 FACT: After the losing season at the start of the movie, Coach Bell  travels to see Butch play a high school game. The college season  outlasts the high school season by weeks to months. There is no  chance that Butchs team is playing a home game after the colleges  regular season is over. There is a small chance that the coach could  have gone to a State Tournament game to see Butch play, but even  those tournaments are over before the college season ends. In  addition, most high school players have signed a letter of intent  early in their senior year making a recruiting trip in the early  spring unrealistic. It is understandable from a pacing perspective  why the film was shot this way. The coach has another losing season  and decides not to let it happen again and goes after the Blue Chip  players to be better next year. In the real world, he would have  been making the recruiting trips (or his assistant coaches would  have) much earlier, during the season and not after it.