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Under the Dome They Said It photo by bill panzica "That was a very special moment. We've been through a lot, the entire senior class, not only on the team but everybody here. They could have chanted anyone's name, the whole senior class — but definitely a memory I'll hold very closely for a long time." Senior quarterback Tommy Rees on students chanting his name near the end of the BYU game "It could [have been] an absolute disaster, if you think about the entire right side as well as missing [fifth-year senior guard] Chris Watt for a game. You're talking about three and four different guys going in there on the offensive line at times, and Coach Hiestand has done an incredible job of putting this together as a unit. "I'll go back to their summer workouts where they stayed together as a unit during the summer and really worked hard together. I think that unit mentality has really served us well." — Head coach Brian Kelly on offensive line coach Harry Hiestand's coaching job with the unit amid injuries "We were seeking a site for a laboratory for research into weather modification. I came down from the mountain and went back to the house of the University of Colorado's president, Joseph Smiley, and before we had hit the driveway, he was out of the house and told us the President had been shot. I sat by a radio in the kitchen until we got the news that he was dead.