Fisch on Playing Freshmen

Jedd Fisch says he's not afraid to play freshmen right away.

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00:00 A target number of scholarship offensive lineman you want to get to and you want to add and

00:05 How important will the the spring portal be in that I guess how confident are you that you can get to that number through?

00:10 The spring portal right right now

00:12 We're in a situation where I believe we're at eight or nine

00:16 Scholarship lineman and three of them will not be able to participate in spring ball due to injury

00:21 So we're looking at a situation where we've got about ten linemen

00:28 For spring ball, which is okay as long as you've got the reinforcements coming in May

00:32 My hope is to sign probably four to five more

00:36 scholarship lineman and

00:39 For this class and I think that if we build it the right way

00:42 there's some great opportunities there for guys to come in and compete to be starters and

00:49 The guys that are here are gonna have a great opportunity to compete to be starters

00:54 We've played freshmen when we were the last place we were at we had a freshman All-American

01:00 Then we had another freshman All-American and then we had a third one that I think would have been one if he didn't get hurt

01:07 So we feel really confident in playing true freshman and redshirt freshman in the same regard here

01:15 I believe the same that whoever we have will play

01:19 we're gonna play the best five and

01:22 Or six and certainly believe that there's gonna be an opportunity in April for a lot of good players

01:27 to want to join the

01:30 One of the best teams in the country