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It's a rare opportunity when two players get to sit down and have a one-on-one with a coach in an interview setting. But, Noah and T-Mac are those guys that can bring in the coach that recruited them. It's a fun episode as you get to know Arizona Football Head Coach Jedd Fisch and his wife Amber Fisch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I knew it from the very beginning that I was
going to do that. Since I was ten years old.
My Halloween costume from first grade through eighth grade was
a football coach, not never a player. Never never a player.
I done stuff every year, went door to door, headset
on sweater, vest on your name, and knew exactly what
(00:22):
I was gonna do. There was no doubt that's what
I was gonna do. That's legit. Yeah, that's legit. Very
special guests for this I was really excited to bring
them on. Our special guests is ever fit? And then
about a plus one plus one about the Arizona Um.
(00:47):
Obviously everybody knows plus traits as a coach. Everybody knows
him as a recruiter and his journey, his journey here
as a coach, but really we want to know where
the journey started. So we really want to get to
know you as a person. But before we get to
do that, we want to know where this journ he started.
So there's a story in the locker room going around
about you being at the University of Florida, uh as
a tennis player or a tennis coach. Never touched the
(01:09):
football in your life, never played football. And there's a
story that you put sticky notes or notes on Clach
Spurious Car to let you come coach for him, and
then and then obviously that led to you being coach
at the Patriots, coach at the Ravens, and now head
coach at the University of Arizona. So can you just
touch on yeah a little bit. Yeah, there's part of
that story is true. U. Um, yeah, you know. I
(01:32):
mean you can see, Mrs Fish, I'm a good recruiter.
You know, I was able to get you two guys
to come be a part of our program. But way
before that, I had a recruit coach Burrier to allow
me to be in his program. And I went to
my my stepdad was a head football coach. Um when
I was growing up, but I was growing up as
a tennis player. And um, when I finished my senior year,
(01:56):
my dad said to me, he goes, where are you
going to go to school? And I said, I'm gonna
go to University of Florida. And he said why And
I said, because I'm gonna go be a college football coach.
And he said, well, that seems like a hard thing
to do, considering you didn't grow up playing football, and
you know, you just got dump in a state championship
tennis tournament at in New Jersey, and um, I said, well, yeah,
(02:19):
that's just what we're gonna do, and I'm gonna figure
out a way to get there. And he said, well
good luck. You know, I don't know how that's gonna happen.
So I wound up getting there, and um, it wasn't
as easy as I thought, you know, I wound up.
I applied to be an equipment manager. I didn't get
that job. I tried to be a student assistant. They
didn't have that job. So I said, well, I know
(02:39):
where coach Burrier parks. So let me start with just
leaving my resume, which didn't have anything on it, but
why not? You know, I left the resume that had
like lifeguard and you know some other things that I
was doing, and uh, that didn't work. And then the
next day I went back and I wrote a note
on why you know, and I've been at involved in
(03:00):
football my whole life. I mean I watched more film
with my stepdad every night, you know, in my living room,
every football camp you could ever go to. But I
was just playing competitive tennis every day. So I kind
of tried to explain my story day after day because
I got no response. So I just said, you know what,
I'll just leave a note. Maybe it's a sticky note,
maybe it's a note, maybe it's a reason. And finally,
(03:22):
after about a year and a couple of months, I
got a call saying he'll see me, and I got
in there and told that same story to him, and
he kind of let me hang around, and next thing
you know, I got to become a g A and
then got in the NFL two years later. And yeah,
just preparation met opportunity. I got lucky or something like that.
(03:45):
Age if somebody just left a note on his car
every day, Stoker, I left a note on her car too,
in order to get her to take me out of
gone a day. I had to go both ways with
the other day. And I was like, oh, that'd be
really funny. I should leave it. If it ain't broke,
don't fix it. I guess that was the move, right.
