The promising team at Long Beach Poly, helmed by head coach Raul Lara, whose nearly 20 years of coaching experience at his alma mater includes 100 wins in nine seasons as head coach, boasts the largest roster of high school players who have gone on to the NFL, including Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson and Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis, among many others.

After decades of success, Poly had a down year in 2009. The Jackrabbits had their worst season in 15 years and lost to local rival Lakewood for the first time in more than 25 years. The community is frustrated with the current coaches and, after years of being pegged as "the team to beat," the aura of invincibility is gone. The players are worried that their hopes for a college scholarship have dimmed. The clock is ticking and the question is: Can the team pull it together for one more season of greatness? And, can the players avoid the temptations of the street, succeed in the classroom, and emerge victorious on the field?

Shot on location in Long Beach, Calif., and throughout Southern California, the series explores how the team is a point of pride for a community that struggles with poverty, drugs, and gangs, and documents the personal relationships the players have with their families on and off the field.

For Coach Lara, whose full-time job is working the graveyard shift as a Deputy Probation Officer, the football program provides its players a way out; everyone is pushing ahead for that "golden ticket": a college scholarship and a better life.