Coaches are teachers. University of Cincinnati football coach Luke Fickell is no different. But while teaching, Fickell also has learned, a lot. And many of those lessons came from the teachings of Desmond Ridder.
"I see so much I learned from him," Fickell told The Enquirer. "I was in the same journey as he was. We were going through a lot of the same things together. For me, internally, that has made me look at him completely different than I might look at a lot of others."
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Fickell admittedly didn't know what all he had in Ridder when the lanky Louisville, Kentucky, native arrived on campus in 2017.