I got the job and I got the wife. It
worked out perfect. No more notes, send recruits. I say,
(04:07):
you guys a lot of notes, so it's still working. No, seriously, seriously,
So in comparison, you said you were a g A
for two years. If you had to compare yourself, who
would you who would you be like? Right now? None
of I can tell you that. Uh no, some of them. Um,
I was probably more like a van Horn always working. Yeah,
(04:39):
is a grinder, man, He's an absolute grinder. No, all
of our guys doing awesome job. All those guys, I mean,
d G has unbelievable uh work out. I think acknowledge
of what we're trying to get done. Um, I think
that McNett is awesome. Dron was my guy. Theron was
my g A at three different places. We lost Sing
to the Vikings, uh, which was my Michigan. We got
(04:59):
him here out which is awesome. DA played for me
trying to teach good g A and then on the
defensive side. Man, those guys are awesome with Daya and
Teddy and van Horn and Ty and now Brett. So
we've got a great young group. Man. But I spent
nine years being a g A and analyst, a q
C assistant receiver coach. You know, my first job was
(05:20):
in O eight as the wide receiver coach of the
Denver Broncos when it was my own position room and
I got thrown into a room. You know who the
receivers were, Brandon Marshall, Eddie Royal as a rookie, Brandon Stokely,
and Darryl Jackson. My first job as a wide receiver coach,
and those are the fourth dudes they had three of them.
Two went to the Pro Bowl that year. So it's
(05:41):
pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, having to be the help with
my home. No, but he really pissed me off, coach,
because you never touched a football in your life, and
you don't you don't know the stoke as we go through.
You don't know stuggens who go through. But but no, like,
(06:02):
I mean we we we just got here with you
win first and all that. And man, I just heard
that you you never touched a football tennis player. I'm like, oh, like,
he don't know, he don't know the stuggers that we
go through. No, you know, so it's a different deal.
You know, when you get into it and you get
into an opportunity where it's where you're you know, you're
(06:24):
training in one sport, right, you know you should go
out there and try to play three four hours of tennis.
I'm sure that'd be good, you know, and the sports
a different sport, you know, and the activity is different.
But when it comes down to, you know, getting players better.
You know that's the whole key, and how you're gonna
be able to find guys to get to the next level,
(06:45):
and you know, to be able to work with guys
and the amount of good players that I've gotten to coach, um,
you know, you just start learning ways to get to
them and teach them, you know, ways to get them better.
And your job as a pro coach is to make
guy's money. You know, that's your job, right So whether
it was back in oh six coaching Steve McNair and
you know it was just in the Pro Bowl, or
(07:07):
then the next year, you know, we wound up having
a streak of like seven straight years of coaching position
groups in the Pro Bowl and getting new contracts. You know,
you start finding ways to see how hard can you
challenge guys and how willing are you to you know,
you gotta be honest, so you let him know, you know,
straight from the beginning, you know, like I haven't I've
never been asked to do what I'm asking you to do.
But what I'm asking you to do will help you
(07:29):
go become the best, and that's where the challenge comes.
So wife football, though, wife, you were a little all
star tennis player. Yeah, then you know coaching tennis doesn't
pay as well. Geme back, No, I'm just going know
what the truth is. Literally since I was I mean,
(07:49):
I couldn't have been any you know, I would just
it was like nine eighty six, so I was ten
and um, my mom and my step at and we
were um playing. Uh you know, he was like, hey,
come to the practice, you know, come to practice. And
I would start going out there and there was like,
you know, come watch and you know, we're having a
(08:11):
staff meeting in my house. And you know, high school
football back in the day, you know, there was no
big staff beings. It was at your parents living room.
So I'm sitting there in the living room or in
the you know, the film room, which was also the
living room, and you know, hey, Jed, just go change
the tape. Change the tape, you know, and you just
keep learning and listening and listening, and you become addicted
to the sport, and uh, it just got to a
(08:32):
point where, you know, tennis was great and I love
playing it, but it's not what I wanted to do
for a living. I wanted to coach football, and it
worked out pretty good. You do that, though, and you
do that all along. I knew it from the very
beginning that I was going to do that, since I
was ten years old. My Halloween costume from first grade
through eighth grade was a football coach. Not never just
(09:00):
up every year, went door to door, headset on sweater,
vest on your name, and knew exactly what I was
gonna do. There was no doubt that's what I was
gonna do. That's legit. Yeah, that's legit. That but man, um,
miss amber Fish, what are these boots you got on?
The sneakers? What these boots you got? I don't know.
(09:22):
There's a big sneaker. It's a big sneaker. I know.
I mean I'm a big personality. What are these? What
are they think? Because you've no, I haven't seen these?
Who makes? Yeah, I mean I'm not what Oh what wait?
