[Husker] Solich Named MAC COY

[Steve Reichenbach]

I too think the factors are clear.  In addition to the ones you
mentioned:

Solich was a great Husker player and a fan favorite.  Fans of my
age, who were in grade school when Solich played, remember him as
one of the players who, despite his small stature, raised the NU
program from bad to good with great, memorable plays of toughness.

He was a prominent and highly successful high school coach in
Nebraska.  Fans who went to Lincoln Southeast in the early 1970s,
as I did, remember and appreciate his success.

He was an NU assistant for the period of NU's greatest success ---
three national championships.

As NU coach he had a record of success, winning 75% of games, named
twice conference coach of the year, coached NU to a national championship
game, and retooled the coaching staff to rebound from a disappointing
7-7 season with a 10-3 season.

Arguably, no person has a longer or greater historical connection to
Nebraska football.  (Certainly not Steve Pederson.)

Does that answer why Nebraska football fans are still interested in
Solich's great success at Ohio?


> I think your just being obtuse.  There's a reason we hear about
> Solich.  1. He won coach of the year and has seemingly turned around
> a pretty bad program (you never know though).  2. He left NU under
> controversy.
>  
> But I would also say you are just plainly wrong -- we frequently hear
> about coaches that were on staff previously (and besides there's a
> difference -- he was the head coach).  I don't know what they are all
> doing -- but two I do follow are Turner Gill (didn't go too well -- no
> need to mention that) and Tommy Frazier (who of course didn't really
> coach for the Huskers and is having a pretty rough time from what I
> hear as well).  Pellini we all know about because of where he's at
> (although I was never on his bandwagon).  And to be honest -- I don't
> know where everyone else went.  I heard about Bohl shortly after he
> left (div ii school right NDS?), but I'm not aware of any others that
> are head coaches at Div I schools. Are there others?  And although I
> don't follow basketball as much -- I recall hearing about Danny Nee
> (now at Duquesne).  The difference with Bohl and Nee of course being --
> I don't think too many people were disappointed to see them go.  I know
> there was a lot of!
> 
>   talk about Kevin Steele when he was first at Baylor and then Tony
> Samuels at New Mexico....
>  
> I'd be happy to read your post if you wanted to tell me about
> others.  I'm interested.  One of the great things about Iowa during
> the Frye years -- is how many head coaches they produced (I'm sure
> you've seen them go on and on about that on ABC). Lighten up.  We
> like Callahan.  We want Nebraska to win.
>  
> Josh
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Scott Lawson
> Sent: Mon 11/27/2006 7:52 PM
> To: Kenneth McKillip; husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [Husker] Solich Named MAC COY
> 
> 
> 
> Good for Coach Solich and his players. It's interesting to me however that we hear so much about him on this list and not so much about the dozens of other coaches who spent time with the Huskers at some point in time and how they are all doing wherever they may now be.
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> Kenneth McKillip <kmckillip at houston.rr.com> wrote: Solich
> Named MAC Coach of the Year :: Seven Bobcats earn first- or second-team
> All-MAC honors