[personal] [Husker] The only good thing

[Pat Gaule]

Sklyar seemed to acknowledge that he celebrated Solich's firing when he 
said "If that's shame, I'll take that shame still" in response to 
another poster who stated "Shame on everyone who partied after Solich 
was canned."   I was responding to that point directly, so please don't 
take offense to that if it doesn't apply to you.

I don't know what the minority/majority opinion was at the time amongst 
NU fans (I imagine it was pretty split), but the national media and the 
rest of the country was pretty well puzzled, if not downright disgusted, 
by the move.  The fact that Callahan was the best we could attract tells 
me that many coaches were turned off by such a move.

In generall, it's simply a horrible idea to fire a coach for going 9-3, 
barring unforseen circumstances or off-the-field issues.  In my opinion, 
the effects of firing Solich in 2003 wound up being far worse than 
risking the possibility of another season where NU might "gravitate 
toward mediocrity."

Scott R Lawson wrote:
> Who 'celebrates' Frank Solich's firing? I haven't seen or read too much
> of that, but maybe being way over here on the East Coast I'm out of the
> loop.
> 
> And am I in a minority of folks who believed it was time for a change in
> 2003 but felt the firing was botched? Does thinking a change was in
> order mean I hated Frank Solich?
> 
> It seems like people (myself included) who felt a change was needed are
> somehow lumped in with supporting everything else that has happened
> since 2003. I'm not quite sure I understand that logic.
> 
> Lastly, how was the firing of Bill Jennings handled?
> 
> (That last part was sarcasm)
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of Pat Gaule
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 4:29 PM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [personal] [Husker] The only good thing
> 
> Skylar Dodds wrote:
> 
>>>Shame on everyone who partied after Solich was canned, and who
> 
> defended
> 
>>>to the HILT all the monstrous changes to the system that Pedey, BC and
>>>company wrought,  and who defended the removal of all vestiges of the
>>>traditions that built NU to its tremendous reputation over 40 years of
>>>hard work!
>>
>>
>>If that's shame, I'll take that shame still.  Solich needed to go.  He
>>wasn't doing the job.  I still thought as this year that Callahan
> 
> would do
> 
>>it, but I was wrong.
>>
>>Just because I have hindsight, doesn't make me think it was a bad
> 
> decision.
> 
>>It was bad results, but given what we knew AT THAT TIME, I still say
> 
> it was
> 
>>a good decision.  I could flip-flop, but that's not how I was brought
> 
> up. 
> 
> 
>>You can rationalize Solich's firing and celebrate it until the end of 
>>your life, but the reality is that it pretty much killed any chance of 
>>landing a great coach 4 years ago.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>If you ask me, Pedey and the 
>>Solich bashers got exactly what was coming to them with this move.
> 
> 
> 
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