Here are the rankings of all seven seasons (including basketball) based on the entertainment value, with a brief summary of each season.
1) Basketball season 1 Due to the roster of a basketball team being much smaller than that of football, this season became the most engaging because the viewer got to learn about everyone that was part of the program. The ending of this season was the most dramatic of any season. It was a heartbreaking end to the ELAC season.
2) Football season 1 Perhaps due to the fact that this was the first season and the format of the series was an unknown commodity, the viewer quickly got pulled into the drama of the EMCC football program. It was hard to hit the stop button after each episode.
3) Football season 3 This season was the third most entertaining mainly due to the lunatic that was the head coach, but he actually seemed to care more about the kids in his program than the coach at EMCC.
4) Football season 2 The second season with the EMCC program was not as good as the first.
5) Football season 4 Although he was still very entertaining in a trashy reality tv-type way, the continuing shenanigans of the head coach began to get tiresome and boorish as the season progressed.
6) Basketball season 2 Due to COVID, basketball season 2 covered three different school years in some capacity. It seemed as if the coaches were over having cameras in their faces at all times during the course of this season. In addition, the players in basketball season 2 lacked the charm of those in season 1.
7) Football season 5 This was not a bad season at all, but the head coach and program were too normal to be very entertaining. No one wants to see a smooth flow of traffic, they want to see a trainwreck. Being a former college football player, if I had to choose a coach and program to play for from the four schools highlighted in the Last Chance U. Seasons, it would be the one at Laney College highlighted in this season. The other coaches (especially the football coaches at the first two schools) just had way too much drama in their programs and it seemed as if they often lacked institutional control of their teams. A trainwreck is entertaining, being in a trainwreck is not.
My rankings should not be interpreted as those at the bottom were not entertaining or engrossing. Each season was solidly put together and very engaging, but some were just more interesting (in an often bad way) than others.
1) Basketball season 1 Due to the roster of a basketball team being much smaller than that of football, this season became the most engaging because the viewer got to learn about everyone that was part of the program. The ending of this season was the most dramatic of any season. It was a heartbreaking end to the ELAC season.
2) Football season 1 Perhaps due to the fact that this was the first season and the format of the series was an unknown commodity, the viewer quickly got pulled into the drama of the EMCC football program. It was hard to hit the stop button after each episode.
3) Football season 3 This season was the third most entertaining mainly due to the lunatic that was the head coach, but he actually seemed to care more about the kids in his program than the coach at EMCC.
4) Football season 2 The second season with the EMCC program was not as good as the first.
5) Football season 4 Although he was still very entertaining in a trashy reality tv-type way, the continuing shenanigans of the head coach began to get tiresome and boorish as the season progressed.
6) Basketball season 2 Due to COVID, basketball season 2 covered three different school years in some capacity. It seemed as if the coaches were over having cameras in their faces at all times during the course of this season. In addition, the players in basketball season 2 lacked the charm of those in season 1.
7) Football season 5 This was not a bad season at all, but the head coach and program were too normal to be very entertaining. No one wants to see a smooth flow of traffic, they want to see a trainwreck. Being a former college football player, if I had to choose a coach and program to play for from the four schools highlighted in the Last Chance U. Seasons, it would be the one at Laney College highlighted in this season. The other coaches (especially the football coaches at the first two schools) just had way too much drama in their programs and it seemed as if they often lacked institutional control of their teams. A trainwreck is entertaining, being in a trainwreck is not.
My rankings should not be interpreted as those at the bottom were not entertaining or engrossing. Each season was solidly put together and very engaging, but some were just more interesting (in an often bad way) than others.