The man should've been fired plain and simple. I think his offensive coordinator/assistant head coach would've made for a much, much better head coach.
Coach Stephens was a nearsighted hypocritical buffoon for the entire series. His lamenting at his players as "thugs and rednecks" when he himself was doing equally if not worse things soon before and during the last game was atrocious.
Just finished watching the final episode.
Yes, he rants on & on and at times comes across as a total buffoon. The specific scenes shows Marcus Wood (the offensive coach) as 'the level headed one' - but for the one outburst in one game :). Even when Coach repeats himself whilst talking, 4/5 even more times, makes it appear that he is arrogant, a bully, know-it-all, etc., etc.
But ... what I do think is that we do not see the whole picture in these, specifically edited, 6 episodes. Even the last few scenes where he is recruiting, in my opinion, is only a glimpse of what he probably does. Surely someone who has led the team to 3 out 4 championships, probably would have been 4 out of the last 5, has something to give.
Overall, as the one reviewer rightfully says, this show is not about the Coach or even football. This show is more a human story, with Brittany Wagner being the main attraction. So much revolves around her.
He's one large man.
shareFrom a psychological view I think he got plained scared and overwhelmed by the brawl against Delta.
I don't know if I missed something but I didn't get why the thing happened and why EMCC got the suspension and lost the Championship. Something must have been going on that we didn't see.
But I think he made a fine job until the big fight where he lost the big picture. His assistant coach then helped him to get the picture right and he changed his view.
What do you think why they got the suspension?
If you leave the bench during a fight, you are suspended the next game. Since the whole game practically engaged in the fight, and everyone left the sidelines.......
The man should've been fired plain and simple. I think his offensive coordinator/assistant head coach would've made for a much, much better head coach.
Coach Stephens was a nearsighted hypocritical buffoon for the entire series. His lamenting at his players as "thugs and rednecks" when he himself was doing equally if not worse things soon before and during the last game was atrocious.
Coach Stephens is really entertaining. I'm glad he was on the show. He didn't restrain himself or hold back from anything.
That said, he's a dumbass coaching a team of dumbasses. Challenging other coaches to fight, challenging another ref to fight...lol. The only reason they win is because they have all the best players transfer in there and the academics of the school are a joke. Thats a freaking diploma factory.
The series should have focused more on Clint Trickett. He was an actual star QB at a big time school (very recently actually) and had his career ended due to concussions. His story was way more compelling than listen to fatazz beligerant Coach Stephens.
I can't believe Trickett can't get a better gig, maybe QB coach at a D1 college or something.
As for Stephens meh, he seems to do the talking and relies on other people to be the brains behind the operation. Like that one episode where it's 4th and one and he has no idea what's about go down on the field.
I didn't like the part where Ollie was clearly showing concussion symptoms, but lying about the headache to stay on the field, and he was basically insinuating to some asst coach for a school at practice that Ollie may or may not be injured, resting in his room.
Trickett will probably get a better job shortly but he was just out school and maybe that was his best opportunity. He probably makes a little more doing that than being a GA at a 4 year school. And maybe he didn't want to go to grad school which a GA must do. Trickett's dad is the O line coach at FSU and has been there for years. He has connections so Clint will move up the coaching ladder if that's what he wants to do.
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