Coach Frank Solich on Ballot for College Football Hall of Fame

Former Nebraska head coach Frank Solich is one in all 9 FBS coaches to earn a spot on the 2023 poll for the School Soccer Corridor of Fame launched Monday.

No former Huskers made the poll as gamers, however former Nebraska offensive lineman Zach Wiegert can be enshrined later this yr as a part of the 2022 class.

Solich is on the poll in his first season of eligibility after retiring as head coach at Ohio final summer time. Throughout his 22 seasons as a head coach, Solich compiled a document of 173-101, together with 58-19 in six seasons at Nebraska from 1998 to 2003.

Solich led the Huskers to the 1999 Huge 12 Convention championship and a ultimate No. 3 rating within the Related Press ballot. NU added a co-Huge 12 North Division title in 2001, when the Huskers met Miami within the Rose Bowl for the nationwide championship. 

Solich arrived in Lincoln from Cleveland in 1962, Coach Bob Devaney’s first season. He earned the nickname “Fearless Frankie” as an undersized fullback and have become the primary Husker to hurry for 200 yards in a sport.

Solich coached in the highschool ranks in Nebraska earlier than becoming a member of Tom Osborne’s Husker workers an assistant in 1979. Throughout his enjoying and training tenure as a Husker, all 29 Nebraska groups he was related to performed in a bowl sport.

After being fired by then-Athletic Director Steve Pederson in 2003, Solich guided Ohio’s program for 16 seasons from 2005 to 2020. Throughout his time there, Solich led the Bobcats to 12 profitable seasons, 11 bowl appearances and 4 MAC East Division titles. He has probably the most wins of any coach in Mid-American Convention historical past.

Additionally on the poll is former Husker Al Zikmund, as a coach at Kearney State.