LJ;984250 wrote:Earle Bruce is on 610 multie times per week and has denied that any meeting took place at his house. He is a pretty open guy so I believe him. He is pretty good at avoiding questions but came right out and said "no".

krambman;984400 wrote:I had lunch today with the Columbus Quarterback Club, which Bruce was at and spoke about his experiences with the OSU/M*ch*g*n game. He spoke openly about this team and the struggles they've had and what he thinks they need to do on Saturday to win, and he spoke of the job Fickell has done. Now this was a small crowd (60 people) who he has lunch with on a weekly basis and it is not open to the public (just members of the QB Club and their guests). He gave absolutely no indication that he knew anything about Meyer being the next coach, although I did find out while talking with him that he will be delivering the elegy at the memorial for Meyer's father on Friday, so he is clearly close with Urban and his family.

dwccrew;984432 wrote:Wasn't Urban on Bruce's staff as a GA?

LJ;984440 wrote:Yeah. Earle said they talk "many" times a week. He has never denied that Urban will be the next coach tho

krambman;984458 wrote:Yes, Urban was on Earle's staff, and Coach Bruce didn't deny that Urban would be the next coach and no one asked him about it, but he also didn't give any indication that he would be. I was a bit surprised to find out they he was close enough to the Meyer family to be the one delivering the elegy at the memorial for Urban's father.

dwccrew;984449 wrote:I thought so. Yeah, I don't think anyone can deny it, it's all a matter of when they can confirm it. With all the speculation out there, you'd think that if he wasn't going to do it, he'd have just come out and denied it by now. I think the question now is, when does OSU announce it?

Writerbuckeye;984549 wrote:It's my understanding that because it is a state position, it has to be posted for a week or so before it can be filled. Even though they don't intend to hire anyone else, they still have to post it so anyone can apply if they like.

I'm going to guess that once it's posted, they'll go ahead and announce the hiring is pending (all but done) and make it official with the contract, once the legal time period has passed.

I still expect this to be announced sometime next week at the latest.

Emmett Brown;984570 wrote:Hasn't the job been open since Tressel left?

LJ;984577 wrote:Um no. Fickell is not an interim coach, he is the head coach with a contract through jan 31

krambman;984638 wrote:January 10.

LJ;984677 wrote:Jan 31
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7127569/ohio-state-buckeyes-paying-luke-fickell-775000-year
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2011/10/ohio_state_buckeyes_football_l.html
http://media.cleveland.com/osu_impact/other/luke-fickell-contract.pdf (his actual contract)

baseball4;984683 wrote:He's still an interim coach.

thedynasty1998;984719 wrote:Fickell is the head coach. There is no interim tag. And I don't believe the job was posted prior to him accepting.

Tiernan;984768 wrote:Naples article says UM (we gotta get that changed somehow) is a OSU alum...I think he went to UC didn't he?

LJ;984776 wrote:He was a GA, so I would assume he got his graduate dregree in something at OSU (sports admin I think?)

Meyer went on to earn his master's degree in sports administration at The Ohio State University in 1988.[SUP][3][/SUP]

dwccrew;984449 wrote:I thought so. Yeah, I don't think anyone can deny it, it's all a matter of when they can confirm it. With all the speculation out there, you'd think that if he wasn't going to do it, he'd have just come out and denied it by now. I think the question now is, when does OSU announce it?