Solich certainly made mistakes . He let recruiting go and shouldn ' t have been his own OC but he wasn ' t the only one . Osborne pushed him to keep the staff together and promote from within when Solich didn ' t really want to . He was saddled with too many guys that weren ' t getting it done in the coaching andor recruiting departments . Eppley let the SC program go down hill and you had guys skipping workouts . Byrne let our once elite facilities become fairly average in pursuit of that allsport trophy we weren ' t going to win anyway . By the time enough was enough and change was made Solich didn ' t have the talent to be top 10 and his new AD was looking for any excuse to fire him . I don ' t know if Solich would have been able to make us a national power again or not but the ' 03 season was good enough that he should have gotten the chance to try anyway . Still wish Carl Crawford hadn ' t opted for baseball , with a real qb rather than Lord things could have been much different . Also would have been nice if Mike Gundy had followedthrough on taking the OC job , we were an eyelash from getting him .