(09:46):
Wait that's like that's like the thirty seventh pair made
or they're just in their closet. Oh those are should
do like a blog or something. Yeah, Mrs As you
get to know Mrs Si Yeah, you know she's she
has some fashish why thought you like the olive jacket?
(10:08):
Yeah I did, I did, Actually I did. Where something
you guys call you? Yeah, that little half? What are
you be shoving? Troops? And they have a lot of
stuff in the mall. The mall you go to the mall?
Now you don't shop online? That online? Okay, that's why
I figured. That's why I figure, just coming out of
yo pockets. Who I'm coaching football? Hey man, not all
(10:35):
you with that, But talk to us about fashion. How
did you get into it? What do you like? Well?
I don't have much fashion. I mean I actually have help,
like well not help help, but one of our coaches wives,
actually she's our baseball coach's wife, Judy Hale. She actually
is a stylist. So she comes over and she puts
stuff in my closet together. She's real set. Yeah you do.
(10:58):
You at least know who Jody is. What's her name
Jody right, Julie, Julie Julie mrs Hale. She'll loves over,
but like I would wear a white T shirt and
black T shirt and jeans every day. So she just
styles different things in my cloth and says, oh, you
might need this, or you might need that. To add
on to it. So, ain't nothing wrong with black T
(11:20):
shirts and white T shirts. Basic basically you add a
little a little code. Ye, So so basically I'm here.
You don't pick your outfit? Do you pick your Yeah?
I do. Every day when I wake up, I put
on workout clothes because I work out every day, and
then throughout the day and then I figure out if
I'm gonna change or not. Events like this come to
(11:43):
you guys, or pulling up in your range rover stop.
I mean, there's a lot like but think about it, guys,
he's always with you, right. Head coaches a lot like
there's a lot of sacrifices for the kids, for our kids,
for me, so and we definitely appreciate those sacrifices. But
how about this, I know, being a coach's wife is
(12:03):
definitely hard as well, especially his wife. What's that supposed
to be? I just said it for fun, just to
throw it out there. So it's it's so awesome, But
there's a lot of sacrifices. And in the Pros it's
very different. Like we weren't a head coach in the Pros,
but um, we were in the Pros for a long time.
(12:24):
So in college. Being a head coach's wife is really
different because but we are my investment in you guys,
and we love like the recruitment part, you know, like
all of that because I feel like you're all our
little kids. Yes, especially birthday cookies for you. Thank you
(12:45):
for that? What about? I got that? But then I
was like, I love cheesecakes. I do, actually I do,
But thank you for both of those means stuff to me.
I like giving you guys stuff and seeing you happy.
And because you're away from your parents, you're away from
your family. Where's your family here? That's okay, whatever we
(13:06):
can do, like hold on, hold on, don't you guys
doorstep needed a place to step? Okay? Okay, So so
if you weren't coach fas his wife, what would you
be doing? So I actually had a job before coach
Fish Okay, when he was talking me, I was a
meeting planner. Don't don't hite on its ter. You drove
(13:35):
three hours to Dallas. I didn't planning. Yeah, at a
meeting shoes plant at the American Fooches Association. Planned meetings itineraries, yies. Yeah, yeah,
I thought Jed was an agent. Actually he was with
a coach, Spurrier, Bob stubs like a big group of Chase. Yeah,
he was a Florida and I was like, oh, he's cute, handsome,
(14:03):
handsome guy. Yes, back in the day, That's what I
did for a living, meeting planning until Miami and then
we just with kids and moving and new jobs, it
was just hard to juggle everything. So my job now
is I'm the CEO of our fish family or not?
(14:23):
You're really the start of the fish family. If I
gonna be honest, you fall. You guys are too good.
You're so sweet. It's okaya. Oh no, nothing, No, they're
coming up, for sure, they're coming up. I mean I
had one of them all. I know. There's another question
(14:45):
we got for you. Everybody knows coach on the field.
What is he like at home? What was he like
off the field? Wow? So he's not home a lot,
but when he's home, he's Um, he's awesome, he's great.
