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DT Luke Fickell (HC Wisconsin Badgers)

I will always be grateful for the manner in which Luke took over the program, kept recruiting alive, and kept the team together. Not once did he put the blame for losses on other coaches or the players. Not once did he bitch about the penalties meted out. He brought Braxton along slowly, though it must have pained him. Finally, if he had had at least half a season for Brax to throw to Devier, the Bucks beat Michigan. If he'd had Adams and Boom, he might have eked out a Big Ten Championship. He's more than earned his place in the Buckeye pantheon.
 
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Since the Wrestling team is potentially on the verge of doing something its never done before, here's a video of Luke Fickell destroying some dude his senior year as a heavyweight. It's impressive because Fickell literally looks like and moves like a 189lb wrestler but he straight up destroys this guy....


Now I know why we haven't fired him yet. They're scared he'll kick their asses...in :54 seconds. 8D
 
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BSB (Free): http://ohiostate.scout.com/story/1548040-fickell-changes-narrative-on-defense

FICKELL CHANGES NARRATIVE ON DEFENSE
Marcus Hartman
BuckeyeSports.com

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"The No. 1 thing in leadership is consistency," Fickell said. "In 2013, we had a guy injured so as coaches sometimes we know our team better than anybody, we know our deficiencies so what's the first thing we start to do? We start to mask our deficiencies. So we changed. We not only changed what we do, we changed how we do it.

"What does that entail? Sometimes it entails you having a good game because you changed from a 4-3 to a 3-4 or you changed from a quarters defense to three deep because you're trying to hide something. In reality, what does that do? It doesn't make you better in the long run. When you're changing all the time, you're not getting better at what you do. You've got to truly believe in what you do."

"I know I look back to '13 and we got a guy injured. That's not the reason why. We started to change. We got to mask -- that guy's not quite as good, so we've got to do something different. The ultimate goal is to play best at the end of the year, and that's what we didn't do because we didn't have consistency."

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OHIO STATE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND LINEBACKERS COACH LUKE FICKELL TO EARN $640K BASE SALARY IN 2015

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Luke Fickell's defense played its best as Ohio State rolled through the 2014 post-season.

To no surprise, that's when the Buckeyes as a whole performed better than ever before under head coach Urban Meyer. In victories against Wisconsin (Big Ten Championship), Alabama (Sugar Bowl) and Oregon (National Championship), Fickell's unit kept three 2014 Heisman Trophy finalists at bay enough for the Buckeyes to reach the zenith of college football.

Fickell was much maligned following poor performances from the Ohio State defense toward the end of the 2013 season against Michigan, Michigan State and Clemson. Some in Columbus called for Fickell's job, but Meyer stuck by him, and in turn helped get him a raise following the national title-winning season.

Fickell is set to earn $640,000 in base salary for the 2015 season, a 6.66 percent jump from the $600,000 he earned the last two seasons.

The figures are a result of an open records request submitted by Eleven Warriors Sept. 14 and filled by Ohio State Tuesday.

Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...ebackers-coach-luke-fickell-to-earn-640k-base

WOW, the site even has a copy of his actual contract (i.e from the open records request).
 
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I know. We should be politically correct. Protect one of our own. Yeah, well I can't go there anymore. I also lived a part of my life on Karl Road. I looked out the windows of St Francis DeSales every day, too, at one point in my life. But that don't make us homies. That don't mean I have to cover for this guy.

Luke Fickell needs to take responsibility. The political economy around the globe is in a shambles still. What has Luke Fickell done about that? The Kardashians are still on TV. My goodness, nothing from Luke Fickell. What about that strange woman on ESPiN? A Russian plane goes down in the Sinai. HIV/AIDS. The free-falling Brazilian economy? Ditto. Art Briles and his brother Art and his other brother Art want a dance partner in Sydney? Where's Luke Fickell?

It is time that we asked what he is doing about the really tough problems. World hunger?

Linebackers, schminebackers. If you just sit down and think, you'll see it's now more than half century since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Nothing from Luke Fickell. More than half a century.


On the positive side...in 17 days, when the Buckeye defense takes the field in Ann Arbor..

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