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Do not be alarmed if there are film crews on campus; just put on a smile and get ready for a cameo.

The Louisville Cardinals’ football team has been writing a feel-good script that will have hotshot movie directors flocking.

However, only the magical world of Disney could capture the Cardinal’s story.

A Disney movie needs a coach that will show the team a little tough love, a coach with a scowl like thunder and a stare like lightning. When he scorns his players it may appear that he has a great amount of contempt and hatred toward them, but deep down he really cares. Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino fits this role quite nicely.

The film will need some plot twists and tragedies. Those can be found in the Derby City Duo’s demise. Michael Bush, the team’s star running back, goes down early with a season ending injury ala Boobie Miles in “Friday Night Lights.” Brian Brohm goes out in one of the biggest games of the season just like Junior Floyd in “The Little Giants.” Just like that, the greatest duo in the city of Louisville since Diane Sawyer ate Kentucky Fried Chicken is gone.

Hakuna Matata though, as in all Disney movies, the team finds heroes in the most peculiar of places. The protagonist of the film will undoubtedly be Hunter Cantwell, who comes into one of the biggest games in the school’s history to fans chanting his name. Cantwell is the perennial under dog, the walk-on who uses guts to find glory. Kolby Smith supplies the quiet but consistent leadership on and off the field while the eccentric George Stripling will provide the comedic relief, think Sanka from ‘Cool Runnings’.

The true leader of the team in the world of Disney always ends up being the most unexpected of all people. In the case of Louisville football, it is senior linebacker, Nate Harris, who made a turnaround from trouble with the law to one of the best college linebackers in the nation.

Disney sports movies always have a montage where the team gels together and fully reaches their potential. For this film, the montage will be highlights from the Miami game. As R. Kelly’s, “I Believe I Can Fly” softly plays in the background you will see Mario Urrutia stiff-arming his way to the end zone, Nate Harris jumping on a fumble, Peanut Whitehead losing his college sack virginity and the Louisville faithful jubilantly storming the field.

Despite all the adversity they have overcome and the success they have had, the Cardinal’s aren’t done writing their script. The West Virginia Mountaineers will be coming to town trying to spoil the feel good film of the year.

For a little action to the film one can only hope that the Mountaineers stomp on the Cardinal. As 42,000 blacked out fans boo loudly, the Louisville players will get fired up.

And as the Cardinal football team goes out and plays for respect, for pride, for the fans, for the university, for each other, for themselves, we can only hope that this story has a Disney ending.

Trevor Joelson is a sports adminisration major. E-mal him a sports@louisvillecardinal.com