It’s a made-for-TV storyline that’s dominating headlines this week in college football: Josh Heupel, who quarterbacked Oklahoma to a national championship in 2000 but was ultimately fired as the Sooners’ co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after the 2014 season,

Looking toward the sky, a young Josh Heupel watched as snowflakes fell on the recently cleared ground. While the weather continued to decorate the South Dakota soil, Heupel kept shoveling anyway, unaware that this would one day be a metaphor for his life.