So after months of controversy, Jim Tressel is out as head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes. There's no doubt that the Buckeyes football program is going to have a tough climb back to the mountaintop.
Assistant Luke Fickell will take over as interim head coach for the 2011 season. This makes sense, both for continuity's sake and because, at this point in the offseason, it'd be almost impossible to get a top-level hire to abandon his program (especially given the uncertainty facing the Ohio State program with regard to the NCAA investigation).
