[Husker] Ohio Is Going To Need A Bigger Stadium. Much bigger! / coaches and players

[Mike and Kelly Petersen]

I think it is strange how a coach and some players can have a terrible
showing at one team and then go to another and do a great job. I guess it is
just all of the intangibles and some luck. Sometimes I think if they had
just been allowed to stay another year or two where they were, they would
have had the same success.Then again, if they felt treated unfairly at one
location, they probably needed the change to start new with a new attitude.

I would have given Frank another couple of years. I hope we give these guys
at least 6 as long as they show improvement. After all, the line for the
position was pretty short of top candidates.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Neal Smith <nealsmith_1965 at yahoo.com>
To: Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com>; <husker at tssi.com>;
<kmckillip at houston.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Husker] Ohio Is Going To Need A Bigger Stadium. Much bigger!


> 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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