• 10 months ago
Former UW cornerback Dana Hall flew up from Los Angeles to welcome Jedd Fisch as the new Husky coach.
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00:00 So Dana, tell me about that. You coming up here to see the new coach be introduced.
00:05 Yeah, I thought it was important, right, to show a united front, right?
00:09 Show this coach that it's important to us as alumni, it's important to us that the culture of the program is what we want to build.
00:17 Coaches come and go. He's just the next one up.
00:21 But he needs to know that it's important that the guy's the history of Husky football and he needs to connect to it.
00:29 Yeah. Is it been, you know, coaches come and go, like you said, and, you know, we've seen that here really a lot lately.
00:36 But I think what's been disturbing to me is so many players haven't, I mean, they can come back out of the portal, but there's been so much jumping off the ship here.
00:44 What do you think about that?
00:45 Yeah, two years ago, I spoke to a team at spring training.
00:48 And one of the things I mentioned to the team was there's got to be guys in the league, guys, guys are going to come and go.
00:54 They don't believe in the culture, but the guys that are here, let's focus on those guys.
01:00 Let's focus on building it from the guys that are here and just reload.
01:04 I mean, we don't need to rebuild. It's not a rebuild. Husky Nation, we don't we're not rebuilding.
01:09 Coach DeBoer left a great foundation for us. Yeah, there's 60.
01:13 Somebody mentioned there's 65 guys on the roster right now.
01:16 You know, there'll be some guys coming in from the portal. This coach will come in and he'll do a great job recruiting.
01:22 Unfortunately, early signing means there's only like 10, 15 percent maybe left of young talent that we can bring in.
01:31 There are some young talent that left. I get it.
01:33 But there'll be some guys that are going to come in. And so we'll be fine.
01:37 I totally think that this coach will do a great job.
01:40 And last thing, have you not fished before today?
01:42 I am not. I have not.
01:44 So I just wanted to come up here and let him know that, you know, he's got 100 percent my support,
01:49 100 percent of support of the guys that love this program.
01:53 You know, I flew in from Los Angeles this morning just so I can come to the press conference, just so that I can have some time with Coach Kish.