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Luke Fickell: 'I don’t know that there is a better place' than Cincinnati

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Cincinnati football coach Luke Fickell talks UC's loss at Memphis on Friday. Fletcher Page, fpage@enquirer..com

Winners of 21 of the past 25 games, No. 21 Cincinnati football will make its first AAC championship game appearance Saturday at No. 16 Memphis.

For Luke Fickell, success has potentially created job opportunities. The Bearcats' third-year coach's name is routinely added to generic candidate lists when jobs become available and recently has been linked by reports as a top target at Boston College.

However, according to Fickell's description of his circumstances at Cincinnati, here's what inquiring athletic directors will encounter:

"I knew when I came here that this was a place, at least I believed this was a place, that you could stay for a long time, and not just have success but enjoy.