• 11 months ago
Jedd Fisch shows his personality in sizing up the 2023 Wildcats.
Transcript
00:00 Good morning. Yogi, Ashley, I hope it's okay that I start here kind of accustomed to like
00:06 media days where you get to go up and give a little bit of a opening remarks
00:10 and then sit down with you guys. So I just wanted to start with that and just
00:15 tell you all that I'm really thrilled for the opportunity to talk to all of
00:18 you today and I wanted to thank all of you, the media, for making college
00:24 football the best sport in America. Today's my third media day and I
00:31 certainly feel different sitting up here, standing up here tonight, than I have in
00:36 the years before. It's a privilege to be the head coach at University of Arizona
00:40 and one in which I would say every single day I feel that I need to earn
00:46 that privilege and I tell our coaches the same thing. You've got to earn the right to
00:51 wear the block A. I tell our players the same way. You got to earn the right to
00:55 wear the block A and if we do that, if we do that, we'll be able to get to where
01:00 we want to be, which is part of the national conversations. We've got some
01:05 great players and great coaches. What I'm most excited about is the continuity
01:09 that we have in our program. We have 10 of 11 coaches returning from last year.
01:14 Arizona went eight years with eight different defensive coordinators and we
01:19 have the chance to bring our defensive coordinator back and I feel like that's
01:22 going to make huge strides in our system. Our entire offensive staff is back. We're
01:28 coming off having one of the best offensive years Arizona football has had.
01:32 We went from 123rd to first in explosive offense. We went to a number 11 in the
01:37 country from 107th in yards per play and top 20 offense in the country. But really
01:45 what makes it personal for us is our players, our coaches, our commitment to
01:50 recruiting, our commitment to the kids that we have in our building. We've had
01:54 over the last two years two of the best recruiting classes Arizona's ever had.
01:59 First time in the history of Arizona football they finished in the top 40
02:03 twice in a row. My expectation is that we finish even higher this year. Our goal is
02:10 to keep kids in Arizona at home. Our goal is to keep kids from Tucson at home and
02:16 we're working very hard to achieve that goal.