re: Last Chance U: Basketball official thread

Buddy and Brown, while fantastic television, kind of screwed them over in the long run. Really, you can pin it on Buddy. He was such an arse but they kicked the shite out of almost every team so you had the perfect blend of pulling for the kids to win but also part of you wanted a team to shite down Buddy’s throat just to see him lose and freak out. Those first two seasons are fricking incredible.

BUT because of the drama and success and larger than life personalities that wasn’t really replicable, they went searching for those big dickhead personalities instead of making sure the quality would be good (making sure you could actually root for the players and see some success). Granted, it was still fascinating, but not as good and they clearly wanted to get away from that and tried something different with the team in Oakland, which is probably how they envisioned the show to being with. Problem was, most people now wanted to watch for all the crazy shite that could happen, and when there wasn’t much drama, no memorable characters, people shite on it when really, it was still fine.

I haven’t watched the basketball season but my hope is the show can find its way again and find a blend of the EMCC days and the Oakland season.