Wow, I just finished the press conference and, man, I didn’t want it to stop! I really REALLY like this guy!
So much to say, but as I was watching it I spun through his Wikipedia page and this guy has an insanely well experienced resume in both the professional and elite college level.
On a personal note, I didn’t go to UW (WWU grad) but grew up in Tacoma, played football for 3 years at Stadium (and, yep, we sucked). I’ll be 52 in a couple weeks and grew up watching the Dawgfather, huge Seahawks fan, and was 1 year out of high school and 1 year IN TO the Navy when they won (tied) that Natty in 91. I was stationed all over the place in my 6 years, up and down the east coast, HI, and just got a lot of experience on football on a national level from that time in my post high school years. Jedd Fisch just really gets it.
I’ve also been a Duke BB fan since Coach K started there and the only reason for that was because it was the first college game I watched on TV at age like 12 and they won! lol ….sorta just got lucky with that one, given the following decades of greatness they had (and have) since.
POINT IS…..Jedd Fisch just NAILED IT….look, it’s no surprise that college sports is basically rigged because of the money and there’s just no reason to cry about it anymore (never was, really)….we LOVE our teams and not because we’re getting PAID to do it lol….but, the thing can’t work without bundles of money so that’s the way it is.
So when Fisch says that there’s really only 10-15 teams any given year who can actually compete for a National Championship, he’s just being honest….we are pretty dang lucky, I think, to regularly be in that class of teams as FANS, but in the end, a lot of it has to do with factors that virtually none of us have control over.
He came here because he wants to win a Natty and we’re definitely capable of that as a SCHOOL.
This guy’s resume destroys Deboer’s, and he doesn’t have the win-loss record we’d all love, but he turned a college football reject loser in Arizona into an enormously competitive team who nearly beat us last year (and many others), and if you flip a coin one way or another in a slight breeze, well, maybe it’s us at 10-3 and AZ at 14-1 competing for a that Natty against Michigan….and THAT IS INSANE!!!
I only brought up Duke because college BB is the same as FB (mostly) in terms of who’s at the table every year with the OPPORTUNITY to win a championship….I can’t tell you what it’s felt like EVERY YEAR of my sports loving life to NEVER have to worry that Duke WON’T BE in that race in March….EVERY YEAR, FOLKS!!!
What INCREDIBLE CONFIDENCE that has GIVEN ME as a sports fan and in LIFE!!
I think we have THE GUY who can give ALL OF US that kind of confidence in UW Football.
Yep, folks…we just married up 😉