Arizona football was set up for a big year in 2024 in the Big 12 Conference. The Wildcats have a lot of NFL-level talent Jedd Fisch has assembled from the recruiting trail and the transfer portal. That talent came together in 2023 and was largely coming back in 2024.
Ironically enough, the situation Arizona would have faced in 2024 with Jedd Fisch in Tucson was going to be very similar to the situation Kalen DeBoer had at Washington in 2023. A lot of good, talented players were going to come back for the following season and give the team a chance to do something special.
The big difference: DeBoer stayed at Washington in 2023 instead of chasing another job. Fisch didn’t stay at Arizona for 2024. He passed up the chance to coach a team which had the ability to win big.
Fisch might bring a lot of his Arizona players with him to Washington, but as of right now, we don’t know how all of this will play out. Here are some reactions from both the Arizona and Washington football fan bases after a seismic move which has shaken up college football in the West: