OSU Coaching Staff

• se-alum

  

  I like Withers because his defenses attack, and the secondary reaps the benefits of a hurried QB. His secondaries have been interception machines pretty much everywhere he has been.
• jordo212000

  

  Will Withers be the DC along with Fickell? Has anybody found out what Fickell's official title will be?
• rightfield

  Fickell will be calling the defensive plays.
• se-alum

  

  rightfield;1013733 wrote:Fickell will be calling the defensive plays.

  Anything to back this up? I think it would be strange for a guy like Withers who is a damn good DC to come to OSU just to be a Secondary coach. My guess would be Withers and Fickell as Co-DC's, while Withers also coaches the Secondary, and Fickell is Asst. HC.
• chicago510

  

  se-alum;1013778 wrote:Anything to back this up? I think it would be strange for a guy like Withers who is a damn good DC to come to OSU just to be a Secondary coach. My guess would be Withers and Fickell as Co-DC's, while Withers also coaches the Secondary, and Fickell is Asst. HC.

  Meyer announced this today on 97.1 The Fan that Fick would call plays
• sleeper

  

  se-alum;1013778 wrote:Anything to back this up? I think it would be strange for a guy like Withers who is a damn good DC to come to OSU just to be a Secondary coach. My guess would be Withers and Fickell as Co-DC's, while Withers also coaches the Secondary, and Fickell is Asst. HC.

  http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7348959/urban-meyer-says-luke-fickell-call-defense-ohio-state-buckeyes
• se-alum

  

  chicago510;1013781 wrote:Meyer announced this today on 97.1 The Fan that Fick would call plays

  Thanks, interesting that Meyer could get Withers without him being the DC.
• jordo212000

  

  uggh I was hoping Akron would take Fickell off our hands. I was fine with him being assistant head coach and LB coach. Not a fan of him being "the guy" defensively. He showed me little to zero leadership on the sideline this past season and more often than not, he had a scared / puzzled look on his face.
• rightfield

  Those details will get worked out as they go but Fickell is going to get every chance to develop into a top notch DC under the watchful eye of Urban and the people Urban puts around Luke to help him. He wont hurt the defense- Fickell nor Urban will let that happen.
• queencitybuckeye

  jordo212000;1014117 wrote:uggh I was hoping Akron would take Fickell off our hands. I was fine with him being assistant head coach and LB coach. Not a fan of him being "the guy" defensively. He showed me little to zero leadership on the sideline this past season and more often than not, he had a scared / puzzled look on his face.

  So one year of a job he wasn't ready for overrides several seasons of being one of the top assistants in the country?
• vball10set

  Now that Fickell is allowed to concentrate solely on his defense, and not have to be concerned with all the other stuff that's invloved with being the head coach, he's going to be fine.
• centralbucksfan

  Meyer said in the interview, that Fickell does not yet have a title. Meyer is not someone who is hung up with titles. He mentioned Fickell could have a "co" next to his name.
  
  "But insiders say Meyer is going to want a defense run by consortium rather than dictation, which explains why he shied away from former Arizona coach Mike Stoops and apparently has zeroed in on Everett Withers, the interim coach at North Carolina."
  
  http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2011/12/14/meyer-fickell-will-call-defense.html
• OneBuckeye

  

  Texas AM's Oline coach has been interviewed.
• OneBuckeye

  

  Everett Withers is supposedly a done deal to OSU. Huge get.
• jordo212000

  

  queencitybuckeye;1014327 wrote:So one year of a job he wasn't ready for overrides several seasons of being one of the top assistants in the country?

  
  How would anybody know he was a top assistant? It was Heacock's defense
• LJ

  

  jordo212000;1015239 wrote:How would anybody know he was a top assistant? It was Heacock's defense

  
  If he was co dcoord, wouldnt it hace been Fickell and Heacock's defense?
• zach24oz

  I'm pretty sure Heacock has been head over the D for the past few years, he just has other defensive coaches with "CO" around their title.
• jordo212000

  

  LJ;1015242 wrote:If he was co dcoord, wouldnt it hace been Fickell and Heacock's defense?

  
  No.
• OneBuckeye

  

  Jordo and Zach GTFOWTS. Seriously.
• LJ

  

  jordo212000;1015255 wrote:No.

  
  And you know for a fact Fickell had nothing to do with it?
• zach24oz

  So you all think Fickell has been the head guy over the D for the last few years? Seriously? From what I have seen and heard he took over being the main guy after Dantonio left. Not saying Fickell hasnt been a big or little part of the D's success, just saying I dont think he has been making the calls on D as other people seem to think.
• OneBuckeye

  

  On topic Tim Hinton ND RB coach I believe is close to being the TE Coach at OSU. The staff is shaping up to look like this.
  
  QB: Tom Herman
  RB: Stan Drayton
  WR: Zach Smith
  TE: Tim Hinton
  OL: Jim Turner
  DL: Luke Fickell
  LB: Mike Vrabel
  CB: Taver Johnson
  S: Everett Withers
• jordo212000

  

  LJ;1015268 wrote:And you know for a fact Fickell had nothing to do with it?

  
  I know for a fact that Heacock had 'more' to do with it
• OneBuckeye

  

  lulz
• queencitybuckeye

  jordo212000;1015239 wrote:How would anybody know he was a top assistant? It was Heacock's defense

  It's the opinion of people actually in the game, they know.