Luke Fickell put a damper on everyone’s Monday, turning down the Michigan State job to stay with Cincinnati for at least another year.
Could this open the door for more candidates to interview for the Michigan State job? Potentially, but this just goes to show that Mark Dantonio’s departure couldn’t have happened at a worse time and the lawsuit against him by Curtis Blackwell didn’t help the optics of the job, either.
Fickell is out and so are Robert Saleh, Mel Tucker, Pat Narduzzi and Brent Pry. This means that the Spartans must think outside the box for the next head coach or at least the immediate future of the program.