The third season of Last Chance U hits Netflix July 20, and the trailer is here (along with some notes here from the show’s director):
The 8 best parts of the ‘Last Chance U’ Season 3 trailer
The newest season premieres on Netflix July 20.
Instead of East Mississippi Community College, where the first two seasons were set, this year’s school is Independence Community College in Kansas.
As the new era of the show approaches, I ranked my favorite moments from the upcoming season’s trailer.
1. Independence head coach Jason Brown vibing in a hot tub with a cigar, as he informs us “we’re missing out.”
I don’t know much yet about Coach Brown, but I have a feeling we’d get along if we ever met, TBH.
“Our phone conversation with him was an all-timer,” director Greg Whiteley told SB Nation. “He’s a 100 percent hustler in the very best sense of the word. We all just adored him.”
2. Coach Brown chopping it up in a barber shop
Right after this clip, he tells his players he’s a “cold hustler.”
3. The coach’s joking that his players won’t come off the field even in extreme weather situations
“Hey when it gets cold like that, you know? Probably a tornado. But I’m not taking these dudes off the field.”
4. Chippiness, because what would Last Chance U be without it?
Part of what made the first two seasons of the show great was how East Mississippi head coach Buddy Stephens and his team got all riled up.
Well, we get this from Coach Brown and the Pirates, too:
5. Meeting Ms. Pinkard!
Latonya Pinkard is an English professor at Independence. Like EMCC academic adviser Brittany Wagner, she makes sure the players are on top of their schoolwork. When we first meet her, here’s how players are reacting:
And then she says she sees a train wreck coming, and “she is the train, so ... move.”
6. Former Florida State QB Malik Henry straight-up being honest and saying he doesn’t want to be at Independence.
Henry is a former four-star quarterback prospect. My favorite part is how he says this as he’s shown doing up-downs.
7. COWS N’ TRACTORS!
Nothing says Independence, Kansas — a town Whiteley told me the Last Chance U folks had never even heard of before — quite like this:
8. And last, but certainly not least, this damn pirate mascot that’s going to give me nightmares.
Way weirder than EMCC’s barking dog fan.
“The world of JUCO athletics seems to be a magnet for truly inspiring, heartbreaking, and compelling stories,” Whiteley said. “For two seasons on Last Chance U, East Mississippi Community College provided an endless supply of characters and issues to explore, but we always believed there was a lot more to be discovered in the JUCO football landscape. Leaving Mississippi and heading to Independence, Kan., gave us the opportunity to test our theory that what makes the show memorable isn’t contingent upon how good a team is.”
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