Just finished season 2.
Man, Buddy has some issues. The way he treats people, he just needs to take a step back and watch these two seasons of Last Chance U and do some soul searching.
The biggest problem is that he isn't trying to help the player or coach when he yells at them. He is just attacking them.
Both of my boys are involved in a very competitive drum and bugle corps. They get yelled at when they make the slightest mistake in practice, but that is followed up with instruction - identifying exactly what they did wrong and what they need to do to correct it. The two combined create an environment which hones the skills of those involved. Those in the corps understand the value in the correction, and they accept it even though they pay to participate (yeah, they pay a lot of money to get yelled at every weekend for 6 months/year). The only thing that they get in return is pride in their performance. No scholarships on the line. No huge pay day on the horizon. They could walk away at any time, but everyone stays and endures because it is clearly meant to help them.
There is a reason that almost all of the players talk back to the coaches at this school. Even with everything at stake (scholarships at bigger schools and their football future), they still openly rebel. They do so because there has been no trust or respect established. And why would a player trust or respect these coaches? When the coaches poor mouth a player because he cannot cut on an injured ankle in a game, or when they question his work ethic because he cannot practice fully - and they do so in front of other players - they make one thing clear, they do not care about the players. These coaches are trying to move up the coaching ladder, and these players are the rungs on the ladder.
If Coach Saban represents everything that is right about sports, this show exposes everything that is wrong with sports in general. The only person really trying to help these kids is the guidance counselor who quit at the end of the season because even she reached the end of her rope in dealing with the coaches. Everyone else is using them for their own gain.