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Davern Williams did get a new job, the D Line Coach. He is now at Chattanooga, a Div 1-AA FCS school. I got to meet him back in February, nice guy. An article from the Chattanooga paper: Davern Williams was not unfamiliar with the spotlight. The new University of Tennessee at Chattanooga defensive line coach signed with Auburn in 1998 and played briefly in the Southeastern Conference before transferring to Troy, where he starred for three seasons and lined up alongside DeMarcus Ware, who went on to a decorated NFL career. Williams was a seventh-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 2003 and competed in 2004 for the New York Giants, but it wasn't in the nation's largest market where he became most famous. Instead, it was in his role the past four seasons as East Mississippi Community College's defensive line coach — a role popularized almost overnight when Netflix released its inaugural, six-episode season of the documentary series "Last Chance U" in August 2016. It has been a different world for Williams ever since, as evidenced by his trip to the American Football Coaches Association convention last month in Charlotte, N.C. "I'm at the airport getting my baggage, and (Kentucky's) Mark Stoops walks up to me and said that his wife loved the show," Williams said. "He introduced himself, and I'm like, 'Coach Stoops, I know who you are.' He said, 'Can my wife have a picture with you?' "I said, 'Sure,' so she came over and we took a picture." It was at that convention where Williams was interviewed by second-year UTC coach Tom Arth, who has yet to see an episode of "Last Chance U." Williams had a connection to UTC, having been a Troy teammate and roommate of Shelton Felton, who is in his second year as the Mocs' outside linebackers coach. Arth spent so much time conducting interviews in Charlotte, he didn't get to witness the popularity of Williams there, but that changed as soon as the hire was made and the two went on recruiting trips together. "You walk into a high school, and you've got teachers and students coming up to him and asking him for pictures," Arth said, beginning to laugh. "You go to a basketball game, and you can't get to your seats because people are flocking to him. You go to dinner, and it's the same thing. Everywhere we would go, we would have to plan for an extra half-hour for all the pictures that people wanted to take with Davern. "It's every demographic of the human race — old women to young girls to high school boys. It's crazy. Williams helped East Mississippi Community College coach Buddy Stephens win junior college national championships in 2014 and again last year, but it was the 2015 and '16 seasons featured on "Last Chance U." EMCC's 2015 season, which Netflix aired in 2016, was canceled before the playoffs due to a brawl against Mississippi Delta at the end of the regular season. Ronald Ollie was a defensive linemen during the 2015 season at the junior college in Scooba, Miss., before moving on to Nicholls State — like UTC, a Football Championship Subdivision program. There was an episode that included a shirtless, 310-pound Ollie rolling on a steamy artificial turf field at EMCC from the back of one of the end zones all the way to the back of the other. "It was very hot, and that's why we did it," Williams said. "Ollie missed breakfast check that morning, which is from 7 to 7:55 before 8 o'clock class. Then he missed class, and then he was late to my meeting and missed half of it. Turns out that he was asleep." There was a time Williams was just like Ollie and some of the other lackadaisical players he had to mold. It was when he was in the NFL. "I didn't put my best foot forward, and that's been a sour spot in my life," he said. "I was young and had a lot of money, and I didn't do some things that I was supposed to when I was on injured reserve to keep that professional mindset. I was too busy partying, and I'm talking every night of the week. "I don't want the guys under my tutelage to go through that same thing." Williams believes he grew significantly as a coach during his time at EMCC, which could be great timing for Arth, who already has seen much more in Williams than dizzying rock-star status. "When he walks into a room, he looks the part," Arth said. "He's a former NFL D-lineman, and he just has a presence about him. He's confident, but he goes about it in a very quiet and humble way, and that really impressed me. "He has a lot of knowledge on the defensive line and has a strong belief in fundamentals and how you build a successful defense." Netflix moved "Last Chance U" out of EMCC after two seasons, filming this past season at Independence Community College in Kansas. Williams said he hasn't discussed the show with his new group of players, focusing instead on the challenges ahead. Williams and the show are no longer at EMCC, but the show and EMCC will forever be a part of Williams. "I would do it again," he said. "I think it's a great opportunity to let the world see that side of college football, because not that many people understand it. There is a negative stigma about Mississippi junior colleges, and the bigger the headache those guys gave me, I still loved them. It was tough. It was hard-nosed, and there was a lot of language. There were a lot of egos and tempers flaring, but there was also a lot of winning. "Scooba was a great place. It was quiet, and I actually miss that about it, but there are a lot more things to do here, that's for sure."

