Ohio State tried to maintain a business-as-usual approach this spring, and Luke Fickell excelled at it.
Sure, the 37-year-old knew his role would change during the first five Saturdays of the fall, when he would fill in for suspended Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. But other than those five Saturdays, Fickell would be just another assistant, focused on his position group and following Tressel’s lead. The Vest, remember, would be with the team the rest of the time.
Neither Fickell nor Tressel was thinking too far ahead. Asked by ESPN.com in April when he’d begin grooming Fickell for game day, Tressel replied, “The week of the game. You don’t rehearse anything about the game until the week of the game. We don’t do it in spring, we don’t do it in preseason. … There probably will be very…
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