Coach Fickell On Urban Meyer and Coaching the Buckeyes | 8-14-24

and I don't know if I've ever seen a better kind of development from within Business Journal daily.com three minutes with is brought to you by Farmers National Bank who's the only local bank with a mobile mortgage app Farmers download the app to contact your lender calculate payments securely scan and upload documents and check the status of your loan fiercely local fiercely loyal Farmers if you had to pick one U thing that coach Meyer did to to help build team uh share with the viewers what what maybe his top uh uh ability was from a team building standpoint well he was such a motivator but I think the thing that he did it was a constant pressure that was always on that that really kind of made guys have to rally and do things together um it was it was intentional you know and it was such a you know got to be on pressure situation every single day whether as a coaching staff or with the players and in a lot of ways those guys had to like rally together often and I thought I really saw that you know it was it was this kind of a be a very aggressive very you know um you know outgoing emotional but what it did was that pressure that was applied whether it it's to the coaches or to the players in a in a motivational way really made them and had them pull tighter together because they they needed each other even more on a consistent basis as opposed to just just the Saturdays or just you know in those tough times like it was it was one of those ones that in a short amount of time a short period of time it really brought everybody together and in some ways it it brought the guys on the on the periphery further away but the nucleus of what brought together that motivation and that team became really really tight galvanite you pressure galvanizes right I mean pressure creates diamonds you know and and and I lived through that with Coach Bruce coach Bruce was he was tough he was tough on us coaches he had high expectations and uh you know that that brings you together and you know if you're not Tough Enough it breaks you you know sometimes but you know those who remain coach shm Beckler used to say those who remain will be Champions you know we're going to we're going to Galvanize it so then all of a sudden you have a chance to go to the University of Cincinnati and I was so excited about that because I saw how coach dantonio loved his time when he left the Buckey and and went to Cincinnati and and you went to Cincinnati and and did things that you know nobody ever did and and uh you know as old coaches you know your former players your former coaches you're so proud to you know Bear Bryant National coach of the year you know the afca national Coach of the Year Bobby DOD National coach of the year and every year we'd be getting phone calls that this team wants you know to talk to you and so so forth and what I always felt very proud about was how you want that team that University that Community was important to you and so as you reflect back was it six years there yeah yeah six years talk a little bit to the viewers about what made some of those teams special well I think it started with the first team when you went three and eight and and probably should have been 1- 10 um that was that suffer I mean you you talk about bringing guys together not just as a team within our own locker room but even a coaching staff and and to me that's when I really realize how much more you had to have around you to do this and to be able to have those guys that you know your your your swim buddies as we would have in the wisdom of the bull fog right I you got to have those people as you go through these things and and it's such a prideful place that you know uh had had incredible successes whether it was with Coach Antonio in football been a roller coaster in football where basketball had been so you know such a historic run over long periods of time um that it was like this is a place where we can create some things and stay for a really long time and do things and build from within and um I would say that the the thing I loved the most was was really kind of creating that nucleus that started with the coaches and we had a foundation of guys that had the same belief meaning that like we don't have to run all over the country we we can do something really special here and create this from within and and I can say this six years the core nucleus barely changed you know from from what we did in the weight room with Coach Brady to what we did on offense you know with Coach Den Brock and Coach Gino and then what we did on defense with Coach Freeman and Coach you know obviously Coach Phillips was my right-and guy and yeah we lost coach but the core never changed and it allowed our kids to not be distracted and and you know kind of going in different directions and and I don't know if I've ever seen a better kind of development from within um because of I thought because the offense did such a great job at growing over time the defense and and our kids weren't confused like it wasn't a new offense it wasn't a new defense it was a new voice the core nucleus was able to stay and we were able to really kind of grow and build ultimately from within Business Journal daily.com 3 minutes with is brought to you by Farmers National Bank who's the only local bank with a mobile mortgage app Farmers download the app to contact your lender calculate payments securely scan and upload documents and check the status of your loan fiercely local fiercely loyal farmers