We have two dogs, we have two girls. You know that. Um,
we have three daughters actually ones twenty three, So she's
not at home, but the little ones. He does homework
(15:06):
with them. He watches shows. Grey's Anatomy is his favorite
show with Ashley, but he's involved in everything. Last night
he was doing homework with Kendall Um. I make him
clean up his mess. He comes in and shoes her
everywhere and he picks everything up. He's like a normal
dad being home. He has rules at home. He has
(15:29):
to do certain things. And he actually this weekend, I'll
brag on you because I usually don't. But he's like,
I'll cook dinner because you're gonna always put it, You're
gonna have to clean up. Anyways. I was like, okay, great,
So he grilled cooked dinner for and the girls both
had a friend, so he was five girls at the
house and him. So he made all of our dinner
(15:52):
and then I settled the couch and he cleaned the
entire dinner. That learned from some of these things here,
guys learn from. There's a lot of great things. I mean,
he makes me crazy sometimes, I know that, but he
makes right. That's what he's like. When you guys are
(16:17):
drafted in three years from now, and you guys and
what day is tomorrow? Draft day? Yea three years four
years from now, when it's that anniversary the draft day.
From this from this podcast, you'll be saying, making me crazy,
it's worth it. Yeah, we know that. We know we're
ragging about you, not about yeah about something. Not only
(16:37):
a great coach, but a great father, great husband, great cook,
great cook. Okay, okay, I'm going to say yeah, but
you guys will be over soon. Junior is are big
momth you guys will be uh yeah. Well, pool parties
(16:58):
are back by position group, so we'll have you. So
we do always dvs receivers, quarterbacks, linebackers, running backs, and
then old line d line. Every Wednesday night we rotate.
So you guys will be back for that barbecue. And
then we got recruits coming in. Man, we got a
busy month, so you guys got a couple of weeks off.
Then that's it and let's go tip year ago. A
(17:22):
year ago, we were the recruits. Yes, we have a
been to your house since for a year. No, dang,
your house for a year. I forgot about that. Stools.
I think have anything else is the same, anything else
you can come any time, We appreciate it. I think
I have a new dog. Did I have Well, no,
(17:44):
I don't know. I didn't. I didn't Callie and then
I have Zona. Now she's a capitaliza. Callie what is that?
What's that? Cavia? Poof, it's a cavalier in the poodle. Oh,
what's it? Caval Yeah, I remember your guys. Well, it's
because I had to get rid of it because your
mom's afraid of dog. I don't give no special treatments
(18:08):
for her dog. So you have two dogs, two little dogs.
You have another daughter. Yeah, I didn't know that she's
twenty three. I didn't know that you were at Michigan.
She went here. Yeah, how about that? How crazy is that? Who?
(18:30):
She shows? You have very in two thousand and fifteen
when we were coaching the Michigan So she came. Did
you try to get it to go to Michigan? No? No,
Arizona was a good spot first. So she's still here.
She's still around. She's putting a warmer anyways. She wanted
to God. Yeah, oh, speaking which I mean, you guys
traveled all around the world, pretty much explained California back. Yeah,
(18:55):
but explained to us like hot, Like what what's the
best place that you guys were? True? Son like it,
I love it. You just like the warm weather. What
is it? I think for me, it's waking up and
looking at the mountains and then have the blue skies
and the stars at night and how clear it is.
That's true. I mean we love I love living in
(19:16):
l A. S today am because we were right at
the ocean. But I think the fact what to soun
brings with the mountains of the sun, the stars, the
blue sky. Every day, you know you're getting a beautiful day.
That's true. It can't be always happy other than those
two or three months, it's always nice. Yeah, when we
first got here, I like, I love the weather. Oh
(19:38):
it was get rain, get rain once or twice monsoon
in June. That's what I heard. Yeah, they kind of
go quick. Really it's about to be oh yeah, it'll
be nice and hot for you. Indoor indoor. Yeah, I
like that room. I like that weight room outdoor for practice.
(20:00):
You gotta be the best edition program. You got to
make him isolated in the desert, hunt right, Yes, make
him feel lonely, that's the whole. Make him feel lonely,
look around for water and can't find any look around
for help. There isn't any okay, screaming there you go.
We gotta start. We need you know what I found
out today that two thousand new season ticket holders since
(20:23):
two months ago. Have never owned season tickets, never two
thousand new on top of what we've had, but two
thousand new, and we want to get another two thousand,
you know, we want to get maybe I wanted to
get five totals and then we have to borrow to
community we need. Joe sat on this very harmon tickets.
