Frank Solich On Tom Osborne, Matt Rhule, His Career & The Huskers Bright Future!
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- My former coach, Frank Solich, joins me on the Carriker Chronicles a week after learning he'll go into the College Football Hall of Fame! We discuss his time coaching under Tom Osborne (nearly 2 decades), playing for Bob Devaney, recruiting/coaching yours truly & his opinion of Matt Rhule. Coach Solich also talks openly about Nebraska's future, in particular how it'll look in the "New Big 10!" -Adam Carriker
If Frank Solich had stayed the Coach at Nebraska, how differently would the last 20 years of Husker football have been? CarrikerChronicles.com
Very hard to say. If he had support form the University and the AD I think the situation would not have gotten nearly as bad as it did. I believe we would have been competing at a much higher level, but not if he had the terrible administrations that followed him.
Thanks for sharing this, Adam! It seems to me if things had been handled differently, either by retaining and supporting Coach Solich more, or by implementing changes in a more strategic and transitional way, it would have resulted in a better opportunity to keep the Huskers on track and prevent the rug from being pulled out from underneath the program. That being said, I think if Coach Solich had been allowed to continue, even if a change had occurred later, it would have maintained the stability and momentum of Nebraska football. I'm proud of Coach Solich's induction into the HOF--he's a credit to the University of Nebraska.
I've often wondered that myself, Osbourn didnt have the best first couple of seasons but he 100% turned things around, I do wonder where we'd be if they had never fired Solich, i didn't like the decision, or understand it, to this day i wish we had kept him around, Devaney chose Osbourn, Osbourn chose Solitch, but the Ad was in way to big of a rush, for things to happen the way they should have, he should have been fired not Solich
Great interview Adam. Coach Solich is one of the great coaches at Nebraska. No telling the record. Pretty sure it would still be a dynasty if not for certain powers at the school that wanted to play but had no clue how. Thank you my friend. GBR ☠️☠️☠️☠️
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We were playing our best football at the end of the 1999 season. Unfortunately we blew a 27-3 lead at Colorado and they took us to overtime and that’s when Virginia Tech jumped us in the polls. We would have beat Florida St by 13 or 14 points. Dan Alexander’s YAC were unbelievable. The Brown Boyz on D and our LB’s were SHUT DOWN. Florida State was not the team of the 90’s. GBR!
I agree.
As with Coach Osborne I also knew Coach Solich and my life became better for knowing them both.
Congratulations Frank
Had that idiot Pederson not fired Solich, Nebraska would very likely have taken at least another two National Championships.
Our nearly twenty-five year nightmare would never have happened.
Amazing interview. Frank should NEVER have been fired. A few of us fans knew that. ;)
I concur
It was an honor to walk the halls of LSE when Coach Solich was Head Football Coach at Southeast and won his first State Championship!
Awesome.
So good to see coach at his reception last April. So honored to have worked with him and TO! Not bad two Hall of Famers and two coaches with fields named after them!
Thanks Adam for this interview of Frank
Frank is a class act.
Yes he is.
Frank is a great coach and a class act. Congrats on making it into the hall of fame!!
Frank then Bo make up the entirety of Husker football memories within the big 12. Nothing else comes to mind let alone games worth remembering. The powers that be at the core of this university have sold out everything that made this program what it was. I call it corporatists. Firing Frank who gave his entire life to this state then selling out OU and our lifetime business partners just for money we didn't need. Thanks coach for the memories
What I miss about Coach Solich was his record in the revenge games. Texas was always a thorn in the side, but he did beat them once when it really mattered in the conference title game.
Yes!
Congrats!!! This has been a long time coming. Forever GRATEFUL!!!
Nebraska was by far the best team in 1999. They had trouble hanging on to the ball which cost them the game @ Texas in which they completely dominated but lost due to turnovers. They redeemed themselves in the Big12 Championship! They would have beaten Florida State in the National Championship game. I know Phil Steele had said Nebraska was the best team in '99!
I can't believe you only have 14k subscribers. I love your show and the guest you bring on.
Wow, thank you!
Congratulations coach solich well deserved
Coach Solich getting into the hall of fame is the greatest rebuke to everything Steve Pederson said during the press conference when he announced that he fired him.
Coach Solich was my coach in High School. Southeast High School in Lincoln. Was a 10th grader and was noticed by him. So I began practicing with the varsity.players. Was finishing up a week of practice and was hit so hard by a player that I got my back broken. Which ended my football before it began. Solich was cool about all that. I could tell he felt genuinely bad about me getting hurt. I like him to this day very much. I just wish I had not gotten hurt so badly, so soon as a little 10th grade kid.
black 41 flash reverse is a play that will live in husker history. What a call Frank.
