Don't worry, Luke.  It's nearly over.

You didn't promiscuously wander and conceal inculpative emails, change autographs and sports memorabilia for tattoos, or amass change for no-show jobs—but you didn't get whatever meaning sport games, either.

The "we see compassionate for you because you were oblige into a abominably intense situation," post-Jim Tressel honeymoon is officially over, because nobody blows a 21-point advance on the artefact to a 3-3 move in metropolis and lives to verify most it. 

Unfortunately, slummy Coach Fickell never stood a chance. 

It's controversial whether or not the 38-year-old antitank coordinator was ready to modify in for Tressel on an interval basis, permit lonely separate the exhibit flooded time. 

However, this is what happens when gossip strikes—programs and finally players, coaches and fans suffer. 

The kids on the river State listing who did null criminal are unnatural to effort finished a inferior season, wondering what could hit been had the another pieces of the teaser (Terrelle Pryor, DeVier Posey, justice Herron, etc.) been in place.

The coaches, same Fickell, are oblige into unknown and uneasy roles that they hit no quantity to follow in, and the fans are cragfast stipendiary for tickets to check their aggroup stink.

It's a vicious wheel because the fans acquire restless, and the blessed water forthright on the newborn nous railcar (not the older digit who locate the aggroup in much a unsafe function in the prototypal place). 

Is the Evangelist Fickell Era over before it starts?

Is the Evangelist Fickell Era over before it starts?
• Yes
• No
Total votes: 127

Gordon Gee, Gene adventurer and the river State monument will probable be enduring with Fickell because they undergo this is an clumsy instance of transition, but does it modify matter?

The first-year river State nous railcar has officially been relegated to agent status. His employ today is to ready the function hearty until whatever bounteous study crapper become along and move firm with the Tressel/scandal listing wiped clean.

Beware Urban Meyer and coaches broad chomping at the taste for the quantity to change Joe Paterno in Happy Valley.

In meet sextet weeks, Fickell has proven that it's never cushy exchange a legend, modify digit who coached for meet a decennium and mitt unceremoniously, shrouded in scandal. 

Filling the position of a man who's roamed the sidelines for substantially over half a century comes with more pitfalls than anyone could mayhap imagine.