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Last Chance U (Netflix Series)

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lmao, okay as I get closer to the end, I keep finding myself rooting for Buddy Stephen's demise. Just as I did last year.

I don't doubt that some of these dudes need tough loving and reality check, but the fact he seems to have one speed and it's simply berate everyone. Eventually that wears on kids and they lose trust.

Edit- extra middle fingers to him for coddling the baby Kam Carter at every passing but continuing to ride Wright at his worst moments as a college kid
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Edit- extra middle fingers to him for coddling the baby Kam Carter at every passing but continuing to ride Wright at his worst moments as a college kid
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Agreed. I said before that whoever made the show has the power to make anyone appear however they way. Just show the parts of XYZ's behavior that supports the way you want him to be seen. But they sure make Kam Carter seem like a shit-hole. And I don't think they really have an agenda - I'm not accusing them of having an agenda. I believe he really is that way. I was really disappointed to see that Kam was still playing in games at the end of the season.

The guy has won a lot more championships than I have, or ever will. So I can't really say that his technique is terrible for winning championships. But I can't see myself letting my kids play for someone like him. (That is, if they become athletes, by some miracle.)
 
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Zurp said:
Agreed. I said before that whoever made the show has the power to make anyone appear however they way. Just show the parts of XYZ's behavior that supports the way you want him to be seen. But they sure make Kam Carter seem like a [Mark May]-hole. And I don't think they really have an agenda - I'm not accusing them of having an agenda. I believe he really is that way. I was really disappointed to see that Kam was still playing in games at the end of the season.

The guy has won a lot more championships than I have, or ever will. So I can't really say that his technique is terrible for winning championships. But I can't see myself letting my kids play for someone like him. (That is, if they become athletes, by some miracle.)
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On the agenda front. I read an article on Brittany Wagner ('sup?) and found these excerpts. I had always found it weird that Buddy Stephens did not cross paths once with her during any of this series. It was not any sort of editorial job by the directors...

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/07/las...any-wagner-10-thousand-pencils-buddy-stephens
“You’re tied to a coach,” she said. “You’re almost tied to his philosophy. Everything about it — it’s how he runs the institution, his message — comes from him.”
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She is careful — and precise — when discussing her frustrations with Stephens.

“When you value other people, when you value other people’s life and dreams and goals and just the fact that they’re standing in front of you and you are working with them every day, when you really value them as people, I don’t think you have to have this list of what you’re not going to do,” she said. “I don’t think you have to do pushups every time you cuss if you’re really valuing your job and your influence and the people you’re working with. I think that, to me, was my issue with him. It was always surface-level things that he was trying to change and it seemed to me that he was changing them for the perception of everyone else but he wasn’t learning to value himself — you can’t value other people until you value yourself — but he wasn’t learning to value the people that helped him build that program, which would have been myself and his assistant coaches and our administration, our teachers, our staff members, the people of East Mississippi that helped him build the program. And then he wasn’t valuing the players that he was bringing in there.”
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Wagner is shown speaking with Stephens’ assistants in Season 2, many times chafing at how they’re dealing with players or confused by the messages coming from the football office. She told me she thinks Stephens enabled one player — Kam Carter — by undermining the tough-love stance taken by defensive line coach Davern Williams.
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But she was hurt by how it all ended. Wagner and Stephens haven’t spoken in more than a year, she said, and there’s no evidence of them communicating in the documentary (director Greg Whiteley always checked to see if they had meetings planned, and there were none). Stephens never said thank you — or even goodbye — when Wagner left.
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Narcissistic asshole only cares about himself. Loves his power and treats players as pawns (I'll refrain from using the 'S' word). How do you show NO appreciation or have communication with your head academic advisor?!
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Buddy Stephens can get fucked.
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Basically this.
 
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Wagner is shown speaking with Stephens’ assistants in Season 2, many times chafing at how they’re dealing with players or confused by the messages coming from the football office. She told me she thinks Stephens enabled one player — Kam Carter — by undermining the tough-love stance taken by defensive line coach Davern Williams.
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They were lucky to have Wagner. Woman should have her own statue in churches.

Kid's a hot mess. He sure wasn't being taught any discipline on the football field. It will be interesting to see if he makes it to the end of this season. At least he's apparently found himself another enabler at Pitt.

Pitt Coach Pat Narduzzi Talks Kam Carter in Last Chance U as 'Netflex' Villain

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...am-carter-in-last-chance-u-as-netflex-villain

The Pitt coach said he watched the first episode but has not caught any of the others, which portray Carter as something of a villain.

"He said, 'Coach, I snapped on a coach one time.' He called it 'snapped,'" Narduzzi said. "So he told us everything. It didn’t shock me. But I think it's all for the show...He's done an unbelievable job and couldn't be a classier kid, to be honest with you. He actually got in a little fight, his first one, yesterday. It was a little one, I was looking for it to get bigger, but it was small, and he was like, 'I'm sorry, Coach.' What else can you ask for? Not too many guys say they're sorry."
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Uh huh. Maybe you should have watched more than one episode. Good luck with that, Coach.
 
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LostLassie said:
They were lucky to have Wagner. Woman should have her own statue in churches.

Kid's a hot mess. He sure wasn't being taught any discipline on the football field. It will be interesting to see if he makes it to the end of this season. At least he's apparently found himself another enabler at Pitt.

Pitt Coach Pat Narduzzi Talks Kam Carter in Last Chance U as 'Netflex' Villain

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...am-carter-in-last-chance-u-as-netflex-villain



Uh huh. Maybe you should have watched more than one episode. Good luck with that, Coach.
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narduzzi is a douche himself so im not suprised at these comments
 
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Ugly turn of events for one of the stars of this series...

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...st-chance-u-charged-connection-fatal-stabbing

Camion Patrick and Isaiah Wright are among four men charged in connection with the death of Caleb Radford on July 25. Radford, 18, was found stabbed multiple times on a street in Louisville, Tenn. On Aug. 3, Alcoa (Tenn.) police announced the arrests of two suspects: Keshawn Hopewell, 21, and Itiq Green, 28.
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Sadly, not all that surprising. It was pretty evident over the course of the second season that Wright was a troubled young man.
 
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Ugly turn of events for one of the stars of this series...

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...st-chance-u-charged-connection-fatal-stabbing



Sadly, not all that surprising. It was pretty evident over the course of the second season that Wright was a troubled young man.
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Terrible. Nothing to defend here now. Thought his brother was at least on the up since he was at IU (previous his medical hardship year).

Isaiah never seemed the same after his concussions (more anger, more depression, disconnected). Way different from the first season. I think back to his comments about still not caring the concussions because he'd rather die on the field than what he's faced in life. Wish he could have gotten help before harming someone else. Tragic all around.
 
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