More than well said.

Even better after 35 years!

Living in a different region my favorite part of the story is telling people what we have come from. Plenty of programs go through rebuilding seasons, but we were bottom of the barrel garbage. Thanks, COACH!

We've talked about the future so long.  The future is now.

Amen!

Another random thought: The first year that I followed OHIO very closely and attended every home game was 1960 -- my junior year at Athens High School.  Ohio was 10-0 that year.  The rest of the 1960s were basically pretty good years, and then we had a period of ups and downs but were a pretty solid MAC football team. It all went south, however, after the untimely death of Coach Bill Hess from testicular cancer prior to the 1978 season.  That's when we entered the desert years.  Now, for the first time since then, I'm beginning to feel we are climbing to the top of the heap once again.  Grobe got us for a few brief years to where we could see the Promised Land, but he didn't take us there.  Solich I think is on the verge of that.  In his post-game interview tonight he said something like, and I paraphrase," We've gotten to where we are a pretty good football team, but I want to get us to where we are a great football team."  I interpreted that in two ways: One, he wants to win these last two games this year.  Two, as a promise that the wants to stay around to see us go to the next level.  As Uncle Wes has said, we may be the next BCS buster in a year or two. GOT FRANK, GOT DREAMS!

SEE YOU IN DETROIT!!!!

Edit: Every so often, and this is one of those times, a statement that Bill Hess made to me when I interviewed him in his office as a nervous rising sophomore about the upcoming 1963 football season rings through my head.  Somewhere near the end of the interview I asked him something about playing some big time teams in Athens.  He smiled and said that the program wasn't there yet!  He emphasized the word "yet."  It was clear the way he said it that he dreamed of a much better Ohio program and one that could have an impact beyond the MAC.  I think Coach Solich understands the dream.  I'm sure Bill Hess is looking down on Peden Stadium now and smiling.  And, though I never met Don Peden, I suspect he's smiling too and doesn't mind at all that Frank's now tied his record for consecutive crushings of those guys from Oxford.    

Must have been my fault, seeing as how those were my undergrad years.

Which unfortunately is when I came to Athens as a wide-eyed freshman.  The desert years is all I knew.  Little did we know that Brian Burke and Sammy Shon were our high water mark for quite some time.