With time, it’s become more clear that Luke Fickell’s success at Cincinnati was due to an elite group of assistants who are ...

Mike Mickens is earning high praise for his recruiting skills. The Notre Dame defensive backs coach is also getting praise ...

SOUTH BEND -- Six of the eight cornerbacks Mike Mickens inherits as Notre Dame’s latest football assistant coaching hire have never played a high-leverage snap on the collegiate level. All six ...

With Mike Mickens as defensive pass-game coordinator, Notre Dame football has led the nation in defensive pass efficiency the past two seasons. Search query Search ...

Analysis: When Notre Dame football needed someone to step up, Jaden Mickey came through Mickens, 36, is in his fourth season on staff at Notre Dame. He also worked with Freeman, his former Wayne ...

The University of Notre Dame made the news official today — the Fighting Irish have a new assistant coach in the secondary.

Notre Dame’s newly hired cornerbacks coach, Mike Mickens, tends to sign cornerback recruits much like another Notre Dame defensive assistant. He’s also quite familiar with fertile Notre Dame ...

Thamel reports that Notre Dame is set to hire Mike Mickens, the cornerbacks coach for Cincinnati. Mickens played for Kelly at Cincinnati in 2007-08 and has coached the Bearcat secondary the last ...

Notre Dame has begun to build the reputation of being one of the best secondaries in college football. The young players they rotate in, and even start in certain situations, have played a vital ...

ATLANTA — Mike Mickens, defensive pass-game coordinator for Notre Dame football, had no problem with freshman cornerback Leonard Moore announcing publicly the Irish will play man coverage ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — To understand Mike Mickens, start on the north side of Dayton about 15 years ago, when Notre Dame’s incoming cornerbacks coach was a hopeful prospect without a well-marked ...

Mickens recruited Jefferies as a two-star prospect out of Painesville (Ohio) Riverside in the 2016 class. Jefferies committed to then-head coach Dino Babers in 2015, but Babers left for Syracuse ...