Coach Solich is definitely worthy of being in the HOF. Class act and very grateful of coaches he played for and coached under. To bad such a rouge AD had to but a damper on his career but he (The AD) I don't believe has amounted to much. Congrats oon making the HOF coach.
Class!
Congrats, Coach! Well deserved!!
Again, congratulations to coach,and glad to see you back home,even if part of your heart now belongs to Ohio
Congrats, Coach Solich. Hall of Fame was well deserved. Great interview Adam. You always have top notch interviews, thanks for your hard work.
Much appreciated!
A legend in his own right!! Congratulations Coach. Thanks for all the great memories!!!!
No doubt!
It could not happen to a better person, great for you old friend
Awesome catch in getting this sit down with Coach Solich. Feather in your cap. Lots of interesting info. Keep up the strong work. GBR. TTB. Carrikaholic
TTB!
If Solich stays at Nebraska we would have been Bowling every year. I don’t think we would have seen the drop off like we did. Always competitive in the top half of the conference.
10:22 had me scratching my head for a second... married to Jeff. Was waiting for "Jeff's sister" 😅😅
I caught that too and it threw me 😂
You knew what I meant 😂
Adam; the first thing i do when I hear your opening drums is hit the thumbs up! You don't have to say anything about doing this! ha ha I don't care what you say; I enjoy your videos!
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i allways fet that since osborn left, nu never brought in a proven head coach...riely was i guess, but not very sucessful
frank did good at ohio....i felt he was not the right fit for nu and modern football, i thought his recuriting was weak, but in the forthought, he did better than coaches they brought in.....congrats to a great career frank, and playing for nu
I wasn’t alive until 2005 but it sound like coach solich carried on the tradition of Nebraska football
Adam is gonna have a Sienfeld moment where he is gonna have to say I’m not married to Jeff….not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Congratulations, Coach Solich, on your HOF induction. Great interview, Adam.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Frank was a great coach should have never been fired
I know all of your viewers are grateful like me Adam for the terrific content you keep churning out during the off season, when we Husker fans are dying to see what next season brings.
I love doing it!
Yes, make a correction… my friend, Frank, was a 150 lb fullback in 1960 and was very good at that position until he was senior and broke his leg. But he went through to his graduation. Now his famous coach was Bob DEVANEY, not Dean. Spell this name correctly. Thanks. Ed, the Deaf high school football coach at now defunct Nebraska School for the Deaf in Omaha.
I really like Frank after hearing him. I however wish coaching could have been open competition. Always really loved Turner Gill, who I believed would have been a great requiter/developer of young men
In the first Husker game I ever attended, I saw Frank Solich “the smallest Fullback in America” score on an eighty yard punt return! I firmly believe that if Peterson hadn’t fired him as Nebraska’s coach we’d have never gone into our mediocrity spiral! We haven’t recovered from that mistake!
Solich will never get the years he should have had at Nebraska following 2003, but I wonder if he can take solace in knowing now that it clearly wasn't a case of he just couldn't follow Osborne. For one, Osborne wasn't great in his early years following Devaney, and two, clearly Nebraska had to go through major changes, and doesn't have the advantages they used to have. It's been 20 years since his firing, and not one coach has been as successful as Solich at Nebraska so far.
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I started at the U the same year Solich did and we were in a couple of classes together. Could not understand the dismissal of Solich. He made some changes needed and wasn't given time to implement them. I think the new coach is made of the right stuff and can turn things around , am again excited about football at Nebraska. GBR
I agree with Solich about the future does he coach QB's hahaha
I didn’t know he was gay I thought he had a wife. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Seinfeld
Great interview 👍.
Thanks for listening
10:22 When did you marry Jeff McBride? 🤣
😂 You knew what I meant.
@@carrikerchronicles90 Indeed. Good interview and another good video, and it gave me a good laugh on top. 😄
Are you really married to Jeff McBride
When Coach Solich was talking about Adam, dang that was pretty cool. Proud Coach, Proud Player. Thanks for the memories to you both!
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Now that Solich is in the HOF, maybe the Pederson curse will be lifted and we can become an Elite FB school, again.
Works for me.
Frank was a great guy! ❤
Adam is married to a dude???
GBR
I met Coach Solich when I was a little kid & had a lunch at 1st Ave with him & my grandma, will always respect this man & he’s always held a special place in my heart. No one deserves the CFB Hall of Fame more than this man!
Class act
10:25 ?
As a life long Husker fan I hated to see Coach Solich pushed out. I followed him at Ohio every year. In short I was a fan of his! As for his coaching at Nebraska I say THANK YOU SIR! You were following great examples and were well molded into your Hall of Fame career.
Well said!
Yes!
Adam did you say you're married to Jeff McBride?? 😮😢
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wow didnt you ask why he was fired from nebraska.....ask a coed