Disney couldn't write it any better

Hollywood sees scripts like this thousands of times a year. Aspiring screenwriters turned waiters/caterers/valets slip their transcripts to producers at every opportunity. The same cliché happy ending time and time again. "Seems too perfect, won't be believable," the film exec would say. \nWell, believe it. \nThe Tinseltown doubters got an up close view of such a reality.\nIn capturing IU's seventh men's soccer national title, the Hoosiers screenplay unfolded like a feel-good Disney flick -- adversity culminating with ultimate triumph.\nLast year, in legendary coach Jerry Yeagley's final season, the IU men's soccer team weathered a poor start to the season, got hot and went the distance, capturing IU's sixth men's soccer national title. \nThis year's team saw a deviation to the script with longtime assistant coach Mike Freitag assuming the head coaching duties, becoming only the second head coach at IU in 32 years.\nWith the luxury of inheriting the defending national champions, Freitag came face-to-face with an immense pressure to continue the beaming soccer tradition in Bloomington. \nInheriting a team laden with talented youngsters but buoyed by senior leaders, the Hoosiers -- despite the occasional hiccup during the season -- remained the team to beat in college soccer. \nFreitag and his senior leaders Danny O'Rourke and Jay Nolly led the Hoosiers to their 17th appearance in the College Cup, soccer's version of the Final Four, and set their sights on the program's third back-to-back championship achievement. \nFor Nolly, who has played every minute in goal for the Hoosiers since October 2002, Dec. 12, 2004 will be day etched in his unfailing memory. Playing his final game between the woodwork for IU, Nolly, usually resigned to a secondary role behind the Hoosiers' highly-touted defense, was forced to the forefront in Sunday's championship deciding penalty shootout. With the final kick of the ball in his IU career, Nolly defined his role in this "L.A. Story." \nDiving to his left, the 2004 third team All-American, blocked UCSB's fifth and final penalty shot, clinching IU's seventh national championship, sending the Hoosiers into hysteria and glee.\nO'Rourke, playing in obvious pain, gutted out an extraordinary Championship game performance. Winning ball after ball, O'Rourke solidified the Hoosier midfield and halted numerous offensive attacks by UCSB. A sure-fire first round pick in the upcoming Major League Soccer Draft, O'Rourke displayed the fire and desire sometimes overlooked in scouting reports and stat sheets. A four-year starter, first team All-American and Hermann Trophy award finalist, O'Rourke was forced to watch the final minutes of overtime and the penalty shootout from the sidelines, only to rejoin his teammates in one last celebration. \nAs the final ball trickled to the left of the goal, and the UCSB players were fixed with gazes of disbelief, the Hoosier bench erupted, culminating in a mob celebration reserved for the cheesy, predictable ending of any scripted sports movie.\nThe perfect ending, to a near perfect story. Two seniors, one coach and a seventh national title. \n"Seems too perfect, won't be believable"