Blue Chips

“Victory doesn't come cheap.”

Somewhere in college basketball, the best high school players are being paid, and every coach in the game seems to know it. Pete Bell (Nick Nolte), whose team keeps losing and who cannot land the recruits he needs, is desperate enough to consider joining in. William Friedkin and writer Ron Shelton set it among real players and coaches, and the point is plain: when money runs the recruiting, the sport stops belonging to the people who play it.