Fisch on Big Ten Travel

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Washington head football coach speaks at 2024 Big Ten Media Days about the logistics of traveling in the Big Ten and the plan the program has in store entering their first season in the conference.
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00:00I've coached in the NFL for 14 years and I've coached in LA, I've coached in the
00:05East Coast so I kind of understand how we did it but we hired our head
00:10athletic trainer was in the NFL for 23 years he was the head trainer for the
00:13Cardinals for 15 years so he's lived through that travel so for us it's more
00:20along the lines of what do we what do we know is right what do we believe is
00:24right you're never really a hundred percent sure I can give you stories of
00:29times that we left the day before and won by 30 the times that we left the
00:35two days before and lost by 30 and vice versa you know the the greatest saying
00:40is how do you win on the road you bring a good team that's the key not what time
00:45you get there but we are going to be very aware of when we're going to go to
00:51Penn State I believe we'll go the day before I don't think we'll go two days
00:55before because it's a night game we'll leave for Iowa two days before because
01:00it'll be a day game and we'll try to play it accordingly based on what we
01:05think is the best for their circadian rhythm and how hard is that I mean like
01:08State College is probably the toughest place you guys have to get to pretty
01:11remote Central PA tiny Airport how much of a factor has that been on your ops
01:16people in terms of getting them out there and getting those site visits in
01:19yeah well we're we're confident we can land a 737 there so the runway is tough
01:26yeah I know I've done it so we're gonna have to you're not jinxing us right now
01:33and sending us to Harrisburg but you know we were aware of all the different
01:39aspects of it and you know we will probably take two planes to make sure
01:44that we get it the way we need it we do obviously it's a long trip it's a
01:49five and a half hour trip probably for us from Seattle but you know it'll be a
01:54good way for our guys to do a lot of homework