In Reply to: Thinking about if we had hired Jedd Fisch back in 2017... posted by BabyBear on September 26, 2025 at 09:42:41
Would not be any worse off than we are now. And Fisch is said to have worked hard courting donors and student support at Arizona. Chip did zero of that at UCLA.
The alternate reality I want to see is Mike Riley hired in 2002. Supposedly he’s the guy Guerrero wanted, before Dorrell so impressed Albert Carne Asada in the interview. . I think you can trace a lot of UCLA’s problems to this hire. Riley was not a great coach but he was a competent one. He would have recruited much better at UCLA than he ever did at Oregon State or Nebraska. He also would have satisfied the desire to hire a nice guy coach and IMO would have been more successful against Pete Carroll. And Riley wanted the job.