Solich retires

OhioBobcatFan06

OhioBobcatFan06

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What a run. He mentioned focusing on health (cardiovascular) which explains the timing of this announcement so close to the season. I hope all is well.

OC Tim Albin will take over as HC and Ohio also announced former QB Tyler Tettleton is returning as RB Coach and Passing Game specialist. Albin has been with Frank and the program forever so the transition this season should be as seem-less as possible.
 
 
I always bring up “The Curse of Frank Solich” when it comes to Nebraska football. He takes over for Osborne, gets to the title game (routed yes, but since then) and then they can him later. Had success at OU, so we know he can coach. Hope he stays as healthy as possible. Nebraska football screwed themselves.
 
ronnie mund said:
It's crazy to me with all the success he had at OU that he was never able to win a conference championship.
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It is crazy.

A big part of it was horrible luck in the Championship game.

The other part of it was the team collapsing down the stretch of the season. Off the top of my head, I think there’s been five times the last decade we were leading the MAC East entering November then blew a late-season divisional game against a MAC East bottom-feeder and missed the championship. Truly baffling stuff.

Some of it was bad luck with injuries or other nonsense but the consistency with which it happened made it impossible not to wonder what was going on.



JackEd said:
I always bring up “The Curse of Frank Solich” when it comes to Nebraska football. He takes over for Osborne, gets to the title game (routed yes, but since then) and then they can him later. Had success at OU, so we know he can coach. Hope he stays as healthy as possible. Nebraska football screwed themselves.
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There was a small but loud segment of the Ohio fan base that increasingly complained over the years that Ohio should move on from Frank because he couldn’t get us over the hill... This is laughable IMO as it’s the exact same argument that got Frank canned in Nebraska and they have been laughable ever since. Imagine thinking Ohio, which was basically just a consistently bad “football team” in the MAC before Frank Solich that he built into a true “football program,” should make that same mistake.

Solich truly did build a “program” at Ohio. You can’t say he “changed the culture” because there was no football culture in Athens before him. He built it entirely.
 
Nebraska had a machine going that stretched from Bob Devaney in the 1950’s, through Tom Osborne starting in the 1970’s to Frank Solich in the latter 1990’s and into the 2000’s.

They scrapped it all to bring in Bill Callahan, who fundamentally changed the program for the worse…much like Michigan with RichRod.

Bo Pellini had a nice run with all 9 and 10 win season and a bunch of bowl wins. That wasn’t good enough, though, so they showed him the door.

They’ve been lost ever since.
 
Steel Valley FB said:
My mom knows Frank Solich. They went to HS together at Holy Name in Cleveland. She told me he and his brother were the big multi sports stars in the school at that time.
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Frank was an elite fullback at Holy Name and ended up getting recruited by Nebraska which is how this all started. He was known as “Flying Frankie” for his famous goal line dives
Even at his old age he is famous for challenging Ohio players to push-up competitions... The guy is a legend!


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cjb56 said:
Nebraska had a machine going that stretched from Bob Devaney in the 1950’s, through Tom Osborne starting in the 1970’s to Frank Solich in the latter 1990’s and into the 2000’s.

They scrapped it all to bring in Bill Callahan, who fundamentally changed the program for the worse…much like Michigan with RichRod.

Bo Pellini had a nice run with all 9 and 10 win season and a bunch of bowl wins. That wasn’t good enough, though, so they showed him the door.

They’ve been lost ever since.
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Bo is probably the most hated person in Nebraska history. Those people want to hang him over the Joe Burrow screw up.
 
Steel Valley FB said:
Speaking of OU, whatever happened to that Oulette kid? I loved watching him play. So much heart.
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Stuck around Browns camp for a few weeks but didn't make the cut. Now on the roster with the Toronto Argonauts and co-owner of a training center in Piqua.
 
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