Welcome Coach Fisch

A crazy week for the University of Washington ended yesterday with news that Jedd Fisch would become our head coach. What a week.

We played for the national championship on Monday. After a disappointing loss, the team got home on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we hear rumors that our coach was heading to Alabama. By Friday, it’s official. By Sunday, we’ve hired a new head coach. We had a bunch of players declare for the NFL draft and hit the transfer portal throughout the week as well.

It was a really shitty week by any standards, but getting a coach like Jedd Fisch to come in puts in a damn good situation going forward. It was looking real bleak on Friday, but we’ve stopped the bleeding and can start building our program back up.

I know our expectations are sky high with just playing in the national championship along with our entry into the Big10 next year. But I also know that program building takes time.

Culture is one of, if not the most, important thing in a college football locker room. We had a great culture under our last coach, but unfortunately a lot of that was destroyed with our coaching staff leaving as well as a large number of our players going to the NFL. We’re going to have to be patient with Coach Fisch as he gets his guys in and starts building a culture.

All that said, I am fired up for Coach Fisch and what he brings to the university. While I live in a different world, I feel like we’re at a new start here at Secfi as well so I see a lot of parallels between my company and the UW football team.