CORVALLIS — Sitting next to each other on a somber plane ride back from Colorado, Oregon State receiver Seth Collins offered a simple-yet-meaningful message to his quarterback, Darell Garretson.
"He just looked at me," Garretson recalled earlier this week, "and he was like, 'Hey, man, I believe in you. There's a reason why I stayed (at OSU). It's because I believe in you. That's all that matters.'
"I took that to heart. I don't think he really knows that, but I took that real deep and looked at it real hard and realized everyone does have my back, and it was awesome.