You can never underestimate the spirit of sports, those intangibles that make certain athletes rise to the occasion when all seems lost in a season, when your bench has been reduced to the point your basketball coach spent part of his day before a conference game against your biggest rival glancing at the school's football roster.
If for nothing else, a warm body or two.
UNLV didn't dip into the well of those who wear helmets for Tony Sanchez, but just the thought of it defines where the Rebels found themselves against UNR on Saturday.
And yet such is a time when crazy things often occur.