All Things Fickell

[Lobot]

As far as I know, Luke has always worked as his own agent up until now. Jimmy Sexton is not just any agent either. He's solely responsible for for some of the astronomical coaching salaries in the USA Today chart. I would say that Fickell is counting on a big salary increase. Also, in that CBS article, the thing about Bohn comes a little out of left field during the course of the article. Kind of like someone wanted it included on purpose. Either that or Dennis Dodd asked him about USC and didn't mention that he did so and just threw the response in there. Struck me as weird.

[bearcatbret]

I read the agent thing as if Luke has always had the agent and it was nothing new.

[Lobot]

A couple interesting points in this article. 1. He likes Mike Bohn. 2. He’s hired an agent.

Rut Roh. I hope we're not reading too much into that

[steveedwards]

How learned lessons, blue-collar culture have Luke Fickell's Cincinnati charging into playoff picture

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ayoff-picture/

A couple interesting points in this article. 1. He likes Mike Bohn. 2. He’s hired an agent.

[True Bearcat]

Its obscene and just plain wicked to pay a football coach $9,000,000.

I wish I was that football coach. When I coached at first it was volunteer, and then $3216 for the season came out to something like .12 cents an hour.

[Rufus]

Coach Fick coming in at #45 on the salary list this year. There are coaches and agents stealing money from some of these schools. David Shaw is the one I noticed first. He’s a good coach but not that good.

https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/sal...football/coach

Its obscene and just plain wicked to pay a football coach $9,000,000.

[GoBearcats31]

How learned lessons, blue-collar culture have Luke Fickell's Cincinnati charging into playoff picture

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ayoff-picture/

[swilsonsp4]

Could you imagine the thunderous noise if TX A&M tried to fire Jimbo Fisher for cause? How did he merit a $95M+ buyout?

[bearcatbret]

Ahead of around 1/3 of the power 5 and way ahead of the next in the group of 5. I wonder what is up with Brian Kelly? Where are they hiding it?

[Lobot]

Coach Fick coming in at #45 on the salary list this year. There are coaches and agents stealing money from some of these schools. David Shaw is the one I noticed first. He’s a good coach but not that good.

https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/sal...football/coach

[Barklee]

I think that in 2021, you would give the hire as an A.

The article gave a regrade for all of the coaches. Luke earned a well deserved A+. If you don't have a subscription to the Athletic, you should try it. They have a lot of good articles and the UC beat writer, Justin Williams is excellent.

[bearcatbret]

I think that in 2021, you would give the hire as an A.

[GoBearcats31]

Chris Vannin of The Athletic has re-examined the 2016-17 hires ($)
https://theathletic.com/2882762/2021...-randy-edsall/

Premium article, so I'll spare the whole excerpt. But I wanted to share the following grades of the Fickell hire:

Original grades

• ESPN: C+
• CBS: C+
• SI: B
• Fox Sports: B
• SB Nation: B

[bearcatbret]

Not sure if this had been posted before. This is a great interview WATCH: Bearcats in the National Spotlight This Week - University of Cincinnati Athletics (gobearcats.com)

[GoBearcats31]

Via Dan Hoard on Twitter:

With the opening at USC, the LA Times sent @BradyMcCollough to Cincinnati to profile Luke Fickell. This is an outstanding look at the Fickell family. https://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/s...oaching-search