He told us this is your team, and that he was our coach. Then he said something about us beating Florida that I can't repeat.

They've done a great job of marketing the product. The day after he was hired, Coach Pearl was on Cumberland Avenue, talking to all of the students at the restaurant, asking them how the school could make going to games a better experience. Everyone is pretty fired up.

It's been a complete 180. It's hard to imagine that this was basically the same group of guys from a year ago.

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.