black players did not see eye to eye at first in "Glory Road". Much of the misunderstanding came from Missouri farm-boy Jerry Armstrong (Austin Nichols) and the seven black members of the team. As the team started winning, it came together and saw race didn't matter. The bond between players grew stronger while on the road, when their hotel rooms were broken into and derogatory words were scrawled in blood on the walls. (The Jambar)

I admire a film like 'Glory Road,' even if it is perhaps not the absolute best example of the genre. The player archetypes will be familiar to anyone who has seen even a single movie about sports. There's the cocky leader (Derek Luke), the rebellious party boy (Damaine Radcliff) the let's-hold-it-all-together-guys wingman (Sam Jones), and the dumb-bumpkin white boy who speaks before he thinks (Austin Nichols). And as Coach Haskins, Lucas holds it all together with a vigorous performance that illustrates why this guy should really be a bigger star than he is (High Def Digest)

The actors do fine jobs of capturing aspects of each player's personality that underscore his contribution on the court. Derek Luke stars as Bobby Joe Hill, the agile backcourt artist whose resentment of racism feeds his athletic prowess. Schin A.S. Kerr has a glowering presence as the formidable center David Lattin.

Damaine Radcliffe is a determined Willie "Scoops" Cager, fighting to overcome a heart ailment to get back on the court. Sam Jones III makes pint-size Willie Worsley a spark plug at guard. Mehcad Brooks as forward Harry Flournoy must battle scholastic problems to stay in the lineup. And Austin Nichols has serious and humorous moments as Jerry Armstrong, a white player forced to adjust his game and social attitudes (The Hollywood Reporter)

The players for Coach Haskins fare somewhat better. Jerry Armstrong (Austin Nichols) represents the white athletes who must sacrifice playing time for the good of the team. The black players are essentially an ensemble cast with little detailed development of individual stories (HNN)

Gartner and Cleveland make sure that all of the players are different people. They don't all mesh into "the black players" All Hill wants to do is play basketball, and this is his chance to do so. David Lattin is the imposing center who also has a huge chip on his shoulder. Forward Nevil Shed is good at the game, but doesn't go all out in his effort. Willie Cager is very good, but also has a medical condition. White player Jerry Armstrong (Austin Nichols) has never seen a black man before, and isn't too sure how to act.

BASKETBALL BOOT CAMP

With the cast recruited, the next task was turning this rag-tag group of athletes and actors into a team resembling the nation’s hottest basketball talents.  Three weeks before shooting began on GLORY ROAD the filmmakers shipped the actors off to an intensive basketball boot camp in New Orleans. No matter how experienced or inexperienced the actors – whether they were pro ball players or hadn’t picked up a ball in years -- they were all treated equally and put through their paces with an endless series of drills and fundamentals designed to create a real sense of teamwork.  Panting and grunts filled the gymnasium everyday, as a sea of Chuck Taylor Classic Converse High Tops squeaked across the wood floor.

Fisher and Floyd agreed early on that this would be no Hollywood-style boot camp.  There were no special privileges granted to anyone, and the guys were run ragged each and every day of camp as if basketball was the only thing that mattered. There were also no worries about hurting the actor’s feelings with tough talk and pointed critiques.  Instead, there was a deliberate effort to make the practices just as brutally hard as Haskins did for the Miners in the 60s. 

Before the boot camp began, some of the cast had strong basketball skills and no acting experience; others had strong acting experience but limited basketball skills. Now, as the cast began to grow closer, an exchange took place in which the secrets of one man’s specialty were shared with another, and …a team was born.

Sums up Bruckheimer, “These kids really bonded with one another.  Of course we worked them hard and that helped to bring them closer.  I guess they even hated our basketball advisors for a while because they worked them so hard.  But that was all part of trying to make a movie that feels so real the audience is swept up in the story.”

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Let’s end our Glory Road review with something that sounds very strange to me:  Identify the Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles illustrated within Glory Road and discuss leadership lessons learned with group members or mentors.

If you want to try it yourself

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Glory Road

The movie opened on Friday, January 13, 2006

"Glory Road" tells the inspiring true story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team, with history's first all African American starting lineup of players, who took the country by storm, surprisingly winning the 1966 NCAA tournament title. Josh Lucas stars as Hall of Famer Don Haskins, the passionately dedicated college basketball coach that changed the history of basketball with his team's victory in this time of innocence.

This is no doubt the best documented movie Austin was in. The internet is loaded with information about this movie. It’s difficult to decide where to start and even more difficult to decide where to stop. Let’s concentrate on Austin. After all, he’s the one we are here for.
Another reason to watch the movie, is the great sixties music.

Austin Nichols plays Jerry Armstrong

POSTION:  FORWARD
JERSEY NUMBER: 52
HOMETOWN:  EAGLEVILLE, MISSOURI

STATS: Played in twenty-four games in 1965-66.  Armstrong led the Texas Western Miners in free throws with a 21 of 24, .875 average.
 

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A review from parental reviews

I did not want to withhold this piece of vital information, about the sex/nudity in the movie:

- We see some period (1960s style) cleavage in a quick image. 
- We see a nude male baby from the side for a bath, but don't see anything explicit. 
- Coach Haskins' wife Mary looks back at a college basketball player who has just a towel around him (but we don't see anything). 
- We see some shirtless basketball players playing on the street. 
- We see more shirtless players. 
- We see more shirtless players. 

Let's take a look at a few shirtless players

Derek Luke (Bobby Joe Hill) talks about Austin?

The other actors have said you weren’t the best basketball player and you’re the star player of the team.

Derek Luke: (Laughs) Who’d you interview first? I know Austin (Nichols) ain’t talking…

He said you were the second worst.

Derek Luke: Second worst? (Laughs) He probably was. Every day the challenge was to be the star basketball player on the team. That’s where the character came from and it was backwards to me. Because usually you develop a character and then give him shoe laces. This one was unlaced. Bobby Joe had passed away and he was such a laid back character. He avoided the press. You had to get snippets of his personality here and there.

Did you ever get a chance to play in comfortable shoes?

Derek Luke: We did, but it was like somebody moved the magic carpet from under our feet. They were like no. I thought it was going to be like Hoosiers, getting shot from the neck up. (Laughs) They were like, we demand reality, so we had to take everything off and put those All-Stars on.

The other actors have said there was a bond between everyone. Can you talk about that?

Derek Luke: We got evacuated filming in New Orleans. We got a call, everybody pack up what you have. If it’s not necessary leave it behind. I’m like ‘leave it behind?’ Basically, New Orleans to Baton Rouge is an hour and a half. It took us fourteen hours to get to Baton Rouge, and when we got there, everything was closed. We saw one McDonalds in the hood. In the hood, stores be open late. We tried to negotiate Tatyana Ali. They were like, ‘we’re not opening up McDonalds.’ Long story short, we had to cook our own food. The whole cast and crew went in, like sixty to eighty of us, and made our food. I was on fries. Austin Nichols, he couldn’t make a shake. (Laughs) I have a degree in fast food. I used to work at Roy Rogers and Wendy’s.

Did you share the fries?

Derek Luke: I had to share…

Did you teach anyone else?

Derek Luke: I tried to get a little managerial thing going, but it was so fun. It was just about us camping out and eating. It was a crazy bond.