The opening scene of the show is a fight between two football teams. You hear a voiceover of the coach yelling at the players that it isn’t expectable for them to act this way and that he won’t be a part of it. Throughout the first episode it seems that the head coach is the one that is talking the most and his story is the first story that we hear. You find out how he got there and what kind of coach he is before you even meet one of the players. Which I think is a bit off because the show is about the college athletes and why they are there. The documentary is about college athletes that have either left Division 1 schools for one reason or another or because they needed to get their grades up to be eligible for Division 1.
For the most part the coaches and staff are the ones telling the stories of the players not the players themselves. Which is interesting because you have to wonder what parts of their stories they are emphasizing and what parts they are leaving out. It also makes you wonder if the players would include the same parts or add in different stories. What they think is important in their own story. One story that they frame is DJ’s story. They make it seem like he only has two options in life. Play football and be good at it or end up like your dad and go to jail. Which there are so many more options then just to play football or fail.
It seems that in all the stories of the players that each one just needs one more thing to make it, to achieve their dreams. Compared to when they talk about the head coach, they mostly say how he saved this place and how he really turned this program around. It seemed like they were describing the players more by their challenges and their ability to play football. While the staff was described by their personalities and what they have contributed to the team.
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