Washington's Jedd Fisch Address the Media @ Day 3 of Big Ten Football Media Day

Washington football is ecstatic to being a part of this conference um I'd like to take this opportunity to start off by just saying that um this experience and this opportunity to be the head football coach at the University of Washington being the first year of joining the Big 10 is an absolute privilege and uh I don't take it lightly uh I'm ex extremely excited about this opportunity and believe that we have a great football team team that will be able to Showcase and compete for championships year in and year out Washington is among the elite football programs in the country it's undisputably one of the greatest public universities academically and athletically and I really believe that when President cal made the decision to join the Big 10 we put ourselves in a position to be an elite class and with an elite group of teams we brought a fantastic group of three players here with us today uh really proud of the guys uh as I got hired in January I started learning so much about our team and about our players and about uh the group of guys that we were going to be able to bring here today uh and three that we brought are pretty special uh we brought cam fabiculanan a safety that's been a part of Washington football for six years he was recruited by Chris Peterson coached by Jimmy Lake and kayin dor and now uh chose to stay for his final year and be coached by us uh he's somebody that could bring unbelievable spectrum of ideas and thoughts and values to our program and believe that his leadership will help us achieve our goals uh the next person I brought was Carson Bruner uh one of our top linebackers uh Carson's established his own legacy although he's a legacy player um where his dad was a 14-year NFL veteran uh one of the greatest Washington huskys that we've had uh Mark Bruner uh Carson's done an incredible job since I've gotten here making sure that um our program and what Washington football has been about for years uh meshes together and then I brought Jonah Coleman with us uh Jonah was a running back for us at the University of Arizona he was a part of our recruiting class at 2022 which I would say changed Arizona's football program and uh when we uh picked up and we left to come to University of Washington Jonah came with us and uh Jonah is one of uh the best players best running backs in college football uh statistically uh LED uh the nation uh in yards per carry a year ago one of the highest graded players in Pro Football Focus and on top of that just um finished this last quarter with the 4.0 and is on the dean list and really proud of Jonah uh and the jumps that he's made as a person we have a phenomenal coaching staff uh most of the guys have coached together for years uh we were able to bring 21 staff members with us from our last spot um the three coaches we weren't able to bring uh we brought uh two coaches from the New England Patriots and the linebacker coach from Alabama to fill out our staff um the coaches we brought with us on offense have been together for four years uh We've coached every game together since I've been a head coach at all five position groups so proud of that that those guys were a part of a 1 and 11 to 10 and3 transition where we ended up finishing 11th in the country defensively was able to bring John Richardson and Jason KUSI with us two outstanding football coaches and then as I said uh filled in with Steve belich sineri and Robert Bala this group came here to University of Washington because we believe in Husky football we believe that we have a chance and an opportunity to win championships like we have in the past this is a program that's won two national championships it's a program that's won 18 conference championships and this is a program that we believe will continue on that track each of us expect a ton from our student athletes our program is built on becoming a pro a professional in life our players are expected to act like pros they're trained to be Pros they're trained to be prosed by coaches who have coached in the National Football League for over a hundred years and we know that if we train them to be a professional whether that's the NFL or a professional in life they're going to have a fantastic FC rest of their time we teach our players to always have the values of respect and accountability everything we do is for the University of Washington and we say it's all about the W the W in work the W in winning and the W in Washington we take great pride in our state Washington football has beaten Oregon the last three times we've played we've beaten Texas the last two times we've played we've beaten USC the last two times we played and we're coming off winning 25 of our last 28 games we are proud to be Huskies we are proud to be in the Big 10 conference and we feel really good about our future as the college football playoffs begin to take shape we respect our past but we are excited about the future we have to build on all of that success with a brand new team something that's never been done before in college football we will we'll have 46 New scholarship athletes on a team that compete in the national championship we'll have an entire new coaching staff an entire new training staff an entire new Strength staff an entire new nutrition staff and 21 of 22 new starters on August 31st that has never been done before and we're excited about that challenge we have four players on our team that recorded one start and we are now starting over and it's a true reboot but so is college football it is a whole lot of new everything that we're dealing with now with Revenue share and nil with all the changes in the roster size we believe it is the perfect time to Rebrand and reboot Washington football right now is in a very unique time and we all must work to come together as huskys we all must work to bring 12 Arizona football players and 36 Washington football players and the other 35 players from 12 different universities together to build this program and we are excited about that opportunity we are not shying away from our competition we will take our great City and our great University everywhere in this country to find players recruiting is the lifeblood of our program we are going to build our team based on high school athletes and we're going to build our team based on being one of the best recruiting staffs in America we'll used a portal to fill in holes but this program is about development and this program is about finding the best players in the country to help us succeed I look forward to August 31st I look forward to our home opener in the Big 10 conference against Northwestern and I certainly look forward to being in this Stadium once again at some point in time in December I'll take any questions thank you