Football Staff

[HoosierCat]

I love that the program is banking a lot on Ohio with coaching connections and recruiting. It is a very warm welcome from where Tub had us on that front.

[jacobkdoyle]

@ChadBrendel
As I posted on @BearcatJournal last night, I'm hearing veteran assistant Jon Tenuta is expected to join the new Cincinnati staff.

[jacobkdoyle]

Great energy surrounding our football program right now. Very exciting. I was talking to my brother last night, who isn't a UC fan, and he was going on and on about how impressed he is with these early hires. He was like man, makes me wish even more that Marvin Lewis would get fired so the Bengals fans could get a fresh start like this and get re-energized. That's how I feel, re-energized. Things were blah at best and downright terrible at worst around here for too long. I'm so excited to have a competent coaching staff full of experienced coaches who can't wait to recruit and teach.

[Bearcats Sports]

Al Washington is a great hire for many reasons. Boston College has had a lot of success from local St. X players, so hopefully Al can land some big time players from X and the rest of the GCL.

[JasonS]

I'll say this about Fickell, he gets it. He understands that to win at UC you have to be able to recruit the Cincy area (and the rest of Ohio). He is assembling a staff that has proven they can recruit in Ohio. It's refreshing after TT just flat out refused and ignored, almost out of arrogance, to recruit Cincinnati.

[ZCat]

Originally Posted by jacobkdoyle

Great energy surrounding our football program right now. Very exciting. I was talking to my brother last night, who isn't a UC fan, and he was going on and on about how impressed he is with these early hires. He was like man, makes me wish even more that Marvin Lewis would get fired so the Bengals fans could get a fresh start like this and get re-energized. That's how I feel, re-energized. Things were blah at best and downright terrible at worst around here for too long. I'm so excited to have a competent coaching staff full of experienced coaches who can't wait to recruit and teach.

Guys, I am really excited and enjoyed following the coaching search and watching who is being hired as assistants. I mean much much bigger basketball fan but this has been extremely exciting!

I really hope we dominate OH (outside of OSU). I feel kinda bad that I am a little hesitant to go all the way in. Was hoping for a splash DC (I know LF will also coach D). Would have been a nice luxury if Freeman was the LB coach, asst DC.

Do we have anyone whom can recruit GA and FL? Someone with JUCO ties? You Fball crazies, what are you hearing? Any former cats gonna be on the staff?

Looking forward to hearing about more excellent coaches! Go Cats!

[JackBauer151]

Originally Posted by ZCat

Guys, I am really excited and enjoyed following the coaching search and watching who is being hired as assistants. I mean much much bigger basketball fan but this has been extremely exciting!

I really hope we dominate OH (outside of OSU). I feel kinda bad that I am a little hesitant to go all the way in. Was hoping for a splash DC (I know LF will also coach D). Would have been a nice luxury if Freeman was the LB coach, asst DC.

Do we have anyone whom can recruit GA and FL? Someone with JUCO ties? You Fball crazies, what are you hearing? Any former cats gonna be on the staff?

Looking forward to hearing about more excellent coaches! Go Cats!

Joker Phillips is known as a very good recruiter and his forte is the south. Georgia in particular and was a coach at Florida so he knows the state well. Coach Fickell and Freeman also have experience recruiting the south. Denbrock was a national guy with ND who did a lot of their west coast recruiting. Dont imagine he will be going out west for Cincy. Fickell basically is focused on Ohio and then branching out from there. Phillips, Freeman, Denbrock, Tenuta, and Washington all have ties to recruiting the Midwest and Ohio in particular. But he has also found guys who have different specialties as well. Get the best ohio kids you can and try to find skill guys with speed in the south. I like the strategy.

[Robert]

Coach Fickell is saying and doing all the right things. I don't think he is a coaching prodigy, but he has the respect of a lot of people in the coaching profession and has recruits excited to come here. I am confident he will put the right people in the right positions and recruit at a high level. I haven't been this excited about Cincinnati football since Brian Kelly.

[ZCat]

Originally Posted by JackBauer151

Joker Phillips is known as a very good recruiter and his forte is the south. Georgia in particular and was a coach at Florida so he knows the state well. Coach Fickell and Freeman also have experience recruiting the south. Denbrock was a national guy with ND who did a lot of their west coast recruiting. Dont imagine he will be going out west for Cincy. Fickell basically is focused on Ohio and then branching out from there. Phillips, Freeman, Denbrock, Tenuta, and Washington all have ties to recruiting the Midwest and Ohio in particular. But he has also found guys who have different specialties as well. Get the best ohio kids you can and try to find skill guys with speed in the south. I like the strategy.

Thanks for all the info, guys!

[ZCat]

Originally Posted by Robert

Coach Fickell is saying and doing all the right things. I don't think he is a coaching prodigy, but he has the respect of a lot of people in the coaching profession and has recruits excited to come here. I am confident he will put the right people in the right positions and recruit at a high level. I haven't been this excited about Cincinnati football since Brian Kelly.

I agree, not a prodigy, but solid and will WORK the recruiting circuit.

So will the OC run the spread BK ran when he was here? They were grad assistants together at Grand Valley State. Was he part of those national championships?