"It hit me pretty hard at first," said Joe Panos, a senior offensive lineman who led the rescue effort by the players who remained on the field.

"We proved we can compete," said Pete Donnelly, a senior offensive lineman.

"The way I feel about it right now, we can't beat Miami," said senior defensive lineman Dan Footman.

"You can't just come in and try to take control of the team if you don't do it yourself," said Trohn Carswell, a senior offensive lineman.

"That's our goal around here," said Jonathan Giesel, a senior offensive lineman.

As a senior offensive lineman for the Cavaliers in 1993, he was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American.

Joe Panos, a senior offensive lineman, had said late Saturday that some of the victims he had helped carry away from danger had already turned blue.

They all know why the 6-foot-2-inch, 252-pound senior lineman, the captain of the wrestling and baseball teams, goes formal after football.

A senior offensive lineman.

Jordan Black, a senior offensive lineman, said: "I'm completely sold on the man.