(20:45):
Is that the one you call taken out that man
shout out to pressing Jerman's tickets for man said level,
what's on I got for your home, auto and business?
Make sure you turn to the team at Christent Surance,
(21:07):
Your sir,
I knew it from the very beginning that I was
going to do that. Since I was ten years old.
My Halloween costume from first grade through eighth grade was
a football coach, not never a player. Never never a player.
I done stuff every year, went door to door, headset
on sweater, vest on your name, and knew exactly what
(00:22):
I was gonna do. There was no doubt that's what
I was gonna do. That's legit. Yeah, that's legit. Very
special guests for this I was really excited to bring
them on. Our special guests is ever fit? And then
about a plus one plus one about the Arizona Um.
(00:47):
Obviously everybody knows plus traits as a coach. Everybody knows
him as a recruiter and his journey, his journey here
as a coach, but really we want to know where
the journey started. So we really want to get to
know you as a person. But before we get to
do that, we want to know where this journ he started.
So there's a story in the locker room going around
about you being at the University of Florida, uh as
a tennis player or a tennis coach. Never touched the
(01:09):
football in your life, never played football. And there's a
story that you put sticky notes or notes on Clach
Spurious Car to let you come coach for him, and
then and then obviously that led to you being coach
at the Patriots, coach at the Ravens, and now head
coach at the University of Arizona. So can you just
touch on yeah a little bit. Yeah, there's part of
that story is true. U. Um, yeah, you know. I
(01:32):
mean you can see, Mrs Fish, I'm a good recruiter.
You know, I was able to get you two guys
to come be a part of our program. But way
before that, I had a recruit coach Burrier to allow
me to be in his program. And I went to
my my stepdad was a head football coach. Um when
I was growing up, but I was growing up as
a tennis player. And um, when I finished my senior year,
(01:56):
my dad said to me, he goes, where are you
going to go to school? And I said, I'm gonna
go to University of Florida. And he said why And
I said, because I'm gonna go be a college football coach.
And he said, well, that seems like a hard thing
to do, considering you didn't grow up playing football, and
you know, you just got dump in a state championship
tennis tournament at in New Jersey, and um, I said, well, yeah,
(02:19):
that's just what we're gonna do, and I'm gonna figure
out a way to get there. And he said, well
good luck. You know, I don't know how that's gonna happen.
So I wound up getting there, and um, it wasn't
as easy as I thought, you know, I wound up.
I applied to be an equipment manager. I didn't get
that job. I tried to be a student assistant. They
didn't have that job. So I said, well, I know
(02:39):
where coach Burrier parks. So let me start with just
leaving my resume, which didn't have anything on it, but
why not? You know, I left the resume that had
like lifeguard and you know some other things that I
was doing, and uh, that didn't work. And then the
next day I went back and I wrote a note
on why you know, and I've been at involved in
(03:00):
football my whole life. I mean I watched more film
with my stepdad every night, you know, in my living room,
every football camp you could ever go to. But I
was just playing competitive tennis every day. So I kind
of tried to explain my story day after day because
I got no response. So I just said, you know what,
I'll just leave a note. Maybe it's a sticky note,
maybe it's a note, maybe it's a reason. And finally,
(03:22):
after about a year and a couple of months, I
got a call saying he'll see me, and I got
in there and told that same story to him, and
he kind of let me hang around, and next thing
you know, I got to become a g A and
then got in the NFL two years later. And yeah,
just preparation met opportunity. I got lucky or something like that.
(03:45):
Age if somebody just left a note on his car
every day, Stoker, I left a note on her car too,
in order to get her to take me out of
gone a day. I had to go both ways with
the other day. And I was like, oh, that'd be
really funny. I should leave it. If it ain't broke,
don't fix it. I guess that was the move, right.
