BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – On the night before the Cincinnati football program embarks on the biggest two-game stretch in school history, it has become clear amid a cluster of coaches at a hotel ballroom table that the Bearcats are off schedule.
This is notable because everything in head coach Luke Fickell’s Cincinnati football universe runs defiantly early. A 7:30 a.m. meeting begins at 7:23 without anyone walking in after. When defensive line coach Greg Scruggs came to interview at Cincinnati, he arrived 10 minutes early to take a bus to a scrimmage. It already left.