DT Luke Fickell (HC Wisconsin Badgers)

[Fungo Squiggly]

Fickell will not be Jim Tressel. There will never be another Tressel.

Fickell will be Fickell, and there will probably never be another Fickell. I have faith that he can the job done well.

Won't this be the first time Ohio State and Michigan play each other when both schools have a 1st year coach?

Nope!

Not since 1929, Harry Kipke for TSUN and Sam Willaman for tOSU.

I don't actually recall it, either. Or the similar occurrences in 1892 and 1897.

 

[NateG]

Was also in Ann Arbor, and we will see if the Buckeyes win it just like 1929.

 

[Sportsbuck28]

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1059279

The official website doesn't have any mention of "interim" head coach.
It also doesn't say anything about his degree. Does anyone know what it is? Any post-graduate degrees? Would Ohio State turn him down for a permanent head coaching job because of a lack of education in his case?

Pretty sure that in order to be hired as a head coach, according to AFCA, you have to have a post-bachelors degree.

 

[jlb1705]

Pretty sure that in order to be hired as a head coach, according to AFCA, you have to have a post-bachelors degree.

Link?

 

[Sportsbuck28]

Link?

I'm not entirely sure, I just recall reading it in the past. May have just been a bachelors degree required.

 

[stowfan]

I'm not padding my post count, this applies. Thank God JT's staff put in the # 2 spot in the API rankings for the Big Ten. Fickell still has a lot of good stuff to sell. AHHHHHH...the next great coach from Ohio!


http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...2-oh-ol-kyle-kalis-buckeye-7.html#post1932233

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

I'm not padding my post count, this applies. Thank God JT's staff put in the # 2 spot in the API rankings for the Big Ten. Fickell still has a lot of good stuff to sell. AHHHHHH...the next great coach from Ohio!


http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...2-oh-ol-kyle-kalis-buckeye-7.html#post1932233

He better bolt it down or someone else will sell it.

 

[Muck]

My money is on Luke being the first head coach who was a 3x State & 2x Jr Nat wrestling champ.

 

[BuckeyeNation36]

I'll back him but I hope the distractions don't become too much.

 

[LitlBuck]

Rumblings

When John Johnson isn't working on the movie Buster, he and a former OSU football star who doesn't want to be named at this point are spearheading an effort to get the interim tag removed from Ohio State football coach Luke Fickell's title and get both Fickell and the OSU staff "four- or five-year contracts."


Johnson said they are working on an e-mail to all former OSU
varsity football players and coaches, asking them to sign a letter of support for that position.

"Jim (Tressel) was 9-1 against Michigan, but with all due respect, he didn't do that by himself," Johnson said. "Luke Fickell and Jim Heacock and all those others coaches were a huge part of that. I'm sure Jim Tressel would say that. I think they deserve a chance and not on some kind of interim basis."

 

[Nicknam4]

If Fickell goes 9-1 just like Tressel, We'll be only 5 wins away from tying the series.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

If Fickell goes 9-1 just like Tressel, We'll be only 5 wins away from tying the series.

somehow i don't think that we'll have a ten-year run that mirrors the best ever.

 

[Bleed S & G]

I don't see the 4/5 year contract.. I would think 2 years is fair to see what stamp he can put on the team. Not sure how a 2 year deal would look to recruits, but, how does "interim" look?

 

[bassbuckeye07]

I don't see the 4/5 year contract.. I would think 2 years is fair to see what stamp he can put on the team. Not sure how a 2 year deal would look to recruits, but, how does "interim" look?

Its either all or nothing....two years with possible heavy sanctions does not a fair chance make

 

[BB73]

If Fickell goes 9-1 just like Tressel, We'll be only 5 wins away from tying the series.

If he wins this November, the record for conference games between the two teams will be 45--45-4.