I attended a banquet in early February 2004 at a ballroom in the QUEEN MARY moored in Long Beach Harbor where Pederson was the keynote speaker. I don't think Callahan had been hired yet. After his speech he was at the head of a reception line. After telling him I appreciated him letting Solich go I stood off to the side and listened to what people said as they went through the line. Everyone thanked him for firing Solich. I don't remember one person saying he shouldn't have done it. Of course, if someone was angry with him about the decision he probably didn't go to the banquet or didn't enter the receiving line. So I could have observed some "confirmation bias" or something like that. So sure, I'm real happy Trev is honoring Frank at the Spring Game, nobody will be cheering louder than I. However that doesn't change the fact that a huge segment of Husker Nation wanted him gone., despite the revisionist history some will put forth.
I wasn't real angry about his on-field results, I just felt his tenure was illegitimate due to being appointed when the AD was on vacation rather than the AD doing a national search, which was his job.