Luke Fickell Bearcats Coach

[RaiderPride5]

Gibson was misguided to go to OSU in the first place. Never gonna play QB there. Should have went to Auburn if playing QB was important.

 

Would've been great under Gus.

[Walter]

Didn't it involve a picture being taken?

 

Gibson has the potential to be the most talented player in the country.

 

Urban was against the suspension when the university announced it, so that's all people really need to know about the situation.

 

Just a case of a college girl getting involved with an athlete, wanting more, athlete telling her no, and her getting upset. But yes it involved a picture...that she knew about well before this all went down.

[Clyde]

Just a case of a college girl getting involved with an athlete, wanting more, athlete telling her no, and her getting upset. But yes it involved a picture...that she knew about well before this all went down.

 

If that's an opinion you need to be careful.

[Walter]

If that's an opinion you need to be careful.

 

If that's an opinion you need to be careful.

 

My wife works with a big time OSU booster who has several close friends within the football program. The story given to him was:

 

"Snap was sent out well before anything went to the administration ...it wasn't until she was told that he didn't want to be "exclusive" that the snap became an issue and sparked a title IX investigation."

 

I don't think Urban Meyer would publicly speak about being against the University's decision if his player did more than what was stated above.

[John Anthony]

I talked to someone who told me someone asked Torrance before his decision, what do you call a tall, most athletic kid on the field, from South Florida who can run around with the ball and not be caught...

 

Lamar Jackson

[Walter]

Another big time get for Fickell today as 4* safety RJ Potts chose the Bearcats over offers from Notre Dame and Nebraska, among other Big 10 offers.

 

Potts is the son of former Colts FB Roosevelt Potts.

 

Looks like several big time 2018 kids in Ohio are also talking about going to UC together, including top 25 nationally L'Christian Smith. UC gave him the interesting opportunity of playing both football and basketball as a scholarship player. UK offered him something similar but basketball would be as a walk on.

[NKYknowitall]

Could Fickell be the one to put UC over the top and get out of the AAC?

[John Anthony]

Another big time get for Fickell today as 4* safety RJ Potts chose the Bearcats over offers from Notre Dame and Nebraska, among other Big 10 offers.

 

Potts is the son of former Colts FB Roosevelt Potts.

 

Looks like several big time 2018 kids in Ohio are also talking about going to UC together, including top 25 nationally L'Christian Smith. UC gave him the interesting opportunity of playing both football and basketball as a scholarship player. UK offered him something similar but basketball would be as a walk on.

 

The Fickell/Marrow battle will be intense.

[UK#1fanisback]

I heard UC is going hard after some Colerain kids.

[Clyde]

Gametime tweeted that UC got a commit from a 4* safety from Indiana.

[John Anthony]

Gametime tweeted that UC got a commit from a 4* safety from Indiana.

 

Potts kid Walt was talking about. An assist to Kevin Wilson there, he was headed to IU.

[NEERFAN]

Paul Daugherty had a story in today's Enquire. Tuberville never stepped foot on the Elder or Colerain campuses during his tenure. That's ridiculous and won't be an issue with the new staff.

[Walter]

Paul Daugherty had a story in today's Enquire. Tuberville never stepped foot on the Elder or Colerain campuses during his tenure. That's ridiculous and won't be an issue with the new staff.

 

Good news, local high school football coaches. Luke Fickell knows you’re alive. He might actually show up at your school. Not just to speak at your stag, or walk the sideline for a few quarters at a home football game, but to talk to you in person. What a concept.

 

We’d say Tommy Tuberville was a ghost at Cincinnati high schools, but that’d be an insult to ghosts. Even they have to be around once in awhile. Otherwise, who’d do the haunting?

 

Put it this way: Brian Kelly once visited seven local high school games on one Friday night, via helicopter. Tommy Tuberville couldn’t name you seven local high schools.

