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All with OU, I hope.

Thank goodness for the crash and loss of old posts--I think I posted something doubtful when Coach was first hired.  He's doing a great job of bringing in guys who will stick with our program and building depth (so many guys playing and not much drop off in quality).  GOTFRANK.

Yes, congratulations to Frank!

Brain, what off-the-field problem are you talking about?  Frank was fired at Nebraska solely because 9-3 in the regular season wasn't good enough -- and the stupid AD there thought he'd transform Big Red football into a West Coast offense, or some such.  Frank had The Incident here in Athens, but I'm not aware of anything similar in his days at Nebraska. 

Definitely.  I remember when I moved back to Ohio in 1996, I was ecstatic when Grobe brought the team up to 6-6, and with only four home games; the OOC games were at Hawaii (W), at Army (late loss due in large part to jet lag from the week before), at Northwestern (L) and at East Carolina (close loss in a shootout).  They went 5-3 in the MAC.. Over the previous 15 years OU had become the doormat of the MAC, but you could really feel it turning around.  After Grobe left and the Knorr years turned into a disaster, you could almost see "Welcome" on the players' backs again.  But I've never seen such electricity surrounding the program as when Coach Solich was hired.  "Doormat" is not in anyone's vocabulary regarding the OU football program anymore; instead, there's an awful lot of respect for the program.  I think he is a good fit for OU and OU is a good fit for him. 

Build it he has!  Congratulations, Coach.

I was not a huge fan of Solich being hired. I felt like Ohio was hiring a falling star instead of a rising star. I was wrong! Frank has been a terrific hire and combined consistent improvement with stability and success. It takes a long time to turn around a program that was as low as ohio's. It started with Jim Grobe, detailed under Knorr but once again placed on the correct path with Solich. My hope is that coach stays put and plays a role in grooming his replacement when that time (hopefully severa yearsl out) comes. Congratulations Coach.

Solich is also being compensated well by the university. His pay has doubled since he's been in Athens and made about 500,000 last year. A lower tier BCS job starts at about 1 million. Frank has two more years under contract with the university and is in a great bargaining position for more money with a good 2011. I could see Frank pushed up with a new contract with a base salary of over 700,000. He's getting to the point where what he's making takes him off the market for any job that would be interested. Also on the age thing, Solich just turned 67 on 9/8. Again here, Frank is about 15 years past his prime. His age would be OK as an experienced HC in the NFL to make a last jump somewhere but in CFB the standard hiring age range is 38 to about 52. I would say 60 years is about the max. That was the age of Spurrier joining up with South Carolina and the age of Frank when he started with Ohio. Dennis Franchione has washed up at Texas State at age 60. Howard Schnellenberger resurfaced at 65 at Florida Atlantic. Frank had issues finding another job because of his age when he was 60. Some thought Frank was too old to be a new HC at 53 with Nebraska. Frank is not going anywhere at this point but he is far too young to retire. Think about it, a guy like Frank may live to be 97 years old. He loves football too much to give it up. I would not be shocked to see him coach another 10 years at Ohio to give him another 6-7 million dollars in earnings before he retires. Or maybe he'll make it a goal to finish his career with 20 years as a D1 head coach, 14 of them at Ohio. He might finish with 100 wins at Ohio before its all said and done.