Head Coach Jedd Fisch Postgame Press Conference: Ohio State
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It's easy to nit pick any coach and find faults and scream "he's not the guy"
I HATED the fake FG for a number of reasons. I didn't like the Blitz 0 that led to Ohio State's 1st TD. The option play against the Coug was curious.
I was talking with the ghost of DDY the other day and I told him I wasn't thrilled with Fisch not taking accountability for some of the bad play calls that have been made and defaulting to execution. I'm a big believer that as a leader you don't ask people to do things that you're not willing to do. I'm sure Fisch asks his players to be accountable and I'd like to see him do the same when it's required. I hope someone in the AD (or CP) pulls Fisch to the side and gives him that perspective.
Big picture though recruiting has rebounded and is trending back to CP levels which is what is needed for this program to compete at the higher levels. I do not feel like people really have a good grasp at how back recruiting was under Lake and DeBoer. I do like that we play hard and that by and large execution is at a solid level. Winning all of the home games last year with the roster we had was a really big win. Hiring Walters to replace Jr Hoodie was an upgrade and I think we've seen that play out this year (notably on the DL and run defense).
So yes, I do think that the program is moving in the right direction and in a sustainable one under Fisch. I can't say whether he's the guy to win a Big10 or having us compete for a Natty yet but I do think it's on the table.
As for this idea that we blew a chance to beat Ohio State … we showed that we could hold on our own on the same field with them. We needed A LOT to go right for us to win that game. We had a lot of things to go right. We made too many errors and didn't execute well enough … a lot of the execution issues you have to give credit to Ohio State for.
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No question on Penix but let's also not forget that Penix coming in here was a giant question mark given his injury history. We unquestionably hit the jackpot with Penix.
Do people forget that Haener was the original goal for DeBoer and that the only reason he didn't come back to UW was due to off the field reasons (academics/timing if I remember right)?
So if we would have got Haener or the injury-version of Penix and go 7-5 or 8-4 in Year 1, and then Year 2 doesn't happen because guys leave early for the NFL, is Race and Co. still crowning DeBoer and using as further proof of UW AD ineptitude?
Don't get me wrong in saying that having an elite coach matters a lot … but even the best coaches need players
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Agreed but the roughing call was complete shit and the sideline interference call was even more complete shit. Even the TV crew said you have to warn first. No warning, no consideration that it was early in the game, home team is jacked and trying to bring some energy.
I'm not a Fisch apologist but those penalties were garbage. Yeah, they happen and it didn't determine the outcome but at least those two penalties I don't put on Fisch.
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Who in the hell do you think you are?
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If we're talking about hoops, playing for a Natty at Arizona is 100% the goal
For football, how many years in their history have they had that topped Fisch's 2023 season there?
You're almost never playing for a national title in football at Arizona …
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I have my beach read for next summer
Lot of words to say you're a doog
I was right when you melted down about Ty and Emmert too
You're either a UW stooge or you don't know shit about football
Let me know when this 4 years is up
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Agree about the Deboer stuff but implying UW doesn't have the money or ability to put together top end talent is dumb. UW is the Ohio State to every other team in the nation that isn't Ohio State or a few other teams
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UW also had the money to keep DeBoer
Like Tequilla said they didn't think he was worth it
UW likes to play poor for some reason
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UW has money but doesn't have fuck you money
Compared to the P12 of the world, we were at the upper ends of the money
In the B10 we're going to have readjust ourselves to what is required to compete at the top end
I think most probably don't realize how many resources most B10 schools have … UW can obviously compete but we have to up our game to get there
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I never said DeBoer wasn't worth it
I said DeBoer had a standing offer on the table … it was reported in excess of $10M prior to the CFP. He refused to sign it. His agent was the same agent as Saban's. You think maybe he had a heads up that that Bama job was coming open and he was their prime target? Do you think DeBoer would have turned Bama down if we offered him $15M/yr? How about $20M?
I had conversations with people on the inside of the program that had interactions with DeBoer. I had a heads up during the season that retaining DeBoer was going to be a big big challenge.
My problem with you Race is that you have no problem bitching and bitching and bitching … you very rarely offer up any kind of solutions or direction as to what to do. Your solutions are "win more" and "spend more" … also guessing that you aren't contributing to any of that either.
And you can stop putting words in my mouth … you've got a shitty history of doing so.
You also have your history completely wrong …
I NEVER defended Tyrone … I was very vocal about needing to fire Tyrone
My "support" for Emmert came in 2 forms: 1) as President the University as a whole was more important than 1 year of football given the pressures coming from Olympia and 2) I was not going to pin the hiring of Tyrone on him given that that's the ADs job not the President … if you want to be critical of Turner and his role of not sending him to the moon I would have no issue with that criticism.
I'd offer to send you lube to go fuck yourself with but it'd be a waste of money since you aren't feeling anything anyway
