BOULDER — Ask anyone over the age of 18 where they were on Sept. 11, 2001, and they could probably give you a play by play of the moments leading up to seeing that first plane hit World Trade Center 1.
Then-Colorado head football coach Gary Barnett was sitting in his office, dumbfounded at the images flashing across his television screen.
“In silence, we all (the coaches) sat there for two or three hours and everybody forgot all about football,” Barnett said. “It didn’t mean anything.”
Senior quarterback Bobby Pesavento was at home in his apartment, expecting just another day of preparation to take on Washington State in Pullman that upcoming Saturday.