ONLINEMEN

Finished this script by Glen Brackenridge and Curtis Brien.

Story's about Hawthorne college's football team.  They've just completed an undefeated season and are going to play in the Rose Bowl.  However, they break all kinds of NCAA rules during a night of extreme celebrating and the whole campus is ruled ineligible. 

Without the money from the bowl game, Hawthorne college will have to close its doors.  That's when they realize only the students on campus are ruled ineligible.  Students that take courses online can still participate.

The school hastily fields a team of misfits to go play in the Rose Bowl.

The premise is too preposterous.  It wrecks whatever credibility the story might have had.  The script feels like a bad remake of THE REPLACEMENTS.  Stock characters, incredulous situations, bad jokes.  Scenes that should be heartfelt are annoying.  Characters that should be loveable are cringe-inducing. 

Brackenridge and Brien cannot write.  Everything about this script is deriviative without an ounce of real emotion.  You know exactly how the script will end once you get thirty pages in.  They don't bring anything new to the table nor do they write any big laughs. 

Pass on the writers and the terrible script.