Victory Isn't Everything: Latent and Articulated Dissent as Forms of Player Backlash on a Winning High School Football Team

Abstract

The Copeland Cavaliers have become one of the greatest high school football teams in the history of New Jersey, though has the “win at all costs” mentality of the head coach impinged on the loyalty and determination of its players? Team members must now figure out how best to communicate their dissent in a way that ultimately leads to organizational change or else they may find themselves in a situation not well-known to them: defeated.