Do you think he would jump at another chance to coach at a BCS school? I've heard a few voices here and there that say he's content with being in Athens. Is the fact that he's been here for seven years support that idea? What are your thoughts?

Agreed.  He seems to be having too much fun in Athens to want to start over at some rundown AQ program where his every move (and those of his players and staff) will be scrutinized nine ways to Sunday every minute by local and national media.  I think he enjoys having an appreciative fanbase that isn't screaming for his head with every loss (well, mostly anyway). 

I was just thinking the morning after the Temple game that we should all feel pretty fortunate to have Frank here... and to have had him here this long. Thanks, Frank, to your commitment to us! Keep up the good work.

Go Bobcats!

I've even seen him caught on film a few times lately with smiles. He must be having fun.

Fiami is known for a place where good coaches start careers, maybe Frank is the beginning of a trend where OHIO becomes the place where good coaches come to finish their careers.

Frank's scenario is very similar to Urban Meyer's- from Ohio, has experience in the big leagues, wants to coach in a place with less stress. Seems like a logical backfill.

But not the fattest game in tne record books.  That took place in Toledo a few years ago when Fatman coached the Rockets against Fatterman and his Kansas Jayhawks. 

"What if I told you....(piano)..... a 9 win season is all in the eyes of the beholder.....(piano).... ESPN's 30 for 30 presents: Husker Zero to Home State Hero, the Frank Solich Story. Tuesday 9pm."

I'll go contrarian view here and say anything is possible although extremely unlikely. It would be a rather unique circumstance- a low pressure BCS school- the fans at most schools would never accept a 68 year old coach signing on.

Actually, Solich turned 67 this past summer (2011-1944=67).  I know because I'm not far behind him and will turn 67 on Thanksgiving Day, for those of you keeping score at home.  1944 was a very good year!     Solich and I are War Babies, and fortunately missed being members of the Baby Boomer generation. 

Stan Parrish had a very good record as a Division III coach before taking on the job at Marshall where he was responsible for starting the Herd on winning track after the crash.  I've often wondered what his career would have been like if he had stayed at Marshall after building the foundation for a winning program rather than to have taken off for the wasteland that was Kansas football at the time.  In those days both K-State and KU were just horrible.  I remember one year when they meet each other with winless records that I said to some friends that I was betting on a 0-0 tie because neither team had much of an offense.  I wasn't far wrong, the game ended in a 17-17 tie.  At any rate, I'll always remember Coach Parrish as the man who brought back Marshall football to a new era of respectability.  Here's what the ever semi-accurate wikipedia says about that part of his career: 

Couldn't have said it better myself.