The Netflix documentary series “Last Chance U” surpassed 82 million viewers last week, and is becoming the talk of the summer television season. The project centers on the East Mississippi Community College football team in tiny Scooba, Mississippi.
East Mississippi’s coach Buddy Stevens is renown for rehabilitating the careers of outstanding football talents who have been booted out of division I programs or never made the grades to get into a big college football program.
Niners’ starting defensive end Quinton Dial is such a player. His mother died when he was 10, his father fell on hard times, and Dial eventually moved in with parishioners of his Birmingham, Alabama church.