BOWLING GREEN — In facing Ohio this week, Bowling Green sees both an opponent and a blueprint.
The Bobcats won an average of three games per year in the 20 seasons that preceded coach Frank Solich, who, in his 15th year in Athens, has 110 wins and is one victory away from setting the Mid-American Conference record for a coach.
For Bowling Green, which is mired in a fourth straight losing season, Ohio's model — and particularly its past decade — is something Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler would like to replicate.
"Nine years of elite culture, in my opinion.