Jedd Fisch -- Deny Today, Depart Tomorrow?
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But the Wisconsin loss does stand. It stands out in a big way, in fact. Especially when you consider that Fisch's biggest win in two years was against a pedestrian Michigan team in '24.
Who a team beats and who it loses to is pretty much how a coach's ability is defined.
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25-3
Brevity
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Agreed that the Wisconsin loss is glaring because he didn't adjust enough to the conditions of the game.
The type of worsening weather and game flow dictated Demond only throwing 20 - 25 times rather than 32 times with a 4.6 ypa (and a hobbled Boston in the 2nd half). Coleman got hurt after 5 carries and Mohammed only received 12 carries and Demond had 19 carries but 5 of them were sacks.
Demond turned the ball over twice and one was on a deep pass he shouldn't have made and the 2nd (even worse) was on a pass play where he scrambled in the shadow of his own endzone and then fumbled.
When the weather and game flow is like that, I think of a play on Ground Chuck Knox's quote: when you try to pass the ball, only 1 good thing can happen (completion) while 4 bad things can happen (incompletion, interception, sack, fumble).
Let's see if Fisch (and Daugherty in some respects) learn from that since late season B1G road games won't be going away any time soon.
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Forget what the @THROBBER thinks about coaches and coaching abilities. He thinks Rolovich is much better than mediocre when, in fact, he is an AVERAGE head coach (.500) after losing the recent Hawaii Bowl. AND, he did it against mountain west level competition (81 % of the time).
It is obvious that he is the one with a weird/unsupportable definition of mediocre.
It is obviously cool to think and talk irrational shit about Fisch and what he has been able to do at UW.
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Kim would be proud
You just want Fisch to fail so you can say you were right
Hot off of 2007
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Seems to be the other way around
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Rolovich was 1-0 vs. UW. Fisch is 2-3 vs. WSU.
Cry harder.
To the short side of the field.
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"I don't think many want to fully embrace the challenges that Fisch took on here because in so doing it requires acknowledging that DeBoer's recruiting and the roster left behind wasn't very good"
Very real
Fischs main problem IMO is his offense sucks but he's managed the roster and hires well
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Since the thought is here that everyone here is Doom with Jedd with just a couple Boom double chunk chocolate cookies I'll give my take that Jedd is like a B- hire so far. I am mostly disappointed by that I thought he would bring a bigger nucleus of his Arizona swaad and I thought his offense was unstoppable when Arizona came to Husky Stadium in 2022, but that might of just been how bad the UW defense was.
Pros:
-kept the program from bottoming out like it did in 04-05, 08, and 21 when it easily could have and he was able to balance winning enough to get to a bowl in 2024 while setting up for a future building ie balancing Rogers/Demond. The team never seemed to quit until games were out of hand too and seemed to have a fun time.
-Finding ways to beat Michigan, USC, and UCLA. These were flawed teams, but winning those games gave the program some positivity in 2024 and probably engaged the Doog boosters.
-He completely turned recruiting around when it was at the worst it's ever been probably in program history. Particularly instate
-Hired Walters and improved the defense
Cons:
-The offense and play calling is a clunky joke, even against crap opponents a lot. Seems like his team the past couple of years has been better at running the ball in key moments and he loves to go back to the passs.
-His player coach/loyalty thing has maybe not paid dividends yet. Committing so much to Coleman seems like it might have been a bad move as was paying a bunch to bring in a guy like Davis then have him not play in the two games the team needed him.
-The endless other job interest stuff. I know it's 2025 and he is not a UW or PNW guy, but the endless every job that opens up will he leave stuff could be managed better. He should have just locked in for at least 3-4 years. I will say that it was crazy luck a few jobs he was connected to - Florida, Michigan, UCLA, all opened up./
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What DeBoer left behind was shitty because many key pieces left. Hiring Jedd was thought to mitigate that due to him plundering U of A, which he didn’t do sufficiently well. He was supposed to Cignetti, and he didn’t Cignetti.
He made Excus-ettis about his situation-etti.
