Good help is hard to find. Or in Urban Meyer’s case, hard to keep. While he has not had a difficult time finding the best and brightest assistant coaches in America, Meyer only has himself to blame for the fact he has had a much harder time holding on to them. Meyer lost star offensive coordinator Tom Herman to the Houston head coaching job after Ohio State’s national championship run in 2014. A year later, he lost defensive coordinator Chris Ash to the Rutgers job. Now he’s going to be looking for a replacement for the longest-tenured coach on the OSU staff. Luke Fickell has been a mainstay in Columbus since his days as a bulldog nose guard for the Buckeyes in the mid-1990s, but it always felt like a matter of time before he got a chance to be a head coach somewhere. It also felt like that somewhere…
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