If you read the news one would know the military can and does have court martial proceedings where some parts that are classified are done behind closed doors. They could have easily gone into the classified part of the information as all of the jury would have security classifications. But I guess, that would have defeated the premise of the episode.

If Rittenhouse is the problem, the original guy, just go back to when he was a kid and kill him...why do all these crazy attempts to manipulate history if you can just "nip it in the bud"?

Geesh Flynn, just go back to when Rittenhouse was baby/kid and kill him then. But I guess that would be the end of the show.

HELP ME! Okay, in the recent episode of with the French Indian War and they were stranded, Rufus talked of the "protocol" and he buried the message in a container. How did the people in the lab know where to dig to find it? The "protocol" would be for Rufus to bury a message, but without GPS how could Rufus find the exact spot to bury it if it was predetermined so the present day people would know where to look?

We might have all those, but they would be singing in Spanish..... What is "Delta Dawn" in Spanish? :)

I assumed Flynn didn't want the women/children killed not because of Lucy, but because of what he was trying to prevent, the letter. By stopping the letter it was perceived that possibly the US wouldn't have rallied behind the Texans and Texas would have remained part of Mexico. However, if Santa Ana killed all the women and children it would be like in the Battle of the Bulge in WWII when the Germans lined up the US prisoners and shot them all. It would really piss of the US and be even worse than the letter being written.

Question..first let me state I have no problem with it, but why is it okay for Carla Hall to dress up "Bollywood"? Isn't similar to someone dressing up like an American Indian or an African American who isn't? They would never do that, but Bollywood is okay?

I happen to live in the town where Von Braun settled... See where he lived! http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2014/12/wernher_von_braun_historic_hom.html

Saber55....think of a road with other roads turning off of it, history has seen us gone down a road with certain turns made. Lets suppose we made different turns or even better, lets suppose this guy Flynn went back to early 1940s and gave Hitler the technology to built hydrogen bombs. Nazis would rule the world, Jews would be extinct...anything wrong with that change? Didn't mean "even better" to say its preferred, but to make a more distinct point for the argument. I am NOT saying that outcome would be good, it would not.

SJohnson, but, if you kill the infant Flynn, the time machines are still built, just never stolen. They return to the present, check the records and see that a mystery man killed a child named Flynn....but as I said...that tv series doesn't last too long :)

They said in week 1 if they run into themselves in the past it can have severe consequences. Okay..assuming that premise. They want to kill this Flynn guy...they are obviously willing to kill him. So, why not go back to when he is an infant, they can pick a time and place when they know they can't run into "themselves" or they could hire a killer who wasn't born when this Flynn was an infant. Kill the infant Flynn, problem solved.....oh wait...no show then?

The video. Anybody else suspect the video was faked by some close to the President to force the war? The General that is always upset with the Prez is involved with it. They faked the video, then they hacked the computer system and inserted it. And with respect to the mine that was found un-exploded...they would literally have to have a truckload of those to have the explosion we were shown. That mine would be good for blowing up a car, but would not bring down a building. Why has nobody on the show mentioned that aspect?

What became of Gretchen? She has disappeared.

I always question when they can get so many people to join a conspiracy without anybody going public.......sorta like the JFK conspiracies where the CIA, Texas Rangers, KGB, KKK, and both political parties were in on a conspiracy to assassinate JFK. Oh, and the beginning of the show..as a one time resident of Texarkana TX, let me say that opening scene was total BS. The highest point in the county is a freeway overpass, there no hills, much less mountains there. Why not choose a town in that part of the country where it more resembled the shooting location?