Frank Solich

Frank Thomas Solich is an American former college football coach and former player. He was the head coach at Ohio University, a position he held from 2005 until 2021. From 1998 to 2003, Solich served as the head coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he also played fullback under Bob Devaney in the mid-1960s. By firing Frank Solich after the 2003 season, Nebraska became the first Division I-A football team to fire a Head Coach immediately following a 9-3 season or better, without a recruiting scandal, or an NCAA investigation, or a sex scandal, or an academic cheating scandal, or some other equivalent scandal.