I got the job and I got the wife. It
worked out perfect. No more notes, send recruits. I say,
(04:07):
you guys a lot of notes, so it's still working. No, seriously, seriously,
So in comparison, you said you were a g A
for two years. If you had to compare yourself, who
would you who would you be like? Right now? None
of I can tell you that. Uh no, some of them. Um,
I was probably more like a van Horn always working. Yeah,
(04:39):
is a grinder, man, He's an absolute grinder. No, all
of our guys doing awesome job. All those guys, I mean,
d G has unbelievable uh work out. I think acknowledge
of what we're trying to get done. Um, I think
that McNett is awesome. Dron was my guy. Theron was
my g A at three different places. We lost Sing
to the Vikings, uh, which was my Michigan. We got
(04:59):
him here out which is awesome. DA played for me
trying to teach good g A and then on the
defensive side. Man, those guys are awesome with Daya and
Teddy and van Horn and Ty and now Brett. So
we've got a great young group. Man. But I spent
nine years being a g A and analyst, a q
C assistant receiver coach. You know, my first job was
(05:20):
in O eight as the wide receiver coach of the
Denver Broncos when it was my own position room and
I got thrown into a room. You know who the
receivers were, Brandon Marshall, Eddie Royal as a rookie, Brandon Stokely,
and Darryl Jackson. My first job as a wide receiver coach,
and those are the fourth dudes they had three of them.
Two went to the Pro Bowl that year. So it's
(05:41):
pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, having to be the help with
my home. No, but he really pissed me off, coach,
because you never touched a football in your life, and
you don't you don't know the stoke as we go through.
You don't know stuggens who go through. But but no, like,
(06:02):
I mean we we we just got here with you
win first and all that. And man, I just heard
that you you never touched a football tennis player. I'm like, oh, like,
he don't know, he don't know the stuggers that we
go through. No, you know, so it's a different deal.
You know, when you get into it and you get
into an opportunity where it's where you're you know, you're
(06:24):
training in one sport, right, you know you should go
out there and try to play three four hours of tennis.
I'm sure that'd be good, you know, and the sports
a different sport, you know, and the activity is different.
But when it comes down to, you know, getting players better.
You know that's the whole key, and how you're gonna
be able to find guys to get to the next level,
(06:45):
and you know, to be able to work with guys
and the amount of good players that I've gotten to coach, um,
you know, you just start learning ways to get to
them and teach them, you know, ways to get them better.
And your job as a pro coach is to make
guy's money. You know, that's your job, right So whether
it was back in oh six coaching Steve McNair and
you know it was just in the Pro Bowl, or
(07:07):
then the next year, you know, we wound up having
a streak of like seven straight years of coaching position
groups in the Pro Bowl and getting new contracts. You know,
you start finding ways to see how hard can you
challenge guys and how willing are you to you know,
you gotta be honest, so you let him know, you know,
straight from the beginning, you know, like I haven't I've
never been asked to do what I'm asking you to do.
But what I'm asking you to do will help you
(07:29):
go become the best, and that's where the challenge comes.
So wife football, though, wife, you were a little all
star tennis player. Yeah, then you know coaching tennis doesn't
pay as well. Geme back, No, I'm just going know
what the truth is. Literally since I was I mean,
(07:49):
I couldn't have been any you know, I would just
it was like nine eighty six, so I was ten
and um, my mom and my step at and we
were um playing. Uh you know, he was like, hey,
come to the practice, you know, come to practice. And
I would start going out there and there was like,
you know, come watch and you know, we're having a
(08:11):
staff meeting in my house. And you know, high school
football back in the day, you know, there was no
big staff beings. It was at your parents living room.
So I'm sitting there in the living room or in
the you know, the film room, which was also the
living room, and you know, hey, Jed, just go change
the tape. Change the tape, you know, and you just
keep learning and listening and listening, and you become addicted
to the sport, and uh, it just got to a
(08:32):
point where, you know, tennis was great and I love
playing it, but it's not what I wanted to do
for a living. I wanted to coach football, and it
worked out pretty good. You do that, though, and you
do that all along. I knew it from the very
beginning that I was going to do that, since I
was ten years old. My Halloween costume from first grade
through eighth grade was a football coach. Not never just
(09:00):
up every year, went door to door, headset on sweater,
vest on your name, and knew exactly what I was
gonna do. There was no doubt that's what I was
gonna do. That's legit. Yeah, that's legit. That but man, um,
miss amber Fish, what are these boots you got on?
The sneakers? What these boots you got? I don't know.
(09:22):
There's a big sneaker. It's a big sneaker. I know.
I mean I'm a big personality. What are these? What
are they think? Because you've no, I haven't seen these?
Who makes? Yeah, I mean I'm not what Oh what wait?
