Pederson has made a huge mistake in my opinion. I don't think too highly of him right now, especially after he said he would not talk about this situation until the season was over. We still have one game to play here, folks: our bowl game. I think it was pretty rotten of him to do this when there is one more game left in the season, but then again, from the looks of things, Pederson has had it in for Solich since he rode in here on his white horse.
Frank Solich has given nearly 30 years of his life for this program, and it all ends with a five minute meeting? What a slap in the face to a man that has practically the same record as Osborne did in his first few years of coaching. Just because you've got a couple of whiny fans running around saying they want Solich out is a lame excuse to fire such a dedicated individual. Any other coach in the nation who had a 9-3 regular season record would feel pretty darn secure in his position, yet here we have a winning coach who is out of a job.
What really gets me is that now Pederson is probably going to ignore the assistants who have been with the program for a considerable amount of time, and go with one of his cronies from Pitt -- Walt Harris? (Click here to go to omaha.com and read about it). So we end up with a guy who doesn't even know Nebraska tradition and what this program means not only to football but to the people of this state? Makes me sick!!!
All this at a time when Pederson is asking for us to donate to his little multi-million dollar north stadium project. Hmmph.
Good bye Frank Solich, I will miss you dearly and I wish you all the luck in the world.