[Husker] Ohio Is Going To Need A Bigger Stadium. Much bigger!

[Neal Smith]

I'll take Solich's NU coaching record for the next 6 years, no matter who our head coach is.  Any one think BC will be coaching NU in 6 years?
 
Neal 

Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:
> I doubt FS will be able to get the team and fans up for every
> game. He sure couldn't get the team ready to play consistently while
> head coach up here.

Solich at NU:

Among the best W-L records (>.753) of all active coaches.
Big 12 Coach of the Year twice in six years.
Six bowl games in six years.
Finished #2 nationally in 1999.
BCS Championship game in 2001.
Final Top 10 rankings three times in six years.

"Frankly", that is a record of consistent success. I hope NU will
have the same success in the six years following Solich.

I'd like to make another observation about coaching. We heard much
criticism of Solich's recruiting at NU. Recruiting is important,
but so is coaching. For years we heard that Notre Dame wasn't
geting the athletes. Charlie Weiss comes in and Notre Dame beats
a ranked team to open the season and a top 5 team on the road to
go to 2-0. We heard how Ohio didn't have the players to compete,
but Solich coaches Ohio, an also-ran in the MAC, to a huge victory
against the defending Big East champion. Look at Nebraska's history
with Devaney turning the program around with Bill Jennings' players.
Solich's teams didn't win better than 75% of their games by not being
ready to play.

Will Ohio win the rest of its games this year? Not likely given where
they are coming from. However, Ohio came off a losing season to open
1-1 under Solich playing Big 10 and Big East teams. As for coaches
having their team and fans up for every game --- last year, NU came
off a 10-3 year to open the season 1-1 under its new coach against
teams in the MAC and Conference USA. That team went on to have its
first losing season in more than 40 years. Seems like a funny time
to be criticizing Solich's coaching record.


		
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