(09:46):
Wait that's like that's like the thirty seventh pair made
or they're just in their closet. Oh those are should
do like a blog or something. Yeah, Mrs As you
get to know Mrs Si Yeah, you know she's she
has some fashish why thought you like the olive jacket?
(10:08):
Yeah I did, I did, Actually I did. Where something
you guys call you? Yeah, that little half? What are
you be shoving? Troops? And they have a lot of
stuff in the mall. The mall you go to the mall?
Now you don't shop online? That online? Okay, that's why
I figured. That's why I figure, just coming out of
yo pockets. Who I'm coaching football? Hey man, not all
(10:35):
you with that, But talk to us about fashion. How
did you get into it? What do you like? Well?
I don't have much fashion. I mean I actually have help,
like well not help help, but one of our coaches wives,
actually she's our baseball coach's wife, Judy Hale. She actually
is a stylist. So she comes over and she puts
stuff in my closet together. She's real set. Yeah you do.
(10:58):
You at least know who Jody is. What's her name
Jody right, Julie, Julie Julie mrs Hale. She'll loves over,
but like I would wear a white T shirt and
black T shirt and jeans every day. So she just
styles different things in my cloth and says, oh, you
might need this, or you might need that. To add
on to it. So, ain't nothing wrong with black T
(11:20):
shirts and white T shirts. Basic basically you add a
little a little code. Ye, So so basically I'm here.
You don't pick your outfit? Do you pick your Yeah?
I do. Every day when I wake up, I put
on workout clothes because I work out every day, and
then throughout the day and then I figure out if
I'm gonna change or not. Events like this come to
(11:43):
you guys, or pulling up in your range rover stop.
I mean, there's a lot like but think about it, guys,
he's always with you, right. Head coaches a lot like
there's a lot of sacrifices for the kids, for our kids,
for me, so and we definitely appreciate those sacrifices. But
how about this, I know, being a coach's wife is
(12:03):
definitely hard as well, especially his wife. What's that supposed
to be? I just said it for fun, just to
throw it out there. So it's it's so awesome, But
there's a lot of sacrifices. And in the Pros it's
very different. Like we weren't a head coach in the Pros,
but um, we were in the Pros for a long time.
(12:24):
So in college. Being a head coach's wife is really
different because but we are my investment in you guys,
and we love like the recruitment part, you know, like
all of that because I feel like you're all our
little kids. Yes, especially birthday cookies for you. Thank you
(12:45):
for that? What about? I got that? But then I
was like, I love cheesecakes. I do, actually I do,
But thank you for both of those means stuff to me.
I like giving you guys stuff and seeing you happy.
And because you're away from your parents, you're away from
your family. Where's your family here? That's okay, whatever we
(13:06):
can do, like hold on, hold on, don't you guys
doorstep needed a place to step? Okay? Okay, So so
if you weren't coach fas his wife, what would you
be doing? So I actually had a job before coach
Fish Okay, when he was talking me, I was a
meeting planner. Don't don't hite on its ter. You drove
(13:35):
three hours to Dallas. I didn't planning. Yeah, at a
meeting shoes plant at the American Fooches Association. Planned meetings itineraries, yies. Yeah, yeah,
I thought Jed was an agent. Actually he was with
a coach, Spurrier, Bob stubs like a big group of Chase. Yeah,
he was a Florida and I was like, oh, he's cute, handsome,
(14:03):
handsome guy. Yes, back in the day, That's what I
did for a living, meeting planning until Miami and then
we just with kids and moving and new jobs, it
was just hard to juggle everything. So my job now
is I'm the CEO of our fish family or not?
(14:23):
You're really the start of the fish family. If I
gonna be honest, you fall. You guys are too good.
You're so sweet. It's okaya. Oh no, nothing, No, they're
coming up, for sure, they're coming up. I mean I
had one of them all. I know. There's another question
(14:45):
we got for you. Everybody knows coach on the field.
What is he like at home? What was he like
off the field? Wow? So he's not home a lot,
but when he's home, he's Um, he's awesome, he's great.
