Luke Fickell
Luke Fickell
Luke Joseph Fickellis an American football coach and former player. Fickell is currently the Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes. An assistant at Ohio State for over ten seasons, Fickell served as the team's head coach during the 2011 football season...
book game hard last phase spring stop worked year
The book on us last year was that we couldn't stop the run. But we worked hard on that phase of our game over the spring and summer.
hard kids run
We really think that we've got a lot of young kids that are going to play hard and run around. They've just got to get some experience.
football
John's a football player. Where the football is, John's going to be.
best football guys looking
John's a football player. We're looking for the guys who can play football and then we're going to try and put them in the best situation.
competition develop fall good group guys healthy rest seven starting summer
We think we have a good group - probably seven guys who could end up starting for us. We'll see how they develop over the rest of the summer and then through fall camp. There's a lot of competition - healthy competition.
challenge faces guys start stuff
It's always a challenge. It's a challenge because we've got some new faces and some new guys and you just have to start over just with the stuff that you are teaching.
exciting light tunnel
It's a very exciting group. They see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel and there's a lot of competition.
couple early guys hard last losing numbers since starting
It's important to get guys that can come in and play early because we're losing so much. But the big thing is the last couple years, it's been hard numbers-wise to get linebackers in here because those guys were starting since they were sophomores. So just our numbers were down.
evolved help natural trying
He did so much for us. He evolved in so many different areas. We were just trying to use his natural abilities to help us and to help him.