Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell met with the media Tuesday to look ahead to Saturday's matchup in Fayetteville with the Razorbacks. ChoateMason has everything Fickell had to say:
Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell met with the media Tuesday to look ahead to Saturday's matchup in Fayetteville with the Razorbacks.
“Yes [we know who will start at quarterback]," Fickell said."It [announcing the starter] doesn’t do anything good for our team, it doesn’t do anything good for our opponents and their preparations for the game...We obviously wanted to know earlier, but I thought the way those guys competed made it tougher to do, there’s never an exact right time, but it was important for us to get guys the reps that they need.
"But the reality is, they've got athletes, and they're going to put them in position to get them the ball," Fickell said."And however, they do that with them, whether it's down the field, or whether it's doing a lot like they did with Burks. We won't know till the game.”“Well, it’s not easy," Fickell said."We can pump music in, and we want it to be loud, but the reality is that you want to have good practices, so there is a balance there.