We have two dogs, we have two girls. You know that. Um,
we have three daughters actually ones twenty three, So she's
not at home, but the little ones. He does homework
(15:06):
with them. He watches shows. Grey's Anatomy is his favorite
show with Ashley, but he's involved in everything. Last night
he was doing homework with Kendall Um. I make him
clean up his mess. He comes in and shoes her
everywhere and he picks everything up. He's like a normal
dad being home. He has rules at home. He has
(15:29):
to do certain things. And he actually this weekend, I'll
brag on you because I usually don't. But he's like,
I'll cook dinner because you're gonna always put it, You're
gonna have to clean up. Anyways. I was like, okay, great,
So he grilled cooked dinner for and the girls both
had a friend, so he was five girls at the
house and him. So he made all of our dinner
(15:52):
and then I settled the couch and he cleaned the
entire dinner. That learned from some of these things here,
guys learn from. There's a lot of great things. I mean,
he makes me crazy sometimes, I know that, but he
makes right. That's what he's like. When you guys are
(16:17):
drafted in three years from now, and you guys and
what day is tomorrow? Draft day? Yea three years four
years from now, when it's that anniversary the draft day.
From this from this podcast, you'll be saying, making me crazy,
it's worth it. Yeah, we know that. We know we're
ragging about you, not about yeah about something. Not only
(16:37):
a great coach, but a great father, great husband, great cook,
great cook. Okay, okay, I'm going to say yeah, but
you guys will be over soon. Junior is are big
momth you guys will be uh yeah. Well, pool parties
(16:58):
are back by position group, so we'll have you. So
we do always dvs receivers, quarterbacks, linebackers, running backs, and
then old line d line. Every Wednesday night we rotate.
So you guys will be back for that barbecue. And
then we got recruits coming in. Man, we got a
busy month, so you guys got a couple of weeks off.
Then that's it and let's go tip year ago. A
(17:22):
year ago, we were the recruits. Yes, we have a
been to your house since for a year. No, dang,
your house for a year. I forgot about that. Stools.
I think have anything else is the same, anything else
you can come any time, We appreciate it. I think
I have a new dog. Did I have Well, no,
(17:44):
I don't know. I didn't. I didn't Callie and then
I have Zona. Now she's a capitaliza. Callie what is that?
What's that? Cavia? Poof, it's a cavalier in the poodle. Oh,
what's it? Caval Yeah, I remember your guys. Well, it's
because I had to get rid of it because your
mom's afraid of dog. I don't give no special treatments
(18:08):
for her dog. So you have two dogs, two little dogs.
You have another daughter. Yeah, I didn't know that she's
twenty three. I didn't know that you were at Michigan.
She went here. Yeah, how about that? How crazy is that? Who?
(18:30):
She shows? You have very in two thousand and fifteen
when we were coaching the Michigan So she came. Did
you try to get it to go to Michigan? No? No,
Arizona was a good spot first. So she's still here.
She's still around. She's putting a warmer anyways. She wanted
to God. Yeah, oh, speaking which I mean, you guys
traveled all around the world, pretty much explained California back. Yeah,
(18:55):
but explained to us like hot, Like what what's the
best place that you guys were? True? Son like it,
I love it. You just like the warm weather. What
is it? I think for me, it's waking up and
looking at the mountains and then have the blue skies
and the stars at night and how clear it is.
That's true. I mean we love I love living in
(19:16):
l A. S today am because we were right at
the ocean. But I think the fact what to soun
brings with the mountains of the sun, the stars, the
blue sky. Every day, you know you're getting a beautiful day.
That's true. It can't be always happy other than those
two or three months, it's always nice. Yeah, when we
first got here, I like, I love the weather. Oh
(19:38):
it was get rain, get rain once or twice monsoon
in June. That's what I heard. Yeah, they kind of
go quick. Really it's about to be oh yeah, it'll
be nice and hot for you. Indoor indoor. Yeah, I
like that room. I like that weight room outdoor for practice.
(20:00):
You gotta be the best edition program. You got to
make him isolated in the desert, hunt right, Yes, make
him feel lonely, that's the whole. Make him feel lonely,
look around for water and can't find any look around
for help. There isn't any okay, screaming there you go.
We gotta start. We need you know what I found
out today that two thousand new season ticket holders since
(20:23):
two months ago. Have never owned season tickets, never two
thousand new on top of what we've had, but two
thousand new, and we want to get another two thousand,
you know, we want to get maybe I wanted to
get five totals and then we have to borrow to
community we need. Joe sat on this very harmon tickets.
(20:45):
Is that the one you call taken out that man
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