Day 334

Fresh Start_334: Last Chance U Season 2 SPOLIER REVIEW
This is a SPOLIER REVIEW
Starting and finishing a Netflix original can take a lot out of you. Watching the second season of “Last Chance U” I have a ton of thoughts about the second season of one of my favorite series on television.

The first season of the show was thrilling, gripping, and it made you feel like you were a part of the team. Seeing the rise and fall of John Franklin III, Ronald Ollie, and D.J. Law shows how real and rare these second chances are. Now, with season two we get to see that with De’Andre Johnson, Isaiah Wright, Tim Bonner, Chauncey Rivers, and Kam Carter just shows you how people can change and how gripping football really is.

I love this show, but I have my concerns about the future of the East Mississippi Community College. With Brittany Wagner, Quarterback Coach Clint Tricklett, Defensive Coordinator Ed Holly, and having Marcus Woods step down from his Offensive Coordinator duties, this EMCC football program will not be as good as it has been in recent years.

Like the saying goes; you are only as good as the sum of your parts (at least that’s how I think it goes). And, Buddy Stevens might be one of the best football coaches in all of college football at any level, but he needs this group of people to make this team run. Wagner was the glue that held the football side and academic side together, making many of the players who were difference makers eligible to play for Stevens. Tricklett helped Franklin III and Johnson become the quarterbacks that are now playing at Auburn and Florida Atlantic. Johnson might find himself on an NFL roster because of Tricklett following him to Florida Atlantic.

With the documentary showing this EMCC team through the lens that they did; Ed Holly had one of the best defenses as far as athletes in the entire country in 2015-16, and the defense he had in 2016-17 was a good defensive line and a good linebacker in Dakota Allen. The defense was one of the major contributors to the Lions not making the National Championship for the second consecutive year. Not much Holly can do about his job with the glaring holes in the defense. However, the offense will suffer because Marcus Woods will no longer call the shots for Buddy Stevens. Woods was clearly the cog in the machine that allowed the players to get the most out of their talents and get the D1 offers that the players need to continue their playing careers.

The EMCC Lions will still be one of the best junior college football programs in the country because of Stevens, but until they have a system in place with the same type of genuine people around the fiery head coach, the program will not win a National Championship.         
Sources:(Netflix.com, imdb.com)

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