Luke Fickell Quotations

He did so much for us. He evolved in so many different areas. We were just trying to use his natural abilities to help us and to help him.

John's a football player. Where the football is, John's going to be.

John's a football player. We're looking for the guys who can play football and then we're going to try and put them in the best situation.

We really think that we've got a lot of young kids that are going to play hard and run around. They've just got to get some experience.

We think we have a good group - probably seven guys who could end up starting for us. We'll see how they develop over the rest of the summer and then through fall camp. There's a lot of competition - healthy competition.

It's always a challenge. It's a challenge because we've got some new faces and some new guys and you just have to start over just with the stuff that you are teaching.

It's a very exciting group. They see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel and there's a lot of competition.

The book on us last year was that we couldn't stop the run. But we worked hard on that phase of our game over the spring and summer.

It's important to get guys that can come in and play early because we're losing so much. But the big thing is the last couple years, it's been hard numbers-wise to get linebackers in here because those guys were starting since they were sophomores. So just our numbers were down.