Steve Beideck of Omaha World Herald attended the Big Red Breakfast at the Holiday Inn convention center this morning. Tight ends coach Ron Brown–who received a standing ovation from the crowd of 500–talked about the team’s need to “get better.”

He said working to get better on the things the Huskers can control has been a primary focus.

“That’s how we’re approaching this week,” Brown said. “Our greatest opponent is not Texas Tech, our greatest opponent is Nebraska, it’s ourselves.

Big Red Network’s Darren Carlson is saying something similar. Basically, that we just need to rear back and play football again.

Ron Brown also added:

“It’s making sure that we don’t take on the definition of success that everybody around us might want to put on (us), and make you feel bad. It means that we look at ourselves and correct the things we need to correct, and we attack it.”

I know what he means and focus is great, but the team isn’t just playing for itself. The expectations and well wishes that fans bring to the game is all part of the deal in college football, especially in Lincoln. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but for me, it’s not the team’s won-loss record, it’s the way we’ve been losing that I find intolerable. We’re not even in the game at the times when we most need to be.

No one expects us to win in Lubbock tomorrow. But every Husker fan wants to see the team compete and leave it all on the field. If we do that, the wins will come. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon.