Just curious was the AD was supposed to do then? What do you suppose Solich's record would have been this year and what bowl game would he have taken them to?
One can only speculate what "might have been," but it is reasonable to guess that Frank would have had better than a 5-6 season, and would have taken Nebraska to some medium-sized bowl game (right now, even the blue grass in Boise looks pretty good).
Nebraska is one of the smallest states in the union, with a major college football program--in population, even Kansas and Iowa are giants compared with us, and Oklahoma even bigger than that. Given our small size, it was always unreasonable to expect a national championship more than once every twenty-five, fifty, years.....but it was eminently reasonable to expect at least a top-notch, high-quality program.
As for previous comments about Solich being a "poor recruiter," the facts as outlined on the web-site contradict this. It all appears obvious that Steve Pederson wished nothing less than to be God, to re-make Nebraska football in the image of.....Steve Pederson.
And it ain't pretty.