I did but I never listened to it. What did they say?
Hardcore Husky Podcast: The Jimmie Dougherty Emergency Podcast
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Is 247 coming to an end? On3 being the last life raft of college football media is really bad. Truly one of the biggest pile of shit entities to ever exist. So many things have come together over the last 20+ years to make college football and a lot of sports media basically 99% free fan coverage and 1% access journalism. It's pretty crazy I have old UW football media guides I flip through sometimes and 20+ years ago they list out all the key people with contact info who professionally cover UW football and it's probably around 20, if not more, and now it's basically 1-3.
Yes journalism has been hollowed out but at least we have AI slop and its accompanying robot narrator voice.
Duckfighter Illustrated was a parody not a blueprint
It sucks but I don't really know a way around keeping journalism from falling apart given the way technology and audiences evolved. I don't read traditional articles very often, I don't subscribe to a newspaper, and my attention span has shrunk. Ideally, I would love for there to be a way for non access journalism people to be able to make a comfortable living doing something that replicates what we had like daily/very regular podcasts that I can have on while I do other shit but I wonder if there are more people than you can count on 1-2 hands in the entire state of Washington who make a real living on a podcast.Yes journalism has been hollowed out but at least we have AI slop and its accompanying robot narrator voice.
I think our entire structure of journalism and media was built up on and still barely sustaining advertising, which might be a giant illusion of value. The just start doing shit for free on one of the 1-3 companies you can and 1 person out of 100 million get selected by the algorithm to create slop is not a good model across the board for anyone other than those companies.
I think I asked this before, but do you remember an issue you did in the early-2000s. I think published by Doogman where you had the cover of Sgt. Peppers, but it was all UW-related people? It's stuck in my head as one of my favorite images of all-time but I can't remember if it even existed or not.
I don't remember
I'm gonna post a wall of text from the pod transcript I thought his thoughts were interesting. TLDR at bottom.
I think think it was a really good hire.
think it was especially coming off the, you know, Caitlin Dubourg fiasco.
Ithink it was a really, really good hire.
I think he's a very good recruiter.
think he's, I think he's a grinder who works hard, which is what you want.
do think he's, what's the word, stupid.
don't think he's very good in game.
From on three saying.
That don't think he's very good in game.
I think that's yeah, pianos keep falling on his head.
SolI think that's part of his issue. think as a play caller, he's
certainly had moments where
he's been good in the past.
I think with UCLA as the offensive coordinator in 2017, he was good.
I think if you're
following it very closely at Washington, maybe it's, I mean, it's noW
eight years later, maybe the game is evolving and he's not quite evolving along with it, which you can find often times with head coaches who are play callers because they have a lot on their plate.
And so following along with all of the trends or picking up on like how different defenses are adjusting to the way you run an offense.
think it can be difficult over time. So maybe that's part of it.
Maybe you should delegate more.
I'm not close enough to it to know, but I do think he he has he has a tendency with macro decision
making to be a little dense untill
want to say he's still not a math guy.
l'd have to check that with one of my sources about whether he is using the the analytics tools that are available to him.
And then I think with personnel stuff, he's always been weird. He's always had weird things.
I would say his handling of Jaden Delora at Arizona was actively bad.
The situation with Devon Williams, I think Washington fans would have fully supported getting rid of
him at that point.
And I think it would have been one of those like, fanbase rally things where it would have rallied everybody.
And instead they kind of took him back in a weird little sheepish way, which, yeah, makes your team
better.
But also, you know, it it people are going to be cheesed off with them on now for maybe the entirety
of the rest of his career.
don't know.
So yeah, just some weird stuff, weird stuff with Jed.
And then on top of that, he has a reputation.
And this is treoeWIere, like, yes, it's earned to an extent, but like, he could also stay at Washington for many years.
don't know.
He he moved around a lot before Arizona because he was an assistant coach and assistant coach just
move around a lot.
He's had two head coaching jobs, yeah, and one of them was Arizona, which is not a place you stay
for very long if you're any good. Sorry, Arizona fans.
A few weeks back he was on, I
think he was on with Andy and Ari on your network.
And, you know, they talked about the the Big 10 having the
contracts that helped keep the players.
And he sort of he didn't like downplay it, but he was like, yeah, that helped.
But really was trying to
emphasize that once we, you
know, explained to Damon what was going on and
just, I didn't really buy that of like, look, they he was going to leave, but it was going to cost
too much money.
So he stayed.
And now it's like kind of a mess. But he was asked about the play calling and stuff too.
And, you know, it's one of those things like, that's what you're good at.
You like to do that.
So he thinks he's really good at it. But no, I think the perception's pretty good.
And like, you know, they have a chance to to make some big strides.
Ithink they're going to do pretty
think this year they've, you know, so yeah, we'll see how they perform this year.
But yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm.
well.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think they will.
on balance, just like a little grace now.
I think he's a good coach.
know, he can succeed there.
It's just it's a different deal from what Caitlin de Boer was.
And I think for Jed Fish and his like modern incarnation, a lot of it is based off of talent acquisition, recruiting, like that sort of stuff.
Like he's got to have a really good team, but I think he's good.
I think there's just some flaws and he can correct those if his ego will allow it.
Hire a really good offensive
coordinator and outsource your avant-garde decision making in games.
@Tequilla TLDR:
Jedd Fisch is viewed as an elite recruiter and hard worker who is a strong hire for Washington, though he faces criticism for poor in-game decision-making, lack of analytics usage, and questionable personnel management. The analysis suggests he can succeed by leveraging his talent acquisition skills while delegating play-calling and improving game management.