How’s this for a story:

Hometown kid attends and plays football at his hometown college, becomes a graduate assistant and helps win a national championship with that team.

Next, he moves on to three more universities as an assistant coach, including another national championship, then shifts to the NFL with the head coach at his last college.

After winning a Super Bowl title, he becomes a head coach for two other teams and has a somewhat modest, but successful, stint.

After he leaves his last NFL job, he returns to coach his alma mater for six seasons.

He has three lean years before the team wins 26 games over the final three season, the best stretch by any coach at the university in 30 years.

Sounds like a warm and fuzzy story, doesn’t it? Now, it’s time for the twist, or the conflict, as we say in the movie business.

Apparently, he isn’t a great game-day coach, he can’t win the big games and lead the team to an outright conference title and the BCS game that comes with it.

That said, he’s forced to resign before a nondescript bowl game. Zoom in on the coach’s face at the news conference has he tries to check his emotions. He can’t.

His players, who are upset, stand behind him as he makes a quick announcement that he’s resigning — and the inside joke is no one believes it was his decision — and bolts from the room, leaving the athletic director to answer questions.

Wait, it gets better. They give him the offer to coach the final game, even though they’ve forced him to resign, then a new coach is hired shortly thereafter.

The AD says they found a man of integrity and discipline — a slap in the face of the exiting coach — and hire someone with two years of Division I head coaching experience.

Two weeks after this man of character was hired, he’s charged with domestic abuse and is promptly fired the next day.

The outgoing coach decides not to coach the bowl game to avoid being a distraction.

So take an assistant coach and let him fill in, although most of the remaining coaches know they’ll still be out of a job after the bowl game.

What a disaster! What a mess! What a hit!

It’s a tale demonstrating the highs and lows of college football and the dark underbelly of what goes on in a coach’s life.

Start writing the screenplay, cast the actors and find a good caterer for the set. Let’s get this going.

On second thought, you’re probably right. No one would ever believe this.

Sam Tallarico is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.