i would like Buddy more if he accepted the fact that he is a tyrant, because maybe you have to be a tyrant to be a good football coach. i'm also curious about the existence of a "graduate assistant" at a community college
Watched 4-5 eps tonight. My opinion of Kam Carter became dramatically worse after watching this, amazingly. Booted for failing multiple drug tests seemed bad enough but he really is just fucking lazy.
That RB from Itawaba or whatever was the shit. Googled him and he committed to some SEC schools before flipping to Kansas.
I'm two episodes in, Dakota Allen is my favorite player so far. Also, D.Johnson seems like a decent dude who did something extremely stupid.
Watching episode two when they focused on Deandre punch really made me feel bad for the dude. I don't thinks he's a bad guy at all. He just made a terrible mistake. With that said, Deandre would have ended up transferring anyway. I don't think he would have beat out Francois.
I thought maybe I was just being biased because he got booted from my school but I take it he just comes off as generally unlikeable. Johnson and Allen seem like decent guys who made bad decisions. Hitting a woman, especially like that, is fucking reprehensible but at least he seems willing to put in the effort to turn his life around and seize the opportunity. Some of these guys just flat out don't give a shit.
But he's coaching glorified high school. Many coaches, at all levels, have an assholish personality. That's fine, it may even be preferable to being a nice guy. But Spoiler the way he shits on his assistant coaches, especially the OC in the last episode shows that he's just a POS human being. If you coach at a Power 5 conference you may need to run your program like that, but not at a CC in Mississippi.
I always assumed he was playing it up for the cameras to try to score himself a job at a higher level. Or he may just be a power-hungry asshole though. Not like the night manager at Jack in the Box won't unnecessarily act like a tyrant.
Which is why I was fine with him in season 1 and through most of season 2. Coaches don't have to be nice guys or be liked by their players. Most coaches, including Buddy, do think they care about their players. They just care about winning a lot more. That's totally fine, IMO. People who expect more don't realize the mentality of a person who makes coaching football their life's work. But It got weirdly personal with the assistants this year, which doesn't make sense in that kind of environment. In a place where players are only there for one or two seasons, your assistants really have to be your guys. Edit: Which is why I said I'm convinced he's just a bad human being at this point.
I wonder if they go to a different school for season 3. Thought they might be setting something up when they profiled the shitty CC late in the series.
I was gonna say the white OGs face when the rappers started getting turnt out before the second game.
They did spend a curious amount of time interviewing them. Hadn't done that with any other school to that point.
I don't think he's ever faced any hard situations. Him getting into an argument with a fucking teacher was ridiculous.
I know there's a ton of stuff that we don't see, but Wagner bitching about working with Buddy in the last episode was weird. We never see them interact on camera.
You can just tell that the coach in the barber shop, that coached against the louisville kid, is an absolutely terrible coach. His strategy against a speed rusher was to try and run away from him
At the higher levels you run at that kind of guy because, presumably, your OTs/TEs are bigger than him. In high school he was probably bigger, stronger and faster than the kids he was playing against. Running away from that makes more sense when your OT is giving up size, speed and athleticism.
True on the size and strength, but running away should still be last resort. There are ways to scheme against guys like that. Attach TE's, have H-backs stay in and protect, Sprint out his way with RB chipping, throw a lot of quick game, and run gap scheme plays his way to kick him out (90% of guys like that won't step down with a down block. His 1 to 2 steps upfield is all you need to hit that crease).
He comes across as someone who doesn't want to play football, it's just something he did bc he is good at it and his uncle encouraged it. I doubt he even likes it. Watching him interact with the academic advisor is infuriating. She must have more patience than any human alive.
Is it weird that I want these kids to do well, but I also want them to lose bc it puts buddy one step closer to quitting? The fake new Christian bit pisses me the fuck off too. Maybe it's bc I'm a Catholic, but I don't buy any of his fake religious shit. The "whose father? Our father" is abhorrent to me. Now the OC seems like a good man that cares. I hope he gets the job.
Makes sense, you can tell buddy doesn't like the cameras showing his true colors. He probably agreed to this season to try to repair his rep. Which probably didn't go according to plan
Most juco towns are shitholes but Garden City literally smells like shit bc of the meatpacking plants/feedlots. I guess you could get used to it if you lived there but it's jarring.