The UW leader spent the 2017 season with the Bruins, capped by a month as the interim boss.
Jedd Fisch has the University of Washington football coaching job that Jim Mora Jr., the one-time Husky linebacker, always wanted. Seven years ago in a twist of fate, Fisch found himself awkwardly taking on a UCLA job that no longer wanted Mora.
On a Sunday morning in Los Angeles, following a 28-23 loss to rival USC adn dropping the Bruins to 5-6, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerreo fired Mora, the coach for six years, unable to wait for the season to end -- and doing it on the coach's 56th birthday. Mora was jettisoned from UCLA after posting seasons of 9, 10, 10 and 8 victories, and then enduring a pair of losing seasons.
Fisch, then 40, took over for him in Westwood and guided the Bruins to a 30-27 victory over California to make them bowl eligible. Reporters asked him if he had any interest in accepting a permanent job and the coach responded why not? Kansas State coach Bill Snyder greets Jedd Fisch while he was the interim UCLA coach before the 2017 Cactus Bowl. / Casey Sapio-Imagn Images
It's more seven degrees of separation, more coaching overlap, more incredibility of how everybody is related to everybody.
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