Solich returned to Nebraska this week to receive award

Ohio University Head Coach Frank Solich at the Frisco Bowl in Frisco, Texas, on Dec. 19. Photo courtesy Ohio Athletics, by Maddie Schroeder.Editor’s note: This column, which ran in the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star on Jan. 5, 2019, is reprinted with permission. See original link here.

He was always the low-profile guy accompanying Frank Solich to various places, often wearing a spiffy leather jacket.

That’s how I remember Bob Sawdon. This was during Solich’s time as Nebraska’s head football coach (1998-2003). As time passed, I came to realize Sawdon was one of Solich’s closest friends dating to their college days in the 1960s. Sawdon forever has been one of Solich’s foremost allies, which…