• 10 months ago
Jedd Fisch talks about recruiting new players, signed players and his inherited players.
Transcript
00:00 Jed, when you look back at the last three weeks,
00:02 can you sort of break down how much time was spent
00:05 between recruiting kids from here that were in the portal
00:09 versus kids that you were talking to from Arizona
00:12 versus kids that you were looking at
00:14 who were committed here in the first place?
00:16 Yeah, well, you know, there's two challenges there.
00:19 You can only talk to people that are available to talk to.
00:23 So if they're not in the portal, you can't talk to them,
00:25 which is a challenge in itself.
00:28 Then you've got the group that wants to get to know you
00:32 because they've committed to you,
00:34 but they're in the portal to go look somewhere else.
00:37 Then you have the next group that has signed with you,
00:40 but they wanna consider getting out of their
00:43 national letter of intent
00:45 because they chose a different staffer.
00:48 And then you have your own team who you need to figure out
00:51 the guys that aren't in the portal
00:52 to make sure they don't go in it.
00:55 So, and then, I mean, the craziest part is the only time
00:59 that I'm allowed out until next December
01:01 is the three weeks in January as a head coach.
01:04 So if I don't start looking and talking to the 2025s,
01:06 then I'm gonna be behind, you know, Dan Lanning,
01:10 or I'm gonna be behind Lincoln Riley,
01:12 or I'm gonna be behind, you know, Ryan Day and guys
01:15 because they're spending time talking to those kids.
01:17 So if I was to say, what are the percentages?
01:20 I'd say it's pretty close to 20% for each.
01:24 And it's not fair to your own team.
01:26 You'd like it to be 80% to your team, 20% to the next one.
01:29 But in these three weeks, it truly was,
01:32 everybody was out doing everything they could
01:35 to put together a team, keep a team together,
01:37 and still try to achieve our goal
01:40 of having the best recruiting class
01:42 University of Washington has ever had.