 

“Tommy Tuberville never came to campus,’’ Elder coach Doug Ramsey said Friday. “Twenty years I’ve been the head coach at Elder. In that time, 15 Elder guys either walked on or were on scholarship at UC. Butch Jones has been here, Brian Kelly has been here, Mark Dantonio has been here.‘’

 

UC offered Ramsey’s son Peyton a scholarship. Tuberville never talked to Peyton. He signed with Indiana.

 

Colerain coach Tom Bolden said, “Tuberville never set foot in my office. He spoke at our stag, came to a couple games. That was it. There was a huge distance there.’’ This, even as Bolden’s son Kyle was a two-time all-state linebacker to whom UC had offered a scholarship. Bolden said Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and OSU assistant Kerry Coombs “would do 13 Cincinnati schools in one day.’’

 

Tuberville’s dismissal of the local talent was egregious and obvious. The area coaches “have been around a long time. They have pride in their schools and their city. They want that interaction,’’ Luke Fickell said Friday. “For the past two years, they haven’t had it.’’

 

Fickell has spent the past several days starting to fix things. He spent an hour talking with Ramsey on Thursday.

 

“Ohio State is going to take the top six or seven players from the state of Ohio,’’ Ramsey said. “When you start with players seven, eight, nine and 10, that opens the door some. A lot of kids end up going to other Big 10 schools, but you can sell them on staying home. That’s what those other three guys (Dantonio, Jones, Kelly) did. When the head coach makes an appearance at the school, it makes a huge difference.’’

 

Rest of Story below:

Doc: Fickell won't ignore 'The state of Cincinnati'

[UK#1fanisback]

Good news, local high school football coaches. Luke Fickell knows you’re alive. He might actually show up at your school. Not just to speak at your stag, or walk the sideline for a few quarters at a home football game, but to talk to you in person. What a concept.

 

We’d say Tommy Tuberville was a ghost at Cincinnati high schools, but that’d be an insult to ghosts. Even they have to be around once in awhile. Otherwise, who’d do the haunting?

 

Put it this way: Brian Kelly once visited seven local high school games on one Friday night, via helicopter. Tommy Tuberville couldn’t name you seven local high schools.

 

“Tommy Tuberville never came to campus,’’ Elder coach Doug Ramsey said Friday. “Twenty years I’ve been the head coach at Elder. In that time, 15 Elder guys either walked on or were on scholarship at UC. Butch Jones has been here, Brian Kelly has been here, Mark Dantonio has been here.‘’

 

UC offered Ramsey’s son Peyton a scholarship. Tuberville never talked to Peyton. He signed with Indiana.

 

Colerain coach Tom Bolden said, “Tuberville never set foot in my office. He spoke at our stag, came to a couple games. That was it. There was a huge distance there.’’ This, even as Bolden’s son Kyle was a two-time all-state linebacker to whom UC had offered a scholarship. Bolden said Ohio State coach Urban Meyer and OSU assistant Kerry Coombs “would do 13 Cincinnati schools in one day.’’

 

Tuberville’s dismissal of the local talent was egregious and obvious. The area coaches “have been around a long time. They have pride in their schools and their city. They want that interaction,’’ Luke Fickell said Friday. “For the past two years, they haven’t had it.’’

 

Fickell has spent the past several days starting to fix things. He spent an hour talking with Ramsey on Thursday.

 

“Ohio State is going to take the top six or seven players from the state of Ohio,’’ Ramsey said. “When you start with players seven, eight, nine and 10, that opens the door some. A lot of kids end up going to other Big 10 schools, but you can sell them on staying home. That’s what those other three guys (Dantonio, Jones, Kelly) did. When the head coach makes an appearance at the school, it makes a huge difference.’’

 

Rest of Story below:

Doc: Fickell won't ignore 'The state of Cincinnati'

 

Wow glad he is recruiting the tristate.

[John Anthony]

Tommy was always busy duck hunting.