LOGLINE
A talented but arrogant
young basketball star learns to lead, to share, and to love.
PITCH
Young basketball star Johnny
B. Good knows he’s great; so does Nancy the college president’s daughter, but
Johnny ignores her. An injury takes him out of the game, and Johnny bounces
around trying unsuccessfully to find a new profession until Nancy gets him a
coaching job at the college. Through trial-and-error and with Nancy’s
encouragement, Johnny eventually learns how to lead, to inspire his players,
and to love the young woman who has always believed in him.
SYNOPSIS
Johnny B. Good is at Lehigh College
on a basketball scholarship for the Mountain Eagles men's team. Nancy Jones, daughter of the college president, is
pursuing a degree in education and has a serious crush on Johnny. She’s there
at all the games supporting him, but he seldom notices her. Shortly after being
drafted into the NBA, an injury takes Johnny out of the game forever.
At first, he thinks he might
try to be an on-air sportscaster, but he does not have a broadcast journalism
background and would have to take an unpaid internship to start the different
career. Then he tries teaching business and history classes at a local
community college but is bored and uninterested in teaching students who do
not take his class seriously. After he erupts at the students, he is fired.
As a last resort, when
Johnny is just about to move back home with his mother, Nancy’s father calls on
behalf of Nancy to ask him to coach the basketball team. Nancy is now an
assistant professor at the college. The president gives his condolences to
Johnny for his sports injury and wishes Johnny had a long career in the NBA but coaching the college team seems to be a perfect fit. After a moment of
silence, Johnny agrees to take the job.
Johnny is hard on the lax,
unmotivated team; but Nancy confronts him and begs him to be friends with the
team players, instead of bullying them. Her encouragement works, and Johnny
actually begins to take notice of the young woman who has always been his
biggest fan and now also it seems, his best friend.
Little by little, Johnny’s coaching gets better, and so does the team. The college has its most successful basketball team ever. And when Nancy agrees to marry him, Johnny becomes a winner for the rest of his life.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
Little by little, Johnny’s coaching gets better, and so does the team. The college has its most successful basketball team ever. And when Nancy agrees to marry him, Johnny becomes a winner for the rest of his life.
Copyright 2022 Jennifer Waters
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