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Washington football coach Jedd Fisch is wrapping up Year 2 with the program. His name is already being linked to job openings around the country.
Will the former Arizona football leader jump to his third job in four years? He addressed recent rumors surrounding his coaching candidacy in his latest press conference.
Fisch insists he’s in it for the long haul with the Huskies, who doubled his salary in order to hire him away from the Wildcats.
He says he’s happy in Seattle. He wants to continue building his program. There is no reason to leave.
Who is Jedd Fisch?
Fisch is a New Jersey native that attended the University of Florida. He kickstarted his coaching career as a graduate assistant under Steve Spurrier before moving onto the NFL.
Fisch returned to the college level in 2009 with Minnesota where he was named offensive coordinator and QB coach. He would later hold notable play calling roles at Miami, Michigan, and UCLA before getting the Arizona gig.
With the Wildcats, he turned a one-win program into a 10-win team in two years’ time. He buoyed that success into becoming the head coach at Washington.
Across 22 games, the Huskies are 12-10 with Fisch at the helm. That includes a 6-3 start in 2025.
His name is now being mentioned in connection to open roles around the country. Fisch has direct ties to many of those stops, including UCLA and Florida.
His abrupt exit from Arizona has some believing he will jump ship. Should he do so, he will owe his current school $10 million in buyout money.
Rumored family drama has only fueled the speculation.
The coach’s wife and kids moved out.
They went back to Arizona earlier this year. A narrative quickly formed surrounding that decision.
Did Jedd Fisch’s family hate Seattle? No. Instead, the move was made with the coach’s daughters in mind.
The family spent three years in Tucson while Fisch was coaching at Arizona. They were pulled out of school, as they have been many times in the past, to move to a new city and form new friendships.
Amber Fisch believed it was in her daughters’ best interest to return to Tucson and finish high school in a familiar place.
Her husband further conveyed that message when addressing the job speculation this week.
“I think, unfortunately, what happens is (people) just want to tie coaches to lists,” he said. “Then we have to sit here and defend it rather than just tell our fans, like, ‘Our players, our coaching staff, myself, my family, we love coaching at the University of Washington.’
“And the ridiculousness of people that want to claim that my wife and daughters living in Arizona, because I have a 16-year-old who’s been at five different schools in the last eight years (wants) to finish her high school, has anything to do with my decision.”
Fisch says his family’s decision to move away does not impact his job status. He is not looking for a new gig. His focus is on the Huskies and finishing out the 2025 season on a strong note.