LINCOLN, Nebraska — After the Big Ten admitted a Penn State program in 1990 that only briefly resembled the one the conference thought it had recruited, the oldest conference in big-time college football extended an invitation in 2010 to Nebraska, which hadn’t been itself in years. The decline began in earnest after the firing of former Cleveland Holy Name standout Frank Solich, who had played here in the 1960s as an undersized fullback and served as an assistant coach since 1979 before a six-year stint as head coach ending in 2003. Solich’s teams played for a national title, and were 58-13, winning 75.3 percent of their games. It was more victories, admittedly in longer seasons, than either Tom Osborn or Bob Devaney, the College Football Hall of Famers who preceded him and won multiple national championships. Solich was so Nebraska, he would have worn corn tassel loafers if they were…
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