Luke Joseph Fickell (born August 18, 1973) is 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.
Playing career
Fickell spent his entire playing career in Columbus, Ohio, graduating from DeSales High School in 1992. After redshirting for the Buckeyes in 1992, Fickell went on to be a standout member of the defensive unit, making a school-record 50 consecutive starts at the nose guard position from 1993 to 1996, four bowl games. In his freshman year, he lined up next to Dan Wilkinson. Despite having a torn pectoral muscle, Fickell started the 1997 Rose Bowl, making two tackles in the Buckeyes victory over Arizona State. After graduating from Ohio State in 1997, Fickell signed as an undrafted free agent with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) . After tearing the ACL in his knee, he spent the remainder of the season on the injured reserve list and was later released by the team.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"John's a football player. Where the football is, John's going to be."
Luke Fickell, Donovan Raiola have interesting postgame exchange
Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell and Nebraska OL coach Donovan Raiola had an interesting postgame exchange after the Huskers' 44-25 win over the Badgers. Video Credit: Mike DiGiacomo on X
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Luke Fickell Post-Game Media Conference || Wisconsin Football vs Minnesota || Nov. 29, 2024
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Luke Fickell Post-Game Media Conference || Wisconsin Football vs Nebraska || Nov. 23, 2024
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Luke Fickell Weekly Press Conference || Wisconsin Football || November 11, 2024
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Luke Fickell & Donovan Raiola Interaction after Wisconsin / Nebraska Game
Luke Fickell walking off the field with 3 of his security detail after Wisconsin's 44 to 25 loss to Nebraska on Saturday, November 23rd. You can see offensive line coach Donovan Raiola interact with Fickell, and then one of the Wisonsin based law enforcement personel runs after Raiola as he's walking away. He grabs Raiola by the arm and a short discussion follows.
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Luke Fickell Post-Game Media Conference || Wisconsin Football at Iowa || Nov. 2, 2024
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Luke Fickell Weekly Press Conference || Wisconsin Football || November 18, 2024
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Bowl streak shattered, Badgers finish 5-7
Luke Fickell, who is now 12-13 in two season as Wisconsin's Head Football Coach, said after the loss: "This is a team that is beat up, physically, emotionally, and mentally. We couldn't pull ourselves out of that hole. I put it on me, but that's what's been the grind, is how do we get over those things, how do we handle getting punched, how do handle a battle with a Penn State or Oregon, to not be able to go the next week and make yourself better".
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Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell and Nebraska OL coach Donovan Raiola had an interesting postgame exchange after the Huskers' 44-25 win over the Badgers. Video...
Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell and Nebraska OL coach Donovan Raiola had an interesting postgame exchange after the Huskers' 44-25 win over the Badgers. Video Credit: Mike DiGiacomo on X
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Luke Fickell walking off the field with 3 of his security detail after Wisconsin's 44 to 25 loss to Nebraska on Saturday, November 23rd. You can see offensive l...
Luke Fickell walking off the field with 3 of his security detail after Wisconsin's 44 to 25 loss to Nebraska on Saturday, November 23rd. You can see offensive line coach Donovan Raiola interact with Fickell, and then one of the Wisonsin based law enforcement personel runs after Raiola as he's walking away. He grabs Raiola by the arm and a short discussion follows.
Luke Fickell walking off the field with 3 of his security detail after Wisconsin's 44 to 25 loss to Nebraska on Saturday, November 23rd. You can see offensive line coach Donovan Raiola interact with Fickell, and then one of the Wisonsin based law enforcement personel runs after Raiola as he's walking away. He grabs Raiola by the arm and a short discussion follows.
Luke Fickell, who is now 12-13 in two season as Wisconsin's Head Football Coach, said after the loss: "This is a team that is beat up, physically, emotionally, ...
Luke Fickell, who is now 12-13 in two season as Wisconsin's Head Football Coach, said after the loss: "This is a team that is beat up, physically, emotionally, and mentally. We couldn't pull ourselves out of that hole. I put it on me, but that's what's been the grind, is how do we get over those things, how do we handle getting punched, how do handle a battle with a Penn State or Oregon, to not be able to go the next week and make yourself better".
Luke Fickell, who is now 12-13 in two season as Wisconsin's Head Football Coach, said after the loss: "This is a team that is beat up, physically, emotionally, and mentally. We couldn't pull ourselves out of that hole. I put it on me, but that's what's been the grind, is how do we get over those things, how do we handle getting punched, how do handle a battle with a Penn State or Oregon, to not be able to go the next week and make yourself better".
Wisconsin head coach Luke Fickell and Nebraska OL coach Donovan Raiola had an interesting postgame exchange after the Huskers' 44-25 win over the Badgers. Video Credit: Mike DiGiacomo on X
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Luke Fickell walking off the field with 3 of his security detail after Wisconsin's 44 to 25 loss to Nebraska on Saturday, November 23rd. You can see offensive line coach Donovan Raiola interact with Fickell, and then one of the Wisonsin based law enforcement personel runs after Raiola as he's walking away. He grabs Raiola by the arm and a short discussion follows.
Luke Fickell, who is now 12-13 in two season as Wisconsin's Head Football Coach, said after the loss: "This is a team that is beat up, physically, emotionally, and mentally. We couldn't pull ourselves out of that hole. I put it on me, but that's what's been the grind, is how do we get over those things, how do we handle getting punched, how do handle a battle with a Penn State or Oregon, to not be able to go the next week and make yourself better".
Luke Joseph Fickell (born August 18, 1973) is 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.
Playing career
Fickell spent his entire playing career in Columbus, Ohio, graduating from DeSales High School in 1992. After redshirting for the Buckeyes in 1992, Fickell went on to be a standout member of the defensive unit, making a school-record 50 consecutive starts at the nose guard position from 1993 to 1996, four bowl games. In his freshman year, he lined up next to Dan Wilkinson. Despite having a torn pectoral muscle, Fickell started the 1997 Rose Bowl, making two tackles in the Buckeyes victory over Arizona State. After graduating from Ohio State in 1997, Fickell signed as an undrafted free agent with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) . After tearing the ACL in his knee, he spent the remainder of the season on the injured reserve list and was later released by the team.
UC coach Wes Miller, Dillon Mitchell on home loss to Kansas. UC coach Wes Miller, Dillon Mitchell on home loss to Kansas while scoring just 40 points ...Football has gone in the tank since Luke Fickell left, and UC fans are hungry for a winner.
Badgers coach Luke Fickell is adding longtime offensive coach Blake Rolan as an assistant receivers coach, Joe Ludwig as assistant tight ends coach and promoting Tuf Borland to assistant linebackers coach.
Luke Fickell has made the move permanent ... "After a thorough search of candidates, we realized that we had the best quarterbacks coach candidate right here on our staff in Coach Guiton," Fickell said in a press release ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla ...College football is behind that curve by 41 years and counting, with a chance to finally reach that milestone this year ...Freeman's college teammate at Ohio State, Luke Fickell, brought him onto the staff at Cincinnati ... .
If not blocked by obvious circumstances, Marcus Freeman would be pulling hard for an “OH” confetti shower ... 20. The matchups, both on ESPN, are Notre Dame vs ... Friday ... His longest coaching stint to date was on Luke Fickell’s Cincinnati staff from 2017-20.
By EDDIE PELLS AP SportsWriter. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla ... In fact, the winner will be the first black coach to even coach in the national title game ...Freeman’s college teammate at Ohio State, Luke Fickell, brought him onto the staff at Cincinnati.