Wolf Pack coach Brian Polian gathered his team after Tuesday’s practice, like he always does, and the message to his players was all about improving over the previous week, a 44-20 home loss to Arizona.
He wasn’t talking about what it would take to beat No. 17/18 Texas A&M, which upset some players.
“I spoke to the team at great length about, ‘We need to play better. We need to play better,’” Polian said. “I wanted our focus to be about being a fundamentally better football team. A couple of guys got annoyed and said, ‘Why aren’t you talking about winning?