Ohio State denies Luke Fickell got pizza guy fired

A former Columbus pizza delivery driver claims he was fired because he joked about Ohio State's defense to the wife of defensive coordinator Luke Fickell. I guess we're upset about this because COACH GETS KID FIRED sounds like a terrible event, but even based on his side of the story, I'm not sure how a joke like that is at all within the broadest realm of acceptable professionalism.

We can probably come to a better conclusion than, like, Luke Fickell bullying Iacono's into firing the young man, right? This story really should've come out on Wednesday, which was one of the best CONCLUSION-LEAPING days in college football Twitter history, from LSU players not actually blaming their loss to Florida on the heat to Kansas not actually telling a student reporter not to ask Charlie Weis questions and so on.

In my mind, here's how this exchange went down:

"Stranger, I'll give you money for a product."

"Stranger, your husband is bad at his job!"

What do we expect to happen after that?

For what it's worth, Ohio State denies any of this ever happened:

OSU issues release about Pizza-gate! "The Fickells DID NOT call the manager to complain ... feel terrible that this person lost his job."

— Dave Briggs (@DBriggsBlade) October 11, 2012

OSU (cont.) "The manager found out about the incident (presumably from someone at the restaurant. The manager called the Fickells."

— Dave Briggs (@DBriggsBlade) October 11, 2012

OSU: "Just like they did not place a call to complain, they also did not ask that anyone be fired. ... All they did was order pizza."

— Dave Briggs (@DBriggsBlade) October 11, 2012

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