![]() ![]() Including separate winning streaks of 25, 20 and 17 consecutive games, the Lions are 74-5 (.937) collectively with five double-digit win seasons dating back to the start of the 2011 campaign. “Dating back to the 2008 season, Stephens owns a decade-long head coaching overall record of 98-13 (.883) at East Mississippi, including composite marks of 56-4 (.933) in regular-season division play and 12-3 (.800) in MACJC playoff contests. Presently ranking as the NJCAA’s all-time leader in career winning percentage for coaches with 100 or more career games coached, Stephens enters the 2018 campaign needing two wins to eclipse the century mark for career coaching victories while breaking into the NJCAA’s Top 10 list among the winningest active coaches. “Having taken over a program that hadn’t managed a winning football season during the decade prior to his arrival and had only made one previous state playoff appearance in school history, Stephens has won 88 percent of his games as EMCC’s head football coach, including four NJCAA national championships, six MACJC State/NJCAA Region 23 titles, eight MACJC North Division crowns and six postseason bowl game victories. Since his arrival on the Scooba campus in December 2007, Stephens has completely transformed EMCC’s football program into a perennial powerhouse currently unrivaled in the NJCAA gridiron ranks. ![]() ![]() “Beginning his 11 th season as head coach, Buddy Stephens is the architect behind East Mississippi Community College’s decade of championship football. Make sure you check it out: If you missed the interview broadcast, check it out, in two parts and in their entirety: ![]() It is actually one of my favorite interviews.” Kevin Price said, “this interview was surprisingly intimate and I saw a side of him you would not and could not see watching the Netflix series. In addition he will share his amazing story of what happened the year after the second season, that received little media attention. In addition to discussing Stephens’ recruiting style, they visited about the Netflix experience and the impact it had on the team. It will be interesting to see what they decide.Coach Buddy Stephens captured the attention of viewers everywhere when his team and him were on the first two seasons of the wildly popular Netflixshow, “Last Chance U.” Kevin Price, host of the Price of Business has been eager to visit with the coach. But it’s not certain this will happen again Whiteley told Korman “ We’ve talked about going to a different school” for Season 3. It makes some sense for him, of course, especially as a recruiter Last Chance U provides the Lions with an incredible amount of national and international exposure for a junior college program. It’s notable that Stephens is still advocating for the documentary to return to EMCC, despite his occasional frustrations with the cameras and despite him not always being thrilled with how he’s portrayed. She went to another job but she’s already left that and is trying something else. That’s just the thing: she had her way of doing it, and now she’s moved on. Brittany was not the first person to love the kids, not the first person to walk a kid to class. “She’s doing the same thing as Brittany but she does it her way. “There would be so much to show,” he said. Stephens says his 2017 squad will be the fastest he’s ever had - recall that he’s won three national titles - and also believes the team’s new academic advisor, Abby Jenkins, would be a compelling character. He wondered whether the country wouldn’t be let down to not be able to follow his team again next year. Still, he’d like the cameras to come back. He called it the most stressful season of his career. The crew would flock to him at the earliest sign of a meltdown, which often hastened the meltdown. Throughout Season 2 Stephens is clearly frustrated with the cameras and he admitted that it was more difficult to ignore them during the second year of filming. However, Stephens told Chris Korman of For The Win that he wants the documentary season to return to EMCC for a third season despite that: Director Greg Whiteley told our Alex Putterman that tension was expected, but there were times this year where Stephens in particular was very unhappy with the cameras recording him. After seeing the response to and the popularity of the first season, East Mississippi Community College head coach Buddy Stephens and his players seemed both more aware of the cameras and occasionally more resistant to them in the second go-round. Providing access to filmmakers can raise plenty of concerns for coaches, and we saw some of that in the second season of Netflix’s Last Chance U (out now). ![]()
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