COLUMBUS — The coach kept walking as he spotted a crush of reporters in the Ohio State football indoor facility.
Luke Fickell was scheduled to meet with the media for the first time in months after a recent practice, but the cameras could wait. He slipped behind the mass surrounding offensive coordinator Tom Herman and into the locker room.
As the temporary face of a program in turmoil last season, Fickell uncomfortably did the media drill twice a week. This year, someone else could have the spotlight.
“Let Tom have them,” he said with a laugh after emerging 15 minutes later. “I’m sure they’ve seen enough of me. They can go ahead and recite what I’m probably going to say.”
A bridge between eras, Fickell appears a man content in his new/old role as an in-the-background leader of the Buckeyes’ defense.
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