Luke Fickell
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"Luke Joseph Fickell" is an American football coach and former player. Fickell is currently the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes football/Ohio State Buckeyes. An assistant at Ohio State for over ten seasons, Fickell served as the team's head coach during the 2011 Ohio State Buckeyes football team/2011 football season.

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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.

John's a football player. Where the football is, John's going to be.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.