During his opening statement at Pac-12 Football Media Day last week, Jedd Fisch referred to the 2022 season as the “first year” of Arizona’s rebuilding project. So does that mean 2021 was the teardown?
The Wildcats open training camp on Wednesday, the second under Fisch but the first with a program that is distinctly his. Of the 100-plus players listed on the online roster, the vast majority joined the team since Fisch was hired in December 2020 and most of those additions have been in the past eight months.
“We got here and we really weren’t in a situation to build the program because we weren’t bringing in anybody into the program,” Fisch said of 2021, preferring “Year Zero” as the way to describe that 1-11 season.