If you're a junkie for good, long football narrative on former Buckeye legends, this is a good piece. https://sports.yahoo.com/1-week-with-cincinnati-reveals-bearcats-rise-as-cfp-interloper-luke-fickells-staying-power-and-why-notre-dame-game-means-so-much-014530420.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sLmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFk_iTAog1M56KNgUAFxFsl9pWUA72LMJa_aJFuVn8zJucNZy43dAtemjJd5kzfVXYq_KLI6Tc_OcjZxYiKgC2Qe-B8-ddpA2l8C-a-iRf9grkFILi8FEEaK_LzKlHuTyAcBXKgooBCLjAMN9EQkjK38v9sWA0MqshC1W4jHv6hA
Luke Fickell is the tough-love head coach who is more Roy Kent than Ted Lasso, more Saban in demeanor than Dabo. When Fickell arrived in 2017 and went 4-8 with the country’s No. 101 offense and No. 94 defense, few harbored CFP dreams.
He has gone 34-6 since, turning down Michigan State and a handful of SEC schools willing to pay him much more than his $3.4 million salary. “We’re not movers,” says Amy Fickell, as she and Luke have never lived full-time out of the state of Ohio.
