Jedd Fisch details what he has learned about his Washington team since arriving

New Washington Huskies head coach Jedd Fisch took over a program that was coming off a trip to the College Football Playoff Championship. However, it was also a team in transition as several key players moved onto the NFL.

Following Spring ball, Fisch assessed his new team and detailed what he’s learned about the Huskies since he arrived with the program.

“I think we’ve learned that they like to compete and they understand how to act like pros,” Jedd Fisch said. “They enjoy doing things right and they enjoy doing things the hard way. That’s a credit to who was recruited here. That’s a credit to the guys that came here with us. The players that want to be here, they like to work really hard and have long practices, they like to tackle and they like to be physical and love the game of football.”

Prior to coming to Washington, Jedd Fisch took over a struggling Arizona program and rebuilt the Wildcats into a force to be reckoned with, going 10-3 during the 2023 season. Now, he’s looking to take an already successful Washington program to the next level.

“So, I’ve learned if you surround yourself with people like that, you have a great chance,” Fisch said. “On top of that, they’ve got good football acumen…We’re going to use these next, whatever it is, May, June, July, August. We got four months to see how good we can get and we’re going to challenge our team to do that.”

Jedd Fisch explains importance of having a large crowd for a spring game

After the Spring Game at Washington was a largely overlooked event for years, this season’s ‘Dawgs After Dark’ Spring Game brought in 18,448 fans. That was a crowd that Jedd Fisch said after the game he felt was very important.

“It’s important to me, I love it. I love a chance for our fans to experience what our kids get to do every day. Why play in an empty stadium if you can play in not an empty one?” Fisch said.

“I think hopefully next year’s spring game we could even have more people. Maybe their buddies and their friends will tell them, ‘Hey that was a great night, let’s bring a fiend.’ If everybody brought a friend maybe we’d have a sellout. How awesome would that be? We need to make it more of a party atmosphere on the spring game and really just enjoy ourselves out there. That’s what the whole idea is so we pushed it. We wanted people to be here, they responded.”