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Commentary: Mike Bohn playing the long game when it comes to Clay Helton and USC football

Throughout college football’s frenzied New Year’s weekend, I kept thinking about Mike Bohn.

What must have been going through the USC athletic director’s mind Friday as he watched Luke Fickell, the coach he hired at Cincinnati, lead the Bearcats to a fourth-quarter lead in the Peach Bowl over the Georgia Bulldogs, a lead that would have held if not for a 53-yard field goal in the final seconds? Surely it was taking all of Bohn’s inner restraint not to pick up the phone and console Fickell with a feeler about potentially joining him in Los Angeles before the talented young coach is courted elsewhere.