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Reebok does nothing to get us away from the scandal - they're owned by Adidas.

Where's the one where Saban was, by his own description, giving Lane Kiffin "an ass-chewing"?

@jsneb83 Nah man, K-Swiss is where it's at!

@Dilly Dilly They decided to forgo their bowl bonuses that year. It was an agreement with Eichorst. Riley said "The credit belongs to the university for having that APR." http://www.omaha.com/huskers/husker-coach-mike-riley-wholeheartedly-agrees-with-no-bonus-pay/article_e6b05df0-9912-11e5-ba97-1f47dcfcde93.html

"I've never felt very comfortable here," he said. "I felt when I took over for Bob (Devaney after the 1972 season) that it would be uphill. I thought it would be difficult to last more than five years." Osborne often has said he almost didn't see a fifth year at Nebraska, such was the heat on him at the end of the 1976 season. That fourth squad ended the 1976 season with a 27-24 triumph against Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. It seemed a rather mundane triumph. Hindsight shows it was a monumental victory in the program's history. "That evening, one of the regents got me aside and said, 'I'm glad you won tonight because if you hadn't, you would've been fired,'" Osborne has said.

2001 was pretty much The Eric Crouch Show. As much fun as he was to watch, it was hard not to notice that some things had slipped. I've often said that Jamal Lord's biggest 'flaw' was that he couldn't be a one-man offense like Crouch was. Of course, he shouldn't have needed to be a one-man offense, but once he took over, it became painfully clear just how far things had fallen. Honestly, Solich's biggest failing may have been the same as Riley's: both of them failed to take control. It's no secret that some of Osborne's assistants who stayed on never entirely treated Solich like The Man in Charge. And when he'd made his decision about Newcombe vs. Crouch, he ended up having to beg Crouch to come back instead of putting his foot down and saying his decision was final (or, you know, making the right call in the first place) (though there's still some who insist that Solich just drove up to Omaha for afternoon tea with the Crouch family). A good question is just how much had changed in 2003. He made some necessary changes to his staff, and they were probably more loyal to him than some of their predecessors. I'm curious as to how things were with the players, though - was Solich really the boss of the team at that point?

If we never hear about Verduzco talking about The Strain, that will be a win. TBH, I'm just glad we finally have an actual quarterbacks coach. That's something that's been sorely lacking over the last decade or more.

It was launched like two years ago. Not very old, but long enough for Cox to decide there's no money in it, it seems. Reminds me of HuddlePass, another here today gone tomorrow site that started like 5 years ago. They had I think Eric Crouch and Zac Lee contributing on that one, but it never really caught on.

No love for Lovie?

Does Solich have any known retirement plans? Not that I'd complain if it happened now, but I feel like waiting until he's done coaching would be more appropriate for a Memorial Stadium appearance/tribute.

Here's the tweet:

The stench can linger long after the nasty stuff has been flushed away...

'First look' would probably be a good way to put it.

Held did previously say that seniors at least get first crack at it....

@Enhance Nah, if that were me, instead of "EAT" it would say "FAT."

TBH, I'm surprised we finished ahead of Meatchicken in that poll.

*twitches*

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Yes.

@Husker-Joe

Certainly if there was a time to fire him, it was after the .500 season, not when he'd just went 9-3. I've never really been convinced one way or the other on whether Solich would've done much better than that in the long-term, though. How would people have felt if Solich's record beyond 2003 looked about like Bo's 'consistently good but never quite great' results?

A big part of the problem was probably just that he went straight from position coach to a top-tier head coach job. How many other coaches can you think of who made that kind of a jump, let alone successfully? I always wonder how things would have went if Osborne had made him OC for his last five years or so. Maybe Solich would have been better prepared for the job. Then again, for all we know the offense could've ended up being weaker during Osborne's last few seasons, and we'd be short a few national championship trophies.

Certainly Eichorst took that precedent to heart...