After more than 14 months of being locked behind a virtual wall, University of Cincinnati football coach Luke Fickell is ready to burst through the door and get back on the recruiting trail.
The NCAA's historically long, pandemic-inflicted recruiting dead period will come to an end Tuesday at midnight. At that moment, Fickell will joyously blow his whistle, signaling the start of "Midnight Madness."
"We are actually doing a little midnight camp," said Fickell, who is entering his fifth season at Cincinnati. "We'll kick it off and get it rolling, and then it's pretty much a sprint all of June.