When the sound waves from the first question about Chris Worley slipped into Luke Fickell's eardrums, Ohio State's defensive coordinator and linebackers coach used an entirely different sport to place the redshirt junior's significance in the program.
"The great thing about it, just like you're going to look at this basketball tournament that's going to start up, not just the Big Ten one but the NCAA one, those teams that got upperclassmen are the teams you better worry about. You better watch," Fickell said Thursday. "I think that's the same thing we can say about this group. You're going to have a guy like Chris Worley that you're going to depend a lot on.