Adam said he (Russell) wanted us to come back.

Knowing that the whole community is counting on us, that they're behind us, is a pretty amazing feeling. It's one of the biggest events of the year for both towns; it always has been.

Maybe it'll be a good thing. Maybe we just need to get out of here and just say it's us or nothing.

I think that's what coach Walker did when he got here was to make us believe that we're always the underdog. And we've been the underdog a lot. But as far as losing, that doesn't help at all. We need to turn the corner. We need to have a snowball effect with winning, not the other way around.

The coaches have stressed that stat to us, but I've never played a minute down there. We've got to approach this game like we do any other game against an opponent that has been traditionally tough at home like Miami.

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.