Bo to LSU?

Toe said:
What's interesting about that is that in terms of performance on the field, Solich is just as debatable. Should he have been fired after the 7-7 year? Were things trending upward enough with the new coordinators (one being Bo, of course)? Could he at least get things back to being a fairly consistent top ten team, or would it have been a more Bo-esque always good but never great? Or was he really a 7-7 kind of coach who was merely the beneficiary of Osborne's work in his early years? I was never quite convinced in either direction. I think the only thing we all agreed on was "f#&% Steve Pederson".
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Good thoughts.

We possibly take for granted 23 seasons later how Solich was going to really be hampered by directly following the greatest run in Husker football history under Osbore no matter what. I remember being really disappointed by the 7-7 season in part because it snapped this string of winning seasons that I believe we were about to overtake Notre Dame on with a new record.

And in the subconsciousness of Husker Nation I also wonder now how Frost will probably actually benefit for having come in so far removed from winning actual trophies at a time where if we were to have a 9-3 season it would probably feel amazing. I'll bet someone will swing in and of course say "9-3 isn't amazing at all, wtf are you even talking about?"

But I guess my point is looking at how Solich was probably always going to suffer from directly following Osborne, whether we're conscious about that element or not.

 
Lightfighter214 said:
That said, his teams generally took on his personality,  playing bipolar and temperamental. 
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Good teams that all too often couldn't get out of their own damn way, led by a good man who all too often couldn't get out of his own damn way...

commando said:
bo hasn't been our problem for a long time now.   why is there a 28 page thread  about him?
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Well, it's not like we have a Husker game to talk about this week...

 
Undone said:
Good thoughts.

We possibly take for granted 23 seasons later how Solich was going to really be hampered by directly following the greatest run in Husker football history under Osbore no matter what. I remember being really disappointed by the 7-7 season in part because it snapped this string of winning seasons that I believe we were about to overtake Notre Dame on with a new record.

And in the subconsciousness of Husker Nation I also wonder now how Frost will probably actually benefit for having come in so far removed from winning actual trophies at a time where if we were to have a 9-3 season it would probably feel amazing. I'll bet someone will swing in and of course say "9-3 isn't amazing at all, wtf are you even talking about?"

But I guess my point is looking at how Solich was probably always going to suffer from directly following Osborne, whether we're conscious about that element or not.
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Solich probably would have been much better off taking a head coach job somewhere else and let someone unassociated take over after Osborne, then after high expectations forced that guy out, come in as a savior with lowered expectations. But, who would in their right mind, turn down the keys to a corvette if offered. 

 
He's got a pretty stable gig at Ohio. This will be his 16th season if the MAC plays (they're supposed to be deciding next week), and he just got an extension in January. Maybe that's where he really belonged all along. Maybe he could have returned to being what we all thought of back then as a 'Nebraska-grade' HC if he'd been kept. Maybe if things had turned out just a little differently, he would've ended up somewhere in between.

 
Born N Bled Red said:
Solich probably would have been much better off taking a head coach job somewhere else and let someone unassociated take over after Osborne, then after high expectations forced that guy out, come in as a savior with lowered expectations. But, who would in their right mind, turn down the keys to a corvette if offered. 
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a guy that doesn't have money for gas and insurance.

 
Born N Bled Red said:
Solich probably would have been much better off taking a head coach job somewhere else and let someone unassociated take over after Osborne, then after high expectations forced that guy out, come in as a savior with lowered expectations. But, who would in their right mind, turn down the keys to a corvette if offered. 
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He probably also learned from a couple mistakes and didn't do those things at his next gig.

 
I liked Beck, but he would've been better paired with someone who could be a real QB coach and had a better feel for playcalling.

 
Miss St. putting 17 pts on Bo's d in the first half.  3 point lead with the ball again here at the end of the half.  

 
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