I never thought I'd be part of a Hollywood movie. I have mixed feelings. ... I'm very happy for Marshall's sake. It's a story that needed to be told.

He sympathized with my feelings about what Hollywood does to history.

I was just a guy doing his job. It was very emotional the (year after the crash) when (the Young Thundering Herd) played its first home game against Xavier. It was incredible. Hollywood can't improve on that.

We thought that instead of taking this to Hollywood, how about taking Hollywood to the churches? When we looked at the technology, you can have a great screening with digital projectors and surround sound. You don't need a movie theater. So we started asking people and screening the movie for pastors, and after they saw it and wiped away a tear, they said they would love to show it to their congregations.

He thought they were getting serious. He wanted to go over and find out exactly what her feelings were and see what she wanted to do -- continue a relationship forward, or back it off.

Amazing. I knew that if we won it was going to be a great feeling, but I never thought it was going to be this big.