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Doc: WVU was UC coach Luke Fickell's first suitor, but he's not Brian Kelly or Butch Jones

UC's Luke Fickell, Michael Warren and Hayden Moore talk about their Military Bowl victory over Virginia Tech 35-31 Scott Springer, sspringer@enquirer.com

In the past several days, the University of Cincinnati football program dodged the first of what will be many bullets when it comes to Luke Fickell. West Virginia’s interest in Fickell was real. Fickell’s interest was in staying at UC and getting his assistants more money. Two sides of the same coin were at work:

(1) Fickell understands that if he keeps doing good work in Clifton, he will get sweeter offers than WVU.