Ohio State had a massive hole to fill when Luke Fickell departed to take the head coaching position at Cincinnati.
Fickell had been with the Buckeyes as an assistant coach for over a decade — with a one-year stint as interim head coach mixed in — and it wasn't going to be easy for anybody to just step right in and replace him as Ohio State's linebackers coach.
Urban Meyer knew he had the guy he wanted, however.
Bill Davis, a longtime friend of Meyer's, spent all of the 2016 season as a volunteer in Columbus and when Fickell departed, Meyer opted to bring Davis on full-time.