Jedd Fisch on Money Matters

That's the puzzle in 2026, but I'm curious, like you said a couple years ago, you'd love to walk onto Starbucks Field and a Costco's Arena and leverage what you have here, and that was two years ago, and I'm curious, has that been more difficult than you anticipated in terms of really being able to tap into the resources here? How would you assess how that's going to work? Yeah, well, I would say this, I think two years ago when I said that, I absolutely felt that you know you have to by being here now two to three years you learn about what type of you know investments we're getting from all those companies and are we really able to tap into those resources right now i mean it's it's public knowledge that our roster is not very high on the cost scale so we have to find a way if this Protect College Sports Act passes and we're able to have an influx of money to be able to have retention that will help Washington a lot because that will have to come from the university side our third party dollars aren't there so we have to find a way last year we had seven guys drafted to replace the seven guys drafted we needed to use our freshmen because we didn't have the finances to go replace them through the portal so because of that we now need our freshmen our sophomores to stay and to do that then we'll be able to get back to where we want it to be speaking on conversations with Demon about his future here and beyond this season no i haven't had that conversation with anyone on our team we've not talked at all about um our players choosing to um start talking about contracts no i don't think we want to we're not there yet we have to figure out financially what we have to offer we have to figure out what the rules are and then we'll have to decide what we can do for for the team Thank you.