Video: EMCC, Series Creators React To “Last Chance U” Second Season

SCOOBA, Miss. (WCBI) – Most college football teams invite media to a preseason event, like EMCC did this week, but most do not have a film crew following the coaches and players’ every move.

International acclaim has poured in for Last Chance U and Netflix announced Monday that there will be a second season of the documentary series on the EMCC football team.

“It scares the bejesus out of you because you’re like ‘I don’t know what they’re going to get on film. I don’t know what they’re going to see,’” head coach Buddy Stephens said. “The great thing about it is we have great kids. We have great people at our college.”

The are the men and women behind Last Chance U are already working on the second season of the series.

“It feels like we already have a target on our back anywhere we go. I guess the Netflix show just makes it a bigger target,” sophomore running back Isaiah Wright said.

Most of the players say they stayed up all night to watch the series when it was released.

“I think it’s pretty cool actually, knowing that they got kicked out last year and are hungry and ready for another opportunity to get back and win a national championship,” freshman Fulton native Vijay Miller said.

Stephens says he learned more about himself from watching the series.

“It made me have to be very introspective in the fact that there were things that I needed to change about me. There were things that I needed to change about my coaching style,” he said.

The creators of the series are tackling new issues for what they might change for season two. They say they will continue to follow players that graduated after this past season, like Louisville native Wyatt Roberts, who now plays at Mississippi State.

“There are challenges to making a second season,” executive producer Greg Whiteley said. “You don’t just want to repeat the first season. At the same time, you don’t want to completely ditch what worked the first season. People have fallen in love with a handful of characters and they’re very interested in what happens to those people.”

Those interested people include Snoop Dogg. The rapper tweeted out a few emojis after the release of the series.

The Lions say that it’s time to put the attention aside and focus on winning what would be the school’s fourth football national championship in the past six years.