The third season of beloved college football documentary series Last Chance U will leave EMCC for Independence Community College in Kansas, another JUCO. Via Netflix:
‘Last Chance U’ season 3 will change schools to a JUCO in Kansas
The Netflix doc series’ 2018 edition will leave East Mississippi Community College, where it’s been for two years.
The award-winning documentary series will expand the universe of junior college football, heading from the heart of the south to the heartland -- Independence Community College in Kansas.
The series will continue to follow the lives of elite athletes who deal with personal dramas, past mistakes and future goals as they hopefully realize their dreams of competing at the next level. The Independence Pirates are coming off their first winning season in ten years under first year Head Coach Jason Brown.
“While we now have the opportunity to head to Kansas, we hope to revisit the people we’ve grown to love over the past two seasons of Last Chance U,” noted director Greg Whiteley. “We are forever grateful to the talented team at East Mississippi Community College who dedicated months of their lives in Scooba and trusted us to tell their incredible stories.”
Last Chance U is a Netflix production in association with Condé Nast Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment and One Potato Productions. The series was originally inspired by a feature article in GQ magazine; and is executive produced by Greg Whiteley, Joe LaBracio, Dawn Ostroff, Lucas Smith, James Stern, Ben Cotner, Adam Del Deo and Lisa Nishimura.
The second season of the series released in July 2017, building on the success of its first. It’s quickly become one of the best parts of the month before college football season begins, shining a light on the sport with incredible levels of access. It made stars of many players (here’s where the biggest names are playing in 2017), support staffers, and EMCC head coach Buddy Stephens, whose tempestuous nature led many viewers to have mixed feelings about the series returning to EMCC.
Now it’s headed to a new program, a very different kind of JUCO, one without national championship expectations. It does, however, continue the show’s tradition of having former Florida State QBs.
One of the best episodes of the second season was the one that focused on an overmatched EMCC opponent. The show’s established it can tell all kinds of stories, ranging from fallen blue-chips to players you’d never have heard of otherwise, and I think we should be excited about the new stories it’ll find outside of Mississippi.
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