Jedd Fisch had enjoyed a coast-to-coast journey as a coordinator and assistant before landing his first full-time head coaching opportunity at Arizona.
Now in his second season leading Washington, the Florida graduate who began his coaching journey as a graduate assistant on Steve Spurrier's staff, Fisch's name has been connected to both the opening in Gainesville as well as UCLA, where he previously spent time as the program's offensive coordinator and then interim head coach during the 2017 season.
That chatter has consistently been in the background the past several weeks with those jobs open, and reached a fever pitch last week as a report from 247 shared that Fisch was looking for an exit plan as his wife and daughter recently made the move back to Arizona.
Over the weekend, with a talented but young roster, the Huskies dropped a 13-10 game to a Wisconsin team that had struggled mightily under Luke Fickell recently against Power Four opponents.
Asked earlier today what his message would be for the fan base as his name continues to be linked to current openings in college football, Fisch provided a lengthy answer.
"I would say those lists are made by people that have no idea what's going on, honestly. They don't know what's happening in our program. They have no idea how excited I am about the youth in our program. They have no idea how excited I am about the fact that we're playing six or seven true freshman. No idea how excited I am about the fact that Demond Williams, I believe has a chanve, over the next year or two years after this, to be one of the all-time best quarterbacks that have come through this area."
Fisch goes on to explain how much he enjoys coaching at UW, and how much money they've spent on building the program in his vision and how he's had a hand in all the upgrades across the facility.
He then directly addressed the topic of his wife and daughter leaving Seattle.
"I think, unfortunately, what happens is they just want to tie coaches to lists, and then we have to sit there and defend it, rather than just be able to 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 because my wife and daughters are living in Arizona, because I have a 16-year old who's been in five different schools in the past eight years to finish her high school, has anything to do with my decision. Or the ridiculousness of just putting my name on a list just to do it."
"[Not] only does that affect recruiting. It affects our team. It affects our staff, and my hope is that our players, our coaches, our families understand how much we love it at Washington."
Hear more from him in the clip.