This TV show falls under two genres. It is descriptive and a documentary. This show is telling the story of several players and staff members and their journey through East Mississippi college football. This show is trying to convey what it is actually like for these players and what they have to go through. That it isn’t exactly what everyone thinks it is. That there is more to them then just football and that they have other things going on in their lives then just sports. The second episode of the series is mainly about the QB story and who will be the starting quarterback. It shows the difference in personalities of John and Wyatt and I think that they choose to include their stories in this episode because of how they played in the game. That John was acting like a big shot and that he was going to play football professional and that was his only plan. While Wyatt was more down to earth and knew that football might not work out and, that there is a real possibility that he won’t play professionally, and that he had another plan if it didn’t work out.
The production company had to do some research on this team and its players and staff so they could find out what stories they were going to tell and when they were going to tell them in the series. The third episode mainly told the story of Ollie, which we have heard about in the previous two episodes and we knew that he had it hard, but we didn’t know what really happened. We finally get his full story from his aunt and sister. This helps the show to gain trust with the audience because they were first hand witnesses to the event and it is their family that they are talking about, so it is easier to believe. Ollie also gets a concussion in this episode and that is why he goes home. When Ollie first started to complain of the symptoms of a concussion no one really believed that he had one, not even the coach who is supposed to have the health and well-being of his players in mind. They thought that he was faking because it was ollie saying it. Not because they had medical proof that he didn’t. With all conditions you can have one or all the signs and symptoms of it, you don’t necessarily have to show all them to have it. This episode also talked about them losing the week before and them being worried about how the team will bounce back. They mainly just said that team played badly and tried to use more of an emotional approach then a logical one to try and get the team to rally.
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