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Originally Posted by ntd
I agree...he did a good job at Nebraska, his biggest fault was that he wasn't Tom Osborne.
I think that is why he took the job. I heard an interview that said he wanted to be the guy that built a program, not the guy that keeps a program going. I think the weight of following Osborne did that. At Ohio University he can be the coach for 10 years and retire a legend (in Athens) if he brings them to the level that Bowling Green & Toledo are right now. (I can't mention that other school)
Imagine coming on board to run the show with a program featuring the likes of Bob Devaney and Dr. Tom Osborne as the act to follow. Solich chose not to follow, but rather to lead and in his first five seasons as Husker head coach, he won 49 games, more than both his storied predecessors in their first five years at Nebraska.
A Big-12 Coach of the Year in 1999 and 2001, Solich produced nine-win seasons in five of his six years as head coach of the Huskers and generated six consecutive bowl appearances including a 2001 run at the national championship against Miami in the Rose Bowl. Under Solich's leadership, Nebraska spent 54 consecutive weeks in the Associated Press Top 10.
Solich is equally proud of his academic record with almost ninety percent of his student-athletes earning a degree. Seven times Huskers earned first-team Verizon Academic All-American honors and on four other occasions, second-team honors were bestowed.
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