http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/3/23/150019...

Pretty in-depth article chronicling our just above average past, present & future existence with Solich

Solich changed the culture down here and I hope he can coach into his 80's. People who already want him gone seem to forget how bad this thing was in the decades prior. I'd say we were a laughing stock of the NCAA but most people didn't even know we had football. You can make an analogy to Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati I suppose. I do really wish Frank would win an outright MAC Championship to shut up the haters but even if he loses another MACC Game, I'm ok with him staying as long as he likes.

He can coach into his 80's if we win. We have been respectable for 9 years, it is time to move the bar. Let's hope this is the year that we win the MAC.

Why are you so convinced that Ohio couldn't hire someone better than Solich? Should he be fired? No. But why is this question so offensive to you people? Solich isn't going to be around forever and there is a TON of young coaching talent out there. Jim Schaus has a history of hiring successful coaches in other sports, I see no reason why he wouldn't be able to find one to replace Frank when the day comes.

We operate in a non-power 5 league with a coach in his 70s. This continuity isn't going to last forever. If a coach is successful in a non power conference he leaves, that's the nature of the beast.

The reality of keeping coaches around Athens or any mid major football program is non-existent. Solich is a total outlier in that respect.

Yes, we can find a coach tha may be better. Will he stay? Who knows. Most likely not.

Frank will never be fired, but his days are numbered. To think otherwise is sticking your head in the sand. He's 2nd oldest coach in CFB.

His schedules almost guarantee 7 wins.

The hamster wheel continues under him.

I'm all for change...and fully understand where this program was 12+ years ago. But Solich has built a strong foundation so someone should be able to come in and take it to next level.

Best quote from that article:

So Ohio does defy the stereotype, but that doesn’t necessarily make them watchable.

I'd point out that Nebraska has never been the same since firing Solich...

He was legendary as a player, but not so much as a coach. Look , I love FS, he is from Cleveland, he was a tough fullback, but we have lost almost every close game to formidable foes. he may have touched you with his words at a press conference or told you that you have a nice dog, but we have to be real. Even FS will tell you that his mission has not been accomplished.

Great article and quite jarring at times. I struggle constantly to be happy with where we have come from but also wanting to have some real national newsworthy seasons. The question you have to ask yourself is if you are comfortable giving up the consistency of averaging 8 wins a season and regularly making a bowl game in the hopes that another coach can build upon what Frank built and break the 0-4 MACC and 2-8 Bowl record cycle. Of course the risk you take is that the next coaching staff fails and it becomes even harder to lure a new quality coach. Or you do get one newsworthy season in 3 seasons to lose your coach and start all over again.

Personally for me Solich has won my allegiance, as long as his consistency doesn't change I can live with the seasons he is giving us until he retires. It might not be the smartest decision, but I'll let my heart steer me for now.

Yes and no. Grobe got us back on course, Knorr/BoehIn veered a bit, and Solich got us back on course. in another 18 months, the Lorraine Motel and the Ambassador Hotel tragedies will be 50 years old.

I would rather have the boringly consistent bowl eligible teams we've had than the constant turmoil other MAC schools have had due to coaching changes because they have one or two good years and the coach bolts to a better job. Yes, I want a MAC championship, and I think it will come. But I don't want Ohio to be the dregs of the MAC nine years out of ten like Fiami/Kent/Buffalo have been. BG had three really good years with Babers, then looked like cowpies last year after he left. They might recover this year, but they might not. Ohio is tough, competitive and a team to be reckoned with year in and year out. There's nothing wrong with that.

This thread reminds me very much of the complaints against Tom Osborne in the 70's and 80's. His teams were much different, though, when he had a great quarterback (Gill, Frazier). Ohio was different, too, with T3 and the first year and a half under TT. Will Maxwell or Rourke become the great QB Ohio needs? What about Keszei? Will Zaire really come to Ohio, and if so, will he be the one?

Two articles in WSJ on Friday March 24th relate to coaching.

Kentucky's Top Politician Coaches Basketball by Ben Cohen
The article mentions Coach Calipari lectures at a psychology class.

Do OHIO coaches regularly lecture at business management classes explaining their management philosophies, approaches to promoting team work, what it takes to be a great coach? If not, man are they missing a way to connect!

The Soccer Coach Who Listens to Belichick by Matthew Futterman
About returned US Soccer Coach getting ready for World Cup

Final paragraph:

" It's about getting the right combination of players on the field with the right attitude and mental approach who can execute better than the other team." Taken from a quote from Kasey Keller about how coach Bruce Arena has been successful.

"The hardest part of coaching is managing your players" Arena is a master of "man management". The article shows Arena does not possess secrets of sports psychology, he didn't play the game at world cup level and doesn't regularly read soccer books. Arena explains each person's role for each game with each player on the team and what is expected of them, even if they are reserves. Players liked the openness.

What management style does Coach Solich follow?

I have a Chicago White Sox hate that has stitching removed strategically so the SOX logo says sex.