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October 15, 2007, 06:21:15 PM
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SuperSoulFighter

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I found this somewhere.  An ode to Steve Pederson:

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This is Callahan's 4th year.  He has 1 Big XII North title, one nine win season, and two bowl appearances.  He finished one year with a ranked team at 24th after they won the Alamo Bowl.

They gave Solich 6 years.  He had 1 nine win season, 2 ten win seasons, 1 eleven win season and 1 twelve win season.  He had one national championship appearance, 6 bowl games, 3 top 10 poll finishes, and 1 conference championship. 

Solich was a member of Bob Devaney's first recruiting class at Nebraska in 1962 (a school which had not won more than 6 games in a year since 1940).  He was 5'7" and 150 lbs. when he arrived in Lincoln to play fullback.  In his four years on the team, the Huskers finished 9-2 in 1962, 10-1 in '63, 9-2 in '64, and Solich won all Big-8 honors and was a captain of Nebraska's 1965 team that finished 10-1 and lost the national championship to Bear Bryant's Alabama squad in the Orange Bowl despite Solich's bowl record 166 return yards.  He was the first Husker to ever rush for 200 yards in a game.  He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1992.  He labored as a high school coach in Nebraska for 13 years before he was hired by Tom Osborne in 1979 as the freshman coach.  He spent 15 years as the Huskers running backs coach: they led the nation in rushing in 9 of those years.

Solich also had one very embarrassing loss at home to KSU and was fired right before the Cats kicked the snot out of OU's "greatest team ever" and the world realized that K-State might not be that bad despite their earlier losses to Marshall and Texas.  He now works at Ohio and his boss is a 35 year old who played linebacker at KSU for Bill Snyder.

This is Solich's 3rd year at Ohio.  He has one conference division title, one nine win season, one bowl appearance (their first since 1968), one award as conference coach of the year, and one DUI.
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October 15, 2007, 06:45:48 PM
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WildCatzPhreak

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That's great, but so much more could be added.

The bowl game streak, the ku streak, the worst home loss in Big XII era, the worst loss ever, etc etc etc

October 15, 2007, 09:21:12 PM
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SuperSoulFighter

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Sure, but Solich lost the streaks to KSU, MU, and ISU and held those worst loss records before Callahan.

Today was payback for Solich.  Pederson canned him immediately following an embarrasing loss without taking the time to let the season play out and properly consider if it was the right move.  Pederson just got the same treatment.

October 15, 2007, 10:11:52 PM
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The perceptions and expectations among the NU faithful were different when FS was fired.  SP saw a chance to make his mark and it blew up in his face and he was stuck with BC.  NU fans are just now coming to terms with it.  They were actually happy with BC's progress until now and all of the sudden it is  :runaway:.

Riveting.

 :popcorn:

October 16, 2007, 11:11:20 AM
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Solich got jobbed - plain and simple. 9-3 is a WET DREAM for the majority of schools in the NCAA. Oh Stevie boy got what he wished for (which has to be frustrating) a guy who can get some unreal prospects, but who cant coach them to save his life. Oh well, Calafraud reminds me of that guy at work who does nothing, but just hangs around and never gets fired.

October 16, 2007, 11:32:06 AM
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Who wants to coach at a school where 9-3 gets you fired??