All or Nothing: The Michigan Wolverines

If you expect a behind-the-scenes look into a famous college football team, an insight into how future stars are able to balance their studies and preparation for a professional contract, the specifics of “transfers" between universities, the relationship between mainstream students and the football elite, tensions between freshmen and seniors who have the last chance to prove themselves on the team, and the rivalry between individual schools... Exactly nothing like any of that is addressed here (except for a few flashes). It is purely a sequence of games during the college football season; it's well presented and fast paced, and it's not without anything interesting, but it's only about the sports aspect of game preparation, the game itself and what happens after the game, again and again.  The few attempts to delve into the personal level are too staged to provide any real information. In other words, what is most interesting compared to the NFL's All or Nothing series, i.e. the college dimension, is not used enough. You will certainly know that they are immature young people only by how they try to be natty and constantly stare at their mobile phones. PS: The defensive coach is the largest conceivable collection of all the “American football coach" clichés; such a character would not have been possible in a non-documentary work, because it would not have looked real, not even for a second. (08.03.2020)